CashNews.co The Nasdaq Composite notched its best one-day rise in a month after heavyweight tech stocks climbed, recovering from a morning sell-off. The tech-heavy index rose 2.2 per cent on Wednesday, with gains accelerating in the late afternoon. Nvidia jumped 8 per cent, leading an advance for the rest of its Magnificent Seven peers. The […]
Vladimir Putin hints at curbing uranium exports #NewsMarket
CashNews.co Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Vladimir Putin has called on Russian officials to consider restrictions on exports of commodities including uranium, in retaliation against fresh western sanctions against Moscow and its allies. “Please take a look at some […]
Top US Fed official broke central bank’s trading rules, watchdog says #NewsMarket
CashNews.co Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Atlanta Federal Reserve bank president violated the US central bank’s trading rules and created the “appearance” of benefiting from confidential information, an internal watchdog said in a report on Wednesday. The Fed’s independent […]
‘Earnings and macro and VIX, oh my’ #NewsMarket
CashNews.co Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Equities myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Credit for the headline goes to Bank of America’s small-caps analyst Jill Carey Hall, whose latest report on the segment is pretty bearish for someone who covers it. As Unhedged’s Rob Armstrong and Aidan Reiter […]
What does Robinhood want to be when it grows up? #NewsMarket
CashNews.co Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Once upon a time, Robinhood was the broker for renegade first-time investors who wanted to stick it to Wall Street. Three years on from the height of meme stock mania, the company wants to […]
Abu Dhabi closes in on German group that helped ‘invent chemistry’ #NewsMarket
CashNews.co German chemist Otto Bayer did not know what to do with polyurethane foam when he invented it in 1937. Today the chemical is omnipresent in household appliances and cars, and is at the heart of Abu Dhabi state oil group Adnoc’s effort to seal Europe’s biggest takeover deal this year. The target company, Covestro, […]
Finra’s enforcements are down, but its new adverts are up #NewsMarket
CashNews.co Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Financial services myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Two weeks ago, Elizabeth Warren extended her long-running beef with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Wall Street’s self-regulatory body mostly just known as Finra. In a letter pointedly cc’ing the SEC’s Gary Gensler, the […]
The unintended consequences of ESG investing — and how to prevent them #NewsMarket
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Tata secures £500mn of state aid for Port Talbot steelworks #NewsMarket
CashNews.co Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK government will commit £500mn of taxpayer aid to help Britain’s largest steelworks in south Wales move to greener forms of steelmaking, but the wide-ranging deal will still lead to the loss of […]
Canary Wharf credit rating cut deeper into junk by Fitch #NewsMarket
CashNews.co Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Canary Wharf Group’s credit has been cut further into junk territory by Fitch, with the rating agency warning over the risks the dockland landlord faces in refinancing debts next year. The rating agency on […]