Canada's main stock index opened higher on Tuesday as energy stocks gained nearly 4% on signs of improving demand for crude oil, while signs of more economic stimulus and rising U.S. retail sales bolstered sentiment.
Stock markets in the Middle East rebounded on Tuesday, tracking a rally in global equities and as crude oil prices rose on record supply cuts and improving fuel demand.
U.S. stocks jumped at the open on Tuesday after a record rise in May retail sales revived hopes of a swift post-pandemic economic rebound, with sentiment also lifted by data showing reduced COVID-19 death rates in a trial of a generic steroid drug.
Dexamethasone, a cheap and widely used steroid, has become the first drug shown to be able to save lives among COVID-19 patients in what scientists hailed as a "major breakthrough".
Triple world champion Peter Sagan will skip the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix this year in order to take part in the Giro d'Italia for the first time, his Bora-Hansgrohe team manager Ralph Denk said on Tuesday.
The major indices started this week in the green, but it needed help from the Fed to overcome a sharp morning selloff brought on by fears of a second coronavirus wave.
Chair Jerome Powell said that the central bank had a lot of tools at its disposal and would do whatever it t
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Pandemic stay-at-home orders have moved a lot of business online these days, and that's a sweet spot for digital documents leader DocuSign (NASDAQ: DOCU). A strong Q1 earnings report with better-than-expected revenue, plus confidence that the trend will continue through Q2, ind
People under 20 are around half as susceptible to COVID-19 as people aged 20 or above, according to research published on Tuesday, and clinical symptoms of the pandemic disease appear in only about a fifth of infections in children and teens.
Euro zone bank stocks may have never been cheaper, but many long-term investors remain deeply wary of a sector labelled the ultimate 'value trap' after a decade of scandals and underperformance since the financial crisis.
UK shares jumped on Tuesday after the U.S. Federal Reserve's move to expand its purchase of corporate bonds to contain the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic eased liquidity concerns and boosted hopes of a global economic recovery.
Major bourses in the Gulf rebounded on Tuesday, taking a cue from oil prices as hopes for further cuts in crude supplies outweighed concerns that a resurgence of new coronavirus infections around the world could hamper fuel demand.
AstraZeneca's potential coronavirus vaccine is likely to provide protection against contracting COVID-19 for about a year, the company's chief executive told a Belgian radio station on Tuesday.
The Indian army said on Tuesday one of its officers and two soldiers were killed in a "violent faceoff" on the contested border with China, the first such incident in decades between the nuclear-armed neighbours.
Most Americans do not trust social media companies to make the right decisions about what should be allowed on their platforms, but trust the government even less to make those choices, according to a poll released on Tuesday by Gallup and the Knight Foundation.
Sweden's Ericsson has almost doubled its global forecast for 5G mobile subscriptions to 190 million by the end of this year, due to faster than expected uptake in China.
Switzerland-based seed and crop protection company Syngenta has chosen Brazil as the initial market for a new digital agriculture services platform intended to make local grain growers more competitive, a Syngenta executive told Reuters.
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