Gold turns higher on Wednesday, giving up earlier weakness as prices look to tally a fifth consecutive climb, extending their rise to their highest level in four months as U.S. benchmark stock indexes declined ahead of minutes from the Federal Reserve’s April meeting.
Nikola Corp. disclosed Wednesday that it granted stock awards to executives in 2020 with a combined value of about $567 million, intended as an “incentive for future performance.”
U.S. stocks on Wednesday head for a third straight loss as fears of inflation weigh on Wall Street sentiment. Investors will watch for minutes from the Federal Reserve’s most recent policy meeting for clues on how the central bank will address evidence of pricing pressures building in the economy, which it has so far described as transitory.
Oxford Cannabinoid Technologies, the pharmaceutical company developing cannabinoid-based prescription medicines, has announced plans to list on the London Stock Exchange.
The Bank of America global fund manager survey for May found that investors were increasingly positioned to what it called “boom expectations” — with exposure to commodities, banks, materials, industrials, and U.K. and emerging market assets at highs relative to the last decade.
The FBI is investigating whether a U.S. defense contractor unlawfully directed money to support Sen. Susan Collins, according to a search warrant recently unsealed in federal court.
‘There will certainly be some controversy about this,’ one divorce attorney said after the FDA cleared the way for using the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine on 12 to 15-year-olds.
Fossil fuel companies may become increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks over the next decade, as investors turn away from traditional energy producers in favor of renewables, according to John LaForge, head of real asset strategy at Wells Fargo Investment Institute.
Lollapalooza, one of the U.S.’s largest annual multiday music festivals, is set to return to full strength in late July after a nearly two-year hiatus.
Kyle Bass, chief investment officer of Hayman Capital Management, says that the biggest threat to the West is the advent of the digital yuan, which he has described as a Trojan Horse that could undermine Western developed countries.