Friday, 13 November 2026
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TRIO-TECH INTERNATIONAL senior corporate vice president and COO (Testing) Lim Hwee Poh received a grant of stock options covering 5,000 shares of common stock. The options have an exercise price of $9.74 per share and e…
President Donald Trump may not follow through on his demand for the U.S. to completely sever trade with Spain — but he could if he wanted to, using the same law behind his failed "reciprocal" tariffs, U.S. Trade Represe…
NEW YORK, July 9 (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams said Thursday that despite the renewal of war in the Middle East, he was not looking for a sustained rise in energy prices over the …
What happened: Micron Technology (MU) stock jumped 8% on Thursday, joining a broader rally across memory and AI-related stocks. Sandisk (SNDK), Western Digital (WDC), Marvell (MRVL), Broadcom (AVGO), Intel (INTC), and A…
Cotton futures are trading with 65 to 96 point losses so far on Thursday’s midday. Crude oil prices are back up $1.88/barrels. The US dollar index is up $0.975 to $100.410.
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On July 18, 2025, a 69-year-old man in a wheelchair was rolled into Courtroom 2 of the Oakland federal building and sworn in. Judge Jon Tigar asked Jasbir Thandi whether everything in paragraph 2 of his plea agreement, …
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Bell Global Equities Fund, managed by Bell Asset Management, released its May investor update. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. The global equity market continued its rally in May, driven by accelerating AI …
ClearBridge Investments, a global equity manager, recently published second-quarter 2026 commentary for its "Large Cap Growth Strategy". A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. Equity markets experienced a signific…
The Iran War, tariffs and the demand-driven AI-investment boon could add up to create inflationary conditions where Federal Reserve policymakers would need to consider interest-rate hikes later this year.
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As worldwide markets are challenged amid a backdrop of higher interest rates and ongoing conflict in the Middle East and Ukraine, one thing has not changed. U.S. stocks are more expensive than global stocks. And that's …
It was 2007. George W. Bush was president. The U.S. economy was expanding, but there were growing signs that the explosive growth in the housing market — and maybe the entire boom of the past five or six years — was a g…
July 9 (Reuters) - Oil prices eased on Thursday after earlier gains as markets assessed the escalating conflict between the U.S. and Iran and its implications for efforts to end the war and fully reopen the Strait of H…
After surging 683% in a year, MU pulled back to $938 and sits within 2% of our HOLD price target.
Live cattle futures rounded out the Wednesday session with contracts 35 to 85 cents lower. Open interest slipped back 2,317 contracts. Cash has been slow early this week with very little action early. The Wednesday Fed …
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AI executives and companies are betting that spending millions in the 2026 midterm elections will allow them to influence AI bills being developed in Congress.
There's a rift between the two best-known carbonated beverage brands. PepsiCo (NASDAQ: PEP) is relatively out of favor. The beverage and salty snacks giant is trading 17% below its 52-week high and 28% lower than when s…
SK Hynix, the second most valuable company in South Korea, behind only Samsung, is slated to begin trading on the Nasdaq on Friday. The market debut, coinciding with the company's hefty expansion plans for the U.S., com…
Lennar Corp. based in Miami, is one of the two largest builders of homes based on 82,583 new home deliveries in FY25, up from 80,210 deliveries in FY24. Rival D.R. Horton delivered 83,423 in FY25. Lennar's $32.27 billio…
Wednesday looked like a repeat of Tuesday, as another jump in crude oil (WTI) and Treasury yields knocked the stock market lower until noon. Still, buying primarily in Information Technology stocks, namely the beaten-up…