U.S. stock index futures fell on Monday as President Donald Trump’s comments dampened expectations around a U.S.-China trade deal, while escalating violence in Hong Kong added to investor worries.
As the Federal Reserve maintains a loose monetary policy to prop up the economy, long-term Treasury bonds and related ETFs could continue to maintain a decades-long bull run. …read more […]
Shares around the globe fell on Monday, buffeted by escalating violence in Hong Kong that pushed Asian stocks to their worst day since August and stoked demand for the safe-haven yen and gold.
Two years after a fire killed 71 people at London’s Grenfell Tower, insurance premiums for building contractors, architects and surveyors have surged by as much as several hundred percent, risking future projects, industry sources say. Combustible materials used to refurbish Grenfell were central to the chain of events in June 2017 that turned an ordinary kitchen fire into an inferno, an official inquiry said last month.
Seattle voters, in a rebuke to heavy corporate campaign spending by Amazon.com, have kept progressives firmly in control of their city council, reviving chances for a tax on big businesses that the tech giant helped fend off last year.
Latin America, long a safe haven for Uber, was the biggest weak spot in the money-losing company’s latest financial results, registering just 2% growth, the worst of any region.
(Bloomberg) — European regulators halted their in-depth antitrust probe into Boeing Co.’s plan to invest in Embraer SA, saying they hadn’t received sufficient information from the planemakers.The European Commission has been investigating the venture, warning that the deal could remove Embraer as the third-largest global competitor to both Boeing and Airbus SE, which “may therefore result in higher prices and less choice.” The commission, one of the world’s toughest merger regulators, said Monday that it “stopped the clock” and a review can only be restarted once it gets the answers it needs.The heightened scrutiny puts new pressure on Boeing’s plan …read more […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday declined to approve Lipocine Inc’s oral drug to treat a condition that results in lower production of male sex hormone for the third time, sending the drug developer’s shares down 34%. The company said a letter from the regulator indicated the application could not be approved in its present form as Lipocine’s trial did not meet three secondary goals that were designed to assess if higher levels of testosterone in patients could raise safety concerns. The decision marks the third regulatory setback in over three years for Lipocine’s Tlando, which …read more […]
The rip-roaring stock market may be a little ahead of itself right now. …read more […]
China’s Jingye Group is in talks to buy British Steel, it said on Monday, in a deal estimated to be worth 70 million pounds ($90 million) that could protect thousands of British jobs.
To the annoyance of some shareholders, Modine Manufacturing (NYSE:MOD) shares are down a considerable 33% in the last… …read more […]
It is not uncommon to see companies perform well in the years after insiders buy shares. The flip side of that is that… …read more […]
Q3 2019 Sarepta Therapeutics Inc Earnings Call …read more […]
Oil prices dipped on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump appeared to downplay reports of an imminent lifting of tariffs in a protracted U.S.-Chinese trade war.
Solar cell and panel maker SunPower on said Monday it would split into two separate publicly traded companies.
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