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By TERESA CEROJANO and MATT OTT, Associated Press Wall Street was largely unchanged early Thursday, hovering near record levels ahead of new U.S. jobs data that is expected to show unemployment ticked up to the highest rates since late 2021. Futures for S&P 500, Nasdaq and Dow Jones Industrial Average each inched up less than…
Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. Synopsys , Cadence Design Systems — Shares of the Silicon Valley chip designers rallied more than 5% and 6%, respectively. The U.S. government lifted restrictions on exporting chip-design software to China, according to announcements from companies in the industry. Datadog — The cloud monitoring provider surged…
Investors may find “boring” stocks a safer bet heading into the second half of the year, according to Jeff Kilburg, founder and CEO of KKM Financial. Markets were plagued by heightened volatility at the end of the first quarter and the start of the second, as fear and uncertainty stemming from President Donald Trump’s trade…
Tokenized stocks recently launched onchain. While the direction is promising, early models reveal deep structural issues: limited liquidity, wide spreads, and persistent price dislocations. Here’s why: Market Depth Is Severely Limited One tokenized version of AAPL, for example, recently had just $195 of depth before incurring 2% slippage, with spreads at 0.64%. At one point,…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sir Christopher Hohn’s activist hedge fund TCI has risen 21 per cent so far this year, according to two people who have seen the numbers, as bets on jet engine manufacturer GE Aerospace, Visa and…
President Donald Trump’s two-tiered trade deal with Vietnam aims squarely at practices China has long used to skirt US tariffs: The widespread legal shifting of production to Southeast Asian factories and the murkier and illegal “origin washing” of exports through their ports. Source link
Stocks were headed for gains early Thursday ahead of jobs numbers that could give the market a better sense of how the U.S. economy is faring. Futures tracking the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 47 points, or 0.1%. S&P 500 futures also added 0.1%, while contracts tied to the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 rose 0.2%. Both…
The dollar just wrapped up its worst half of a year since 1973, but the US currency’s loss might be the stock market’s gain. Morgan Stanley predicts that the dollar will continue depreciating throughout the year but it views this trend as a “substantial, under-appreciated tailwind” for stocks, one that could drive fresh earnings growth….
Relieved investors have fueled a record-breaking rally for the S&P 500 and are betting on further gains. They could be left disappointed, veteran market watchers say. The benchmark US stock index plunged nearly 19% to below 5,000 points between February 19 and April 8 as President Donald Trump‘s tariff threats stoked fears of a trade…
Kepler’s David Brenchley identifies the investment trusts to consider if the dollar continues to weaken. Perhaps it’s the financial writer in me, but our long-awaited holiday to Japan was hastened by a currency that had moved heavily in our favour; the same may be the case for the US next year. We decided to take…