SQ has still more than doubled in 2018, thoughThe shares of Square Inc (NYSE:SQ) are down 8.1% to trade at $75.94 this morning, after the payments company's third-quarter earnings report yielded mixed results. While earnings and revenue exceeded expectations, Square's fourth-quarter profit estimates came in well below Wall Street estimates, prompting concerns about the stock's valuation.A host o...Read More
(Reuters) - Coca-Cola Co (KO.N) said on Thursday it plans to launch two energy drinks under its namesake brand, its latest move to diversify away from sugary sodas.Coca-Cola, in an emailed statement, declined to provide a timeline for the launch of the drinks, to be named “Coca-Cola Energy” and “Coca-Cola Energy No Sugar.”The beverages would likely have caffeine from natur...Read More
LONDON (Reuters) - Oil edged lower on Thursday, surrendering early gains, as investors focused on the pace of growth in global crude supply, which is increasing more quickly than many had expected.Chinese data earlier in the day that showed record oil imports in October offered some temporary respite to bearishness that has developed in the past couple of weeks over the expected crude market balan...Read More
WASHINGTON, Nov 8 (Reuters) - New applications for U.S. unemployment fell slightly last week and the number of Americans receiving benefits remained at a 45-year low as strong labor market conditions continued.Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped by 1,000 to a seasonally adjusted 214,000 for the week ended Nov. 3, the Labor Department said on Thursday. Data for the prior week was...Read More
(Reuters) - Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) has ended weeks of speculation by promoting one of the electric carmaker’s independent directors, Australian accountant Robyn Denholm, to replace Elon Musk as chairman.The change in structure at the Silicon Valley firm, agreed to by Musk in a September court settlement with regulators, is supported by many on Wall Street who worry that his erratic behavior is u...Read More
The chip stock recently suffered a steep selloffShares of Nvidia Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) are notably lower in early trading, after early this morning Morgan Stanley slashed its price target to $260 from $273. This bear note comes just ahead of the chip stock's third-quarter earnings report, which is scheduled for after the market closes, next Thursday, Nov. 15. In response, NVDA is down 2.7% at...Read More
Gold spot ($) Target 1218.50. Stay on top of the markets with Swissquote’s News & Analysis Pivot (invalidation): 1229.00 Our preference Short positions below 1229.00 with targets at 1223.00 & 1218.50 in extension. Alternative scenario Above 1229.00 look for further upside with 1233.00 & 1236.50 as targets. Comment A break below 1223.00 would trigger a drop tow...Read More
No fewer than 10 brokerages have doled out bull notes on CYBR overnightThe shares of CyberArk Software Ltd (NASDAQ:CYBR) are up 10.2% this morning to trade at $78.31 -- fresh off a new record high of $84.21 -- after the cybersecurity firm reported adjusted third-quarter earnings of 48 cents per share on $84.7 million in revenue, more than analysts were expecting. CyberArk Software also raised its...Read More
ROME (Reuters) - Italian Economy Minister Giovanni Tria on Thursday condemned latest European Commission economic forecasts for Italy, which were worse than Rome’s own data, saying the EU analysis was wrong and limited.“The European Commission’s forecasts for the Italian deficit are in sharp contrast to those of the Italian government and derive from an inaccurate and incomplete...Read More
Business partner Coca-Cola is actually putting pressure on MNST stockMonster Beverage Corp (NASDAQ:MNST) is trading down 10.4% in pre-market activity, even though the company reported better-than-expected earnings for the third quarter. Traders could be reacting to weak margins for the period, on top of surprising news about business partner Coca-Cola (KO), which sparked a downgrade from Morgan St...Read More
The Dow and S&P 500 are set to snap a three-day winning streakFutures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) are signaling a lower open, with the index on track to snap a three-day winning streak. Investor attention now shifts away from the midterm elections and toward the Fed meeting, set to conclude at 2 p.m. ET today. While no monetary policy changes are expected, traders are likely to read...Read More
Mr. Michael Williams reportsVENDETTA REPORTS FINAL RESULTS FROM 2018 PEGMONT LEAD-ZINC PROJECT PROGRAM WITH HIGH GRADE INTERSECTIONS IN NEW ZONE 3 STRUCTUREVendetta Mining Corp. has provided the last batch of drill results from the 2018 resource development program on the Pegmont lead-zinc project in Queensland.New zone 3 structure pit highlights:PVRD170: 6.00 metres of 11.43 per cent lead plus zi...Read More
AsankoGold Inc. (TSX, NYSE American: AKG) reports a third-quarter loss but also listsrecord output. The loss was $0.3 million, or zero cents per share, compared to net income of$4.2 million, or 2 cents, in the year-ago period. The reduction was mainly dueto lower mine operating earnings on the Asanko Gold Mine joint venture and thestart of equity accounting for Asanko’s interest in the mine....Read More
LONDON (Reuters) - World stocks scored an eighth straight session of gains and their longest winning streak of the year on Thursday, as reassuring trade data from China kept the previous day’s post-U.S. mid-terms risk rally rolling.Traders were gearing up for the U.S. Federal Reserve meeting in a confident mood and the contrast to the last one in late September, when stock markets had just b...Read More
TECUN UMAN, Guatemala (Reuters) - Cradling a baby in his arms, the Central American man looks up fearfully as he scrambles away from a wall of Mexican police in riot gear.Thousands of migrants, mostly Hondurans fleeing poverty and violence, have been traveling in a caravan towards the United States in recent weeks. On Oct. 19, some of them rushed through Guatemalan border gates onto a long bridge...Read More
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela is seeking to repatriate about $550 million in gold bars from the Bank of England because of fears it could be caught up in international sanctions on the country, two sources with direct knowledge of the effort told Reuters.Venezuela's hard currency holdings have dwindled as existing U.S. financial sanctions have effectively blocked President Nicolas Maduro's governm...Read More
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Manfred Weber, a reserved Bavarian who has modeled himself on Germany’s pragmatic chancellor, won the backing of Europe’s center-right parties on Thursday to stand in the race to become European Commission president.Weber, a German EU lawmaker, beat former Finnish prime minister Alexander Stubb to become the European People’s Party’s (EPP) top candidate...Read More
BEIJING/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Beijing and Canberra should be cooperating in the South Pacific and not be cast as strategic rivals, China’s top diplomat said on Thursday, after Australia launched a multi-billion dollar fund to counter China’s rising influence in the region.Standing alongside Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne, Chinese State Councillor Wang Yi made the conciliatory re...Read More
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Euro zone growth is expected to slow in the coming years as the bloc faces risks from U.S. economic policies, Britain’s unclear divorce terms from the EU and free-spending plans in high-debt members, like Italy, the EU Commission said.In its quarterly economic forecasts released on Thursday, the EU executive revised down its growth estimates for the euro zone next year a...Read More
Editor's Note: Updating earlier story with more details from report.(Kitco News) -Gold remained modestly softer after Labor Department data Thursday showed thatinitial weekly U.S. jobless claims fell by 1,000 to a seasonally adjusted214,000 in the week to Saturday.Consensusexpectations compiled by various news organizations had called for initialclaims to be around 210,000 to 213,000. The gov...Read More