U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 35 points in pre-opening trade. The Bank of Canada is scheduled to announce its interest rate for major Canadian banks at 10:00 AM EST. Consensus calls for an increase in the rate from 4.25% to 4.50%. A press conference is offered at 11:00 AM EST. Microsoft dropped $2.44 to $239.60 after the company offered a cautious...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 12 points in pre-opening trade. Lockheed Martin added $5.42 to $446.70 after reporting higher than consensus fourth quarter revenues and earnings.DR Horton advanced $0.72 to $96.40 after reporting higher than consensus fourth quarter revenues and earnings. General Electric added $2.09 to $79.77 after reporting higher...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 9 points in pre-opening trade. Spotify added $4.09 to $102.00 after announcing a 6% reduction in employee count.Salesforce.com advanced $7.25 to $158.50 on news that Elliott Management made a multimillion dollar investment in the company. Advanced Micro Devices gained $1.65 to $71.71 after Barclays upgraded the stock f...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 7 points in pre-opening trade. The Canadian Dollar was unchanged at US74.22 cents following released of Canada's December Retail Sales at 8:30 AM EST. Consensus was a drop of 0.5% versus a gain of 1.4% in November. Actual was a drop of 0.1%.Netflix added $19.60 to $335.33 after subscriber additions beat consensus.Costc...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 29 points at 7:30 AM EST.Two economic reports are released this morning at 8:30 AM EST. December Housing Starts are expected to drop to 1.385 million units from 1.427 million units in November. January Philly Fed Index is expected to improve to -11.0 from -13.8 in December.Allstate dropped $3.43 to $129.00 after notin...Read More
(Adds information on lawsuit) RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Brazilian miner Vale plans to spend about 7.8 billion reais ($1.53billion) this year on repairs related to the deadly collapse ofa tailings dam in the mining town of Brumadinho, a companyexecutive told Reuters on Wednesday. The spending plan comes on the same day that Brazil'sSupreme Court ordered lower courts to immediately startpr...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 16 points in pre-opening trade. Index futures moved higher following release of economic news at 8:30 AM ESTDecember Retail Sales were expected to drop 0.8% versus a decline of 0.6% in November. Actual was a decline of 1.1%. Excluding auto sales, December Retail Sales were expected to decline 0.4% versus a decline of 0...Read More
(Refiles to correct source in paragraph 6 to official companystatement, not spokeswoman) JAKARTA, Jan 19 (Reuters) -Germany's BASF and French miner Eramet are finalising a $2.6 billion partnership deal to invest in afacility in Indonesia to process nickel for use in batteries forelectric vehicles, Indonesian officials said. The Indonesian announcement comes as Southeast Asia'sbiggest economy has...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 10 points in pre-opening trade. The Canadian Dollar added 0.09 to US74.561 cents following release of Canada's December Consumer Price Index at 8:30 AM EST. Consensus was a decrease of 0.5%. Actual was a decrease of 0.6%. On a year-over-year basis, consensus for December CPI was an increase of 6.4% versus a gain of 6....Read More
U.S. equity markets are closed today for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Trading volume in Canadian equity markets is expected to be significantly below average. International equity markets generally were higher. The DAX Index was up 44.76 to 15,132.17. The CAC Index gained 18.36 to 7,041.62. The Shanghai Composite Index added 32.29 to 3,227.59 moving above intermediate resistance at 3,226.08...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 34 points in pre-opening trade. Delta Airlines dropped $1.49 to $38.11 after the company reported lower than consensus fiscal first quarter earnings. JP Morgan slipped $0.14 to $139.49 after reporting less than consensus fourth quarter earnings. Virgin Galactic added $0.55 to $5.17 after the company affirmed commercia...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures at 7:30 AM EST were up 3 points. Focus this morning is on the U.S. December Consumer Price Index to be released at 8:30 AM EST. Consensus is a decline 0.1% versus a gain of 0.1% in November. On a year-over-year basis, December CPI is expected to increase 6.5% versus a gain of 7.1% in November. Excluding food and energy, Decemb...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 11 points in pre-opening trade.Airline equities and related ETFs are expected to open lower on news that all domestic airline flights have been grounded due to computer problems at the FAA.Coinbase dropped $1.44 to $41.80 after Bank of America downgraded the stock from Neutral to Under Perform. CH Robinson dropped $0.8...Read More
(Recasts with Panama's statement) By Milagro Vallecillos and Valentine Hilaire PANAMA CITY, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Panama's government onTuesday doubled down on an order that Canada-based miner FirstQuantum Minerals halt operations at its local coppermine, saying the miner had been operating without a contractsince 2017. Earlier, First Quantum said it would submit an appealagainst Panama's order by t...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 18 points in pre-opening trade. Investors are waiting for comments this morning from Federal Reserve Chairman Powell at a conference in Europe with other national monetary leaders.Bumble added $0.63 to $20.59 after the stock was upgraded from Sector Weight to Overweight.AT&T gained $0.17 to $19.21 after Wells Farg...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 18 points in pre-opening trade.Goldman Sachs added $4.32 to $348.08 after announcing plans to cut 3,200 employees.Lululemon dropped $45.23 to $284.03 after lowering fourth quarter earnings guidance. Tilray dropped $0.10 to $2.85 after reporting a fiscal second quarter loss. Abercrombie & Fitch added $1.21 to $26.41...Read More
U.S equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 20 point in pre-opening trade.Index futures moved higher following release of the December Non-Farm Payrolls at 8:30 AM EST. Consensus was an increase of 200,000 versus a downwardly revised gain of 256,000 in November. Actual was an increase of 223,000. December Unemployment Rate was expected to remains unchanged from N...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 20 points in pre-opening trade. Index futures moved lower following release of the U.S. November Trade report at 8:30 AM EST. Consensus was a deficit of $63.1 billion versus a deficit of $78.20 billion in October. Actual was a deficit of $61.5 billionConAgra added $0.95 to $39.60 after the company raised its outlook f...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 22 points in pre-opening trade.Salesforce.com added $4.35 to$139.13 after the company announced a 10% reduction in its staff.Microsoft dropped $5.37 to $234.20 after UBS downgraded the stock from Buy to Neutral.Target dropped $2.73 to $149.00 after Wells Fargo downgraded the stock from Overweight to Equal Weight.Cornin...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 17 points in pre-opening trade. Gold added $11.99 to US$1,835.68. Gold equities and related ETFs are expected to open higher. Tesla dropped $5.08 to $118.10 after the company announced lower than consensus deliveries in December. JP Morgan lowered its target price. PayPal advanced $1.82 to $73.04 after Truist upgraded...Read More