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...The S&P 500 rose 1.9 per cent, its biggest one-day jump since April. The Nasdaq Composite climbed 2.4 per cent. The dollar was 1.5 per cent weaker against a basket of six other major currencies....
...However, US markets sold off on Wednesday with the Nasdaq Composite and the S&P 500 closing down 1.2 per cent and 0.8 per cent, respectively....
...Equity investors find reasons for optimism Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 and the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite initially dropped following the hot jobs data....
...The S&P 500 closed 0.1 per cent higher after a late pick-up, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite ended the day flat despite dropping as much as 1.4 per cent in early trading....
...Global stocks drifted on Tuesday as Nancy Pelosi’s arrival in Taiwan heightened tensions between the US and China....
...“That would be positive for equity markets,” said Nancy Curtin, chief investment officer at Alvarium Tiedemann. “Market expectations around tightening have moved significantly lower....
...The benchmark S&P 500 closed 0.4 per cent lower while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.9 per cent....
...In 2021 they outperformed the S&P 500 by 1.2 percentage points, but average returns were 17.5 percentage points higher than the market last year....
...Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 added 0.6 per cent and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite rose 0.4 per cent, having erased bigger gains earlier in the day....
...Japan’s Topix gained as much as 0.5 per cent, while South Korea’s Kospi and Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 both rose about 0.3 per cent....
...Markets outlook Equity markets in Europe were flat ahead of the release of the jobs report while contracts tracking Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 dipped slightly....
...current economic conditions US, revised Q3 GDP figures Results: Hornby H1, LendInvest H1, Mulberry H1, Salesforce Q3, SAS Q4 Thursday Brazil, Q3 GDP figures EU, October unemployment rate India, S&P...
...Taiwan fears fallout from planned Nancy Pelosi visit The pushback from the White House against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s planned visit to Taiwan has sparked anxiety in Taipei that the controversy will...
...Elsewhere, US stocks fell on Tuesday as Nancy Pelosi’s arrival in Taiwan stoked tensions between the US and China....
...Beijing warned the US after the FT reported that Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, would next month visit Taiwan, a country over which China claims sovereignty....
...S&P Global Ratings on Friday said it expected Hurricane Ian to result in insured losses of $30bn to $40bn....
...The S&P 500 index rose 9.1 per cent in July, its biggest monthly gain since November 2020....
...Speaking of controversial international trips, Kathrin Hille reports that China is pulling out all the stops — including possibly the military — to dissuade the US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy...
...The S&P 500 was set to dip 1.4 per cent when trading begins on Wall Street later in the day....
...The broader S&P 500 index rose 2.6 per cent, leading to stock market gains around the world today....
...Contracts tracking the technology-heavy Nasdaq 100 gained 1.4 per cent while futures in the broader S&P 500 were up 0.9 per cent....
...Scott Yarham of S&P Global Commodity Insights predicted that along with the lithium supply crunch, shortages of nickel and cobalt are likely to follow later this decade....
...US supermajor Chevron reported first-quarter earnings of $6.3bn, shy of consensus Wall street expectations of $6.6bn, according to data compiled by S&P Capital IQ....
...Futures contracts tracking the Nasdaq 100 index rose 1.5 per cent today while the broader S&P 500 added 0.8 per cent....
...Meanwhile, the controversy surrounding Nancy Pelosi’s planned trip to Taiwan is deepening....
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