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Stock market news live updates: Stock futures slide after Fed decision, Nasdaq pulls back from record high

Stock futures slid following the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy decision, in which policymakers highlighted the ongoing economic concerns spurred by the coronavirus pandemic and measures taken to contain it. Meanwhile, market participants also eyed a rise in new coronavirus cases in key states including Arizona, Florida, North Carolina and Texas. …read more […]

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Oil Traders Lose Asian Forum as Singapore Event Goes Virtual

(Bloomberg) — Fortunes have been made — and lost — in the oil market this year on an unprecedented scale, but it looks like the world’s traders will have to forgo their last chance to get together and celebrate or commiserate.That’s because S&P Global Platts, the organizer of Singapore’s Annual Asia Pacific Petroleum Conference, just announced that it’s going to hold the event virtually because of the coronavirus.The gathering, in its 36th year, is the biggest of its kind in Asia and one of the industry’s three most important global conclaves, all of which have now been disrupted by the …read more […]

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Gold Futures Rally as Powell’s Fed Delivers for Bullion Bulls

(Bloomberg) — Gold futures rallied as the Federal Reserve vowed to hold interest rates lower for longer and investors tracked signs of a resurgence in infections in some U.S. states.The haven pushed higher after Chairman Jerome Powell said Wednesday the Fed is committed to “do whatever we can, for as long as it takes.” Almost all officials forecast keeping rates near zero through 2022, and the central bank also said it will at least maintain the current rate of bond purchases.“The conditions are here for gold still going to $1,800,” Dominic Schnider, head of commodities & Asia Pacific currencies at …read more […]

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A Scary Sign of Capitalism’s Future

We wait for what comes next.
The nation is like a family that’s been plagued with pain. The poor folks have suffered from one bad thing after the next. Divorce, job loss and disease… The community around it keeps its distance and wonders what more could go wrong. People whisper about its fate in church.
The United States has been through a pandemic and deadly riots, and, oh look, a decisive election is on the horizon. What else can there be?
An alien invasion?
If they’re intelligent beings, the aliens will drop in, grab all of our Hershey bars and head back to whence …read more […]