NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar rose toward a 16-month high against the euro on Friday as falling equity prices spurred a flight to quality and the U.S. Federal Reserve reaffirmed its monetary tightening stance, citing the strong U.S. economy.The S&P 500 fell more than 1 percent, with shares of large technology, industrial and material companies taking a hit as weak Chinese data and a sli...Read More
(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) said in a filing late Thursday it had made $1.3 billion in cash payments in connection to its acquisition of coding hosting startup GitHub.Microsoft acquired the company, which developers use to keep track of software code changes as they write applications, in June, in a $7.5 billion deal that was described at the time as an all-stock transaction.But in Nov. 8...Read More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar rose toward a 16-month high against the euro on Friday as falling equity prices spurred a flight to quality and the U.S. Federal Reserve reaffirmed its monetary tightening stance, citing the strong U.S. economy.The S&P 500 fell more than 1 percent, with shares of large technology, industrial and material companies taking a hit as weak Chinese data and a sli...Read More
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China’s top diplomat Yang Jiechi on Friday told reporters that Beijing’s trade war with Washington can be resolved through talks and that any ongoing conflict would hurt both countries as well as the world’s larger economy.U.S.-China trade and economic relations are “critical to the world economy,” Yang said at a news conference with U.S. Secret...Read More
BRISTOL, England (Reuters) - Brexit is distracting Britain’s government and businesses from the longer-term challenges of boosting productivity and living standards, Bank of England Chief Economist Andy Haldane said on Friday.BoE Governor Mark Carney has previously said Britain’s economy has so far probably grown almost 2 percent less than it would have done if voters had backed stayin...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump’s appointment of a new acting attorney general faced growing scrutiny on Friday, with the U.S. Senate’s top Democrat accusing him of ignoring the proper line of succession and some legal experts calling it unconstitutional.Trump named Matthew Whitaker to replace former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who was forced out on Wednesday. The mov...Read More
Ontario's Government for the People is investing in Northern Ontario to connect entrepreneurs in Kenora and Timmins with investors across the region.Greg Rickford, Minister of Energy, Northern Development and Mines, announced the $150,000 investment today, alongside the recipients, the Northern Ontario Angels. Northern Ontario Angels (NOA), formerly known as the Northern Ontario Enterprise Gateway...Read More
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GAZA (Reuters) - A $15 million Qatari cash infusion was paid out to impoverished Palestinian civil servants in the Gaza Strip on Friday, offering Hamas a potential domestic reprieve though Israel said the money would not go to the dominant Islamist group.Hamas’s political rival based in the West Bank, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, has slashed Gaza budgets, beggaring tens of thousands...Read More
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House adviser Peter Navarro on Friday lashed out at efforts by current and former Wall Street executives to urge the United States and China to end their trade dispute, calling them “unregistered foreign agents” who were trying to pressure President Donald Trump into a deal.“When these unpaid foreign agents engage in this kind of diplomacy, so-called...Read More
Gold exploration in Nevada is improving as rising gold prices make the mining-friendly state all the more attractive.Read full newsRead More
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This is the longest losing streak in the 33 year history of the WTI Futures contract...Read full newsRead More
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Friday said it was extending the deadline for the divestiture of holdings of sanctioned Russian companies EN+ <ENPLq.L >, Rusal (0486.HK) and Gaz PAO (GAZA.MM) until Jan. 7, 2019.The move extends licenses relating to the sanctioned firms to authorize activities needed to wind down operations or existing contracts as well as licenses to authorize tr...Read More
Gold and silver prices dropped Friday, prompting the yellow metal to suffer a 2% weekly loss, nicked by a firmer dollar that has been bolstered by the Federal Reserve's adherence to an interest rate-tightening cycle. Sharp losses for stocks for the session, which are partly tracking the plunge into a bear market for oil, failed to limit gold's downside even as a so-called risk-off sentiment contr...Read More