Oct 11 (Reuters) - Blackstone Group is nearing a deal to buy British live events complex NEC Group, and has agreed to pay just over 800 million pounds ($1.06 billion) for the business, Sky News reported on Thursday.Blackstone could strike a deal for the Birmingham-based complex as soon as Friday, Sky News reported.Blackstone and NEC Group did not immediately respond to requests for comment.$1 = 0....Read More
President Donald Trump continued to attack the Federal Reserve on Thursday, criticizing Chairman Jerome Powell as being too stringent with monetary policy.He blamed the Fed for causing a massive drop in stocks this week.Despite the criticism, Trump says he will not fire Powell.Michael Sheetz | Thomas Franck Published 9 Hours AgoUpdated6 Hours AgoCNBC.com show chapters President Trump continues...Read More
American Express, Johnson & Johnson, and P&G will also report The Fed's September meeting minutes will be released next week, with Wall Street expected to search for clues to the pace of future rate hikes. Traders will also digest monthly retail sales and housing data. Meanwhile, earnings season kicks into gear, with several big names reporting, including Dow members American Express Company (NYSE...Read More
LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - British and EU negotiators making headway on the Irish border hope for a Brexit deal breakthrough on Monday, diplomats said, though the British prime minister’s Northern Ireland ally has stoked uncertainty by warning it could vote against her.Under pressure from all sides, Theresa May told journalists at Downing Street reception that talks on the key issue of the...Read More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street indexes continued their decline on Thursday as investors continued to shun risky investments, and Nasdaq looked like it could confirm a correction.By late afternoon the S&P was down another 2 percent after shedding 3 percent in the previous day's session and Nasdaq fell as much as 10.3 percent from its closing record high, reached on Aug. 29. If it closes at th...Read More
One company could be positioning itself to take over the cloud market.Both cloud computing and blockchain technology has changed the way modern society operates.Today the global public cloud market is nearing a colossal $200 billion and is growing at a 22% annual rate.Did you ever think in 2006 that Amazon Web Services would be the beast that it is today? The cloud computing division of Amazon is...Read More
There isn't much at the proposed mine site right now: just a long airstrip, with clusters of sturdy buildings in the middle of green mountains close to the Middle Kuskokwim River. But if completed, the Donlin gold mine would be one of the biggest in the world.Read full newsRead More
"COMMENT: Hopefully Mark Bristow's leadership approach of letting his technical teams do their own thing will continue at Barrick ($) | https://t.co/9r203sZuyx $RRS $ABX #gold"Read full newsRead More
"CROP's California Harvest in and 'first Revenue' Close -- $CROP @CROP_CSE #Cannabis #California #CRXPF #CropCorp #CSE #BNN #MarijuanaStocks #Potstocks #hemp #CBD #smallcap-- Read the News Release here: https://t.co/xFRoJnvq9G"Read full newsRead More
(Reuters) - Major U.S. banks, beginning on Friday, are expected to report earnings growth that exceeds that of the broader market, but that may not be enough to impress investors, who have been unimpressed by loan growth and are anticipating higher deposit rates and credit costs.Investors skepticism has been significant in 2018. The S&P 500 Banks Index .SPXBK has fallen 3.7 percent year to dat...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Thursday the agency was in no rush to change quarterly reporting requirements for large public companies, two months after President Donald Trump ordered his agency to study the matter.“I don’t think quarterly reporting is going to change for our top names anytime soon,” said Chairman Jay Clayt...Read More
Gold prices surged Thursday to the highest in more than two months, with the metal's haven status in full force and attracting investment interest amid a sharp retreat for U.S. stocks that has infected foreign indexes. Gold gained as global stock markets suffered from broad declines Thursday. Major U.S. stock indexes headed lower Thursday, as well, failing to recover from Wednesday's plunge. The d...Read More
Traders shouldn't sweat the downturn, if history is any indicatorStocks on Wednesday suffered their worst day in months -- or years, in the case of the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite. The S&P 500 Index (SPX) endured its steepest one-day percentage loss since February, giving up 3.3%. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) 14-day Relative Strength Index (RSI) fell below 25 -- into oversold territory. H...Read More
"How can software connectivity help create an end-to-end solution for the #digital mine? Find out from Marc Leduc, EVP US Operations @EquinoxGoldCorp at Future of Mining Americas in Denver Oct 29-30 #MiningShow #FutureofMining #FOMAmericas https://t.co/eMl3JxPk5m"Read full newsRead More
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada does not hold out much hope that Washington will quickly lift tariffs that it imposed on steel and aluminum exports and is resisting a U.S. push to agree to strict quotas, two sources familiar with the matter said.The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump imposed the tariffs on Canada and Mexico in June, citing national security reasons. Although Canada and Mexico...Read More
The options market is pricing in a bigger-than-usual post-earnings swing for JPMThird-quarter earnings season is about to get underway, with big-cap bank JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) set to take its turn in the spotlight ahead of the open tomorrow, Oct. 12. The financial stock has been relatively quiet over the last two months, per its 60-day historical volatility of 15% -- in the low 15th perc...Read More
"Brixton Metals Announces Completion of Warrant Acceleration and the Exercise of Warrants Held by Robert McEwen https://t.co/Ai0zHxVJkD @brixtonmetals #goldstocks #mining"Read full newsRead More
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece still seeks reparations for its victims of World War Two and repayment for a loan it was forced to make to its Nazi occupiers, President Prokopis Pavlopoulos told his visiting German counterpart on Thursday.Pavlopoulos, who met Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Athens, said that such demands fell under the framework of “resistance against those who want to return to a nigh...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A stock sell-off, rising trade tension with China, slower global growth and verbal pressure from the White House are unlikely to dent the U.S. Federal Reserve’s rate hike plans in an economy performing in line with the central bank’s forecasts.A bumpy 48 hours included an 800 point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and hefty declines in other stock indexes...Read More
Activision Blizzard's pullback yesterday could have bullish implicationsYesterday, Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATVI) moved 5.2% lower with the broad market sell-off, extending a recent pullback from the past week. The good news is that this dip could have bullish implications in the next month, if history is any guide. ATVI is now within one standard deviation of its 200-day moving average...Read More