Nasdaq confirms correction, bond yields fall further
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Nasdaq confirmed it was in a correction on Monday as stocks extended their recent sell-off,…
Wall St. skids, jolted by Trump’s surprise tariff threat on Mexico
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks dropped on Friday, as the S&P 500 closed out the month with its biggest…
Struggles of transport stocks transmit caution to market
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Add this to worries about Wall Street: The index of planes, trains and trucking companies, considered…
Wall St. loses early gains as trade concerns abound
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks closed lower on Tuesday, with initial gains giving way to declines as the likelihood…
Oil plummets, on track for biggest weekly drop in 2019
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oil prices plunged on Thursday, losing about 5% as trade tensions dampened the demand outlook, putting…
Global shares slide on fear trade spat is now a tech cold war
NEW YORK (Reuters) – World shares skidded further on Thursday and oil prices slid more than 5% as investors worried…
Wall St. falls on trade fears, technology the biggest drag
(Reuters) – U.S. stocks tumbled on Thursday as investors dumped shares in most sectors with technology financials and energy leading…
Wall St. rises as Huawei reprieve boosts tech shares
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Shares of technology companies helped lift Wall Street on Tuesday after the United States temporarily eased…
Wall St. falls as trade anxieties spike
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street ended lower on Friday as continuing trade tensions pulled industrial and tech shares down,…
Oil extends gains into fourth straight day on Middle East tensions
FILE PHOTO: A view shows a well head and a drilling rig in the Yarakta Oil Field, owned by Irkutsk…
Oil prices jump nearly 2% on drone attack on Saudi Aramco facilities
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oil prices rose nearly 2% on Tuesday after top exporter Saudi Arabia said explosive-laden drones launched…
Wall Street slides as U.S.-China trade fears rise
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks slid on Tuesday as escalating trade tensions between the United States and China triggered…
U.S. stock futures tumble after Trump threatens China with steeper tariffs
(Reuters) – Wall Street stock index futures fell sharply on Sunday after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would hike…
Take Five: Vol squall coming? World markets themes for the week ahead
May 3 (Reuters) – Following are five big themes likely to dominate thinking of investors and traders in the coming…
Wall Street Weekahead: Record-breaking rally leaving energy stocks behind
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The stock market surge since the start of the year that has sent the benchmark S&P…
Stocks slip, dollar drifts after Fed cools rate cut bets
LONDON (Reuters) – The dollar nursed overnight gains while Europe’s share markets struggled early on, after the U.S. central bank…
U.S. Fed sees no strong case for hiking or cutting rates
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday held interest rates steady and signaled little appetite to adjust them…
S&P 500 posts high, extends 2019 rally; Alphabet falls late
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The S&P 500 set an intraday record high on Monday, bolstering the view that the decade-long…
S&P 500, Nasdaq hit record closing highs on upbeat earnings
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The S&P 500 index and the Nasdaq registered record closing highs after a broadbased rally on…
U.S. existing home sales fall more than expected in March
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. home sales fell more than expected in March, pointing to continued weakness in the housing market…
Wall Street dips ahead of earnings deluge
(Reuters) – U.S. stocks pulled back slightly on Monday as investors awaited a barrage of major earnings reports this week,…
Oil hits 2019 high on U.S. plan to tighten squeeze on Iran
LONDON (Reuters) – Oil topped $74 a barrel on Monday, the highest since November, as the United States was set…
Oil rally stalls on talk of OPEC+ boosting output
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oil prices halted their rally on Monday, with both benchmarks down nearly 1 percent, after Russia’s…
Bank results curb Wall Street, oil falls as Russia mulls production boost
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Underwhelming quarterly results from U.S. banks limited gains in world stocks on Monday, and oil prices…
Wall Street slips as bank earnings disappoint
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street lost ground on Monday, dragged down by financials as underwhelming bank earnings curbed investor…
Asia stocks hover below nine month peak after Wall Street stalls
TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian stocks hovered below a nine-month peak on Tuesday after disappointing bank earnings dented Wall Street, though…
Industrials’ gains put to test as earnings ramp up
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors betting on industrial stocks this year have been rewarded, with the group among the best-performing…
Oil prices fall on surging U.S. crude supply, economic slowdown
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oil prices fell on Thursday, pressured as U.S. crude stockpiles surged to their highest levels in almost…
Asian shares pause near eight-month high, dollar weakens
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asian stocks held near eight-month highs on Thursday and the dollar slipped again on expectations global interest…
Oil prices dip on surging U.S. crude stockpiles
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oil prices fell on Thursday after U.S. crude stockpiles surged to their highest levels in almost 17…
Oil gains up to 2% to five-month high as Libyan output threatened
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oil prices rose up to 2 percent on Monday, hitting five-month highs on expectations that global…
Stocks edge higher as crude oil gains
NEW YORK – A gauge of global equities edged higher on Monday as another drop in Boeing shares and concerns…
S&P 500, Nasdaq edge higher as earnings season looms
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq edged into positive territory on Monday, with gains held in…
S&P 500, Nasdaq edge higher as earnings season looms
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq edged into positive territory on Monday, with gains held in…
S&P posts seven-day winning streak as jobs data allay economic fears
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks rose on Friday, boosted by better-than-expected job growth in March, which eased concerns of…
Take Five: Panic over? World markets themes for the week ahead
LONDON (Reuters) – Following are the five big themes likely to dominate thinking of investors and traders in the coming…
Take Five: Panic over? World markets themes for the week ahead
LONDON (Reuters) – Following are the five big themes likely to dominate thinking of investors and traders in the coming…
Asia shares sit on weekly gains, await U.S. jobs test
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asian share markets consolidated weekly gains on Friday as Sino-U.S. talks dragged on with no concrete conclusions,…
Oil prices edge lower after U.S. inventories build
FILE PHOTO: An offshore oil rig is seen in the Caspian Sea near Baku, Azerbaijan, October 5, 2017. REUTERS/Grigory Dukor/File…
Oil rises to 2019 highs as demand outlook improves
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oil climbed about 2 percent to new 2019 highs on Monday, with Brent crude touching $69…
Mixed data offer glimmers of hope for slowing U.S. economy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. retail sales unexpectedly fell in February, but a rebound in factory activity in March and strong…
Trade hopes lift Wall Street; S&P 500 notches best quarter since 2009
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks ended the final trading day of the first quarter on a strong note on…
Fed done raising interest rates; significant chance of cut in 2020: Reuters poll
BENGALURU (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve is done raising interest rates until at least the end of next year,…
Wall Street climbs as financials snap five days of losses
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks gained on Tuesday, with financials snapping a five-day losing streak as Treasury yields stabilized…
Wall Street tumbles on global economic slowdown fears
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street stocks sold off sharply on Friday, with all three major U.S. stock indexes posting…
Wall Street powers world stocks; dollar up on Brexit woes
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street led global stocks higher on Thursday on the back of upbeat economic data, while…
S&P little changed as trade worries offset optimism over Fed
FILE PHOTO: A trader passes by screens showing Spotify on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in…
Oil up as OPEC-led supply cuts support, Cushing draws down
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oil prices edged up on Monday, supported by the prospect of prolonged OPEC-led oil supply curbs…
Wall Street treads water as Boeing, Facebook weigh; Fed meeting on tap
(Reuters) – U.S. stocks flitted between gains and losses on Monday, with losses in Boeing and Facebook limiting gains while…
Wall Street gains with tech; S&P 500 posts best week since November
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks rose on Friday, led by technology companies, as a report on progress in U.S.-China…
S&P 500 eases amid U.S.-China trade uncertainty
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The S&P 500 slipped on Thursday, snapping a three-day streak of gains, as uncertainty over when…
Oil edges higher on cuts to Saudi exports
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oil prices edged higher on Tuesday, supported by signs of tightening global supply after a Saudi…
Oil prices rise amid broad market rally, OPEC supply cuts
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oil prices rose on Tuesday, lifted by healthy demand and output cuts led by producer group OPEC.…
Pound jumps, Asian shares rise after changes to Brexit deal
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The pound jumped on Tuesday and Asian shares rose after the European Commission agreed to changes in…
Asia shares sluggish as global growth concerns return; ECB meeting eyed
TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian shares eased on Thursday, with caution prevailing as investors awaited some kind of resolution to Sino-U.S.…
Wall Street drops after weak data, healthcare slump
(Reuters) – Wall Street’s major indexes fell on Monday, weighed down by a weak U.S. construction spending report and declines…
U.S. shares falter, investors await U.S.-China trade deal
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stock indexes closed lower while the dollar edged higher on Monday, as investors appeared to…
Wall St. Week Ahead: U.S. stock reign may not last over other regions
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stock prices are outpacing those in most other regions to start 2019, but the gap…
Oil prices dip as U.S. crude output hits record 12 million barrels per day
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oil prices fell on Friday after the United States reported its crude output hit a record 12…