A recent spike in coronavirus cases in Canada is worrying and can be linked to groups of young people gathering in bars and nightclubs and at parties, a top medical official said on Friday.
Tiger Woods was in danger of missing the cut in his PGA Tour return at this week's Memorial Tournament in Dublin, Ohio, while overnight leader Tony Finau grabbed a share of the early second-round clubhouse lead on Friday.
Earlier this week, Fisker Inc., a pioneer in developing electric vehicles, announced it would become a publicly traded company by merging with Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) Spartan Energy Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: SPAQ). As rumors of the potential merger grew, shares
London's police force suspended an officer on Friday pending an investigation after video footage emerged of him kneeling on the side of a black suspect's head and neck.
Technology stocks were narrowly higher in Friday trading, with the SPDR Technology Select Sector ETF advancing 0.2% while the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index was rising 0.3%.
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Shares of electric-truck start-up Nikola (NASDAQ: NKLA) were trading lower for a second day on Friday morning, after a Deutsche Bank analyst talked up the company's future prospects -- but didn't recommend that investors buy its shares.
South Africa's rand firmed on Friday to end the week on the front foot as demand for riskier assets was given a boost by hopes a European Union summit will make progress on a recovery fund that could help lift global growth.
French co-operative lender BPCE said on Friday that it did not intend to file a tender offer for Natixis shares after a media report said that it had explored buying the 30% of Natixis SA it does not already own.
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Investors were hitting the pause button on Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) today. After the stock rallied nearly 20% over the last three weeks in anticipation of the second-quarter report, the market gave the report a thumbs-down, sending the stock 6.8% lower as of 11:07 a
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The strategic objectives of Intesa Sanpaolo's planned acquisition of UBI Banca could be threatened if Intesa were forced to sell its own branches rather than those of its smaller rival to address antitrust concerns, UBI said on Friday.
A company's own top management tend to have the best inside view into the business, so when company officers make major buys, investors are wise to take notice. Presumably the only reason an insider would take their hard-earned cash and use it to buy stock of their company in
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For several weeks now, fuel cell stocks have been rocketing higher, but few have moved higher, faster this week than energy-in-a-box company Bloom Energy (NYSE: BE), which was up 44% in the past four days alone.
(RTTNews) - Stocks have shown a lack of direction over the course of the trading session on Friday, with the major averages spending the day bouncing back and forth across the unchanged line after failing to sustain an initial upward move.
The Russian rouble weakened on Friday, slipping to 72 against the dollar for the first time since July 7, as investor concerns over China-U.S. relations and rising COVID-19 infections worldwide continued to impede risk appetite.
The First Trust Dorsey Wright International Focus 5 ETF is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Friday, with over 1.9 million shares traded versus three month average volume of about 88,000. Shares of IFV were up about 0.6% on the day.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) was down about 0.1% at 11:15 a.m. EDT, with the index struggling to find a direction. The U.S. reported over 77,000 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, easily a new record.