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The Canadian dollar strengthened against its U.S. counterpart on Friday as oil prices climbed and domestic jobs data supported an earlier start to Bank of Canada rate hikes.

The Canadian dollar weakened against its U.S. counterpart on Friday as investors took advantage of a jump in the currency after stronger-than-expected domestic jobs data to add to bearish bets, with the loonie extending this week's decline.

Sometimes a deal’s harshest criticism is its best defense. Such is the case for chipmaker Nvidia’s attempt to buy Arm, an acquisition the U.S. Federal Trade Commission is now suing to block. The inflating price of the largely stock-based deal has significantly undermined the financial logic . The regulator’s lawsuit, however, provides a useful reminder of the strategic rationale for owning the so-called Switzerland of semiconductors.

Speculators' net long positioning on the U.S. dollar in the latest week soared to its highest level since mid-June 2019, according to calculations by Reuters and U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data released on Friday.

Latin American stocks rose on Friday and were set for strong weekly gains as they recovered from a virus-driven selloff, while Mexico's peso was the best performing emerging market currency this week as it bounced back from a 14-month low.

Democrats to move up to attack the president. we saw this yesterday as republicans attacked the president over the vaccine mandate, yet eeg never some cases with the case of rep active marjorie taylor greene to shut down the government over this vaccine mandate. they see this as an opportunity to contrast with the president and say they are against these mandates and take these tough votes for democrats in some cases like senator joe manchin who had to -- you know, who voted with the republicans...

U.S. crude stocks fell while gasoline and distillate inventories rose as demand weakened in the most recent week, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said on Wednesday.

Love them or hate them, college entrance exams are unavoidable for most college-bound students.

In stark contrast to crude oil, natural gas appears to be largely immune to the potential impact of the new Omicron coronavirus variant, with prices in all three major regions trading more on expectations around winter supply and demand.

China, the world's largest aluminium producer, is still running short of primary metal.