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Provided by Dow Jones By Caitlin Ostroff U.S. stock futures climbed Monday, suggesting that the major benchmarks will recover some ground following their worst week since October. Silver prices soared. Futures tied to the S&P 500 rose 1%, indicating that broader index may recover some ground after U.S. stocks posted their worst week since October. Contracts linked to the tech-heavy Nasdaq-100 advanced 1.1%, and those tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained...

Provided by Dow Jones By Caitlin Ostroff U.S. stock futures climbed Monday, suggesting that the major benchmarks will recover some ground following their worst week since October. Silver prices soared. Futures tied to the S&P 500 rose 0.9%. Contracts linked to the tech-heavy Nasdaq-100 advanced 1%, and those tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.7%. The Cboe Volatility Index, a gauge of stress in the U.S. stock market, declined almost 5% on Monda...

Provided by Dow Jones By Caitlin Ostroff and Paul Vigna U.S. stocks rose Monday, with major benchmarks recovering some ground following their worst week since October and the online day-trading crowd setting its sights on the silver market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.4% to 30095, the S&P 500 gained 0.9% and the Nasdaq Composite climbed 1.4%. Stocks had a rocky January, both setting records and getting roiled by day traders using Reddit and socia...

Major Stock Indexes Climb More Than 1% 02/01/2021 | 04:29pm EDT Send by mail : Message : By Caitlin Ostroff and Paul Vigna U.S. stocks rebounded Monday, with major benchmarks recovering some ground following their worst week since October and the online day-trading crowd setting its sights on the silver market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1% to 30283, the S&P 500 gained 1.7% and the Nasdaq Composite climbed 2.5%. The gains put the S&P 500 on track to move back into positiv...

Provided by Dow Jones By Caitlin Ostroff U.S. stocks climbed in early trading Monday, suggesting that the major benchmarks will recover some ground following their worst week since October. The S&P 500 rose 1.1%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index advanced 1.3%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.9%. Meanwhile, silver prices soared. The Cboe Volatility Index, a gauge of stress in the U.S. stock market, declined over 5% on Monday. But it remains...

By Sam Goldfarb and Joanne Chiu The yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note rose above 1% for the first time since March on Wednesday, reflecting increased bets on additional fiscal...

By Sam Goldfarb and Joanne Chiu The yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note rose above 1% for the first time since March, after returns from Georgias closely watched runoff...

Pound Advances as Britain and EU Reach Outline of Brexit Pact Bloomberg 12/24/2020 William Shaw, Vassilis Karamanis and James Hirai (Bloomberg) -- A trading deal the City of London has sweated over for almost half a decade looks like it’s finally here -- eliciting a cheer across U.K. assets. With Britain forging the blueprint of a deal with the European Union, the pound rose 0.5% to $1.3562 in Asian trading Thursday after advancing 1% the previous session. The yield on 10-ye...

Concerns about a new strain of coronavirus in the U.K. drove the British pound to its biggest loss since March, though the currency pared much of the loss after Prime Minister Boris Johnson made another offer to salvage Brexit talks. Sterling tumbled 2.5% to as low as $1.3188 before recovering most of that in New York afternoon, down only 0.4% to $1.3475 as of 3:25 p.m. Investors were spooked earlier as another Brexit deadline went past without results and Britain’s biggest port in Dover st...

Pound Whipsawed by Virus Concerns, Relief on Brexit-Talks Offer Bloomberg 12/21/2020 Michael G. Wilson, Jill Ward and William Shaw (Bloomberg) -- The British pound slumped the most since March on concerns about a new strain of coronavirus in the U.K., then pared much of the decline as Prime Minister Boris Johnson made another offer to salvage Brexit talks. Popular Searches Sterling tumbled as much as 2.5% to $1.3188 before recovering most of that in New York afternoon, down on...