News of Chinese President Xi Jinping‘s potential meeting with Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma has further buoyed the country’s soaring tech stocks and is expected to be the next catayst, according to a report by Bloomberg. The publication cited sources saying that Ma is on the list of prominent entrepreneurs invited to meet China’s top leaders….
In a holiday-shortened week ahead, Wall Street investors will be focusing on home sales data and the Federal Reserve minutes of January monetary policy meeting. The markets will remain closed on Monday to mark Presidents’ Day. The week will also see other economic data including preliminary PMIs by S&P Global for services and manufacturing, and…
US stock indices were muted on Friday after mixed economic data and as investors awaited more clarity on President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariff plans. On Thursday, Trump said his economics team will devise plans for reciprocal tariffs on every country taxing US imports, though the directive stopped short of imposing fresh tariffs. At 9:40 am…
The European stock markets have been exceptional this year, with both the Euro Stoxx 600 Index and the DAX repeatedly reaching new highs, despite the risks of a widening global trade war. ADVERTISEMENT Trump’s tariff threat appears to have had little impact on European equity markets, despite concerns over a potential widening of the US-EU…
US stocks were drifting on Friday as investors assessed economic data and corporate earnings. At 10:16 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 101.48 points, or 0.24per cent, to 44,459.53, the S&P 500 lost 3.62 points, or 0.06per cent, to 6,115.09 and the Nasdaq Composite lost 17.56 points, or 0.09per cent, to 20,034.29. At…
On Wall Street, market participants will see the holiday-shortened but a busy week ahead. On Monday, markets will remain closed on account of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. As on Monday Donald Trump’s inauguration as US President is scheduled, investors will closely watch the executive orders of the new administration to be announced in the…
After the strong November payrolls data, released last week, boosted hopes for an interest rate cut in December,the focus of investors in the week ahead will be on the consumer price inflation. The retail inflation data could provide clues on the US Federal Reserve’s last monetary policy of 2024. In addition, the market participants will…
As the economic calendar is fairly light in the week ahead, the major focus of the market participants on Wall Street will be on earnings reports from big names such as chip giant Nvidia Corp, retail heavyweights Walmart Inc and Target Corp. Nvidia, the world’s most valued company by market capitalization will declare its third…
Wall Street in the week ahead will see plenty of economic data and earnings reports from five megacap companies. On the economic front, investors will closely monitor US Q3 GDP numbers, the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge – Personal Consumption Expenditures price index, and jobs report. Next week, stocks of five megacap companies — Apple,…
Shanghai stocks plummeted 6.6 percent on Wednesday, marking their worst single-day drop since February 2020. The steep decline came as investors grew frustrated with the Chinese government’s failure to deliver more robust economic stimulus. Shanghai Composite’s fall, compounded by an 8.6 percent slump in Shenzhen stocks, followed a brief surge earlier in the week driven…