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Yesterday in Brief for October 13, 2021 Digest of headline news from October 12 to 11:45 a.m. Moscow time on October 13: BUSINESS & FINANCE *** RUSSIAN STOCK MARKET OPENS [...]

Switzerland: LGT Capital Partners AG has issued the following press release: The eagerly awaited US labor market report only partially met the high expectations, but nevertheless confirmed the scenario of [...]

Byline: Thomas HeathOil prices spiked and stocks dove on Friday as uncertainty continued to roil global markets.The Dow Jones industrial average slid nearly 600 points, or 2.4 percent, on a [...]

Stocks climbed Friday after a better-than-expected report on jobs, even with the specter of a possible trade war hanging over markets around the world. The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index [...]

Rising retailers pushed U.S. stock indexes further into record territory on Friday, as the market's robust start to 2018 carried through its second week. Interest rates also climbed after a [...]

Stocks soared on Friday, the last trading day of January, and Microsoft, Visa and other tech stocks made the biggest gains in a broad market rally. Indexes finished the day [...]

Keep the seatbelts on. Stock markets around the world tumbled Tuesday, dashing hopes that financial markets would calm down after two weeks of turbulence. Investors appear to be growing more [...]

Byline: KEVIN CARMICHAEL AGENDA WASHINGTON -- Back in the middle of June - a happier time, when it was still safe to assume that Washington would deal with simple matters [...]

Byline: SKOT KORTJE TECHNICAL ANALYSIS Skot Kortje has been analyzing stock market trends for 15 years using trend analysis. For more go to Stocktrends.ca *** The Stock Fortis Inc. (FTS-T) [...]

Byline: David Berman Technical analysts don't like the look of recent action at the S&P 500. The index has fallen in seven of the past nine trading days, which is [...]

Wall Street got an initial lift on Wednesday from the Federal Reserve's assessment that an economic recovery was under way, but the glow faded fast, dragging stocks to their second […]

Byline: Matt Krantz Investors might keep hearing about how fast-growing the Chinese economy and stock market are, but it's the Shanghai stock market that now is flirting with a new [...]

Wall Street was so bullish on Friday that it could have passed for Pamplona. Stock markets surged, hitting their highest levels since autumn as investors took in the news that […]

Up Financials, resources lift TSX Surging commodity prices and better-than-estimated U.S. GDP data pushed the S&P/TSX composite to a 1-per-cent gain. Royal Bank and TD paced advancers among financials. Goldcorp [...]

Byline: SHIRLEY WON NUMBER CRUNCHER / MOMENTUM swon@globeandmail.com WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR? U.S. stock funds with momentum this year. The S&P 500 has been in a rallying mood lately. [...]

Byline: Matt Krantz Stocks bounced back from early lows to end relatively flat Monday as investors remained hopeful about the economy's recovery. Traders puzzled over why the Dow Jones industrial [...]

Stock markets surged higher in the last hour of trading on Wednesday, buoyed by a more positive picture from home builders, some better economic news and hopes that defaults on […]

BNN MARKET CALL: BEN STADELMANN Ben Stadelmann is vice-president of Contra the Heard Investment Letter. He also writes for Globeinvestor Gold. CURRENT PICKS: Yahoo (YHOO Nasdaq) $12.95 (U.S.) We don't [...]

Byline: SCOTT ADAMS NUMBER CRUNCHER: SMALL CAPS Leading the charge on the Venture Exchange Investment Editor WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR? Small caps are back. After a miserable 2008, some [...]

Byline: John Waggoner If you've ever forgotten to put on your parking brake on a steep hill, you know that objects in motion tend to stay in motion. The same [...]

Byline: ALLAN ROBINSON COMPTON PETROLEUM: (CMT-TSX) Yesterday's close 90cents, unchanged Compton Petroleum Corp. has set a 2009 exploration budget of $161.5-million that will be focused almost exclusively on low-risk opportunities [...]

Byline: ERIC ATKINS; eatkins@globeandmail.com WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR? Oversold agriculture stocks. The sector rode the alt-fuel burn-what-you-eat craze of the past couple years. Chinese and Indian demand for meat [...]

Byline: Matt Krantz Technically, a bear market is when stocks fall 20% or more from their highs. But there's a saying that a bear's true signature is making a fool [...]

Byline: BOYD ERMAN; berman@globandmail.com Barack Obama brings many hopes with him to the White House - hopes for a gentler, more inclusive, more equitable America. Will he bring a more [...]

Byline: DAVID PARKINSON; dparkinson@globeandmail.com In the past three days, the stock market has brought new hope to battered investors. But in a bear market, a little hope can be a [...]

Byline: Richard Blackwell Does the TSX have 'circuit breakers' to stop precipitous falls in the market, similar to those at the New York Stock Exchange? The TSX has linked its [...]

Byline: Lois Lee; BNN-Business News Network Dennis da Silva is managing director of Middlefield Capital Corp. Today's featured fund is Oilsands Canada Corp., a closed-end fund that trades on the [...]

Byline: BRIAN MILNER Canadian and U.S. stock markets moved with dizzying speed late yesterday, erasing steep early losses and continuing a trend of stomach-churning volatility that has reached record proportions. [...]

Byline: DAVID BERMAN; dberman@globeandmail.com Friday made Canadian investors particularly nervous for the simple reason that markets are closed today for the Thanksgiving holiday. Normally, that wouldn't be an issue for [...]

Byline: Matt Krantz Finally, investors have a bear to get excited about. Oil now is in unofficial bear market territory, with the price of a barrel of crude falling to [...]

Byline: Matt Krantz Stocks enjoyed another up day on Wednesday as investors continued to celebrate the plunge in oil prices. The Dow Jones industrial average tacked on 40.30 points to [...]

Byline: Rajeev Dhir; BNN Jeff Parent is an associate portfolio manager at Quadrexx Asset Management. Today we look at the Canadian Hedge Watch Index Plus Fund. FUND STATS MER2% Total [...]

Byline: Adam Shell NEW YORK -- Stocks on Tuesday erased the sizable 2% loss suffered a day earlier as oil prices fell to their lowest levels since May and investors [...]

Byline: Rajeev Dhir; BNN-Business News Network Duncan Stewart, CFA, is the founding partner, president, chief investment officer and lead portfolio manager at Duncan Stewart Asset Management. Mr. Stewart has worked [...]

Byline: JOHN HEINZL; jheinzl@globeandmail.com There is only one word to describe the latest batch of U.S. economic statistics: awful. So why did stocks take off yesterday? Because the figures were [...]

UP What a switch: U.S. indexes climb... Investors continued to dump energy shares and load up on financial stocks yesterday, for the second day in a row, in a dramatic [...]

Byline: PALASH R. GHOSH; Dow Jones Newswires Be it simply luck or good design, mid-capitalization stocks have outperformed large- and small-caps so far this year. In the year to June [...]

The Dow and the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index were little changed on Monday on the final trading day of the second quarter as record oil prices lifted energy shares, […]

Byline: Ron Scherer Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor New York -- Investors are finding out that oil and stocks don't mix. As the price of oil has soared [...]

Once more, gloom is descending over Wall Street. After rallying for a few hopeful months this spring, the stock market is sinking to its lowest level in years. Cracks are […]

Byline: Matt Krantz U.S. stock investors who tried to protect their portfolios by diversifying globally now find themselves in a double world of hurt. While the U.S. market is threatening [...]

Stocks stalled Monday, ending mostly lower after rising oil prices and nagging worries about the financial sector gave investors little reason to buy. Disappointment that Saudi Arabia is not increasing […]

Byline: Matt Krantz The tired Wall Street cliche 'sell in May and go away' is looking pretty smart right now. The U.S. stock market has run into a renewed wave [...]

Byline: JOHN HEINZL; jheinzl@globeandmail.com As any seven-year-old can tell you by now, the main reason Canada's resource-rich stock market has gone nowhere but up the past few years is simple: [...]

Byline: Melissa Martin; BNN-Business News Network Jennifer Stevenson is executive vice-president, Qwest Investment Fund Management Ltd. Today, we look at the Qwest Energy Canadian Resource Class Fund. Fund stats MER3.48% [...]

DOWN Oil sinks on China fears Crude oil plunged on speculation demand will decline, after China said it will raise fuel prices starting today. Oil for July delivery fell $4.75 [...]

Wall Street sank Wednesday for the second consecutive day on renewed concerns about the financial sector and FedEx's warning that weakening demand and surging fuel costs would weigh on its […]