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Traders see a 42.6% likelihood that the fed-funds rate target will get to between 5% and 5.25%, or even higher, by next March after Thursday’s hotter-than-expected consumer-price index report for September. That’s up from 6.1% on Wednesday, according to the CME FedWatch Tool. The CPI report also cemented a 95.8% chance of a 75-basis-point rate […]
U.S. stocks opened sharply lower Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling more than 500 points, after the consumer-price index showed that inflation in September was hotter than forecast. The Dow DJIA, +2.31% was down 1.7% soon after the opening bell, while the S&P 500 SPX, +2.22% fell about 2.2% and the Nasdaq Composite […]
Patterson Companies Inc. PDCO, +2.68% said Thursday that is has named Don Zurbay as chief executive officer. Zurbay, who was most recently the dental and animal health company’s chief financial officer, succeeds Mark Walchirk as CEO. Walchirk had resigned from the company, after it was determined that he “violated company policy and demonstrated poor judgment […]
Shares of Relmada Therapeutics Inc. RLMD, -78.23% fell 80.0% in premarket trading on Thursday after the biotech said its experimental treatment for major depressive disorder as a monotherapy did not meet the primary endpoint in a Phase 3 clinical trial. The company said it is still enrolling patients in two other late-stage studies assessing the […]
Bitcoin (BTC) began Oct. 13 with classic fluctuations around $19,000 as markets prepared for crucial macro data. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView No sign of upside ahead of key U.S. data Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD threatening downside at the time of writing with hours to go until the […]
The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported on Thursday that domestic natural-gas supplies rose by 125 billion cubic feet for the week ended Oct. 7. That compared with the average analyst forecast for an increase of 123 billion cubic feet, based on a survey conducted by S&P Global Commodity Insights. Total working gas stocks in storage […]