Friday, 4 September 2026
Global markets, trading & world business — for professional traders
The war in Iran and jump in oil prices represent a risk to traditional balanced portfolios, even as losses have so far been limited, according to Goldman Sachs Research. To build more robust portfolios, our strategists …
Dismissed as “not a product guy,” the outgoing CEO proved that supply-chain mastery could take Apple to new heights.
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Retiring abroad continues to be an attractive option for those looking to make the most of their money, without compromising on comfort or lifestyle. And with the Annual Global Retirement Index, you have the power to ch…
Silicon Valley's technology leaders have long dreamed of making the world a better place. But now more than ever, Americans say they're living in a tech-induced nightmare.
While investors may think of Alphabet (GOOG +1.53%) (GOOGL +1.74%) as an artificial intelligence (AI) stock, Space Exploration Technologies (SPCX +0.45%) could also be considered one as well. SpaceX has a quickly growin…
OpenAI will cut SpaceX-owned Cursor’s model access in November, citing Musk’s history of broken contracts.
October NY world sugar #11 (SBV26) is down -0.64 (-3.52%) today, and October London ICE white sugar #5 (SWV26) is down -13.20 (-2.52%).
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has cleared another key stage in the push toward next-generation mobile memory: industry sources reported August 1 that the Hefei-based chipmaker's first LPDDR6 chip, designed to run …
Meta's watershed social media trial just wrapped up in California, but now attention is shifting to the wider industry with TikTok, YouTube and Snap next on the firing line.
Corn futures held onto the Friday gains into the close, with contracts settling 1 to 4 cents higher. September rallied 28 ¼ cents on the week, with December 28 cents. The CmdtyView national average Cash Corn price was b…
Soybeans posted 14 to 30 cent gains across most contracts on the Friday session. September was up 51 ¼ cents on the week, as November rallied 48 ½ cents. The cmdtyView national average Cash Bean price was up 20 1/2 cent…
Live cattle futures faced weakness on Friday, with contracts down 45 cents to $1.30, as October fell $6.20 on the week. Cash trade picked up later on Friday with $222 sales surfacing across the country. The Friday morni…
The U.S. struck a deal with Venezuela to get majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of oil reserves as the war with Iran roils the global crude trade, President Donald Trump announced Friday.
Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. (ARQT) received a notice under Rule 144 that Terrie Curran intends to sell restricted common stock through Merrill Lynch. The notice covers 38,200 shares of common stock with an aggregate m…
ALEXI HOROWITZ-GHAZI: On Wall Street, fortunes are often won and lost with the tiniest advantages. Like, can your firm find some brilliant trading strategy in some corner of the global market? Or can you keep it a secre…
The dollar index (DXY00) rallied to a 2-week high on Friday and finished up by +0.61%. The dollar jumped on Friday on hawkish comments from Fed Chair Warsh, who warned inflation isn’t meaningfully slowing and vowed that…
Lean hog futures were 90 cents to $1.27 higher to close Friday, with October up $1.02 on the week, led by the Friday strength. USDA’s national base hog price was at $89.57 in the Friday PM report, down 19 cents from the…
If Federal Reserve chair Kevin Warsh wanted to put the bond market on alert, he certainly got his wish Friday: odds of an interest-rate hike by the central bank in its September meeting jumped to nearly 60 percent after…
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX) (SPY) closed down by -0.25% on Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI) (DIA) closed down by -0.02%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX) (QQQ) closed down by -0.70%. E-mini S&P futures (ESU…
Microsoft’s software offers capabilities that will be critical for AI, one analyst notes.
Corn and wheat prices have surged to their highest levels in more than three years. But the forces driving recent rallies for these two crops are notably different.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent unleashed a scathing personal attack on Sen. Elizabeth Warren Friday, accusing the Massachusetts Democrat of misunderstanding foreign exchange markets while leaving several of her questi…