Blue tungsten winking from the walls of abandoned mine shafts, in a town that’s seen better days, could be a catalyst for South Korea’s bid to break China’s dominance of critical minerals and stake its claim to the raw materials of the future. The mine in Sangdong, 180 km southeast of Seoul, is being brought […]
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The S&P 500 ended below 4,000 for the first time since late March 2021 and the Nasdaq dropped more than 4 percent on Monday in a selloff led by mega-cap growth shares as investors grew more concerned about rising interest rates. The Nasdaq closed at its lowest level since November 2020. Apple shares dropped 3.3 […]
Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp is set to report a bruising loss at its Vision Fund investment unit on Thursday, analysts said, after investors sold off the high-growth stocks favoured by the fund with questions about their earnings potential. With the technology investor poised to post full-year earnings, comments from founder and Chief Executive Masayoshi Son […]
A massive two-day swing in U.S. stocks highlights a trend that some market participants believe will be a hallmark for months to come: intense volatility. The S&P 500 index dropped 3.6 percent on Thursday, a day after racing 3.0 percent higher on the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy statement. Over the last five sessions, the index […]
Wall Street’s main indexes closed a seesaw session higher on Monday, as investors bought in to technology names in the last hour of trading amid bets they had been overly beaten down ahead of this week’s Federal Reserve meeting. The gathering of U.S. central bank policymakers is widely expected to raise interest rates by half […]
Chipmaker Intel Corp forecast second-quarter revenue and profit below Wall Street expectations on Thursday on worries of weak demand in its largest market, PCs, and increased supply-chain uncertainty due to COVID-19 lockdowns in China. Shares of the company fell 5 percent in after-market trading. Rising inflation, resurgence of COVID-19 in China and uncertainties around the […]
Shares in Robinhood Markets Inc, the brokerage at the center of last year’s retail trading frenzy, slipped to a record low on Thursday after it posted a 43 percent fall in first-quarter revenue and a decline in monthly active users. Shares of the Menlo Park, California-based firm dropped more than 12 percent to $8.83 in […]
Wall Street ended sharply higher on Thursday after a strong quarterly report from Meta Platforms lifted beaten down technology and growth stocks and offset worries about the U.S. economy’s contraction in the first quarter. The Facebook parent surged 17.6 percent after the social network reported a larger-than-expected profit and rebounded from a drop in users. […]
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Thursday it expects firm data centre demand for high-margin memory chips to continue in the second half, but warned component shortages will likely persist as well. The world’s top memory chip and smartphone maker said underlying server chip demand appears “relatively solid” as companies boost investments and look to […]
Newcomers to the crypto and NFT space often overestimate how complicated it is to participate in the buying, selling, and trading of cryptographic tokens. Although each investment is unique, the basics of investing are usually the same. Whether it’s a piece of art, stocks, cryptocurrency, or buying an NFT for the first time, you need […]