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Oct 25
Bitcoin price crosses $20K as daily crypto short liquidations pass $400M

Bitcoin (BTC) spiked above $20,000 on Oct. 25 as risk assets benefited from new U.S. dollar weakness. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Bitcoin taps three-week highs Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD hitting highs of $20,191 on Bitstamp. The move came in tandem with rising United States equities, these in […]

Oct 25
Key roles in Sunak’s Cabinet stay same, with Jeremy Hunt remaining as chancellor

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Oct 25
ADM easily exceeds earnings and revenue expectations

Archer Daniels Midland Co. ADM, +1.47% beat earnings and revenue expectations by a wide margin Tuesday morning, with its chief executive calling out “robust” worldwide demand. The agriculture and nutrition giant logged third-quarter net earnings of $1.03 billion, or $1.83 a share, up from $526 million, or 93 cents a share, in the year-prior period. […]

Oct 25
Raytheon Technologies beats earnings target and raises the low end of its 2022 earnings range

Raytheon Technologies Corp. RTX, -1.98% shares rose 0.7% in premarket trades on Tuesday after the aerospace and defense company beat its earnings target and hiked the bottom end of its range for its 2022 profit forecast, but fell short of its third-quarter revenue mark. Raytheon said its third-quarter profit dipped 1% to $1.39 billion, or […]

Oct 25
American Electric Power raises dividend, boosting implied yield to above 3.8%

Shares of American Electric Power Co. Inc. AE, +1.93% ] rose 1.3% in midday trading Tuesday, after the electricity transmission company raised its quarterly dividend by 6.4%, to 83 cents a share from 78 cents. The new dividend is payable Dec. 9 to shareholders of record on Nov. 10. Based on current stock prices, the […]

Oct 25
Coca-Cola stock jumps after profit and revenue beat expectations, as raised prices helped offset cost inflation

Shares of Coca-Cola Co. KO, +1.89% ran up 2.6% in premarket trading Tuesday, after the beverage giant beat third-quarter profit and revenue expectations, as price increases helped offset ongoing cost inflation. Net income rose to $2.83 billion, or 65 cents a share, from $2.47 billion, or 57 cents a share, in the year-ago period. Excluding […]