Some big institutional investors are pivoting from the AI chipmaker toward the world’s top cryptocurrency. Many billionaire investors loaded up on Nvidia’s (NVDA 3.10%) stock as it soared over the past few years. That wasn’t surprising, since its soaring sales of artificial intelligence (AI)-oriented data center GPUs turned it into one of the market’s hottest […]
China left its benchmark lending rates unchanged Monday, as Beijing contends with a weakening yuan while awaiting policy clues from the incoming Donald Trump administration. The People’s Bank of China held the 1-year loan prime rate at 3.1%, and the 5-year LPR at 3.6%, according to the PBOC statement. The 1-year LPR determines rates on […]
Mortgage rates topped 7% this week, a key psychological threshold, in a sign of the US housing market’s unrelenting affordability challenges. The average rate on a standard, 30-year fixed mortgage was 7.04% in the week ending January 16, according to a survey of lenders released Thursday by Freddie Mac. It’s the fifth consecutive weekly increase […]
U.S. manufacturing output surged in December likely as production at Boeing picked up following the end of a crippling strike by factory workers at the aerospace giant. Factory output increased 0.6% last month after an upwardly revised 0.4% rebound in November, the Federal Reserve said on Friday. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast production rising […]
Asset management giant Vanguard has agreed to pay more than $100 million to settle charges related to disclosures around target date investment funds, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced Friday. The alleged violations stem from a 2020 change where Vanguard lowered the minimum investment requirement for its institutional target date funds. The SEC order found that the […]
Wall Street closed higher on Friday, pushing stocks to their first weekly advance this year, ahead of Donald Trump’s return to the White House. President-elect Trump’s inauguration is Monday, and his first days are expected to be filled with a flurry of executive orders. “Reports suggest 100 or more,” wrote Morgan Stanley analysts in a […]
LONDON — Traders bet on more Bank of England rate cuts this year after weak retail sales data added to the latest in a run of data surprises this week. Sales volumes fell 0.3% month-on-month in December, the Office for National Statistics said Friday, versus the 0.4% increase forecast in a Reuters poll of economists. […]
China’s economy grew 5% last year, matching the government’s target, but in a lopsided fashion, with many people complaining of worsening living standards as Beijing struggles to transfer its industrial and export gains to consumers. The imbalance raises concerns that structural problems may deepen in 2025, when China plans a similar growth performance by going […]
US stocks surged higher Wednesday after an encouraging inflation report and blockbuster profits for some of America’s biggest banks. The Dow surged 703 points, or 1.65%, to close at 43,222. The S&P 500 rose 1.83% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite ended the day higher by 2.45%. The closing bell concluded a rally on Wall Street […]
A marginal dip in the headline rate of inflation would not normally determine much, if anything. Inflation rising at 2.5% rather than 2.6% does not change much in big economics, nor in the cost of living squeeze felt by households. The fall is entirely accounted for by falls in hotel prices and a smaller-than-usual rise […]
Garanti BBVA has added a new innovative solution to its range of digital banking products by launching a used vehicle digital loan available via mobile banking, making it the first of its kind in Türkiye. With this online loan, customers need only enter the required information, without the hassle of having to sign a loan […]
US markets wrapped up a blockbuster 2024 by marking an achievement so rare that it’s only ever happened a handful of times. Despite US stocks closing lower Tuesday in a disappointing December that saw the Dow drop over 2,000 points, or about 5%, and the S&P 500 slide 2.5%, this was a stellar year for […]
