Gold futures settle lower for a second straight session
Gold futures settled lower on Monday for a second straight session, with strength in the U.S. dollar pressuring prices for the metal. "The dollar has...
Oil ends lower on fears COVID-lockdowns in China will hurt energy demand
Oil futures fell sharply on Monday, with U.S. prices settling at their lowest in more than a week. The price decline was "dominated" by Chinese...
Biden says he was expressing ‘moral outrage’ over Putin, not stating a policy change
President Joe Biden on Monday defended his remarks on Saturday about Russian President Vladimir Putin, as reporters pressed him on the topic. "I was expressing...
S&P 500, Dow book 3rd day of gains Monday, stocks end higher as investors await Russia-Ukraine talks
U.S. stocks finished higher Monday, with the S&P 500 index and Dow industrials both booking a third straight session of gains as investors monitored potentially...
Assurant stock trading at all-time high after investor day
Shares of financial and insurance company Assurant Inc. on Thursday rose 2.2% to an all-time high of $182.87 after the financial services company held an...
Novavax’s COVID-19 booster to be evaluated in NIH study
Novavax Inc. said Friday that its experimental COVID-19 booster is being tested in a Phase 1/2 clinical trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health....
Salesforce to remove ‘dot-com’ from its legal name
Salesforce.com Inc. announced Friday that it will change its legal name to Salesforce Inc., effective April 4. The customer relationship managemet software company said its...
Baker Hughes reports a weekly climb in the U.S. oil-drilling rig count
Baker Hughes on Friday reported that the number of active U.S. rigs drilling for oil was up by seven to 531 this week. That followed...
Stocks open mostly higher as oil prices pull back
U.S. stocks were higher after the opening bell Friday, while oil prices pulled back. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 87 points, or 0.3%, to...