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Bloomberg: Yuan Extends Drop; Stocks Ending Rough Week Mixed: Markets Wrap
Asian stocks were mixed on Friday, ending the worst week for the region’s shares since March, amid ongoing trade tensions. The yuan extended losses to reach fresh lows, while Japanese yields edged lower after a tumultuous week for the bond market. [more...]
Bloomberg: Tech Leads Stock Rebound as Oil Gains With Dollar: Markets Wrap
Tech companies led gains in U.S. stocks on favorable earnings reports as Apple Inc.’s market value reached $1 trillion. The dollar climbed with oil. [more...]
Bloomberg: Apple Becomes First U.S. Company to Hit $1 Trillion Value
Apple Inc. became the first U.S.-based company with a market value of $1 trillion, four decades after it was co-founded by Steve Jobs in a Silicon Valley garage and later revolutionized the worlds of computing, music and mobile communications. [more...]
Bloomberg: Hawkish Fed, Weak Yuan Signal More Trouble Ahead for Emerging Markets
If you thought the first half of the year was rocky for emerging market economies, brace for turbulence ahead with dollar strength and a weaker Chinese currency set to keep investors on edge. [more...]
Bloomberg: Investors Want Australia's Gold Producers to Buy Their U.S. Rivals
Gold producers in Australia are outperforming their global competitors, prompting investors to encourage them to expand their horizons and acquire struggling North American rivals. [more...]
Bloomberg: RBS Lays Out Plan to Resume Dividends a Decade After Bailout
Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc investors have had a long wait, but a decade after the financial crisis the government-owned bank finally gave concrete plans to resume dividends. [more...]
Bloomberg: To Trump's Chagrin, Trade Standoff Helps Power Dollar Higher
Just two weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump lamented how the dollar’s strength is reducing America’s competitive edge, the administration’s latest trade threats are paving the way for further greenback gains. [more...]
Bloomberg: The 1% Threat in Japan That Has Global Bond Markets on Edge
With investor attention firmly on the spike in the Japanese 10-year yield this week, officials at the U.S. Treasury and France’s Agence France Trésor, will be looking at the longer end of the curve -- with trepidation. [more...]
Reuters: Asia stocks capped, dollar at two-week high as trade war dents confidence
Asian stocks inched up on Friday following a tech-led rise on Wall Street, although the latest exchange of trade threats between Beijing and Washington capped gains and drove safe-haven flows to the dollar, which hovered near a two-week high. [more...]
Reuters: Strong U.S. job growth expected in July, tariffs yet to bite
U.S. companies likely maintained a strong pace of hiring in July, suggesting that the robust economy was helping the labor market to weather trade tensions, which could allow the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates again in September. [more...]
CNBC: If you invested $1,000 in Apple 10 years ago, here’s how much you’d have now
Apple shares hit a historic $1 trillion market cap value on Thursday, becoming the first public U.S. company to ever reach the milestone. The stock briefly hit the $207.05 per share price that was needed to bring Apple to the $1 trillion mark before retreating, CNBC reports. [more...]
CNBC: The first company to ever reach $1 trillion in market value was in China and got crushed
Before Apple hit $1 trillion in market value Thursday, there was Chinese oil giant PetroChina, which reached the milestone more than a decade ago. It did not fare too well after that. [more...]
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