WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration said on Monday that a planned rule requiring private-sector employers with 100 or more employees to mandate COVID-19 vaccines or regular testing will be published in the coming days.FILE PHOTO: A passenger wears a protective face mask as he walks past the American Airlines ticketing desk at Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport, March 12, 2020. […]

The benchmark FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI index fell around 2.2% and was among the worst-performing stock markets across Asia-Pacific. Malaysian Finance Minister Tengku Zafrul Aziz on Friday presented the government's budget for 2022, which includes the largest ever spending plan worth over 332 billion ringgit ($80 million) . Zafrul announced several measures to raise government revenue, including raising the tax […]

A couple of ARK Invest exchange-traded funds run by ETF star Cathie Wood bought over a million shares of Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) altogether on Tuesday, as the prices of these ETFs were down less than 1% in Tuesday’s session. These funds are up a fair amount in the past year. ARK Innovation ETF (NYSEARCA: ARKK) bought 948,826 shares of […]

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks as European Commission’s President Ursula von der Leyen looks on during a joint statement about steel and aluminium tariffs, on the sidelines of the G20 leaders’ summit in Rome, Italy October 31, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque(Reuters) – The United States and the European Union on Sunday took steps to re-establish transatlantic trade flows in steel […]

European traders will react to a busy morning of earnings, with BNP Paribas, Natwest, Glencore, BBVA and Bank of Ireland just some of those reporting before the bell. On Wall Street, stock futures slipped in early morning trading Friday as shares of major technology companies suffered following disappointing earnings reports. LONDON — European stocks are set to open lower Friday […]

The dollar index, which gauges the greenback’s strength against a basket of six currencies, advanced 0.10% to 93.89. The rupee gained 11 paise to close at 74.92 (provisional) against the U.S. dollar on Thursday despite massive sell-offs in the domestic equity market as easing crude oil prices lent some support to the local currency. At the interbank forex market, the […]

Tech Mahindra was the top loser in the Sensex pack, shedding over 3%, followed by NTPC, IndusInd Bank, Kotak Bank and Reliance Industries. Equity benchmark Sensex tanked 678 points on Friday, tracking losses in index majors Reliance Industries, Infosys and HDFC Bank amid a weak trend in global markets. The 30-share index plunged 677.77 points or 1.13% to end at […]

All three major indexes traded in the green at lunchtime Thursday, led by the Nasdaq Composite, up about 1%. Trading volume was higher than usual, and advancing stocks outnumbered decliners. Weekly claims for unemployment benefits fell to their lowest level since the beginning of the pandemic, and there is some optimism that Congress and the president could reach an agreement […]