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In the latest TV show ratings, CBS’ NCIS dominated Tuesday both in total viewers (with 9.9 million of ’em) as well as in the demo, holding steady with a 0.9 rating. Leading out of that, FBI (7.9 mil/0.7) was down a tick, but FBI: Most Wanted (6.4 mil/0.6) drew its largest audience of the season […]
The Nasdaq Composite Index tumbled and threatened to enter a bear market as the Federal Reserve’s latest guidance on interest rates spooked investors in growth-sensitive assets such as technology shares.
U.S. stocks slumped with the Dow industrials falling more than 500 points as investors looked ahead to this week’s Federal Reserve meeting amid mounting signs of slowing economic growth around the world.
Investors’ retreat from U.S. stocks turned into a stampede Friday, with major indexes suffering declines of more than 4% for the week that made it the worst December start since 2008. The Dow fell more than 550 points amid trade-related tensions.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell nearly 800 points and bond yields plummeted as investors’ doubts over the U.S.-China trade truce renewed anxieties about the pace of economic growth.
HSBC / Oddschecker The odds of Britain holding a second referendum just went sharply up and are now a near coin-toss, according to HSBC. But Prime Minister Theresa May probably does have the majority she needs to get her deal through parliament, economist Elizabeth Martins believes. We looked at the wafer-thin numbers. The odds of […]
The number of measles cases in Europe jumped sharply in the first six months of 2018, the World Health Organization says.
Pantheon Macroeconomics The amount of new credit issued in the UK suddenly went sharply negative in Q1, Consumers also abruptly increased their repayments of loans. Together, the two spikes — one down, one upward — send a worrying signal that British consumers are afraid of what’s ahead. That helps explain why the Bank of England […]
AT A meeting in Namibia last month Zimbabwe’s finance minister, Patrick Chinamasa, made a pitch to lure African investors to an economy ruined by Robert Mugabe. That he did so first in Windhoek, not London or New York, is telling. Although flows through tax havens muddy the data, 28% of new foreign direct investment (FDI) […]
Investing.com Gold traders were greeted with a jolt on Monday morning. The precious metal fell nearly $ 20 in a matter of seconds right around 4 a.m. ET. The price sank from about $ 1,254 an ounce to a low of $ 1,236. Gold has recovered a portion of those losses, but still trades down 1% near […]
