Voters went to the polls on Saturday in a by-election in Australia's Victoria state seen as a referendum on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's handling of cost of living pressures across the country.
Bayer on Friday evening won a trial in a lawsuit brought by the family of an Arkansas woman who says she developed cancer from exposure to Roundup, one of thousands of lawsuits the German company is facing over the weedkiller, while another trial ended with a hung jury earlier in the day.
A jury in Delaware federal court said on Friday that Midwest Energy Emissions Corp (ME2C), which specializes in reducing mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants, was entitled to more than $114 million from a group of coal refiners that it accused of infringing two patents.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Friday vetoed a bill passed by the state's Republican-controlled legislature that would have banned anyone under age 16 from social media platforms, saying he expected lawmakers to produce "a different, superior bill."
Gold reached a new record high in 2023 and was the only precious metal with a significant gain last year. While the $2,000 level was a technical resistance level over the past years, it has become technical support in 2024.
This earnings season, quite a few healthcare companies notched solid beats on revenue, earnings, or both. Unfortunately for its shareholders, Organogenesis Holdings (NASDAQ: ORGO) was not one of them.
Seventeen U.S. Senate Democrats are urging the federal judiciary to give "appropriate weight" to the needs of public defenders when it next seeks money from Congress, saying its budget request for 2024 left the program that provides court-appointed lawyers to indigent defendants in "dire financial straits."
The World Trade Organization's moratorium on customs duties on digital transmissions, a key pillar of internet development for decades, won a last-minute reprieve on Friday, but the deal will force companies to confront its expiration again in 2026.
Novo Nordisk's (NYSE: NVO) position as a hot healthcare stock got a boost from an analyst as the trading week came to a close. On a significant price target boost, the Danish pharmaceutical company's share price closed the day almost 4% higher. That was more than good enough to o
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) Friday closed up +0.80%, the Dow Jones Industrials Index ($DOWI ) (DIA ) closed up +0.23%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) closed up +1.44%. Stock indexes on Friday rallied, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 posting new...
Tech stocks were the stars of the equities market on Friday, with a wide range of them jumping higher in price across the trading session. That followed the impressive quarterly results and guidance proffered by a top name in the hardware field. Artificial intelligence (AI) was a
Part of the reason so many lottery winners and heirs blow their windfalls shortly after getting rich is that they never learned the skills to manage, guard and grow that kind of money. The other...
A Colorado paramedic convicted in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a young Black man who died after police put him in a chokehold and medics injected him with a powerful sedative, was sentenced to five years in prison on Friday.
Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) recorded another day of strong gains in Friday's daily trading. The semiconductor company's share price closed out the session up 5.3%, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence.
It was billed as the "reform ministerial" that could lay a platform for updated global trading rules fit for modern challenges, from climate change to rising agricultural and industrial subsidies.
Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been on an incredible run over the last year. The artificial intelligence (AI) leader's share price has soared roughly 240% over the last 12 months, making it the best-performing "Magnificent Seven" stock across the stretch. The explosive performance has
(RTTNews) - Canadian stocks turned in a fine performance on Friday with investors indulging in some hectic buying at several counters from across various sectors.
The euphoria surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) played a major in the Nasdaq Composite's 43% return last year. Indeed, investor enthusiasm for AI has carried over into 2024 -- helping fuel the S&P 500 to record levels.
Investors in Clorox Co (Symbol: CLX) saw new options begin trading today, for the December 20th expiration. One of the key data points that goes into the price an option buyer is willing to pay, is the time value, so with 294 days until expiration the newly trading contracts re