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Associated Press•14 minutes agoAverage US mortgage rates fall; 30-year at 4.53 percent
Long-term U.S. mortgage rates fell this week for the second straight week, with relatively lower rates continuing to fail to spark home sales. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday the average rate ...
- Investing.com•14 minutes ago
Stocks - Walmart, Cisco Soar in Pre-market; JC Penney Crashes
Investing.com - Stocks in focus in pre-market trade Thursday:
- CNBC•15 minutes ago
Your kid's Fortnite obsession could land them a college scholarship
In a little less than a year, Fortnite has become a global phenomenon. Now parents are hiring gaming coaches for their kids with the high hope their Fortnite skills will be enough to land them a college scholarship.
Reuters•16 minutes agoTurkey will emerge stronger from lira crisis, minister tells investors
Finance Minister Berat Albayrak assured international investors on Thursday that Turkey would emerge stronger from its currency crisis, insisting the country's banks were healthy and signaling it could ride out a row with the United States. In a conference call with thousands of investors and economists
- Motley Fool•17 minutes ago
Tencent Holdings (TCEHY) Q2 2018 Earnings Conference Call Transcript
TCEHY earnings call for the period ending June 30, 2018.
Associated Press•18 minutes agoAP Newsbreak: 'Queen of Soul' Aretha Franklin dies at 76
Aretha Franklin, the undisputed "Queen of Soul" who sang with matchless style on such classics as "Think," ''I Say a Little Prayer" and her signature song, "Respect," and stood as a cultural icon around the globe, has died at age 76 from pancreatic cancer.
Associated Press•21 minutes agoTurkish finance chief tries to reassure investors on crisis
Turkey's finance chief tried to reassure thousands of international investors on a conference call Thursday, in which he pledged to fix the economic troubles that have seen the country spiral into a currency crisis. The national currency recovered somewhat from record lows hit earlier this week,
Yahoo Finance•24 minutes agoStocks jump as US and China head back to the negotiating table
Yahoo Finance's LIVE market coverage and analysis of stocks and bonds begins each day at 11:30 a.m. ET.
- CNBC•25 minutes ago
Trump's military parade is estimated to cost $92 million – $80 million more than earlier estimate
A Pentagon spokesman said in an email to CNBC that the Defense Department expects to make an announcement soon, but he would not comment further. The parade is slated for Nov. 10 in Washington, D.C.
- CNBC•26 minutes ago
Walmart's best sales in a decade show US consumer is alive and well because of the tax cut, jobs growth
The American consumer is back, and so is Walmart, at least for this quarter.
Reuters•26 minutes agoTesla on track to make 8,000 Model 3s per week, Evercore says
Tesla produced 5,031 Model 3 electric cars in the last seven days of the second quarter, the company said in early July, meeting its long-elusive production target after several hiccups. "Tesla seems well on the way to achieving a steady weekly production rate of 5 to 6k units per week," Evercore
Reuters•27 minutes agoTesla on track to make 8,000 Model 3s per week, Evercore says
Tesla produced 5,031 Model 3 electric cars in the last seven days of the second quarter, the company said in early July, meeting its long-elusive production target after several hiccups. "Tesla seems well on the way to achieving a steady weekly production rate of 5 to 6k units per week," Evercore
- Investing.com•27 minutes ago
Stocks - U.S. Futures Bounce on U.S.-China Trade Developments, Earnings in Focus
Investing.com - U.S. futures pointed to a higher open on Thursday, as investors reacted positively to developments in trade talks between China and the U.S. and positive earnings reports from blue-chip companies, while keeping an eye on blue-chip earnings and waiting for a slew of data to be released
- Motley Fool•27 minutes ago
5 Things Amazon Could Do With a Movie Theater Chain
If the leading online retailer buys the 53-unit Landmark Theatres chain, it could open a lot of new doors.
CNBC•12 minutes agoAretha Franklin at NYSE on Christmas album and possible b...
Back in December 2008, Aretha Franklin stopped by the New York Stock Exchange and talked to Bob Pisani about her upcoming Christmas album and a potential biopic.
- Yahoo Finance•29 minutes ago
Political scientist: 'Crazy Rich Asians' 'represents the worst of Singapore'
"Erases minorities. Erases the poor and marginalized. All you get are rich, privileged ethnic Chinese.”
Associated Press•29 minutes agoItaly lowers confirmed death toll to 38 in Genoa collapse
The death toll from the collapse of a highway bridge in the Italian city of Genoa that is already confirmed to have claimed at least 38 lives will certainly rise, a senior official said Thursday. "Unfortunately, the toll will increase, that's inevitable" as rescuers continued to search
- Business Insider•31 minutes ago
People are roasting Motorola's new phone for looking like an exact copy of the iPhone X
Motorola/Apple
Reuters•33 minutes agoChinese hackers targeted U.S. firms, government after trade mission - researchers
WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) - Hackers operating from an elite Chinese university probed American companies and government departments for espionage opportunities following a U.S. trade delegation visit to China earlier this year, security researchers told Reuters. Cybersecurity firm Recorded Future
Reuters•33 minutes agoCitigroup settles U.S. charges of bad controls that led it to lose millions -SEC
Citigroup has agreed to pay $10.5 million (£8.27 million) to settle charges related to bad loans made by its Mexican subsidiary, Banamex, between 2008 and 2014, and to trader mismarking and unauthorised proprietary trading by Citigroup Global Markets Inc. from 2013 to 2016, the Securities and Exchange
Reuters•35 minutes agoGlobal Markets: Shares, emerging market currencies steady after mauling
Bruised world shares and emerging market currencies fought to regain their footing on Thursday, after China said it will hold trade talks with the United States later this month and Turkey’s lira continued its recovery run. Asian equities had hit one-year lows overnight as they tracked Wednesday'
- CNBC•35 minutes ago
Musk's take-private proposal for Tesla is a nightmare for potential advisors
Any financial or legal advisor that the board hires to evaluate Musk's offer faces a lot of challenges.
CNBC•37 minutes agoGOP senator says she's concerned that social media companies are biased against conservatives
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito says she worries social media companies may lean left.
Reuters•38 minutes agoChina's JD.com looks to warehousing assets to help revive profits
China's second-largest e-commerce firm, JD.com Inc, said it is shifting management of its warehousing assets to a separate unit, in a move it hopes will revive profits after it swung back to a loss in April-June. JD.com, which counts Tencent Holdings Ltd, Walmart Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google
- U.S.News & World Report•39 minutes ago
Who Can Be a Financial Advisor?
Or can anyone hang a sign outside a storefront and hawk financial planning services, even without much -- or any -- formal training? The answer, for worried consumers, is this: "Just about anybody can call themselves a financial planner or financial advisor," says Kevin Keller, CEO of the
