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Benzinga examined the prospects for many investors' favorite stocks over the last week — here's a look at some of our top stories. ....
Benzinga examined the prospects for many investors' favorite stocks over the last week — here's a look at some of our top stories. ....
Message : Required fields (Reuters) - Banks and industrial stocks weighed on London s FTSE 100 on Friday, while airline stocks came under pressure as Britain tightened travel restrictions again. The blue-chip FTSE 100 index edged 0.1% lower, with HSBC, Prudential, Barclays and Lloyds banking group down between 0.7% and 1.2% after weaker than expected U.S. jobs data pushed bond yields lower. Miners, including Anglo American, BHP Group and Rio Tinto offered the biggest support. British airways owner IAG lost 0.9% after Britain removed Portugal from its quarantine-free travel list and added seven more countries to its red list. Other airlines including Ryanair Holdings, Wizz Air and EasyJet fell between 1% and 2.6%. ....
CANADA STOCKS-TSX scales record high as energy, gold stocks gain Reuters 1 hr ago Popular Searches The energy sector climbed 1.1% as U.S. crude rose 1.2%, while Brent crude added 1.1%. The materials sector, which includes precious and base metals miners and fertilizer companies, added 1.4% as gold futures rose 0.6% to $1,883.2 an ounce. At 09:37 a.m. ET (13:37 GMT), the Toronto Stock Exchange s S&P/TSX composite index was up 82.52 points, or 0.41%, at 20,023.91. Canada lost 68,000 jobs in May, more than the average analyst prediction for a loss of 20,000. The unemployment rate climbed to 8.2%, Statistics Canada data showed. A year into the pandemic, Canada s national statistics agency is updating how it measures inflation, using new types of data for the first time on bets that lockdown spending shifts will prevail. ....
CANADA STOCKS-TSX opens higher as energy, material stocks gain Reuters 1 hr ago June 4 (Reuters) - Canada s main stock index rose at open on Friday, driven by gains in energy and gold stocks as underlying commodity prices gained, while more-than-expected jobs were lost in May due to the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns. At 09:31 a.m. ET (13:31 GMT), the Toronto Stock Exchange s S&P/TSX composite index was up 108.06 points, or 0.54%, at 20,049.45. (Reporting by Shivani Kumaresan in Bengaluru; Editing by Vinay Dwivedi) ....