All posts tagged "yen"

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  Stocks end mostly lower in quiet trade; oil prices decline

  NEW YORK – Stocks closed slightly lower in quiet trading Monday after drifting most of the day between gains and losses. Energy companies fell along with the price of oil while biotechnology and drug companies rose after...

  • Posted August 22, 2016
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  US Stocks Slip from Records as Investors Sell Safe Picks

  NEW YORK – U.S. stocks slid Tuesday as investors continued to sell phone company and utility shares. Energy companies rose with the price of oil, but stocks have been locked in an up-and-down pattern for more than...

  • Posted August 16, 2016
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  US stock indexes close slightly lower; oil rises

  A mostly listless day of trading left U.S. stock indexes little changed Monday, hovering just below the record highs they set late last week. Drug company and consumer-focused stocks weighed on the market, while energy companies surged,...

  • Posted August 8, 2016
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  US stocks rise to record highs after strong jobs report

  NEW YORK – U.S. stocks jumped to record highs Friday after a strong jobs report for the month of July gave investors more confidence that the economy is still growing. Financial and technology stocks soared and investors...

  • Posted August 5, 2016
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  US stocks take biggest losses in nearly a month

  NEW YORK – U.S. stocks took their biggest loss in almost a month on Tuesday as investors worried about the health of the U.S. economy and sold shares in retailers and car companies. Machinery companies also fell...

  • Posted August 2, 2016
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  US stocks slip as falling oil prices punish energy companies

  NEW YORK – U.S. stocks wobbled and finished mostly lower Monday as the price of oil continued to nosedive thanks to the strong dollar. Energy companies took the biggest losses as U.S. crude hovered around $40 a...

  • Posted August 1, 2016
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  Stocks close mostly higher, helped by technology, oil

  NEW YORK – Stocks ended slightly higher on Friday, helped by better-than-expected quarterly results from Google’s parent Alphabet and retailer Amazon and a modest recovery in oil prices. However, the gains were held back by disappointing results...

  • Posted July 29, 2016
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  Stocks close flat as investors monitor company earnings

  NEW YORK – Stocks had a muddled session on Tuesday, as investors worked through a large batch of corporate earnings from a range of companies including Gilead Sciences, McDonald’s and Texas Instruments. McDonald’s shares had their biggest...

  • Posted July 26, 2016
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  Stocks pull back after 4 weeks of gains

  Yahoo slips

  • Posted July 25, 2016
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  Another creep higher sends S&P 500 to record high, again

          NEW YORK – Another day, another lazy drift higher for stocks and another record high. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 9.86 points, or 0.5 percent, to 2,175.03on Friday. It surpassed its...

  • Posted July 22, 2016