Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange October 31, 2019. Brendan McDermid | Reuters This is a live blog. Check back for updates. 10:32 am: Battered hotel stocks on the rise Some of the hotel and casino stocks, which have taken the hardest hits from the coronavirus, were in the green Thursday. […]
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Dow tanks 1,000, S&P 500 down 5%, virus cases jump
Trader Thomas Lee works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, Aug. 5, 2019. Richard Drew | AP This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. 10:35 am: Walmart jumps 5%, gets an upgrade from Credit Suisse While the broader market moves lower, shares of Walmart are up more than […]
Bank of England holds key interest rate steady
Mark Carney, the outgoing Governor of the Bank of England. Matt Dunham | WPA Pool | Getty Images The Bank of England (BOE) on Thursday held interest rates following Governor Mark Carney’s final monetary policy meeting. Sterling jumped 0.5% against the dollar to trade at around $1.3084 after the central bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) […]
Mainland Chinese stocks plunge as coronavirus fears grip investors
The Shanghai composite fell greater than 3% whereas the Shenzhen element dropped past 4%. The Shenzhen composite additionally declined 4.259%. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index additionally fell 2.21%. Elsewhere, the Nikkei 225 in Japan slipped 0.98% to shut at 23,795.44 whereas the Topix index additionally shed 0.78% to finish its buying and selling day […]
Hong Kong leads losses among major markets following Moody’s downgrade
The Hang Seng index within the embattled metropolis fell 2.29% by the afternoon, with shares of life insurer AIA plunging past 3%. The strikes got here following the rankings downgrade from Moody’s on Monday, the place the company additionally modified its outlook for Hong Kong to steady from destructive. The metropolis has been stricken […]