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A Friday flare-up in trade tensions between the U.S. and China sent American equities to the first weekly decline in a month. Treasuries capped a fifth straight gain and the US Dollar rose. The S&P 500 halted a three-day advance on the week’s final day, with...
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U.S. Equities ended the day near where they started as investors failed to find a catalyst to lift the benchmark stock index to an all-time high. The US Dollar sank and Treasuries rose amid a slew of fresh monetary-policy decisions. The S&P 500 Index closed...
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Federal Reserve policy makers lowered their main interest rate for a second time this year and Chairman Jerome Powell said that “moderate” policy moves should be sufficient to sustain the U.S. expansion. “We took this step to help keep the U.S. economy strong in the...
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Treasuries rallied and stocks eked out a gain a day before the Federal Reserve is expected to cut interest rates. Oil plunged as Saudi Arabia restarted the plant damaged in a weekend attack. Crude gave back some of Monday’s 15% surge as Saudi officials said they had...
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U.S. Equity Markets slipped, oil surged and investors sought out assets considered to be havens in times of trouble after a strike on Saudi Arabia’s crude production heightened geopolitical risk. Losses for automakers helped drag the S&P 500 Index down the most...
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U.S. stocks finished the week mixed as Treasury Yields jumped to six-week highs and the US Dollar slipped. All three major U.S. Indexes still closed higher for a third consecutive week after being whipsawed by a rotation from growth to value shares by some investors....
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