Yahoo Finance Utility Stocks Are the Market’s Best Sector. What’s Driving Them Higher.
The sector’s outstanding performance is largely driven by a handful of firm, all of which have strong AI stories.
The sector’s outstanding performance is largely driven by a handful of firm, all of which have strong AI stories.
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The small business laid bare just how much customers were paying in card surcharges.
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The Reserve Bank of Australia will hold its key policy rate for a fifth straight meeting on Tuesday over persistent price pressures, according to all economists polled by Reuters, a majority of whom expected the first cut to come in the last quarter of the year. The central bank recently noted an interest rate hike might be needed if inflation stayed stubbornly high. All but one economist in a June 7-13 poll expect the RBA's next move to be a cut.
Clawback After firing a number of Twitter staff in Australia, the platform's new owner Elon Musk is threatening to take them to court, demanding to claw back payments after claiming the company had overpaid them. Twitter, which Musk has since renamed to X, fired much of its remaining staff stationed in Australia in January 2023. […]
The multi-billionaire had campaigned for the payout, which is worth up to $56bn.
Keith Gill, the stock influencer known as Roaring Kitty, updated his holding of GameStop on Thursday to show he now owns 9 million shares of the company, up from 5 million at the start of the week. Gill's update, posted on Reddit after the close of trading, showed the value of his position at $262.1 million. Gill who helped launch the meme-stock phenomenon in 2021, recently disclosed a sizeable GameStop stock and options position in a screen shot posted on Reddit on June 2.
A tough new raft of U.S. sanctions sent jitters rippling through the Russian financial system Thursday and forced Moscow’s main financial trading platform to halt dollar and euro transactions, further raising the cost of President Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine. The sharp escalation in sanctions by the Treasury Department prompted former Russian president and prime minister Dmitry Medvedev, now a senior security official, to call on the population to “inflict maximum harm” on Western socie
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Shanghai Technology Exchange (STEX), China's first permanent market for trading intellectual property rights to technologies, plans to open a Hong Kong branch, as the nation searches for ways to help domestic companies access global knowledge. The outpost is expected to open next year, enabling Chinese firms to buy technologies from overseas entities and raise funds, STEX chairman Xie Jihua told the South China Morning Post during a media briefing in Shanghai on Thursday. It marks the latest eff
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One major Aussie bank has made a major call on when the next rate cut will kick in – and it’s not all good news.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) -Oil futures prices settled slightly lower on Friday after a survey showed deteriorating U.S. consumer sentiment, but prices rose 4% for the week as investors weighed forecasts for solid demand for crude oil and fuel in 2024. Brent crude futures settled down 13 cents at $82.62 a barrel, while West Texas Intermediate (WTI) U.S. crude futures were down 17 cents at $78.54. Both benchmarks slipped after a survey showed U.S. consumer sentiment weakened in June to a seven-month low.