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...Oil and gas stocks led the Wall Street benchmark S&P 500 last year for the second year in a row, rising around 40 per cent compared with the broad index’s 14 per cent decline....
...There was contagion for the wider market on Monday with the S&P 500 down 3 per cent as market expectations solidified around the view that the US central bank will need to rapidly unwind stimulus measures...
...A new analysis by S&P estimates lithium demand will double in the next four years and forecasts shortages in 2025. Currently, EVs account for more than 50 per cent of global lithium demand....
...Elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific region, Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 slid, erasing a gain of as much as 1 per cent....
...The Vix volatility index, a measure of expected swings in the S&P 500 that is commonly called Wall Street’s “fear gauge”, erased its sharp early gains to trade down 1.6 percentage points....
...The S&P 500 closed up 0.5 per cent and the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended little changed, recovering from a fall of more than 1 per cent, after the US president said in a scheduled address that his administration...
...The S&P 500 index closed up 0.4 per cent and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite was 0.7 per cent higher, closing for a fresh all-time high....
...The S&P 500 rose 1.6 per cent in New York, despite elevated numbers of new coronavirus cases across the US, as trading resumed following a three-day weekend....
...But the S&P 500 closed 1.6 per cent lower in New York on Tuesday amid more grim forecasts for the economic toll of the coronavirus pandemic in the US....
...The S&P 500 sits in that zone and is nearly higher on a 12-month basis (add in dividends and the index is up)....
...In the news US stocks erase year’s losses The S&P 500 advanced 1.2 per cent on Monday to close at 3,232.39, back above its level at the start of 2020, while the tech heavy Nasdaq Composite set a new closing...
...As well, over 50 companies in the S&P 500 have already suspended their share repurchase programs, which accounted for over 25% of buybacks in 2019....
...US stocks fell after the opening bell on Thursday, threatening to snap a four-day winning streak for the S&P 500, as retail and auto woes reignited concerns over global economic growth....
...Tuesday 21.00 GMT What you need to know S&P 500 gains 0.5%; benchmark now up 16% from Boxing Day low Stoxx Europe 600 index climbs 1.4% US ISM services index slips in January Sterling drifts below $1.30...
...But according to futures trade, Wall Street’s record-breaking run could take a breather. The S&P 500 is expected to hold steady after touching a fresh record intraday high of 2,748.51 on Monday....
...Brent was 1.5 per cent higher at $65.67 a barrel, its highest since June 2015. West Texas Intermediate, the US marker was up 0.8 per cent at $58.43 a barrel....
...Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.6 per cent while Japan’s Topix index and the Hang Seng index each gained 0.9 per cent....
...The S&P/ASX 200 index was bucking the trend, up 0.4 per cent as the energy segment lifted 1.5 per cent, buoyed by higher oil prices....
...The S&P/ASX 200 index finished trading up 0.7 per cent at the highest level since May as Rio Tinto hit a near-five-year high on improved iron ore shipments....
...Australia’s S&P/ASX was flat. Futures tip the FTSE 100 to open 0.1 per cent lower while the S&P 500 is set to open flat....
...Australia’s resource-heavy S&P/ASX 200 is down 0.1 per cent, with Syrah Resources its biggest single faller....
...Futures tip both the FTSE 100 and S&P 500 to open 0.1 per cent higher....
...Australia’s benchmark S&P/ASX 200 was recovering from earlier losses, up 0.1 per cent....
...Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 is up 1 per cent as the energy sector gained 2.6 per cent....
...In Asia Pacific equities, futures tip Sydney’s S&P/ASX 200 index to open flat, while Tokyo’s Topix is set to gain 0.2 per cent and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng is expected to shed 0.1 per cent when trading begins...
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