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NEW YORK: Stock indexes on Wall Street ended with meager gains Tuesday, as a late-afternoon rally led by technology companies stemmed the market's losses after an early slump. The S&P eked out a gain of 0.2% after having been down…

The S&P 500 ended slightly higher on Tuesday as investors kept their focus on the growth trajectory of the U.S. economy, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq closed higher while the Dow slipped. U.S. stocks have been under relentless selling…

NEW YORK - Concerns about a possible U.S. recession are prompting some fund managers to rotate back into the big tech and growth winners of the last decade in the hope that they can better weather an economic storm. Many stalwarts like…

The U.S. stock market is reeling from its worst first half of any year since 1970, with investors girding for a series of potential flashpoints in July that may set Wall Street's course for the coming months. Second-quarter corporate…

The Reserve Bank of India is keeping an eye on the rupee, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Friday amid a ballooning trade gap which is posing new risks for the currency. Sitharaman's comments on a day when the Centre…

Global risk assets were at the epicenter of a selling spree Friday as investors kicked off the second half of the year with recession concern front and center. Stocks and equity futures from Japan to the US tumbled, extending their…

The US economy is likely to slow in 2022 and 2023 but will “narrowly avoid a recession” as the Federal Reserve implements its rate-tightening plan to curb inflation, the International Monetary Fund said. “The policy priority now must be…

Options insurance. Hedging with Treasuries. Using sentiment to pick a bottom. The things that have lessened the pain of past equity selloffs are coming up short this time around. Case in point this week, with its forceful pivot from…

NEW YORK: With U.S stocks on track to mark their worst first half of the year in more than 50 years, investors are studying a range of metrics to determine whether the coming months could bring relief, or more of the same. By any…

A pair of U.S. central bankers said on Friday they supported further sharp interest rate hikes to stem rapid price rises, even as investors cheered economic data showing inflation expectations to be less worrisome than initially feared.…