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Gold Futures Dip on Oil-Driven Rate Fears, Rebound After Fed Holds
COMEX gold edged lower before reversing after-hours as the Federal Reserve held rates and the market parsed hawkish oil-...
Dow Sinks 1,153 Points as Oil Surge and AI Rout Batter Markets
The Dow plunged over 1,150 points Wednesday as a renewed oil spike from Iran fighting and a deepening AI stock sell-off ...
Dow Plunges 1,100 Points as Bond Yields Surge and Oil Spikes Amid Inflation Fears
US stocks fell sharply after the Fed held rates steady despite three dissenters, while a jump in oil prices above $90 an...
Gold Slips on Oil and Rate Fears, Then Reverses After Hawkish Fed Hold
COMEX gold futures dipped in regular trading as Middle East tensions boosted oil and yields, but rebounded after the Fed...
Uruguay Taps International Markets for $1.7 Billion, Securing Lower Rates and Strong Demand
Uruguay placed $1.7 billion in global bonds, with peso yields dropping to 7.75% and dollar spreads at just 75 basis poin...
Amman Stock Exchange Index Rises 0.53% on Industrial and Financial Sector Gains
The Amman Stock Exchange closed at 3,978.68 points, up 21 points, with the industrial index jumping 1.52% on pesticide a...
Iron Ore Slips as China’s Steel Margins Crumble, BHP Supply Worries Limit Losses
Shrinking margins for Chinese steelmakers are curbing demand for iron ore, but fears of a potential strike at BHP’s Port...
Fed, Big Tech, and Oil Converge to Test Fragile Market Confidence
A South Korean chip stock rout, the Fed's most uncertain meeting since 2018, and renewed Middle East strikes set a tense...
Dollar Edges Lower Ahead of Fed Decision, Yen Near 40-Year Low
The US dollar dipped slightly but held near one-month highs on Wednesday as markets braced for a Federal Reserve rate de...
Commerzbank Slashes Silver Target to $67, Still Eyes $5,000 Gold if Inflation Cools
Commerzbank cut its silver price target from $80 to $67 and trimmed gold forecasts, but the bank still expects gold to r...
Bitcoin ETFs See Outflows as Ethereum Funds Notch Third Straight Weekly Inflow
Bitcoin ETFs lost 3,170 BTC this week while Ethereum funds added 37,959 ETH, marking a third consecutive inflow period a...
MSX30 Inches Higher as OQEP and Ceramics Lead Gainers
Muscat’s main index added 0.15% in early trade, with OQ Exploration and Production and Al Anwar Ceramic Tiles among the ...
Wall Street Futures Slip as Fed, Big Tech Earnings, and Iran Tensions Converge
US stock futures dipped on Tuesday evening with investors bracing for a pivotal Fed rate decision, a wave of mega-cap te...
Crude Surges, Tech Rout Intensifies as Mideast Strikes and AI Valuations Shake Markets
Oil prices spiked over 4% after US-Saudi strikes on Iran-backed militants and Iran halted tankers near the Strait of Hor...
Dow and S&P 500 Rise as Tech Drags Nasdaq Down; Fed Decision Looms
US stocks diverged sharply on Tuesday: industrials and consumer staples surged on strong earnings, while chipmakers slum...
Crude Jumps 4% on Hormuz Clash; Tech Rout Deepens as AI Doubts Mount
Oil prices surged more than 4% after Iran halted tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and US-Saudi strikes hit Iraq. Asian te...
Morgan Stanley Bets on Optical Specialists for Apple's AI and Mixed Reality Push
The bank sees Largan Precision and a Taiwan-based lens maker as key beneficiaries of premium smartphone camera upgrades ...
Goldman Sachs Picks Alibaba, JD.com as Top Chinese Internet Bets for Second Half of 2026
The US investment bank ranks cloud and data infrastructure first among sub-sectors, citing stabilizing consumption and a...
Oil Jumps 5% on Iran Tensions, Tech Rout Deepens Ahead of Fed
US crude surged past $83 as forces intercepted an Iranian attack, while semiconductor shares extended losses and investo...
Semiconductor Sell-Off Pushes Nasdaq-100 to Edge of Correction
A 24.5% plunge in the PHLX Semiconductor Index since late June has dragged the Nasdaq-100 within 0.6 percentage points o...
Alphabet, Tesla Hit by AI Capex Surge; Microsoft, Meta, Amazon Face Same Scrutiny
Soaring capital expenditures and crumbling free cash flow at Alphabet and Tesla triggered sharp stock declines. As Micro...
Nasdaq 100 Correction Deepens as AI-Chip Gloom Spreads, Dow Rises on Earnings, Oil Slips
The tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 fell 0.98%, capping a five-day slide that pushed the index into a 10% correction from record h...
SpaceX Shares Halt Freefall After $1.5 Trillion Wipeout, But Remain Below IPO Price
SpaceX stock ended Tuesday down about 13% from its June IPO price, having lost nearly half its value from the post-debut...
Record Bond Fund Inflows Flash a Contrarian Warning: History Says Losses May Follow
U.S. bond funds have absorbed a flood of new money for 59 straight weeks, pushing flows to nearly 10% of assets. That ex...
Nasdaq Correction Looms as Chip Rout Deepens While Software and Industrials Gain
AI spending fears and Chinese competition pummel semiconductor shares, driving the Nasdaq 100 towards a 10% correction. ...
Just Four Brazilian Stocks Have Beaten the CDI in Every Annual Window Since 2022
A survey by Elos Ayta found only Sabesp, Copel, Cemig, and TIM outperformed the CDI in all five 12-month windows through...
Dow Surges 600 Points as Investors Abandon Chips; Consumer Confidence Misses
A sharp rotation out of semiconductor shares pushed the Dow up more than 600 points while the Nasdaq clawed back losses....
China's CXMT IPO and AI Spending Fears Deepen Chip Stock Rout
Semiconductor stocks extend losses as Chinese memory maker CXMT's blockbuster debut and doubts over AI data-center retur...
STOXX Europe 600 Closes at Fifth-Highest Ever Amid Three-Day Rally
The pan-European benchmark added 0.35% to end at 646.89, shaving its gap from the early-July record to 0.90% and recordi...
'The Market Would Crash': Big Short Investor Steve Eisman Warns AI Capex Dependency Could Trigger a Nvidia-Led Selloff
Steve Eisman warns that the stock market's reliance on AI infrastructure spending is so extreme that any pullback by hyp...