ORLANDO, Florida, Nov 11 (Reuters) – U.S. tech was the major outlier in an otherwise buoyant day for global stocks on Tuesday, as relief around the expected end of the U.S. government shutdown lifted the Dow to a record closing high and other indices to new peaks too. More on that below. In my column…
ORLANDO, Florida, Nov 5 (Reuters) – U.S. stocks and bond yields rose on Wednesday on surprisingly strong job growth and service sector data, which suggests the economy is in decent shape and calls into question how much lower the Federal Reserve needs to cut interest rates. I didn’t write a column today, but don’t worry…
BELEM, Brazil, Nov 4 (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Tuesday he will call his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump again if talks between their countries do not progress by the end of COP30, the United Nations climate conference Brazil is hosting this month. Lula and Trump met in Malaysia in…
WASHINGTON, Oct 31 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Friday denied he was considering strikes inside Venezuela, appearing to contradict his own comments from last week and amid intensifying expectations that Washington may soon expand drug-trafficking-related operations. The United States has built up a large military presence in the Caribbean in recent months, with fighter…
ORLANDO, Florida, Oct 28 (Reuters) – Another wave of U.S. tech euphoria lifted Wall Street to new highs on Tuesday, this time in the shape of a deal between Microsoft and OpenAI, a day ahead of a clutch of U.S. Big Tech earnings and the Federal Reserve‘s policy decision. In my column today, I look…