BAC is on pace for its worst week since MarchBank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC) stock is trading flat this afternoon, last seenat $28.40. Amid today's focus on big banking earnings, traders are more than likely gearing up for Bank of America's upcoming third-quarter earnings report, which is slated to hit the Street before the market opens on Monday, Oct. 15. Below we will take a look at how BAC has...Read More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar climbed on Friday against a basket of currencies as global equity prices rebounded from a six-day rout and robust Chinese export figures soothed some worries about the world’s second-biggest economy and its trade war with Washington.Euro and sterling snapped their three-day winning streak in advance of next week’s European Union summit where Britain and...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Friday said it was granting investors another month to divest their holdings of sanctioned Russian companies EN+ <ENPLq.L > and Rusal and was giving the firms more time to address their business operations.The U.S. Treasury Department in April imposed sanctions against billionaire Oleg Deripaska and eight companies in which he is a large shareholde...Read More
All three benchmarks are still heading for their worst week since MarchThe U.S. stock market is stabilizing, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) up triple digits and the S&P 500 Index (SPX) set to snap its six-day skid. The Nasdaq Composite (IXIC) is higher, too, as FAANG stocks rally. Today's upside comes after two days of sharp selling, with traders also watching the start of earnings...Read More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. gross domestic product is expanding at a 2.25 percent clip in the third quarter compared with a 2.27 percent pace calculated a week ago following this week's inflation data, the New York Federal Reserve's Nowcast model showed on Friday.It projected GDP in the fourth quarter is growing at a 2.77 percent rate versus a 2.80 percent pace estimated the week before.Reporting by...Read More
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. Representative Beto O’Rourke said he raised $38.1 million in the final full fiscal quarter before the Nov. 6 elections in his campaign to unseat Republican U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, a record for any U.S. Senate race.It was more than three times the $12 million that Cruz told supporters last week he had raised in the quarter, which ended Sept 30. O&...Read More
LONDON (Reuters) - World stock markets suffered their worst tumble this week since February’s violent shakeout with some $2.6 trillion of investor wealth lost, but there was no clear trigger apart from long-brewing worries on U.S. interest rates, trade wars, China and emerging markets.Whatever the precise cause of this week’s reversal, many investors are now wondering whether the confl...Read More
(Kitco News)- WallStreet and Main Street both look for gold’s newfound upward momentum tocontinue next week, based on the Kitco News gold survey.Equitiessold off sharply Wednesday and Thursday. Even though the stock market was upFriday morning, the prior weakness left gold higher for the week as investorsturned to the metal as a safe haven. The dollar index also eased this week,further fueli...Read More
(Kitco News)- The gold investors are breathing a much-needed sigh of reliefafter the precious metal pushed to a 10-week high, seeing its best gains in twoyears, but more work needs to be done, according to one commodity analyst.In a report Friday, Ole Hansen, head of commodity strategy atSaxo Bank, said that after Thursday’s rally, which saw prices rise more than$29 on the day, he is now bul...Read More
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(Reuters) - Wall Street climbed more than 1 percent on Friday following its worst two-day slide in eight months, with technology and other high-growth stocks leading a fight back.Ten of the 11 major S&P sectors were higher, led by the technology sector’s .SPLRCT 3.11 percent jump, with Microsoft (MSFT.O) and Apple (AAPL.O) gaining 3 percent.JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) and Wells Fargo...Read More
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Brussels, the political heart of Europe, could prove the center of global market focus next week as Italy’s budget and Brexit talks overshadow economic data and central banks.World shares were on course for their worst week since February as a spike in U.S. bond yields, a U.S.-China trade war and other global risks have combined to undermine sentiment.One such risk is an...Read More
Trump may be facing an uphill battle he can't win in 2020.He's a successful businessman who never held public office before winning the Presidency...He's coming into power after an electoral college landslide...And he did it by beating an out-of-touch New Yorker opponent.Once in office, he launches a vast trade war, promising to stand up for America's heartland, with 890 increased tariffs in total...Read More
(Bloomberg) - Gold Fields Ltd. shareholders getting impatient over the company's failure to stem losses at the huge South Deep deposit in South Africa shouldn't lose hope, said Chief Executive Officer Nick Holland.Gold Fields said in August it's embarking on yet another turnaround plan at the operation, its only one left in South Africa. South Deep's disappointing performance has been a drag on t...Read More
Is it time to prepare for the next financial crisis?Something strange is going on in the financial system.And according to The Wall Street Journal, it's causing some investors- including the biggest banks in the world- to move massive amounts of money out of the banking system.What exactly is going on?Former hedge fund manager, Dr. Steve Sjuggerud, one of the most widely-followed financial analys...Read More
Getty ImagesTanker trucks load up with fuel at a terminal attached to a Citgo oil refinery March 8, 2005 in Lemont, Illinois. The numbers: The cost of goods imported into the U.S. rose in September for the first time in four months. The import price index climbed 0.5% last month, driven up by higher cost of imported fuel, the government said Friday. This was above the Wall Street expectations o...Read More
(Bloomberg) - Gold may have finally snapped out of its inertia.Prices largely held the biggest gain since June 2016, when the U.K. voted to exit the European Union, after a slump in global equity markets stoked demand for the metal as a store of value. Bullion received another shot in the arm during Thursday's surge after data showing weaker-than-expected U.S. inflation raised speculation that th...Read More
BEIJING (Reuters) - Amid gathering gloom over the state of the Chinese economy, exporters of motorcycles, tractors, photocopiers and Christmas tree lighting will join thousands of other companies peddling their wares at China’s largest trade fair Monday.Many of those exporters will have something in common - uncertainty over future U.S. orders as a trade war with the United States rages. The...Read More
(Reuters) - Citigroup Inc reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit on Friday, helped by lower expenses, higher bond trading revenue and strength in its consumer banking business in Mexico.Investors have been waiting to see how trading revenue fared at the five big Wall Street banks due to an escalating U.S-China trade war and executives warning that the business’s growth would be mut...Read More
NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday that he told China’s central bank chief that currency issues need to be part of any further U.S.-China trade talks and expressed his concerns about the yuan’s recent weakness.Mnuchin also told Reuters in an interview that China needs to identify concrete “action items” to rebalance the two...Read More