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Gold hovers near two-month highs on N.Korea tensions

Rising tensions between North Korea and the United States were once again the theme of the day with only the release of much-awaited inflation figures out o...

Seoul shares open lower amid escalating tensions over North Korea

It's the latest warning since he said earlier this week that North Korea faces "retaliation with fire and fury unlike any the world has seen before". The CBOE...

Wait, the price of Bitcoin is how much?

Due to the price upturn, bitcoin market cap escalated to a record $66,5 billion, according to CoinMarketCap data. Motivated by the surging price and increas...

Sensex recovers over 250 points, Nifty reclaims 9800-mark

The BSE market breadth was bullish with 1,805 advances and 598 declines . According to market observers, a strong rupee and individual index heavyweights l...

Shoppers shun high street amid wet and stormy weather

A fall in footfall in July could mark a "sea change" in consumers' willingness to spend , according to the latest British Retail Consortium (BRC) - Springboard...

Trump blasts Merck CEO

Trump had said "many sides" were involved, drawing fire from across the political spectrum for not specifically denouncing the far right. Photo President Tr...

Uber to offer tipping for United Kingdom users - and introduce waiting charges

In addition to this drivers will be getting more choice over their passengers with the "no thanks" button, and the option to stop receiving pick-up requests fro...

London Garden Bridge project scrapped

The project had been criticised for its ballooning costs, after an initial estimate of £60 million (Dh285.9m) was raised to £200m. Without the guarantee, the pr...

City of London Investment Trust plc (CTY) to Issue GBX 4.30 Dividend

The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, July 27th. Aberdeen New Dawn Investment Trust PLC has a 12-month low of GBX 177.00 and a 12-month high of GBX...

Wall Street lower on US-North Korea tensions

Six of the 11 major S&P sectors were higher, with technology's 0.80-percent rise leading the advancers. S&P 500 e-minis were down 4.5 points, or 0.18 percent,...

Brokers Issue New Targets On Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (NYSE:SMI)

In other Lattice Semiconductor Corporation news, Director Robin Ann Abrams sold 9,091 shares of the business's stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, ...

North Korea nerves rattle stocks, lift gold, yen

The strength on Wall Street is partly due to bargain hunting, with traders picking up stocks at reduced levels following the pullback seen over the past few ses...

Global stocks selloff stops at Wall Street; gold, yen tick up

The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index lost 0.75 per cent and MSCI's gauge of stocks across the globe shed 0.40 per cent. "The comments by the State Secretar...

North Korea talk drags global stocks lower; gold, yen rise

Pacific territory of Guam. If all three stock gauges finish in the red on the same day for a third straight session, it would be the first time such a streak ...

Zacks Investment Research Downgrades Xenia Hotels & Resorts, Inc

Several other hedge funds also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Shares of Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. Principal Financial Group Inc. Th...

Shares in the Spotlight: IDEAL OPTICS LTD.

There are also moving averages (the Tenkan and Kijun lines) which act like the MACD crossover signals with the Tenkan crossing from underneath the Kijun as a bu...

The Barclays PLC Reiterates "Overweight" Rating for Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSB)

This price movement gives investors an idea of how much the stock price has moved in the past year and whether it is trading near the top, middle or bottom of t...

Merck & Company, Inc. (new) (MRK) Position Increased by Amalgamated Bank Last Quarter

The Primecap Management Company holds 2.96M shares with $174.20M value, down from 2.96M last quarter. Camelot Portfolios LLC now owns 7,771 shares of the comp...

Seoul shares open lower amid tensions over North Korea

Ongoing global glut concerns lingered in oil markets despite a bigger-than-expected draw in US crude inventories. The Standard & Poor's 500 index slipped 0.90...

WPI inflation rises sharply to 1.88% in July vs 0.90% in June

The index for "Manufacture of Wearing Apparel" sub-group rose by 2.1 per cent to 136.0 in July, 2017 from 133.2 for the previous month due to higher price of ma...

North Korea nerves push stocks to worst week since November

The Labor Department said its consumer price index inched up by 0.1 percent in July after coming in unchanged in June. Core prices had also been expected to cli...

Asian shares expected to focus on China data, dollar languishes

Euro zone bond yields also rose, with investors interpreting the robust Japanese data as a sign that the global economy is indeed on the mend. But economists do...

Japan GDP Jumps 1.0% In Q2

The estimate of GDP growth for the first quarter revised upward, from 1% to 1.5%. "This is a positive development for inflation". Private consumption, which a...

Nuveen Senior Income Fund (NYSE:NSL) to Issue Monthly Dividend of $0.04

Nuveen Municipal 2021 Target Term Fund Fund ( NYSE:NHA ) traded up 0.80% during mid-day trading on Friday, hitting $9.95. Accern also assigned media stories ab...

Stocks, dollar extend slide as US-North Korea tensions intensify

Analysts said yields, which move inversely to prices, could fall further if the geopolitical tensions continue to rise - even if central bankers in the USA cont...

Xi Jinping : China industrial output slows sharply in July

Output by Chinese factories and workshops slowed sharply in July, growing by a lower-than-expected 6.4 per cent compared to the same month past year, official f...

President Moon To Meet Top US Military Officer Monday

Moon Chung-In, South Korea's ambassador-at-large for worldwide security, criticized the Trump administration for what he said was a lack of clarity over North K...

Korean stocks down 1.1 pct on heightened tensions over N. Korea

The S&P hasn't moved more than 0.5 percent in one day since July and has fallen more than 1 percent only twice this year. Both the Swiss franc and the yen hav...

Simmering North Korea tensions knock back Wall Street

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 13.21 points, or 0.06 percent, to 21,857.22, the S&P 500 gained 2.38 points, or 0.10 percent, to 2,440.59 and the N...

3 shot at Great Lakes Dragaway in Wisconsin

Great Lakes Dragaway is a dragstrip near Union Grove , Wisconsin, about 32 miles southwest from Milwaukee. The third man died at the hospital, according to med...