Boeing stock continued to fly higher Thursday as markets digested the aerospace company’s $10 billion debt sale. Thursday’s jump follows the company’s update Wednesday, when Boeing said it finalized its $10 billion debt offering. Before Wednesday, investors couldn’t be sure what Boeing would pay for debt capital.
The mystery is over: Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway disclosed a major stake in the insurance company Chubb, finally revealing the investment he has kept under wraps since last year.
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The chorus of voices warning about the dangers of record US government debt is growing louder.
ZURICH (Reuters) -Siemens reported on Thursday a drop in second-quarter earnings at its industrial business, as China maintained its trend of destocking longer than previously expected. Although Siemens expects an improvement in coming months, it was likely to come more slowly than previously thought, Chief Executive Roland Busch said. "A key reason is the muted development in China," he told reporters.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average, a laggard among the major U.S. stock indexes this year, got its moment in the spotlight on Thursday as it briefly broke above 40,000 points for the first time in its history.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average is, at best, an imperfect barometer of stock market activity among a narrow band of very large US companies. It’s clunky, and too limited in scope for any Wall Street pros to pay serious attention to it.
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The dollar found a footing on Thursday after falling sharply on Wednesday on the back of data showing a slowdown in U.S. inflation, while Japan's yen inched higher after jumping the previous day. Year-on-year core inflation - which strips out volatile food and energy prices - fell to its lowest in three years at 3.6%. Some analysts said Fed officials will want to see proof of inflation's downward path before countenancing cuts, a point made by Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari on Wednesday.
Asian stock markets rallied on Thursday, buoyed by Wall Street's surge to all-time peaks overnight after a milder U.S. inflation report raised expectations the Federal Reserve will deliver two interest rate cuts this year. U.S. Treasury yields extended their retreat in Tokyo trading, sinking to six-week troughs. U.S. data on Wednesday showed the consumer price index (CPI) rose by 0.3% in April, below an expected 0.4% gain, raising hopes the Fed can cut rates by 50 basis points this year, with the first quarter-point reduction fully priced for September.
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