Gold rose on Thursday as the rapid spread of the coronavirus outside China fueled demand for safe-haven assets and triggered hopes of interest rate cuts by major global central banks.
China has sent an investigation team to Wuhan, the city at the epicentre of a coronavirus outbreak, after reports that a prison released an infected inmate who then travelled to Beijing.
(RTTNews) - NiSource Inc. (NI) reported that its fourth-quarter net loss to common shareholders widened to $153.0 million or $0.41 per share, from $19.8 million or $0.05 per share last year.
Insulet (NASDAQ: PODD) reported fourth quarter and full year 2019 results after the market closed on Tuesday, Feb. 25. The tubeless insulin pump specialist's revenue grew 27%, and its earnings per share declined 50% year over year.
(RTTNews) - The Indonesia stock market has moved lower in four straight sessions, sliding almost 300 points or 5 percent in that span. The Jakarta Composite Index now rests just beneath the 5,690-point plateau although the bargain hunters may give it a boost on Thursday.
(RTTNews) - Sykes Enterprises Inc. (SYKE) reported that its fourth-quarter net income rose to $23.02 million or $0.56 per share from $17.05 million or $0.40 per share in the prior year.
The coronavirus outbreak could have a serious impact on New Zealand's economy in the short term, the country's finance minister said on Thursday, amid new data that showed businesses were feeling more pessimistic about their prospects.
(RTTNews) - The Australian stock market is declining on Thursday in choppy trade, extending losses to a fifth straight day, following the mostly negative cues overnight from Wall Street amid continued worries about the spread of the coronavirus outside China and its adverse impa
Travel restrictions to China because of the coronavirus have come just as Apple Inc's engineers usually jet off to Asia to perfect the production of this fall's new iPhones, former employees and supply chain experts told Reuters.
Hyundai Motor Co and its affiliates are ready to decide the location of a new hydrogen fuel-cell system factory this year, which could be in South Korea or overseas, an executive said on Wednesday.