(RTTNews) - The Canadian stock market ended modestly lower on Friday after a highly lackluster session as investors largely refrained from making significant moves due to a lack of positive triggers.
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Investors were falling in love with Match Group (NASDAQ: MTCH) all over again in the first six months of the year as shares of the Tinder parent racked up a 12% gain, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence, even as the COVID-19 pandemic roiled th
Canada's main stock index gave back a small part of this week's rally on Friday, as a record surge in COVID-19 cases in the United States raised fears of another round of lockdowns.
A Ryanair flight en route from Berlin to Athens made an emergency landing at Thessaloniki airport on Friday with 164 people on board, Greek authorities said.
Banks owed money by cash-strapped Argentine soy crusher Vicentin are accusing the company of diverting hundreds of millions of dollars and have asked a U.S. court to subpoena records as part of a lawsuit, including wire transfers and bank statements.
Representatives of Cameroon's government held talks this week with the main leaders of an Anglophone separatist insurgency for the first time since the conflict began in 2017, a separatist leader and two security sources said on Friday.
Latin American stocks and currencies remained muted on Friday as a U.S. holiday provided few trading cues, but were set to end the week with gains as bets grew for a recovery from the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chile´s state-run Codelco said on Friday unions at its Chuquicamata mine division had voted to implement a seven-day on, seven-day off shift schedule at the sprawling copper deposit in a bid to reduce worker exposure to the exploding coronavirus outbreak in the country´s mine-rich desert north.
An armed member of the Canadian military who drove a truck through gates protecting the part of Ottawa where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lives was acting alone and now faces 22 charges, police said on Friday.
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Shares in United Parcel Service (NYSE: UPS) rose 11.5% in June, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence. In common with its direct peer FedEx (NYSE: FDX), which rose 7.4% in June, UPS stock had a good month on the back of a growing realizat
Social media app TikTok distanced itself from Beijing after India banned 59 Chinese apps in the country, according to a correspondence seen by Reuters.
Nigeria's central bank asked lenders to bid for forex at an auction 5% above its official rate of 360, traders said, in a move to weaken the naira as the regulator seeks to unify its multiple exchange rates.
Venezuela's chief prosecutor on Friday announced arrest warrants for members of the central bank's ad hoc board of directors, appointed by opposition leader Juan Guaido, for several crimes, including treason.
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Former Giro d'Italia winner Nairo Quintana said he had not suffered any serious injuries after being hit by a car during training in Colombia on Friday.
The stock market is on a roll right now. The S&P 500 market index has gained 24% in three months as a mind-boggling 480 out of its 505 tickers posted positive returns over the same period. Now, surging COVID-19 infections could take the wind out of Wall Street's sails any d
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Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) stock popped 11.6% in June, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. The S&P 500 returned 2% last month.
(RTTNews) - After a weak start and a subsequent recovery that pushed the market up into positive territory for a few minutes, Canadian stocks retreated Friday morning, and were marginally down by noon.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday he was still unsure whether he would go to Washington D.C. next week to celebrate a new North American trade treaty, citing concern about possible U.S. tariffs on aluminum.
Canada's biggest lenders confirmed on Friday they had joined a widespread boycott of Facebook Inc begun by U.S. civil rights groups seeking to pressure the world's largest social media platform to take concrete steps to block hate speech.