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For the week, WTI was on track for a loss of 2.2%, while Brent was off 1.7%. The weaker tone has been tied in large part to a surge in COVID-19 cases in India and and Japan. India, one of the world’s largest oil importers, saw more than 330,000 cases...

The FTSE 100 index UKX, -0.52% fell 0.5% to 6,901.59, and was poised for a drop of 1.7% on the week, the first losing weekly session in three. The pound GBPUSD, +0.14% climbed 0.3% to $1.3882 against the dollar, which was weaker across the board as investors fretted about a...

What’s driving Treasurys?The flash reading of the IHS Markit eurozone composite purchasing managers index rose to a nine-month high of 53.7 in April from 53.2 in March. Any number above 50 represents an expansion in economic activity.This comes as the growing pace of vaccinations in Germany and France were bolstering hopes...

Colas tracked flows into mutual funds, which exploded from 1984 to 1987, to make the point that “Boomers’ imaginations were just as captured by the 1980s bull market as millennials are by the rally over the last year.”While mutual fund manager Vanguard had been offering low-cost index funds since the...

What are major benchmarks doing? Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average YM00, -0.05% fell 30 points, or 0.1%, to 33,679. S&P 500 futures ES00, +0.15% were up 4.55 points, or 0.1%, at 4,132.25 Nasdaq-100 futures NQ00, +0.19% rose 23.75 points, or 0.2%, to 13,774. On Thursday, the Dow DJIA,...

“Once Iran returns to nuclear compliance — assumed to be two months after a return to the deal is agreed — it will try to export as much oil as it can as fast as it can. It will not be subject to OPEC+ quotas and will instead fight to...

In any case, the stock market reacted negatively to the Bloomberg News report that the White House was considering doubling capital-gains taxes on the wealthy to help pay for social spending, as the S&P 500 SPX, -0.92% dropped by the most in a month. The news was particularly jarring to...

The German DAX DAX, -0.28% slipped 0.2%, the French CAC 40 index UKX, -0.12% rose 0.1% and the FTSE 100 index UKX, -0.12% dipped 0.2%. The pound GBPUSD, +0.27% was up about 0.3% against the U.S. dollar at $1.3882.U.S. stock futures ES00, +0.26% NQ00, +0.18% YM00, +0.21% inched higher, hinting...

That added to a mix of better corporate profits and U.S. hiring, unease that inflation and interest rates might rise and renewed coronavirus infections that have prompted some governments to tighten anti-disease controls.Investors are struggling “to navigate through a very muddled global outlook” and earnings reports that have “priced in...

The fresh losses for bitcoin represent around a 24% drop from a recent peak of $64,829 for the cryptocurrency, meeting the widely accepted definition of a correction. Bitcoin saw a sharp slide last weekend, though the cryptocurrency’s volatility mean slides of more than 10% are not unusual. Fears of increased...

After months at severely depressed levels, British consumers' mood improved significantly from February amid a swift Covid-19 vaccination campaign and reopening plans, gaining back some of the ground lost at the beginning of the pandemic. In March 2020, before British consumers felt the hit from the pandemic, the index stood...

Like with so many things lately, the pandemic has been a catalyst. A year ago, Empirasign Strategies, a New York City-based platform that tracks trading data in more opaque parts of the debt markets, joined up with geolocation analytics firm Advan to start mapping foot-traffic data to specific commercial-property bond...

The stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors Thursday, as Republic Services Inc. RSG, -0.26% fell 0.26% to $105.61, Waste Connections Inc. WCN, +0.03% rose 0.03% to $117.03, and Veolia Environnement S.A. ADR VEOEY, +1.39% rose 1.39% to $30.12. Trading volume (1.6 M) remained 529,680 below its 50-day...

The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Thursday, as Duke Energy Corp. DUK, -1.00% fell 1.00% to $100.08, WEC Energy Group Inc. WEC, -0.12% fell 0.12% to $97.16, and DTE Energy Co. DTE, -1.41% fell 1.41% to $138.16. Trading volume (2.9 M) remained 500,497...

The billionaire hedge-fund manager turned self-help author is offering up a chance for Regular Joes to take a personality assessment worthy of employees at his $140 billion hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, for free! “As many of you know, my main goal at this stage of my life is to pass along...

The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Thursday, as Duke Energy Corp. DUK, -1.00% fell 1.00% to $100.08, Xcel Energy Inc. XEL, -0.28% fell 0.28% to $71.12, and WEC Energy Group Inc. WEC, -0.12% fell 0.12% to $97.16. Trading volume (938,664) remained 537,683 below...

The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Thursday, as Prudential PLC ADR PUK, -2.50% fell 2.50% to $41.03, MetLife Inc. MET, -1.20% fell 1.20% to $61.90, and Prudential Financial Inc. PRU, -1.22% fell 1.22% to $96.74. Trading volume (1.0 M) remained 582,639 below its...

The stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors Thursday, as Boeing Co. BA, -0.67% fell 0.67% to $234.33, Northrop Grumman Corp. NOC, -0.60% fell 0.60% to $343.43, and General Dynamics Corp. GD, -0.73% fell 0.73% to $184.50. Trading volume (1.7 M) remained 66,074 below its 50-day average volume...