Shares fell in Asia early Friday morning, after mounting tensions between the United States and China and a massive sale of tech stocks on Wall Street. Hong Kong HSI Hang Seng Index, -2.17% fell 1.9% while the Shanghai SHCOMP compound, -2.73% it sank 2.3% and the smallest-cap Shenzhen Composite 399106, …
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US stocks fell on Thursday after the data showed no real improvement in weekly unemployment data with coronavirus cases increasing further in many states, though Senate and White House Republicans announced progress toward a deal on another financial aid package for businesses and households affected by the pandemic. However, investors …
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Gold prices appeared to extend a winning streak to a fifth straight session on Thursday, bringing the yellow metal at a distance from a record settlement high of around $ 1,900 an ounce, underscoring the feverish demand for bullion amid the worst pandemic in more than a century. If gold …
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says the Trump administration’s goal is a stable US dollar, while, separately, he notes that some foam is seeping into the stock market that has risen from its coronavirus lows to end of march. “ “Clearly there are some individual stocks, I’m not going to mention …
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Text size William Ackman Bryan Bedder / Getty Images for The New York Times A special-purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, sponsored by Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management, made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday in the largest initial public offering of blank checks. The offering …
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