Wall Street pushes higher in bid to extend rally
U.S. stocks pushed higher in a choppy session on Friday following a wild week of trading that has seen equities rebound from a prolonged slide.
U.S. stocks pushed higher in a choppy session on Friday following a wild week of trading that has seen equities rebound from a prolonged slide.
Oil prices steadied on Friday after a week of volatile trading ahead of the New Year holiday, supported by a rise in U.S. equity markets but pressured by worries about a global glut of crude.
U.S. stocks flitted between gains and losses on Friday, struggling to extend their rally to a third straight day and cap a week that is on pace to snap a three-week losing streak.
Nancy Farrington, a retiree who turns 75 next month, admits to being in a constant state of anxiety over the biggest December stock market rout since Herbert Hoover was president.
Dell Technologies Inc returned to public markets on Friday, nearly six years after the company’s founder and Chief Executive Officer Michael Dell took it private in what was then the biggest buyout since the financial crisis of 2008.
Wells Fargo & Co will pay $575 million to settle claims made by U.S. states that the bank created phony accounts and other customer abuses, according to a statement by the Iowa attorney general’s office.
Investors gravitated to safe-haven assets on Friday as worries about the world economy persisted, cutting short a two-day rebound in U.S. stocks.
Oil prices steadied on Friday after a week of volatile trading, shedding early gains on profit-taking ahead of the New Year holiday and pressured by concerns of oversupply and faltering global economic growth.
Wells Fargo & Co will pay at least $500 million to settle claims made by U.S. states that the bank created phony accounts and other customer abuses, said a source familiar with a deal due to be announced on Friday.
Citi Research on Friday slashed its first-quarter production estimates for Apple Inc’s iPhones and nearly halved expectations on the costliest iPhone XS Max, joining other brokerages in lowering forecast amid reports of weak demand.
U.S. stocks were struggling on Friday to extend their rally to a third straight day, weighed down by a drop in the energy and technology sectors at the end of a week that has seen the market swing wildly.
Tesla Inc on Friday named two independent board directors, including Oracle Corp co-founder Larry Ellison, to fulfill a September deal that resolved federal charges that arose from Chief Executive Elon Musk’s tweet about taking the electric carmaker private.
U.S. stocks rose on Friday, with gains in defensive sectors including consumer staples and real estate helping extend a two-day rally, although weakness in technology companies capped gains.
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) said on Friday that it had fined the Hong Kong branch of JPMorgan Chase & Co HK$12.5 million ($1.60 million) and reprimanded it for breaching anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing rules.
Contracts to buy previously owned homes fell unexpectedly in November, the National Association of Realtors said on Friday, the latest sign of weakness in the U.S. housing market.
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