Yahoo Finance Vistra to Join S&P 500 Index, Replacing Pioneer Natural Resources
The index changes were announced after the close of trading Friday by S&P Dow Jones Indices. All changes will occur on Wednesday.
The index changes were announced after the close of trading Friday by S&P Dow Jones Indices. All changes will occur on Wednesday.
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Singtel is increasing dividend for the third year
As Singapore continues to embrace technological advancements, the recent unveiling of a Web3 digital banking platform by Alchemy Pay highlights the market's progressive adaptation to the evolving landscape of digital finance. In this dynamic environment, high-yield dividend stocks on the SGX offer investors potential stability and consistent returns, qualities that are particularly appealing amid the rapid changes in financial technology and payment systems.
Nvidia announced a 10-for-1 stock split on Wednesday, making buying shares in the red-hot semiconductor company more accessible for individual investors.
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Company says losses are result of recent merger but share price has dropped 13.2% since Friday
Nvidia said Wednesday its quarterly net profit rocketed by seven times year-on-year on demand for its chips to power artificial intelligence in data centers.The California-based company reported a net profit of $14.9 billion, while its revenue of $26 billion was almost four times what it took in during the same fiscal quarter last year.
Vincent Wasney returned home from cruise in thousands of dollars of medical debt
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Power Corporation of Canada (Power Corp) has shut its China investment unit and dismissed all staff, said two people briefed on the matter, becoming the latest Western financial firm to pull back amid the country's economic challenges. Power Sustainable, which is the asset management arm of Power Corp and manages $4.5 billion of assets globally, started laying off all of its 17 local staff in recent weeks as it moved towards shutting down the Shanghai-based unit, said the people. Economic slowdown has seen many of the Western financial firms that scrambled to expand China operations a few years ago take a hit on their earnings and rein in their ambitions for what was a key piece of their global growth strategy.
Emboldened by China's latest measures and pledges to fix the weakest parts of its struggling economy, domestic investors are scooping up shares in a cheap stock market, while most foreign investors are hopeful but taking it slow. Last week's sweeping measures to support the property sector, which authorities dubbed as historic, were the latest in a series of steps China has taken since February in a bid to boost consumption, funnel state money into priority sectors and underpin the stock market. "To some extent, I think what's been announced isn't yet of a scale that is going to start putting a meaningful kind of tens of percentage points onto GDP," said Sunil Krishnan, head of multi-asset funds at Aviva Investors in London.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said in a May 1 press conference he didn't want to talk about economic "hypotheticals," but that's what he and other U.S. central bank officials have shifted towards in discussing monetary policy that has hit an uncertain juncture in the effort to tame inflation. Dropping what had been explicit guidance about the likelihood of interest rate cuts this year, Powell and other Fed officials are instead focusing attention on broadly different near-term paths the economy might follow, and their likely reaction to each case. Former Fed officials and staffers with experience attending meetings of the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee say that's a sign of just how uncertain policymakers feel right now and is meant to shift attention from the detailed economic and policy projections they produce each quarter and onto a wider array of potential outcomes.
Q2 2024 Analog Devices Inc Earnings Call
A strong US economy and an uptick in inflation led the Federal Reserve's rate-setting committee to conclude that progress against rising prices had stalled, according to minutes of its most recent meeting published Wednesday.The minutes of the two-day Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting show that policymakers generally felt that "recent data had not increased their confidence that inflation was moving sustainably toward two percent."
The stock rebounded from a Monday loss sparked by disappointing results from Li Auto. XPeng’s earnings were surprisingly strong.
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As global markets navigate through technological advancements and heightened cybersecurity measures, the Singapore Exchange (SGX) remains a focal point for investors looking for stability and potential growth. Amidst these evolving dynamics, dividend stocks like DBS Group Holdings offer a particular appeal due to their potential for regular income and relative resilience in fluctuating markets.
When billionaire Ray Dalio left his empire Bridgewater Associates in 2022, the inflation storm and economic uncertainties were pummeling the financial markets. While the fund had started 2022 on a positive note, its returns came crashing down it the last quarter of the year. According to a Bloomberg report, The Pure Alpha fund of Bridgewater […]
TOKYO/LONDON (Reuters) -The euro rose on Thursday after data showed euro zone business activity expanded at its fastest pace in a year this month, while the pound was steady near a two-month high on the dollar unmoved by the announcement of a British election. "The dynamism in manufacturing fits with the view that external demand is currently leading the positive momentum in the euro area," said Mark Wall, chief European economist at Deutsche Bank, of the data. Another support for the euro was European Central Bank figures on Wednesday showing negotiated pay growth in the euro zone picked up slightly in the first quarter of 2024, likely making policymakers cautious about their path after next month's all but certain rate cut.