World's largest miner BHP Billiton (ASX, NYSE:BHP) injected fresh optimism into the mining industry Tuesday after announcing it had swung from loss to profit for the first half of the 2017 financial year, adding it was rewarding shareholders with a bigger than expected payout.A welcome surge in the price of commodities such as iron ore and copper due to renewed appetite in China for imported raw...Read More
* Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT), Home Depot, Macy's rise after results* Popeyes up after Restaurant Brands agrees to buy company* Indexes up: Dow 0.45 pct, S&P 0.47 pct, Nasdaq 0.26 pct (Updates to early afternoon)By Yashaswini SwamynathanFeb 21 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks hit record intraday highs on Tuesday amid gains across sectors as strong earnings from top retailers underscored the strength of the U.S. ec...Read More
* Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT), Home Depot, Macy's rise after results* Dollar up on rate hike comments from Fed officials* Popeyes up after Restaurant Brands agrees to buy company* Futures up: Dow 61 pts, S&P 4.5 pts, Nasdaq 9 pts (Adds details, comment, updates prices)By Yashaswini SwamynathanFeb 21 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks looked set to open near record-highs on Tuesday as oil prices rose and investors ch...Read More
* Futures up: Dow 66 pts, S&P 5.5 pts, Nasdaq 13.75 ptsBy Yashaswini SwamynathanFeb 21 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures rose to record intraday highs on Tuesday as oil prices surged and investors assessed earnings from top U.S. retailers.* Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT)'s WMT.N shares were up 1.5 percent at $70.42 in premarket trading after the world's largest brick-and-mortar retailer reported a higher-...Read More
Investing.com - Gold prices edged lower during European morning hours on Tuesday, amid a rise in the dollar as market players awaited further hints on the timing of the next U.S. rate hike.Gold for April delivery on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange shed $4.95, or about 0.4%, to $1,234.15 a troy ounce by 3:10AM ET (08:10GMT).There was no settlement in Comex gold prices on Mon...Read More
(Adds futures, company news items)Feb 21 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 .FTSE index is seen opening down 2 points at 7298 on Tuesday, according to financial bookmakers, with futures down 0.1 percent ahead of the cash market open.* The blue-chip FTSE 100 index closed flat in percentage terms at 7,299.86 points after climbing to an intra-day high of 7,329.56, the highest level since the middle of Ja...Read More
Feb 21 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 .FTSE index is seen opening down 2 points at 7298 on Tuesday, according to financial bookmakers.* The blue-chip FTSE 100 index closed flat in percentage terms at 7,299.86 points after climbing to an intra-day high of 7,329.56, the highest level since the middle of January. BHP: Mining giant BHP Billiton BHP.AX BLT.L rewarded shareholders with a bigger-than-exp...Read More
Feb 21 (Reuters) - Bhp Billiton (LON:BLT) Ltd BHP.AX* HY net profit $3.20 billion versus loss of $5.67 billion year ago* World economic growth is likely to remain within range of three to three and a half per cent in 2017 calendar year* HY revenue up 20% to $18.80 billion* Interim dividend of 40 US cents per share* HY underlying attributable profit from continuing operations $3.244 billion versu...Read More
Facebook Plans to Rewire Your Life. Be Afraid … Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s manifesto, penned clearly in response to accusations leveled at the social network in the wake of the bitter U.S. election campaign, is a scary, dystopian document. It shows that Facebook — launched, in Zuckerberg’s own words five years ago, to “extend people's capacity to build and ma...Read More
Revolution in Highway Safety Needs a Little Help … Three weeks ago, I was walking home on a dark, snowy night in Concord, Massachusetts. The next thing I knew, I was in a hospital, hooked up to some kind of machine. I could not lift my legs or even my head. The doctors told me I had been unconscious for hours. They explained that I had been hit, full on, by a car whose driver apparently coul...Read More
This February, energy distributors inked the biggest merger of municipally-owned electricity utilities in Canadian history. Alectra will serve almost 1 million customers in 15 communities across the GTHA, cover 1,800 square kilometres, and employ 1,600 full-time workers. Brian Bentz, the company's president and CEO, joins The Agenda to reveal more about the deal and what it means for energy custom...Read More
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Facebook Plans to Rewire Your Life. Be Afraid … Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s manifesto, penned clearly in response to accusations leveled at the social network in the wake of the bitter U.S. election campaign, is a scary, dystopian document. It shows that Facebook — launched, in Zuckerberg’s own words five years ago, to “extend people's capacity to build and ma...Read More
Revolution in Highway Safety Needs a Little Help … Three weeks ago, I was walking home on a dark, snowy night in Concord, Massachusetts. The next thing I knew, I was in a hospital, hooked up to some kind of machine. I could not lift my legs or even my head. The doctors told me I had been unconscious for hours. They explained that I had been hit, full on, by a car whose driver apparently coul...Read More
David feels that uranium has made a move toward rationality, although he warns it still has a long way to go. There is now real price movement, volume and thus benefits to price discovery. What is exciting about the long bear market, is the detrimental effect it had on the uranium industry. There are very few good uranium projects out there. When utilities go looking for supplies there will be a r...Read More
In this video, industry legend takes Clean Health Fitness Institute founder Daine McDonald through proper form on the quad squat, one of his favorite exercises for lower body hypertrophy. For more information on our personal trainer education programs, visit our website at: www.cleanhealth.com.auRead More
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In New York on Monday copper for delivery in March jumped 1.6% to $2.7515 per pound or $6,066 a tonne after listed copper miner Freeport McMoRan said negotiations with the Indonesian government to restart exports from its Grasberg mine in Papua province has stalled. Copper is trading at levels last seen late May 2015 with year-to-date gains of just under 9%.Phoenix-Arizona-based Freeport said...Read More
* Stocks rise in Europe and Asia, driven by merger activity* Unilever falls as Kraft walks away; Deutsche Telekom up* French bond yield gap over Germany hits widest since late 2012* Dollar falls with U.S. yields lower; U.S. markets shut* Graphic: World FX rates in 2017 http://tmsnrt.rs/2egbfVhBy Nigel StephensonLONDON, Feb 20 (Reuters) - European stocks rose on Monday, with gains in telecoms and...Read More
Investing.com - Gold prices edged lower during European morning hours on Monday, as market players awaited further hints on the timing of the next U.S. rate hike.Gold for April delivery on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange shed $3.35, or about 0.3%, to $1,235.75 a troy ounce by 3:15AM ET (08:15GMT).Trading activity was likely to stay light as markets in the U.S. remain closed...Read More