FILE PHOTO: Pedestrians are reflected on an electronic board showing Japan’s Nikkei average (top L), the Dow Jones average (top R) and the stock averages of other countries outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan, January 26, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
HONG KONG Asian stocks climbed to a fresh-two year high on Tuesday on the back of an overnight rise in Wall Street, while oil extended gains after major producers Saudi Arabia and Russia pledged to push for an extension of supply cuts into 2018.
After two sessions in the red, Japan’s headline stock index rose and closed in on the key 20,000-point level, helped by gains in energy stocks. If the index breaks through this level it would be the first time it has done so since the end of 2015. The …
China’s stock sell-off the past month has hit shares traded on the mainland hardest, putting the individual investors that make up 80 percent of the market in the firing line for losses.
The victory by centrist Emmanuel Macron in France’s presidential election May 7, easily dispatching far-right euroskeptic Marine Le Pen, reassured many that the tide of antiestablishment sentiment sweeping across the U.K.
It’s that time again! Jim Cramer rang the lightning round bell, which means he gave his take on caller favorite stocks at rapid speed: Ford Motor Company: “It’s going to have a down year.
While the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite set fresh records on Monday, there is one red flag signaling the potential for a stock-market pullback in the near term, according to Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA. Since early March, the Dow …
Johnson & Johnson contributed the most to gains for the Dow Jones industrial average on Monday after analysts at JPMorgan upgraded the stock on expectations of stronger growth in its pharmaceuticals division. JPMorgan upgraded Johnson & Johnson’s …
The Nasdaq, meanwhile, was led higher by a rise in large-cap tech stocks, including Facebook and Alphabet. Shares of tech giant Apple also hit record highs.
Well, assuming that Facebook is deeply undervalued, one of my major concerns regards their proposal, already approved by stockholders, to create a new class of non-voting capital stock, known as Class C capital stock, (the reclassification) and to …
What happened. Shares of Forterra (NASDAQ:FRTA) stock are down 24.5% as of 12:15 p.m. EDT after the company reported first-quarter earnings earlier this morning.
Just as then-Health and Human Services secretary nominee Tom Price was getting grilled for his Wall Street investments, his congressional colleagues were getting in on shares for one of the exact same companies that got him heat.
In contrast to the complete madness of the world outside, an eerie stillness continues to hang over the stock market. Not that investors are complaining.
Rival 3D Systems (DDD) stock also is up sharply of late, jumping 34% since May 4. With his Stratasys upgrade, Jensen said his survey of 3D printer resellers suggested that Stratasys experienced “a meaningful uptick in system demand for the second …
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