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© Reuters Investing.com — U.S. stocks are wobbling on Tuesday, ahead of the start of the latest two-day policy meeting of the Federal Reserve and as investors look toward Apple (NASDAQ:)’s earnings and the October jobs report. Here are some of the biggest U.S. stock movers today: Pfizer (NYSE:) stock fell 1.4% after the drugmaker reported its first quarterly loss since 2019, as it recorded charges largely related to its COVID products, co-developed with BioNTech (NASDAQ:). Pinterest (NYSE:) stock soared 17.1% after the image sharing platform reported third quarter results that topped expectations as efforts to improve monetization of its…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A diesel fuel nozzle with new European labels to standardise gasoline pumps in the EU zone is seen at a petrol station in Nice, France, October 12, 2018. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard/File Photo By Arathy Somasekhar HOUSTON (Reuters) – Oil prices edged higher on Tuesday as a drop in euro zone inflation buoyed hopes that the European Central Bank has almost certainly finished raising interest rates, and offset higher OPEC output. futures for December delivery, were 32 cents, or 0.4% higher at $87.77 a barrel by 11:42 a.m. ET (1542 GMT) ahead of their expiry later on Tuesday.…
The US Dollar to Canadian Dollar () exchange rate has reached a one-year high, following an underwhelming performance of Canada’s economy in the third quarter of 2023. The flat Q3 GDP comes on the heels of a slight dip in Q2, falling short of the Bank of Canada’s growth projection of +0.8%. Goods-producing industries, predominantly agriculture, have been on a downward trend for five consecutive months due to drought conditions in Western Canada. This downturn was further exacerbated by early quarter disruptions from fire and strikes, a decline in retail sales, and a stall in the post-pandemic recovery of food…
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Getty Images TL;DR Lawsuits and regulatory issues can come out of left field, but make a big impact on stock prices This week has seen a raft of these rear their head, from Burger King facing allegations of false advertising, Elon Musk planning to sue the ADL and Amazon going up against the FTC again With GDP growth in places like the US and Europe slowing to a crawl, investors are looking to markets like India for opportunities over the next decade Top weekly and monthly trades Subscribe to the Forbes AI newsletter to stay in the loop and get…
Receive free Sovereign bonds updatesWe’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Sovereign bonds news every morning. European countries are increasingly going directly to their own citizens to fund their ballooning borrowing needs, in a retail push partly designed to press high street banks into raising the interest rates they pay to depositors.Italy, Belgium and Portugal have issued about €60bn worth of bonds directly to households so far this year, up from €26bn last year, as savers flock to the higher yields offered by governments.Italy is returning to the market in October with a second sale…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: An apartment complex which is currently under construction is seen in Seoul, South Korea, August 30, 2016. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/File Photo SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s financial authorities said they would control household debt by tightening certain loan regulations, as rising mortgage demand drove up household borrowing by the biggest amount in two years in August. Total household borrowing from banks stood at 1,075.0 trillion won ($810.94 billion) at the end of August, up 6.9 trillion won over the month, central bank data showed on Wednesday. It exceeded the previous month’s 5.9 trillion won increase and the…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: An Amazon delivery worker sorts packages out for delivery during Amazon’s two-day “Prime Early Access Sale” shopping event for Amazon members, in the financial district of New York City, U.S., October 11, 2022. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Ph (Reuters) – Amazon.com (NASDAQ:) on Tuesday said it is investing over $440 million over the next year to boost wages for its contracted delivery employees. With this investment, Amazon expects the contracted delivery workers in the U.S. to earn $20.50 per hour on average or more. Amazon uses external operators via their delivery service partner (DSP) program to facilitate faster…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Oil rigs are seen at Vaca Muerta shale oil and gas drilling, in the Patagonian province of Neuquen, Argentina January 21, 2019. REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian/File Photo By Yuka Obayashi TOKYO (Reuters) – Oil prices edged higher on Wednesday, hovering at a new 10-month high hit the previous day, as expectations of tighter global supply and fears of supply disruption in Libya outweighed concerns of slower demand in some countries such as China. The international benchmark futures rose 8 cents, or 0.1%, to $92.14 a barrel by 0054 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude climbed 14…