A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here. You can listen to an audio version of the newsletter by clicking the same link. London (CNN Business)When WeWork, the once high-flying office space company, was forced to call off its Wall Street debut in late 2019, it […]
Read moreBOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s constitutional court backed medically assisted suicide in a decision late on Wednesday, which advocates said makes it the first Latin American country to back death by suicide for those suffering serious or incurable illnesses. Euthanasia – when a patient chooses to die in a procedure where medical staff are present – has been legal in Colombia […]
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(Reuters) – Top U.S. meatpacking companies drafted the executive order issued by President Donald Trump in 2020 to keep meat plants running and convinced his administration to encourage workers to stay on the job at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report released on Thursday by a U.S. House panel.Slideshow ( 2 images )The report by the […]
Read moreMarket is telling us there is something really wrong: Trader Seaport Securities founder Teddy Weisberg and Carnivore Trading founder Dutch Masters discuss which stocks have the pricing power investors are willing to pay for on ‘The Claman Countdown.’ U.S. equity futures traded lower Thursday morning as selling continued after the consumer price index for April remained near a 40-year high, […]
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Early trading Wednesday had two of the three major U.S. indexes in the green. Tuesday’s up-and-down regular session ended with the Nasdaq up 1% while the Dow Jones industrials and the S&P 500 finished the day down and up a quarter-point, respectively. The monthly consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.3% month over month in April, a steep drop from the […]
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HONG KONG (Reuters) -Cardinal Joseph Zen, one of the most senior Catholic clerics in Asia, and three others who helped run a now-disbanded Hong Kong fund for protesters were arrested by on charges of “collusion with foreign forces”, and later released on bail.FILE PHOTO: Retired bishop Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun arrives the Court of Final Appeal to support media mogul […]
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The futures traded higher Tuesday after another dumpster fire day across Wall Street, when the relentless selling from last week returned to start the week off. All the major indexes ended lower, with the Nasdaq once again taking the brunt of the selling and ending down 3.7%. Last week marked the fifth straight week that the S&P 500 closed lower, […]
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Westpac chief executive Peter King says the banking giant is keen to make more direct investment in fintech businesses or applications that can be rolled out to its customers, as the lender tries to position for a wave of competition in digital banking. Speaking at Westpac’s half-year results on Monday, King did not rule out putting more money into the […]
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Premarket trading on Monday was not looking good for bulls. Equities were down by as much as 2.5% (Nasdaq Composite). Crude oil traded down about 2.7%, and gold traded down about 1.3%. Could be that investors are honing their chops for Wednesday’s consumer price index (CPI) report. The index is expected to rise by 0.2% and core CPI, which excludes […]
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