Investors were optimistic that a slowdown in price increases would support an earlier than anticipated conclusion to the Federal Reserve’s programme of fast monetary tightening, which is why the Dow and S&P 500 increased on Tuesday ahead of inflation data. Consumer prices are anticipated to have decreased on an annual …
Read More »Threads overtakes ChatGPT as the world’s fastest-growing app
New Meta app Threads dethrones OpenAI’s ChatGPT and becomes the world’s fastest growing app in terms of users. Since Threads launched less than a week ago, the Instagram-related app has seen huge growth in users, until it surpassed 100 million subscribers on Monday. Mark Zuckerberg, head of Meta, confirmed that …
Read More »US stocks cautiously rise ahead of CPI data
As investors analysed Chinese economic data, a significant US inflation report, and corporate profits on Monday, Wall Street equities increased marginally but oil prices and the currency declined. The S&P 500 increased by 0.24%, the Nasdaq Composite increased by 0.18%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average increased by 0.62%. The …
Read More »US stocks still impacted by negative sentiment post FOMC minutes
US stocks slid during the US trading session after strong labour data spurred fears around further interest rate hikes by the US central bank, reviving concerns about the impact of those hikes on the economy.Both the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which plummeted by as much as …
Read More »After 30 million sign-ups, could Meta’s Threads be Twitter killer?
Meta launched its brand new app; Threads and reaped 30 million sign-ups as of Thursday morning. The app is available in 100 countries and over 30 languages via Apple’s iOS and Android. Threads is the latest platform launched in recent months to unseat Twitter as the go-to app for real-time, …
Read More »Wall Street futures slide on rate hike jitters; Meta rises
As investors analysed the minutes of the Federal Reserve’s June meeting, Wall Street futures declined on Thursday. However, Meta defied the trend by launching Threads, a Twitter-like app, and defying the decline in rate-sensitive technology and growth businesses. The previous day saw a decline in U.S. market indexes as the …
Read More »Wall Street slips amid China woes post FOMC minutes
US stocks edged lower as traders return from the Independence Day holiday to monitor headwinds for the global economy and after the release of Fed’s minutes for June monetary policy meeting.The S&P 500 was down 0.1%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped by around 0.3% or about 100 points. …
Read More »US stocks manage little gains to start second half of 2023
US stocks rose slightly Monday in a shortened session that kicked off the second half of what’s already been a stellar year on Wall Street. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 10.87 points, or 0.03%, to finish at 34,418.47. The S&P 500 climbed 0.12% to end at 4,455.59, while the …
Read More »Japanese Nikkei index recorded the longest streak of losses in 2023
Japan’s Nikkei index recorded its longest losing streak this year on Tuesday, with shares of many of the country’s biggest technology companies falling, trailing their US counterparts at the end of Monday’s trading. Despite the continued dominance of profit-taking sales after the Nikkei index reached a peak of 33 years …
Read More »Wall Street slides on uncertainty around rate hike outlook
On Monday, US stocks dipped a little bit as investors fretted about the effects of more interest rate hikes on the economy. The biggest losers were technology and megacap sectors.The markets’ response to the weekend’s foiled uprising by Russian mercenaries, which prompted doubts about President Vladimir Putin’s future and worries …
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