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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...
Tunis Stock Market Drops 3.5%, Circuit Breaker Triggers Trading Halt
The Tunis Stock Exchange suffered a sharp 3.47% drop on Tuesday, with the Tunindex plunging 710 points and triggering an...
Trump Signals 'Good' Iran Talks But Warns of Attack on Nuclear Site; Oil Slides
Trump described delicate diplomacy but threatened to demolish Iran's underground 'Pickaxe' facility if no deal is reache...
Kospi Plunges 10.8% as Chinese Chip Competition Rattles Asian Markets
A sharp selloff in Asian semiconductor stocks, led by a near 11% crash in South Korea's Kospi, reignites fears that Chin...
Sohar Power Leads Muscat Market Gains as Index Jumps 0.86%
Energy stocks surged on the Muscat Securities Market Tuesday, with Sohar Power up 10%, while the main index added 0.86%....
Nifty 50 Stalls at 20‑Day EMA as Consolidation Deepens; Bank Nifty Slides Below Key Average
The Nifty 50 again failed to clear the 24,000–24,027 resistance on expiry day, while momentum indicators point to a drif...
Mubasher Publishes Daily Prices for Egyptian Money Market and Fixed Income Funds
The latest unit prices for Egypt’s fixed-income and money-market funds, released through the Mubasher Trade platform, gi...
Bank of America Urges Rotation Into Gold as August-October 'Danger Zone' Looms
Seasonal data shows the S&P 500 averaging near-zero returns from August to October, while gold, the dollar, and bonds hi...
CAC 40 Edges Higher as AI Chip Profit-Taking Weighs; Safran Soars, LVMH Slips
The Paris bourse eked out a modest gain as investors locked in profits on AI and semiconductor names, while falling oil ...