Special committee of Paramount Global endorses plan to merge with Skydance Media, source says By Reuters – Investing.com
Investing.com — The S&P 500 continued its record rally on Monday, closing at an all-time high for the fourth consecutive day amid caution ahead of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s congressional testimony this week and key inflation data. As of 4pm ET (20:00 GMT), the S&P 500 was up 0.06% to hit a new closing […]
Oil little changed as investors eye impact of storm Beryl on Texas By Reuters – Investing.com
Investing.com — Gold prices edged lower in Asian markets on Monday as traders awaited further clues on U.S. interest rates from testimony by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and the release of key inflation measures this week. However, bullion prices remained near one-month highs and looked set to rise back above $2,400 an ounce amid […]
Morning Bid: Optimism rising high, soft landing on track By Reuters – Investing.com
Jamie McGeever (Reuters) – Future outlook for Asian markets. Investors entered the new week in optimistic spirit after last Friday’s U.S. jobs report put a “soft landing” scenario on track, driving down the dollar and bond yields and fuelling a relentless “risk-on” rally in stocks. Most of the world’s major stock markets are at all-time […]
Hungary central bank tells lenders to reimburse clients after Apple glitch By Reuters – Investing.com
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary’s central bank on Saturday instructed the country’s financial institutions to immediately start refunding customers after Apple Inc’s (NASDAQ:) electronic payment service mistakenly charged hundreds of thousands of accounts in the country earlier this week. The central bank said some 780,000 erroneous charges totalling more than 2 billion forints ($5.43 million) had […]
HSBC, Virgin Money and Nationwide customers suffer online banking outage By Reuters – Investing.com
LONDON (Reuters) – Customers of HSBC, Nationwide and Virgin Money (LON:) were unable to use online banking services on Friday, the latest outage to plague an industry that has become increasingly reliant on digital access amid the closure of physical branches. Thousands of HSBC customers in the UK were unable to access online banking services […]
US regulators could approve spot ether ETFs for launch by July 4, sources say By Reuters – Investing.com
By Suzanne McGee and Hannah Lang (Reuters) – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission could approve an exchange-traded fund (ETF) tracking the spot price of ethereum as early as July 4, as talks between asset managers and regulators enter the final stages, industry executives and other sources told Reuters. Eight asset managers, including BlackRock Inc. […]
Dollar firm as euro wallows near recent lows; market braces for China data By Reuters – Investing.com
Bridget Riley TOKYO, April 28 (Reuters) – The dollar held firm on Thursday while the euro hovered near its lowest level in more than a month amid continuing concerns over the political outlook in Europe. The yuan hovered near its lowest levels in months after China released a slew of economic data suggesting an uneven […]
Yen on guard ahead of BOJ; euro stutters with weekly loss in sight By Reuters – Investing.com
By Ray Wee SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The yen was on the defensive on Friday ahead of a Bank of Japan policy decision that could see it further tapering its massive monetary easing, while the politically fraught euro is set to slip for the week. The dollar turned higher, supported by a rise against the euro […]
Reuters Trawls Right-wing Comments Sections to Claim ‘Trump Supporters’ Want ‘Riots’
Reuters published a story on Friday alleging that supporters of former President Donald Trump were calling for “rioting” and “violent retaliation” following Thursday’s verdict in New York that found him guilty of 34 charges in a trial deemed unfair. The headline of the Reuters article is “Trump Supporters Call for Riots, Violent Retaliation After Verdict” […]
Texas National Guard pepper sprays ‘migrants’ trying to cut through fence at border: Reuters video
Published by Reuters on Tuesday. X video It said it showed the Texas National Guard spraying pepper spray on migrants who tried to break through the fence at the U.S.-Mexico border. The video, recorded Monday in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, across the border from El Paso, shows five people in front of a heavily barbed wire […]