US stocks closed lower on Friday as the tech-laden Nasdaq Composite registered its first consecutive drop since mid-May, while investors worried about rising Sino-American tensions and lack of progress in another. fiscal stimulus bill in Washington. The increase in coronavirus cases in 40 US states is also limiting consumer and …
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Text size Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin talks about the order to close the United States consulate in Chengdu. fake pictures Global stocks fell on Friday as political events swept away a wave of negativity in the markets. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 126 points, or 0.5%. The …
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Text size Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images Honeywell’s earnings, reported Friday morning, beat Wall Street estimates for the pandemic-hit second quarter. That’s good news for Honeywell, but the company is a huge and distant industrial conglomerate. Your earnings are a useful read for many companies in many industries. …
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Text size Courtesy of Nikola. Nikola has begun construction of a manufacturing plant in Arizona, an important step in commissioning as it seeks to disrupt the heavy truck market. Trevor Milton, founder of Nikola, pursues that goal with two main products: battery-powered or hydrogen fuel cell trucks, . Both will …
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Stocks fell on Thursday after jobless claims in the US unexpectedly rose for the first time since March and tech stocks fell. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 274 points, or 1.02%, to 26,731, the S&P 500 lost 1.03% and the Nasdaq fell 2.06%. Dow (Dow) – Get reportMicrosoft (MSFT) …
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