Market Volatility & Central Bank Signals Fed in Focus: Global markets seesawed as investors braced for a pivotal speech by U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell at Jackson Hole. On Thursday, Wall Street’s main indexes fell (S&P 500 down 0.4%, Dow and Nasdaq off 0.34%) amid fears of hawkish Fed remarks, with traders scaling back…
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Markets & Finance (U.S., Europe & Global) Tech Selloff and Fed Jitters: U.S. stocks swung lower on August 19 as a tech-led slide dragged the Nasdaq down about 1.5% (S&P 500 -0.6%), even as the Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly touched a record high reuters.com reuters.com. High-flying AI names like Nvidia plunged, weighing on growth…
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Finance & Markets Technology & Telecom Energy & Commodities Retail & Consumer Real Estate & Property Automotive & Transportation Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals Sources: Key stories were drawn from Reuters unless otherwise noted. Reuters provided detailed reporting on financial markets reuters.com reuters.com, corporate deals reuters.com reuters.com, energy prices reuters.com reuters.com, retail shifts reuters.com reuters.com, property sector…
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Finance and Stock Markets Global markets surged to new milestones by mid-August. On Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit an all-time intraday high, becoming the last of the big three U.S. indexes to join 2025’s record-setting rally reuters.com. It briefly surpassed its previous peak (45,073 from December) as blue-chip stocks caught up with earlier…
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Markets & Economy: Stocks Rally on Rate Cut Hopes Global markets surged in mid-August as investors bet on imminent central bank easing. In the U.S., the S&P 500 and Nasdaq hit new record closing highs on August 13, buoyed by growing confidence that the Federal Reserve was nearing a rate-cut cycle reuters.com. The Dow Jones…
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Finance & Markets – Stocks Waver as Tariffs Bite and Rate Cuts Loom Equities: Global stocks seesawed amid trade and geopolitical crosswinds. On Aug 7, Wall Street’s Dow Jones and S&P 500 slipped (-0.5% and -0.1% respectively) as pharma giant Eli Lilly plunged 14% on disappointing weight-loss drug data reuters.com reuters.com. The Nasdaq Composite inched…
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Electric vehicles (EVs) are entering 2025 with unprecedented momentum, driven by falling battery costs and rapid advances in battery technology. EV sales are surging globally, and behind this growth is a rapidly evolving battery market that is reshaping the automotive industry’s competitive dynamics batterytechonline.com. This report provides an accessible yet detailed overview of the state…
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Blue Origin is a private aerospace company founded by Jeff Bezos in 2000, with a mission to enable commercial human space travel. Its New Shepard suborbital rocket has been conducting crewed tourist flights since 2021, and its New Glenn heavy orbital rocket made its first successful launch in January 2025 en.wikipedia.org. These activities have generated…
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