Tom PolansekCHICAGO (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve can stick to a series of gradual U.S. interest-rate increases over the next couple of years without much risk of an unhealthy surge in inflation, Chicago Fed President Charles Evans said on Tuesday.“I don’t foresee an outsized risk of a breakout in inflation,” Evans said in remarks prepared for delivery to the Chicago Rotary Clu...Read More

(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest complaint about China devaluing its currency is off base. But the yuan could potentially become a major sticking point in efforts to resolve the trade dispute between the world’s two biggest economies.Currency valuations have long played a role in global trade spats because the goods of countries with weak currencies have a price advanta...Read More

Reade Levinson(Reuters) - Small businesses in the United States struggled with uninsured damages and lost revenue following a record-breaking year of hurricanes and wildfires, according to a Federal Reserve survey published on Tuesday.The report by the Dallas, New York, Richmond, and San Francisco Fed banks examined 1,800 businesses with fewer than 500 employees in zip codes with disasters designa...Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three out of 12 regional Federal Reserve banks opposed increasing the rate commercial banks pay for emergency loans ahead of the central bank’s latest policy meeting, minutes of Fed discount rate discussions showed on Tuesday.The U.S. central bank raised the discount rate by a quarter percentage point to 2-1/4 percent and also increased its benchmark lending rate at it...Read More

Both stocks have surged in 2018, despite rising short interestRetailer stocks Dick's Sporting Goods Inc (NYSE:DKS) and Five Below Inc (NASDAQ:FIVE) recently popped up on our short list of stocks soaring in spite of rising short interest. In fact, both stocks are defying skeptics all across Wall Street -- and DKS and FIVE sport relatively inexpensive short-term options, to boot.DKS Stock Defying Op...Read More

Pietro Nicholls from RM Secured Direct Lending PLC (LON:RMDL) caught up with Proactive Investors to run through their quarterly update for the period to the end of March.The portfolio's now grown to 25 debt investments across 16 sectors.During the first quarter of 2018, the company made a number of new transactions, including two loan repayments totalling ?4.8mln in energy assets, and a ?5mln in...Read More

(Reuters) - Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O) will close 8,000 company-owned U.S. cafes for the afternoon on May 29 to train nearly 175,000 on how to prevent racial discrimination in its stores.The announcement from world’s biggest coffee company comes as it tries to cool tensions after the arrest of two black men at one of its Philadelphia cafes last week sparked accusations of racial profiling at th...Read More

Gold prices settled modestly lower on Tuesday, following gains in the last two sessions, as stocks climbed on the back of upbeat earnings and the dollar drifted a bit higher, with news on the geopolitical front quiet for now. June gold GCM8, -0.16% eased back by $1.20, or just under 0.1%, to settle at $1,349.50 an ounce, giving back about half of Monday's 0.2% gain. Gold tallied a rise of roughly...Read More

Like Chinese tariffs on US pork products that were imposed earlier this month, the sorghum tariffs aren't merely a threat: Rather, China says they will take effect on Wednesday...Read full newsRead More

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Prince Harry and his American fiancee Meghan Markle will attend a memorial service next week for Stephen Lawrence, a London teenager who was murdered in a racially motivated attack 25 years ago, Kensington Palace said on Tuesday.Harry, who will marry Markle at Windsor on May 19, will read a message of support from his father, Prince Charles, the palace said on Twitter....Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has requested an extension for filing his 2017 income tax return and will file a full return by the October extended deadline, a White House spokeswoman said on Tuesday, which is tax filing day in the United States.“The president filed an extension for his 2017 tax return, as do many Americans with complex returns. He will file his tax return by...Read More

(Kitco News)- Do you have investment skills that rival some of the tophedge fund managers in the world, then maybe it is time to put your money whereyour mouth is, at least figuratively.Tuesday, the Sohn Conference Foundation announced the launchof the Ira Sohn Stock Game, a new fantasy stock picking completion, ahead ofits annual investment conference in New York City April 23. With a $100 donati...Read More

(Kitco News) - Do you have investment skills that rival some of the top hedge fund managers in the world, then maybe it is time to put your money where your mouth is, at least figuratively.Tuesday, the Sohn Conference Foundation announced the launch of the Ira Sohn Stock Game, a new fantasy stock picking completion, ahead of its annual investment conference in New York City April 23. With a $100 d...Read More

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Lead Commodity Call – Lead Sell call 5f6 given at price 155.10 Achieved 1st Target 153.50. CMP 153.50. Total profit of 1.6 x 2 lot = 3.20 Points5f6 : Lead Tips Today - SELL Lead 2 lot at CMP 155.10 for Target 153.50 - 153 with SL Above price 156.50AFTER POST CONTENT Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday dropped Microsoft Corp’s (MSFT.O) privacy fight with the Justice Department over whether prosecutors can force technology companies to hand over data stored overseas after Congress passed legislation that resolved the dispute.The justices heard arguments in the high-profile case on Feb. 27, but President Donald Trump on March 22 signed...Read More

Nickel Calls – SELL NIckel at CMP 923 for Target 913 – 906 with SL Above price 934. Trade with 2 to 3 lots todayAFTER POST CONTENT Read More

TWTR and IRBT have exceeded options traders' volatility expectationsEarnings season is heating up, with FAANG stock Netflix (NFLX) soaring after the streaming giant reported solid subscriber growth. With that in mind, we decided to hunt for some options-trading ideas for premium buyers this earnings season. Specifically, we identified stocks that have tended to make outsized moves on the charts in...Read More

The accelerating adoption of electric vehicles and energy storage technologies has been attracting new investors into the mining industry as demand for battery materials spike.The latest investment vehicle to capitalize on the trend was launched by New York-based Global X Funds this week connecting the likes of BHP and Rio Tinto to names most associated with the sector such as Tesla and Google.The...Read More

Options traders have been extremely call heavy on the struggling sharesToy manufacturing concern Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ:MAT) is set to report its first-quarter earnings this Thursday. MAT stock has finished lower the day after earnings in four of the past five quarters, but snapped its losing streak last time around, with a 7.9% swing higher. The stock's average post-earnings daily price move is 8.5...Read More