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Amazon crosses Wall Street's estimates, posts $134 bn revenue in Q2

Online sales lift earnings; shares surge about 11% in early trade

Wall Street's use of AI and Data analytics faces new SEC restrictions

The US Securities and Exchange Commission approved a plan on Wednesday to root out what Chair Gary Gensler has said are conflicts of interest that can arise when financial firms adopt technologies

Microsoft lays out spending plan to meet artificial intelligence demand

Wall Street is looking at how generative AI services may benefit Microsoft, which secured an early lead with investments in OpenAI, owner of the popular ChatGPT service

Global shares jump on Wall Street's return to highest level in over a year

Global shares rose Thursday, boosted by Wall Street's return to its highest level in more than a year after a report showed US consumer inflation cooled a bit more than expected last month. France's CAC 40 added 0.2% in morning trading to 7,350.45. Germany's DAX edged up 0.2% to 16,048.19. Britain's FTSE 100 gained 0.1% to 7,425.73. US shares were set to drift higher with Dow futures up nearly 0.2% to 34,608.00. S&P 500 futures up 0.3% to 4,521.25. In Asia, Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 jumped 1.5% to finish at 32,419.33. Hong Kong's Hang Seng surged 2.6% to 19,350.62, while the Shanghai Composite gained 1.3% to 3,236.48, even as China reported a slump in trade in June. Chinese exports tumbled 12.4% in June from a year earlier as demand weakened after central banks raised interest rates to curb inflation even as Chinese leaders struggled to keep a post-COVID recovery from faltering. The customs data released Thursday showed imports slid 6.8%, while the trade surplus rose was $70.6 .

Wall Street set for gains as investors look for cooler inflation, Fed pause

A global index of stocks rose slightly on Monday while US Treasury yields also edged higher ahead of key US inflation readings and interest rate decisions later this week from central banks

Big Tech cos continue to climb, S&P 500 up 0.3%, fourth weekly gain in row

Stocks are off to another mixed start on Wall Street as more gains for Big Tech companies offset weakness elsewhere in the market. The S and P 500 was up 0.3 per cent in the early going on Friday, on track for its fourth weekly gain in a row. A day earlier the bechmark index closed 20 per cent above its October low, entering a new bull market. The Nasdaq composite added 0.7 per cent and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was just barely higher with a gain of less than 0.1 per cent. Chipmaker Nvidia rose another 2 per cent. European markets were lower and Asian markets closed higher overnight. European shares declined on Friday after a day of gains in Asia following Wall Street's return to bull market status. France's CAC 40 lost 0.4 per cent to 7,198.50 while Germany's DAX slipped 0.3 per cent to 16,886.40. Britain's FTSE 100 shed 0.4 per cent to 7,572.16. The future for the Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 0.2 per cent and the contract for the S and P 500 future was down 0.1 per ..

Recession already here, as earnings shrink and Wall St fears worse to come

The latest round of corporate earnings is leaving Wall Street with a confounding sense of relief and lingering anxiety. Companies are in the midst of an earnings recession", meaning profits have contracted for two straight quarters, starting with a 4.6 per cent drop at the end of 2022. Profits for S and P 500 companies shrank just over 2 per cent last quarter, compared with forecasts of a 6.7 per cent drop. That brought some relief to Wall Street that the quarter wasn't as bad as it could have been. But, analysts also expect more pain ahead. Analysts polled by FactSet now expect a 6.4 per cent contraction for profits in the current quarter. That shows just how worried analysts are about the impact from inflation on businesses and consumers. Fears about a recession continue to weigh on the broader economy and are a big factor in corporate and independent forecasts for company profits. With a recession still looming, it's unlikely that earnings have hit rock bottom, said Michael Aro

US default scenarios span from localised pain to Jamie Dimon's 'panic'

Broader disruption in financial markets would quickly put focus on the Fed, which during the 2011 debt-limit showdown compiled a backstop menu of options to avert systemic collapse

Wall Street gains, dollar climbs on solid data, debt ceiling progress

The three major U.S. stock indexes initially wavered but soon gathered strength, with tech shares putting the Nasdaq out front

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Wall Street poised to join stocks advance, inflation ebbs in Europe

The dollar was a touch weaker, while crude oil prices rose after a surprise drop in U.S. stockpiles

Silvergate plans to wind down bank ops, liquidate after crypto metldown

Silvergate collapsed amid scrutiny from regulators and a criminal investigation by the Justice Department's fraud unit into dealings with fallen crypto giants FTX and Alameda Research

Wall Street drops, Treasury yields gyrate on Fed Chairman Powell's remarks

US stocks retreated and benchmark Treasury yields wavered on Tuesday as Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell commenced his semi-annual, two-day monetary policy testimony before Congress

Sticky inflation pushes Wall Street toward weekly losses, rate hikes fears

Wall Street is poised to extend its slide Friday, one day after U.S. markets suffered their biggest drop in a month on an inflation reading that came in hotter than expected. Futures for the Dow Jones industrials slid 0.5 per cent and the S&P 500 dipped 0.7 per cent . Oil prices fell more than 3 per cent . The S&P 500 lost 1.4 per cent Thursday following news that inflation at the wholesale level slowed less than economists had expected. That hot reading echoed inflation data earlier in the week at the consumer level that suggests inflation isn't falling as steadily as was hoped, though Fed Chair Jerome Powell has warned of an uneven return to more normal levels of inflation. Stocks have gyrated on worries that persistently high inflation will push the Federal Reserve to get even more aggressive on interest rates. Higher rates tend to cool inflation, but they also raise the risk of recession of spending trails off too much. Continued strength in the inflation data suggests ..

Domestic demand drivers intact, slowdown fears unfounded: Analysts

A Wall Street brokerage has downplayed the slowdown fears arising after the poor December quarter data prints, saying the moderate numbers are due to the base effect and that the January data clearly show that domestic demand drivers are intact. According to Morgan Stanley India chief economist Upasana Chachra and her deputy Bani Gambhir, the apparent deceleration in the December quarter number come from the mixed trends in high-frequency domestic demand indicators coupled with a slowdown in external demand as visible from shrinking exports, creating fears of an impending growth slowdown. Accordingly, they choose to stand out, expecting a 6.2 per cent GDP growth in FY24 as against the 6 per cent consensus forecasts, reiterating their view that domestic demand is likely to sustain the growth momentum. While the budget has not offered a clear GDP growth number for next fiscal, saying it is likely to grow in 6.0 to 6.5 per cent range, the Reserve Bank in its latest assessment has ...

Asian Shares track Wall Street's inflation optimism, yen recoups losses

Japan's currency had weakened on uncertainty surrounding the next governor of the Bank of Japan

Global shares trade mostly lower after the year's biggest Wall St retreat

Global shares were mostly lower Thursday as investors grew cautious after Wall Street's biggest pullback of the year

US stocks fall broadly with more losses; S&P 500 ends worst year since 2008

Stocks fell in afternoon trading on Wall Street on Friday as major indexes close out a dismal year with lingering concerns about stubbornly hot inflation and a potential recession. The S&P 500 fell 0.7 per cent as of 12:01 pm Eastern. The index, which is considered a benchmark for the broader market by investors, is on track to end 2022 with a 20 per cent loss. That would mark its worst loss since the financial crisis 14 years ago. The Nasdaq composite fell 0.7 per cent and is on track for a much steeper annual loss of 33.5 per cent. The index is faring much worse this year because it is heavily made up of technology stocks that have been leading the broader market slump. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 210 points, or 0.6 per cent, to 33,007. It is on track for a 9.4 per cent loss this year. There was scant corporate or economic news for Wall Street to review on the last trading day of the year. Tesla stabilized from steep losses earlier in the week, though it is still on ...

Fed's message on rate hold for 'some time' clashes with 2023 rate-cut bets

They're also likely to signal another 50 basis points of tightening next year, according to economists, and an expectation that once they reach that peak, they'll stay on hold through all of 2023

Wall Street slides after manufacturing data, salesforce tumbles; Dow falls

"Yesterday's move was so crazy large, this is probably just some natural profit taking," Rusty Vanneman, chief investment strategist at Orion Advisor Solutions, said