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...CME’s prices are a composite derived from four bitcoin exchanges. It is also planning to limit the amount of contracts investors can hold to 1,000....
...Closing quotes Lex Apple: USA, USA Won’t somebody please think of the shareholders? Apple found no room for them in Wednesday’s 1,100 word paean to America....
...At the close in New York, the S&P 500 was flat at 2,579.9, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.4 per cent to 23,516.3, with the Nasdaq Composite also flat at 6,714.9....
...Starbucks sank 9.2 per cent to $54 and cigarette manufacturer Altria Group, maker of Marlboro through its Philip Morris USA arm, fell 9.5 per cent to $66.94 on Friday....
...This quarter rival T-Mobile USA added 798,000 postpaid customers, while Verizon — the largest US telecoms group by customers — lost 307,000 and AT&T lost 191,000....
...Another first is the USA Pavilion — look out for glassware by John Hogan and the rugged furniture of Fernando Mastrangelo....
...But Steven Ricchiuto, chief economist at Mizuho Securities USA, said: “The makers of monetary policy were not as dovish as the markets would have liked to see....
...The hearing in Washington was told that Scaled Composites, the arm of Northrop Grumman that designed the craft, had not considered the possibility that human error could lead to an early unlocking of the...
...In China, both the benchmark Shanghai Composite and the tech-heavy Shenzhen Composite were up about 2 per cent, offering respite to investorsafter the wild gyrations of previous days....
...The Nasdaq Composite rose 1 per cent as well to 4,508.31....
...The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite slipped 0.5 per cent to end the day at 4,449.56. eric.platt@ft.com Twitter: @ericgplatt...
...The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite nudged down slightly to 4,123.90....
...The technology heavy Nasdaq Composite rose 0.86 per cent to 4,031.52....
...The Nasdaq Composite index was up 0.6 per cent to help the tech index close in positive territory for the week, 0.1 per cent higher....
...The technology heavy Nasdaq Composite was 1.03 per cent higher to 4,191.04....
...The Hang Seng rose more than 2% and the Shanghai composite was 2.1% higher. (Financial Times)(Bloomberg) Today: Richmond Fed manufacturing index. US Senate committee hearing on banks and commodities....
...Apple’s fall made the Nasdaq Composite Index the laggard among US indices, down 0.1 per cent to 3,717.85....
...The Hang Seng index was down 0.4% and the Shanghai Composite index fell off 0.1%....
...Teething problems are an accepted part of the introduction of almost any aircraft type as revolutionary as the 787, whose body is made mainly from carbon composites, rather than aluminium....
...The 787, however, is a much bigger technological bet for Boeing than the 777 – it sets new standards in fuel efficiency because it is made mainly from lightweight plastic composites rather than aluminium...
...The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite slipped 0.2 per cent to 2,996.69....
...0.08% at 1,103 Americas DJIA up +0.38% at 12,837 S&P 500 up +0.23% at 1,391 Bovespa up +0.35% at 56,437 Asia Nikkei 225 up +1.56% at 9,367 Topix up +1.23% at 776.43 Hang Seng up +0.79% at 21,914 Shanghai Composite...
...Earlier in the week, Deutsche Telecom’s board agreed to take over MetroPCS, to merge it with T-Mobile USA, prompting investors to question a missed opportunity for Sprint....
...Last week MetroPCS and T-Mobile USA, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, agreed to go ahead with a merger in order to be able to compete with larger rivals such as AT&T, Verizon and Sprint Nextel....
...The Nasdaq Composite Index rose 0.2 per cent to 3,182.62. Shares in Apple , the iPhone and iPad maker, closed slightly higher at $702.17 as customers await the first shipments of its latest smartphone....
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