Healthcare stocks lift Wall Street at open
(Reuters) – Wall Street’s main indexes opened higher on the final trading day of 2017, led by gains in healthcare stocks.
Wall Steet set to open higher on final trading day of 2017
(Reuters) – U.S. stocks were poised to open on a bright note on the final trading day of 2017, wrapping up a year in which major Wall Street indexes recorded their best performance since 2013.
Trump targets Amazon in call for postal service to hike prices
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump targeted Amazon on Friday in a call for the country’s postal service to raise prices of shipments in order to recoup costs, picking another fight with the online retail giant he has criticized in the p…
Russia sentences fund head Browder to prison in absentia
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian court on Friday sentenced British investment fund head William Browder to nine years in prison in absentia after finding him guilty of deliberate bankruptcy and tax evasion, the country’s general prosecutor said.
The year in U.S. markets in five graphs
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks are poised to close out 2017 with a stellar performance, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average , S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite all poised for gains of roughly 20 percent or more.
Wall Street set to open higher on final trading day of 2017
(Reuters) – U.S. stocks were poised to open on a bright note on the final trading day of 2017, wrapping up a year in which major Wall Street indexes recorded their best performance since 2013.
Airbus sprints from behind in bid to upset Boeing order lead
PARIS (Reuters) – Airbus is pulling out the stops to try and take the lead in its annual order contest with Boeing, lining up a spree of multi-billion-dollar deals to close a traumatic year haunted by management upheaval and corruption investigations.
Goldman expects $5 billion hit to quarterly earnings due to new tax law
(Reuters) – Goldman Sachs Group Inc said on Friday it expects fourth-quarter earnings to decrease by about $5 billion due to the new U.S. tax law signed by President Donald Trump last week.
Stocks cheer $9 trillion year, downer for the dollar
LONDON/SYDNEY (Reuters) – Markets were ending 2017 in a party mood on Friday after a year in which a concerted pick-up in global growth boosted corporate profits and commodity prices, while benign inflation kept central banks from snatching away the mo…
South Korea students dive into virtual coins, even as regulators crack down
SEOUL (Reuters) – Hackers have stolen millions, lawmakers are pushing for new taxes and regulations, and a leading financial official has called them a “Ponzi scheme”.
