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Oil futures sank 4 per cent on Wednesday amid higher U.S. crude inventories and a bleaker demand outlook, while uncertainty over the U.S.-China trade war and U.S. economic data weighed on stocks. The dollar index rose as trade tensions and U.S. interest rate…

U.S. stocks extended gains Monday after President Donald Trump decided not to impose tariffs on imports from Mexico, cooling tensions on one front of a multi-pronged trade war. Meanwhile, a slew of newly announced mergers and acquisitions drew investor attent…

A worker checks cannabis plants inside the Tilray factory hothouse in Cantanhede, Portugal, on April 24. RAFAEL MARCHANTE/Reuters Part of cannabis and investing Expand stories Tilray Inc.s stock soared after it signed a deal to merge with its largest sha…

Via Chamber business news! Dreamers, temporary protected status (TPS) recipients and immigration advocacy groups joined Microsoft to celebrate Immigrant Heritage Month by ringing the Nasdaq stock exchange opening bell on June 5, 2019. “We’re excited that yo…

As investors talk themselves — and possibly the Federal Reserve— into another rate cut, there's a sense among stock-market bulls that more prosperous times are ahead. That could mean fresh records in major indices. After all, when Fed Chair Jerome Powell h…

At 9:42 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 183.65 points, or 0.71%, at 25,904.31 and the S&P 500 was up 22.23 points, or 0.78%, at 2,865.72. The Nasdaq Composite was up 77.49 points, or 1.02%, at 7,693.05. The defensive consumer staples sec…

All it took was a rosy sales outlook to send Beyond Meat Inc. soaring -- again. The faux meat-makers shares, which had already quadrupled since its initial public offering last month, jumped as much as 36 per cent to US$135.80 on Friday following the company…

After an ugly May, the stock market is on track for its best weekly gain since November of 2018, at least partly on the back of hope that the Federal Reserve will soon reduce interest rates to help buoy an economy being buffeted by tariff conflagrations and s…

People have done crazy things with Microsoft’s famous spreadsheet program, like games or artwork, but Excel is still all about numbers, figures, and other quantifiable data. Its use in financial settings is, of course, normal but sometimes the data that you n…

NEW YORKAs the S&P advanced 0.9% the moment awestruck investors saw all the bills spread out in a dramatic fan, financial experts confirmed that the U.S. stock market rallied significantly Wednesday following the Federal Reserve chairman Jay Powells flamb…