What you need to know… The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is down -0.06%, the Dow Jones Industrials Index ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is up +0.14%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is down -0.10%. Stocks this morning are mixed amid thin holiday-season trading....
Software firm MicroStrategy said on Wednesday it had bought bitcoin worth about $615.7 million in cash, amid growing expectations that the top U.S. markets regulator will soon approve a spot bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF).
Brazil's federal public debt increased 2.48% in November from the month before to 6.325 trillion reais ($1.31 trillion), the Treasury said on Wednesday.
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Shares of Blink Charging (NASDAQ: BLNK) dropped 10.8% through 11 a.m. ET on Wednesday, probably in response to investors finally getting around to reading a report in The Wall Street Journal yesterday that detailed the troubles afflicting electric car charging stocks in the U.S.
Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) leader General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo said on Wednesday he met Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni, marking his first known foreign visit since the war between RSF and Sudanese army broke out in April.
(RTTNews) - The Canadian benchmark S&P/TSX Composite Index raced past the 21,000 mark to a fresh 52-week high Wednesday, riding on gains in several sectors.
The WisdomTree Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Fund ETF is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Wednesday, with over 778,000 shares traded versus three month average volume of about 206,000. Shares of WTAI were up about 0.1% on the day.
Former European Commission President Jacques Delors, a founding father of the European Union's historic single currency project, has died at the age of 98.
Turkey's monthly minimum wage will be 17,002 Turkish lira ($578.31) in 2024, Labour Minister Vedat Isikhan said on Wednesday, marking a 49% increase from the level determined in July and a 100% hike from January.
Finward Bancorp, the holding company for Peoples Bank, today announced that on December 22, 2023 the Board of Directors of Finward declared a dividend of $0.12 per share on Finward's common stock payable on February 5, 2024 to shareholders of record at the close of business on
In trading on Wednesday, the Gold Miners ETF is outperforming other ETFs, up about 1.3% on the day. Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Gogold Resources, up about 6% and shares of Drdgold Limited, up about 4.2% on the day.
In trading on Wednesday, rubber & plastics shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 0.8%. Helping drag down the group were shares of Tupperware Brands, down about 4.9% and shares of Latham Group down about 3.3% on the day.
Most emerging Asian currencies and equities gained on Wednesday, taking cues from a weakening U.S. dollar and a Wall Street rally, as investors remained optimistic that the U.S. Federal Reserve could begin cutting rates as early as next March.
Gold prices steadied on Wednesday as trading was muted in the last week of the year, but bullion was headed for its best year in three on expectations the Federal Reserve will cut rates in the first quarter of 2024.
Indian shares advanced on Wednesday, tracking gains in Asia and an overnight rally in U.S. stocks, over optimism the Federal Reserve could begin cutting interest rates early next year.
Malaysian palm oil futures climbed for a second session on Wednesday, underpinned by strength in rival edible oils, although low trading volumes weighed on the market.
The Indian rupee weakened on Wednesday, pressured by dollar demand from large foreign banks, even as most of the local unit's Asian peers ticked higher.
Chicago wheat slid on Wednesday after climbing to a more than two-week high in the previous session, although losses were curbed by renewed concerns over Black Sea supplies following Ukraine's attack on a large Russian naval ship.
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