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KEEPING SCORE: The Shanghai Composite Index rose 1.1 percent to 3,137.62 and Tokyo's Nikkei 225 gained 0.1 percent to 19,996.94. Sydney's S&P-ASX 200 advanced 0.1 percent to 5,675.40 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng was unchanged at 25,988.32.
Also on Thursday, James Comey, former head of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, is due to appear before a Senate committee for the first time. Comey was fired by President Donald Trump in May while leading a probe into alleged Russian meddling in last year's U.S. election.
The two most widely followed gun makers are Sturm Ruger and American Outdoor Brands , which was formerly Smith & Wesson. Through much of President Obama's two terms, these stocks went gang-busters.
Shares of MoneyGram International, Northern Dynasty Minerals, and Applied Optoelectronics produced big gains in the past 12 months, but for very different reasons. The real question is, which ones are sustainable? No smart investor should consciously bet on a company in hopes of doubling their investment within a year: Your plan should be to treat the stock market as a long-term game, because anything can happen in the short run.
It's always easy to blame what's happening in financial markets on the biggest headline of the day. Yes, a 373-point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average is attention-grabbing.
Stocks fell sharply Wednesday following reports of a memo from former FBI Director James Comey that says Trump asked him to stop the investigation of former national security adviser Michael Flynn. A key measure of market volatility also spiked.
The stock market on Wednesday took its biggest dive since before President Donald Trump's election, as investors began to grapple with the increasing possibility that Washington would be consumed with chaos and fail to enact policies to boost the economy. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 368 points, or 1.8 percent to 20,611, as a broad array of other indexes all lost ground.
Current commentary and analysis focus on the dangerous disconnect between somnolent markets and a plethora of risks confronting international investors and traders Another week, another flurry of news articles and investment research reports warning of the risks posed by historically low levels of volatility in financial markets. Since the end of April, the Vix index, Wall Street's so-called "fear gauge" that measures the expected volatility in US equity markets, has remained below 11 points and currently stands close to a 23-year low.
Trump's Washington woes wear on, there's risk-off in China, and it's another big weekend for Angela Merkel. Here are some of the things people in markets are talking about today. President Donald Trump did little to quell the controversy over the sacking of FBI director James Comey when he said in an interview with NBC News that he would have fired him no matter the recommendation of the Justice Department. Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, in testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that Comey "enjoyed broad support in the FBI and still does to this day," contradicting White House claims that the sacked director had lost the confidence of the organization.
The Dow and S&P are trudging toward ending with losses for the week, as "Trump to Comey: You're fired!" remains the news story that keeps on giving. The sad-sack retail sector is still getting attention as well.
PIC: All eyes will be on Wall Street's reopening to gauge US reaction to Trump's bombshell announcement. World stock markets and the dollar wobbled on Wednesday, shaken by overnight news that US President Donald Trump has fired FBI director James Comey.
Stock indexes wobbled between modest gains and losses Wednesday, as the White House unveiled broad outlines of its plan to slash tax rates but left many of the details to be determined. Anticipation for a big tax cut, along with looser regulations on businesses, have been two of the main drivers behind the stock market's surge since November, when Republicans swept into Washington.
In a symbolic move, French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has stepped aside as leader of the far-right National Front party. Ms Le Pen told French TV she needed to be above partisan considerations but the French term she used signalled that the move to step aside would be temporary.
For real-time odds on the stock market's faith in President Donald Trump, look no further than recent weakness in industries most closely tied to his proposed policies: banks, builders, and retailers. We're nearly 100 days into Trump's presidency, and the campaign promises of infrastructure spending, tighter restrictions on trade, and lower taxes have yet to materialize.
Advocate staff photo by BILL FEIG -- Azalea bloom in the Capital Gardens in front of the State Capital Building on the first day of the regular legislative session which convened at noon. Gov. John Bel Edwards addressed the joint session at 1:00 for the State of the State.
Let me just be clear: I'm not entirely sure there's a compelling case to be made for anything other than a "muddle through" scenario for risk assets at this juncture. It kind of seems like markets were too efficient in terms of pricing in the upside scenario and decidedly inefficient when it came to pricing in any possible downside.
High U.S. share prices are pushing Lipper Award-winning equity fund managers into the shares of beaten-down healthcare companies, retailers and emerging-market stocks that they say offer a greater chance for outsized gains. Fund managers from Poplar Forest, Parnassus Investments and Brandes Investment Partners are among the 2017 Lipper Award winners who are concerned about the high valuation of the benchmark S&P 500 index.
NEW YORK, March 23 U.S. 30-year mortgage rates fell from 11-week highs as Treasury yields decreased in the wake of indications by the Federal Reserve last week that it will remain on a gradual path to raising interest rates, according to mortgage finance agency Freddie Mac on Thursday. The borrowing cost on 30-year mortgages, the most widely held type of U.S. home loan, averaged 4.23 percent in the week ended March 23. This compared with the prior week's 4.30 percent which was the highest since 4.32 percent in the week ended Dec. 29, it said.
By Sindhu Chandrasekaran March 23 Southeast Asian stock markets rose in line with Asian peers on Thursday, reversing the previous session's losses on cues from Wall Street which ended mixed overnight with an upside bias. The Nasdaq gained 0.5 percent and the S&P 500 closed 0.2 percent higher, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average was flat, after all three touched their lowest in about five weeks earlier in the session.