Oil Futures Settle Higher For 8th Day As Inventories Drop Crude oil prices continued to move higher on Wednesday and the most active crude futures contracts extended their gain to an 8th straight session, after data showed a drop in U.S. crude inventories. Crude oil prices have been surging higher in recent sessions following OPEC’s […]
Watch live: New York's Cuomo holds a briefing on Covid pandemic with Biden's equity task force [The stream is slated to start at 11:45 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is scheduled to hold a press briefing Wednesday on the coronavirus pandemic alongside […]
Sensex, Nifty end marginally lower after choppy trade HDFC Bank, Bharti Airtel, Axis Bank, Nestle India, ONGC, L&T and SBI and were among the laggards in the Sensex pack. Equity benchmarks Sensex and Nifty ended marginally lower after a choppy session on Wednesday amid profit-taking in recent gainers, despite a largely positive trend in global […]
Treasury yields flat ahead of Fed chair speech Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is expected to speak at 2 p.m. ET Wednesday. The U.S. government's 2021 full-year budget plan is due out at 12:30 p.m. ET. U.S. Treasury yields made little movement on Wednesday morning, with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell expected to make a […]
GOP Lawmaker Urges Senate Republicans To Convict Trump In Powerful Op-Ed Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) is calling on his Senate counterparts to convict former President Donald Trump as the impeachment trial begins. “Convicting Donald Trump is necessary to save America from going further down a sad, dangerous road,” Kinzinger, one of 10 Republicans who crossed party […]
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Container Store’s stock tumbles as biggest investor downsizes stake More On: retailers A little help from my friend: McCartney pitches pal for JCPenney CEO gig Toys ‘R’ Us comeback effort squeezed by the pandemic Tiffany’s lineup set for a major overhaul under new owner LVMH Discount retailers are pandemic winners, as big chains shutter Container […]
‘Grandstanding’ Josh Hawley’s Super Bowl Tweet Spectacularly Backfires Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is being blamed for jinxing his team after he tweeted in support of the Kansas City Chiefs, who then lost on Sunday in Super Bowl LV to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 31-9. Hawley led the effort by some Republicans in the Senate to […]
Person dies in water incident at Whangamatā A person has died after getting into trouble in the water in Whangamatā. Emergency services were called to the south end of the beach, near the Otahu River, just before 5pm today. Initial reports were that someone was in trouble in the water, a police spokesperson said. St […]
PRESENTING: 10 tech companies helping to keep Amazon Web Services cloud costs under control Amazon Web Services offers computing power and storage across the globe. But without centralized management, businesses can quickly find themselves running up big bills or creating “cloud sprawl.” The pandemic, with companies relying on remote operations served up by the cloud, […]