Stock Market
By Maheen Hernandez
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Oil Prices Keep Everyone Nervous. Brent crude hit $85 per barrel Thursday, and that's got currency desks sweating.
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Corporate Giants Watch and Wait. Big companies with Middle East exposure are sweating bullets right now.
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Global Players Sound Alarms. IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned Wednesday about potential economic fallout from…
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The greenback holds steady Thursday while traders sweat over the shaky US-Iran ceasefire deal that nobody really trusts yet.
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Currency traders are basically frozen right now. The dollar index sits at 102.23, which sounds precise but really just means everyone's waiting for someone else to make the first…
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Brent crude hit $85 per barrel Thursday, and that's got currency desks sweating. Energy prices mess with everything in forex land, especially when the Middle East is involved.
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The ceasefire agreement happened earlier this week, but it's pretty much a Band-Aid on a bullet wound.
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Gold jumped to $1,975 per ounce Thursday, which tells you everything about how confident traders feel.
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Fed Chair Jerome Powell hasn't said much about potential policy shifts, but traders are watching his every move anyway.
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Big companies with Middle East exposure are sweating bullets right now. ExxonMobil and Boeing have serious operations in the region, and prolonged instability could hammer their…
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Treasury yields stayed pretty calm at 1.85% for the 10-year note. Bond traders are playing it safe, parking money in government paper while they figure out what comes next.
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Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said Thursday his central bank is "closely monitoring international developments.
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Wall Street opened lower Thursday with the S&P 500 dropping 0.3% in early trading. Chevron and Raytheon stocks got hit particularly hard since they've got skin in the Middle…
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European Central Bank minutes from Wednesday showed officials are worried about "external risks," which is diplomat-speak for the Iran situation.
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Copper prices ticked up to $4.05 per pound Thursday, partly because traders worry about supply disruptions.
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