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...Gains for stocks accelerated in the final hour of trading to leave the S&P 500 up 0.9 per cent on Wednesday....
...The price of gold rose 0.9 per cent to $2,382.79 per troy ounce, flirting with a record closing high set earlier this week....
...The blue-chip S&P 500 dropped 0.9 per cent on Friday, capping its longest losing streak since October 2022. It fell for the third week in a row, losing 3.1 per cent across five sessions....
...Overall, almost three-quarters of the S&P 500’s constituents fell, with pharmacy operator Walgreens Boots Alliance the worst performer with a 9.9 per cent drop....
...Thursday’s small gain left the S&P 500 up 10.2 per cent this year, while the Nasdaq Composite has added 9 per cent....
...Gains for stocks accelerated in the final hour of trading to leave the S&P 500 up 0.9 per cent....
...The S&P 500 closed at record high for the second session in a row after Federal Reserve officials maintained projections to cut interest rates by 0.75 percentage points this year....
...The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite closed 0.9 per cent higher to finish at 16,091.92, topping a previous peak set in November 2021....
...The S&P 500 was headed for a new record high on Thursday as chipmakers rallied in the session following Nvidia’s blockbuster earnings....
...US stocks rose, with gains for tech groups leading a broad rally that put the S&P 500 on track for a record high close....
...The S&P 500 closed at a record high on Wednesday as tech stocks led a broad rally in the benchmark US index....
...The S&P 500 notched a record high close on Wednesday as tech stocks led a broad rally in the benchmark index....
...The blue-chip S&P 500 was on track to record its worst day since February 2023, down 1.9 per cent in mid-afternoon trade....
...UK asset manager Abrdn is to cut 500 jobs in a deep cost-cutting programme, after outflows more than doubled in the second half of last year....
...Overall, his team is forecasting 9-10 per cent earnings growth, amounting to a historically average earnings beat. With economic growth at 2.5 per cent, this all seems plausible....
...US stocks ticked higher on Tuesday, with the S&P 500 closing at a record high for the third session in a row....
...The decline accounted for roughly half of the 0.9 per cent fall in Wall Street’s S&P 500, according to Bloomberg data....
...The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite advanced 1.1 per cent and 0.9 per cent, respectively, over the past five sessions, but have each risen for 12 of the past 13 weeks. Energy stocks were a bright spot....
...This accounted for a record 27 per cent of all global equity ETF flows, compared with just 9 per cent in 2022, 13 per cent in 2021 and 1 per cent in 2020....
...France’s Cac 40 dropped 0.6 per cent, Germany’s Dax fell 0.9 per cent, and London’s FTSE 100 dropped 0.4 per cent....
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