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Dec 29
Gold ends lower Wednesday but intraday rally shrinks loss

Gold futures closed lower Wednesday, but the precious commodity finished above a psychological significantly level, after steeper losses dragged it below $1,800, a level it has struggled to hold above since November. February gold GCG22, -0.31% GC00, -0.31% lost $5.10, or 0.3%, to settle at $1,805.80 an ounce, but had fallen to an intraday low […]

Dec 29
Western Digital's stock surges to pace the S&P 500's winners after rival Samsung has to 'adjust' operations due to COVID

Shares of Western Digital Corp. WDC, +5.82% shot up 5.6% in afternoon trading Wednesday toward a sixth-straight gain, enough to make the data storage company’s stock the biggest gainer among S&P 500 SPX, +0.13% components. Benchmark analyst Mark Miller said he believes the rally is being driven by South Korea-based rival Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s […]

Dec 29
U.S. crude-oil inventories fell by about 3.6 million barrels in week ended Dec. 24: EIA

Oil futures traded higher Wednesday after the Energy Information Administration reported a drop in U.S. crude inventories. West Texas Intermediate crude for February delivery CLG22, +0.86% CL00, +0.86% traded at $77.04 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, up $1.05, or 1.5%. The EIA said crude inventories fell by 3.576 million barrels in the […]

Dec 29
Facebook's stock reverses lower, after report that it looked to divide lawmakers to forestall tougher rules on social media

Shares of Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. FB, -0.54% dropped 0.8% in morning trading Wednesday, reversing earlier intraday gains of as much as 1%, after the Wall Street Journal reported that the social-media and metaverse company looked to divide lawmakers along party lines to forestall any bipartisan attempt to install tougher rules on social-media platforms. […]

Dec 29
Dow attempts 6th straight gain as stocks rise modestly to start Wednesday action

U.S. stock benchmarks were trading flat to slightly higher Wednesday morning, a day after the Nasdaq Composite and S&P 500 halted a multi-session streak of gains. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.30% was up 0.1% at around 36,425, the S&P 500 index SPX, +0.15% was up 0.1% at 4,793, while the Nasdaq Composite Index […]

Dec 29
Medallion Financial stock plunges toward 13-month low after SEC discloses fraud charges

Shares of Medallion Financial Corp. MFIN, -28.05% plummeted 56.5% toward a 13-month low in premarket trading Wednesday, to pace all premarket decliners, after the Securities and Exchange Commission charged the New York-based bank holding company and its Chief Operating Officer Andrew Murstein for engaging in “fraudulent schemes” to boost its stock price. The SEC’s complaint […]