U.S. stock futures dipped as investors awaited a swathe of earnings including from some of the world’s largest technology companies. Tech stocks have been some of the best performers this year and make up a large chunk of the broad S&P 500 index. How well they are coping with higher interest rates
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By: Will Horner
As President Biden's bid for re-election gets formally under way, here's a look at how markets have fared under him and previous presidents. Since he took office in January 2021, the S&P 500 has risen about 7.
By: Sam Goldfarb, Will Horner
McDonald’s and PepsiCo earnings suggest Americans are still willing to pay more for burgers and soda.
Steps to limit shipments of LNG from Russia could push up natural-gas prices.
By: Will Horner
Stock in First Horizon slumped more than 40% in premarket trading Thursday, after its planned $13.4 billion acquisition by TD Bank was called off. The banks said they had agreed to sc
Signs of progress in U.S. debt-ceiling talks are taking the shine off gold, which fell for a second consecutive day Tuesday. The precious metal, typically sought by investors when economic or geopolit
By: Will Horner
A gas leak at Europe’s only major liquefied natural gas plant has jolted prices, highlighting how the region’s energy traders remain jumpy about unexpected supply shocks. Benchmark European natural gas prices spiked higher Wednesday. They then slid almost 11% to €24.33, or about $25.99, a megawatt-
By: Will Horner
Saudi Arabia's plan to boost oil prices isn't working. Oil prices slid Tuesday, erasing gains that followed a Saudi plan to slash oil output, as fears about weak global demand
An escalation in fighting between Ukraine and Russia and the destruction of a major dam has prompted fears of fresh disruption to global grain supplies, pushing wheat and corn prices higher. Wheat prices jumped almost 4% to $6.47 a bushel in early trading in Chicago. Corn prices rose ne
Soft commodity prices from cocoa to coffee jumped after a prominent forecaster declared the return of El Niño, a weather phenomenon that risks wreaking havoc for farmers from South America to South East Asia. Prices for robusta coffee, the beans commonly used in instant brews and espresso capsules,