(RTTNews) - The Singapore stock market has inched higher in consecutive trading days, collecting almost 6 points or 0.2 percent along the way. The Straits Times Index now sits just above the 3,065-point plateau and it's expected to extend its gains on Wednesday.
Britain will convene governments, academia and companies working at the cutting edge of artificial intelligence on Wednesday at the inaugural AI Safety Summit to debate how, and even if, the risks of the technology can be contained.
Alphabet's Google has settled claims by dating app developer Match Group that it monopolized Android app distribution with its Play Store, leaving “Fortnite” maker Epic Games as the sole plaintiff in an antitrust trial against Google set to begin Nov. 6.
Brazilian telco Telefonica Brasil reported on Tuesday a better-than-expected net profit for the third quarter, boosted by a solid customer base increase and price hikes.
Shares of VF Corp (NYSE: VFC) fell 14% on Tuesday after the apparel and footwear company of brands including Vans, The North Face, Timberland, and Smartwool announced mixed quarterly results and withdrew its full fiscal-year earnings guidance.
Wheat futures were left behind on Halloween as most of the CBoT grain futures traded higher. In addition to missing out on the session gains, stomped lower by Frankenstein’s Monster’s boot. Chicago closed with 1.2% to 1.5% losses on the day, ending the month of October on a net 14...
Soybeans and meal traded higher on the last day of the month, while soybean oil was left out of the witch’s brew. Soybean Oil futures closed near the day’s lows on 1.4% to 1.8% losses as the complex outlier. Soybean futures closed with 1 ¾ to 4 ¼ cent gains...
Corn futures finished the Halloween session with fractional to 1 ½ cent gains, rounding out the month of October on a net 2c gain for the December contract. Dec corn saw a 33 ½ cent range through the month. The weekly Crop Progress report from NASS showed the 23/24 corn...
Hogs were mostly pushed lower through the Halloween market, but ended the day $1.12 off the lows to close in the black. December hogs finished the month of October with a net 57 cent loss, after having seen a trading range wider than a hungry werewolf’s mouth – at $8.50....
Live cattle spent the Halloween session trading in a $1.80 range, but ended with gains. December futures are now the lead month, having finished the trading month of October with a $4.37 loss. Feeder cattle ended the day with gains as well, going home up by 2 to 27 cents....
Cotton ended the Tuesday session just 7 points off their daily lows on triple digit losses. That has left Dec contract with a monthly drop sharper than a vampire’s fang at a net 5 ½ cent/lb! Weekly NASS data showed 49% of the cotton crop had been harvested as of...
Royal Bank of Canada has injected about $2.95 billion into its U.S. unit City National Bank (CNB) so far this year to bolster its capital, making one of the biggest annual infusions of funds since acquiring the Los Angeles-based bank in 2015.
It promises to be another dramatic day in Asia on Wednesday, as investors digest the huge moves in Japan's government bond and currency markets and brace for a raft of potentially market-moving economic indicators from across the continent.
Shares of Anheuser-Busch InBev (NYSE: BUD) climbed 5.3% on Tuesday after the global brewing giant announced better-than-expected third-quarter 2023 earnings.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned on Tuesday against expecting too much success too quickly in Ukraine's campaign to reclaim occupied lands as the military said Russian forces were gearing up for fresh attacks in different sections of the front.