The dollar fell to one-week lows against a basket of currencies on Friday as two Federal Reserve officials cautioned in separate television interviews about slowing global economic growth, raising doubts about the number of future rate increases.
Following are five big themes likely to dominate thinking of investors and traders in the coming week and the Reuters stories related to them.
Viacom Inc , the owner of MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon, beat Wall Street estimates for profit and revenue on Friday, lifted by the strong performance of “Mission: Impossible – Fallout.”
Worries about how fast the computing world will transition to Nvidia Corp’s next generation “Turing” graphic chips helped knock 20 percent off the value of its shares on Friday, after results pointed to a huge glut of unsold older generation chips.
European stocks slipped again and sterling and the euro remained fragile on Friday, as one of the most dramatic twists yet in the Brexit process compounded another turbulent week for world markets.
Mounting uncertainty over Britain’s Brexit deal with the European Union cast a shadow over foreign exchange markets on Friday, with euro/dollar trading in a tight range and the yen benefiting from demand for currencies deemed safer.
Brexit will be foremost in investors’ minds in the coming week, though a smattering of data will offer further indications as to how much global economic growth, bogged down by politics and trade wars, is slowing.
Viacom Inc , the owner of MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon, beat Wall Street estimates for profit and revenue on Friday, as its Paramount Pictures division gained from the success of “Mission: Impossible – Fallout”.
U.S. criminal investigators have requested information from Deutsche Bank, Bank of America and JPMorgan about transactions they handled for Danske Bank’s Estonia branch, which is at the center of a money laundering scandal, Bloomberg reported on Friday citing sources.
Oil rose on Friday on expectations that OPEC and its allies would agree to cut output next month but prices were still down on the week on concerns that the global market was oversupplied.
Germany’s SAP hit back at suggestions that the German business software group is paying too much for Qualtrics, a U.S. company that specializes in tracking consumer sentiment online.
U.S. Deere & Co expects to see demand for its farm equipment in Africa grow 8 to 10 percent annually in the coming years, driven by expansion in key markets like Ethiopia and Zimbabwe, a local company executive said.
European stocks recovered but sterling and the euro remained fragile on Friday, after some of the most dramatic 24 hours yet in the Brexit process and another turbulent week for world markets.
The United States ambassador to Japan defended his country’s trade policies on Friday, saying they were not protectionist and were aimed at creating a more level playing field for American companies.
Oil rose on Friday on hopes that supply cuts will be agreed at OPEC’s meeting on Dec. 6, but failed to recoup recent losses on oversupply concerns that have shaved more than a fifth off the Brent crude benchmark since early October.
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