Day: October 17, 2022
XPO Logistics Inc. XPO, +3.55% a trucking-transportation and brokerage service, announced Monday that executives now expect third-quarter sales of around $3.04 billion, which would be the company’s lowest quarterly revenue since 2015, according to FactSet data. Shares fell 2% after hours. The forecast was a bit below FactSet expectations for $3.09 billion, and comes as […]
President Joe Biden on Monday said legal challenges to his plan to cancel debt for a wide swath of student borrowers will not succeed, as he announced the formal launch of the loan-forgiveness application. Asked during a White House event if he was worried lawsuits would halt the relief program, Biden replied: “our legal judgment […]
All three major stock indexes remained up in the final hour of trading on Monday, helped by improved sentiment after better-than-expected earnings from Bank of America Corp. and a decision by new U.K. finance minister Jeremy Hunt to abandon the bulk of previously announced, unfunded tax cuts. Dow industrials DJIA, +1.86% were up by 538 […]
Oil futures finished modestly lower on Monday, extending the sharp loss seen last week. “The backdrop of sticky high inflation resulting in increasingly more hawkish Fed policy expectations for the foreseeable future and the subsequent rise in recession fears will likely keep a lid on WTI in the low to mid $90s,” analysts at Sevens […]
U.S. stocks closed sharply higher Monday as quarterly corporate earnings picked up steam and the S&P 500 recorded its best daily percentage gain since Oct. 4, according to FactSet data. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +1.86% gained about 550 points, or 1.9%, ending near 30,188, while the S&P 500 index SPX, +2.65% advanced 2.7%. […]
• Silver reversed from support level 18.15 • Likely to rise to resistance level 19.50 Silver recently reversed up from the strong support level 18.15 (which has been repeatedly reversing the price from the middle of July) standing near the lower daily Bollinger Band. The upward reversal from the support level 18.15 started the active […]
• EURJPY broke key resistance level 144.00 • Likely to rise to resistance level 148.00 EURJPY recently broke above the key resistance level 144.00 (which has been steadily reversing the pair from the start of June). The breakout of the resistance level 144.00 accelerated the active short-term impulse wave (iii), which belongs to the higher […]
U.S. known cases of COVID are continuing to ease and now stand at their lowest level since mid-April, although the true tally is likely higher given how many people overall are testing at home, where the data are not being collected. The daily average for new cases stood at 37,649 on Sunday, according to a […]
Moderna Inc. MRNA, +4.37% said it and GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance supplying vaccines to low- and middle-income countries, have agreed to cancel remaining orders under their 2022 COVID-19 vaccine agreement given “sufficient supply.” The biotechnology company has supplied Gavi with nearly 70 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, in addition to facilitating the donation of more […]
Gold futures finished higher on Monday, after ending the previous session at their lowest price of the month so far. The weaker U.S. dollar and sharp decline in bond yields helped support gold, said Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets UK. But prices remained below the intraday high seen on Friday, he said. […]
