(Bloomberg) — Their supreme leader promised revenge and thousands gathered in Tehran to watch American flags burn, but any show of defiance after the assassination of their most prominent military man is laced with anguish for many Iranians.In the capital, the strike that took out Al Quds commander Qassem Soleimani capped a year that had […]

(Bloomberg) — Donald Trump ordered a U.S. airstrike that killed one of Iran’s most powerful generals and sent global markets reeling as the president said the military leader was plotting attacks on Americans.“General Qassem Soleimani has killed or badly wounded thousands of Americans over an extended period of time, and was plotting to kill many […]

Prices are overbought as weekly momentum turns positive

On this day, 11 years ago, the first Bitcoin block (known as the genesis block) was mined by its mysterious creator Satoshi Nakamoto. Through Block0, Bitcoin was officially born. Let’s take a look at the crazy ride it’s taken us on throughout its short and remarkable life so far. Happy birthday Bitcoin! Here’s to the […]

Investing.com – Gold prices jumped their most in a day since the end of August, hitting four-month highs that could propel the market toward the $1,600 per ounce level after a deadly U.S. airstrike against an Iranian general.

Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani, head of the elite Quds Force, and top Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis were killed in the air strike on their convoy at Baghdad airport, the Pentagon said. “News from the Middle East along with some technical buying and a weaker dollar is supporting gold prices today,” said Benjamin Lu, […]

(Bloomberg) — U.S. stock-index futures fell after an American airstrike in Iraq killed a top Iranian commander.S&P 500 Index futures contracts expiring in March were down 1% as of 9:15 a.m. in London after the attack that killed Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian general who led the Revolutionary Guards’ Quds force. Dow Jones Industrial Average contracts […]

(Bloomberg) — The tone in global financial markets has turned cautious after a U.S. airstrike killed a top Iranian commander, fueling concern over an escalation in tensions.U.S. stock futures dropped and Asian shares reversed gains, while oil spiked along with the yen and gold. Qassem Soleimani, a feared Iranian general who through proxy militias extended […]

(Bloomberg) — Oil jumped toward $70 a barrel in London after a U.S. airstrike ordered by President Donald Trump killed a top Iranian general in Iraq, intensifying fears of conflict in the world’s most important crude-producing region.Brent futures surged by more than 4% in busy trading on Friday to levels not seen since the attacks […]

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With 2019 drawing to a close, investors should carefully plot out their stocks to buy for January. For one thing, the holiday season typically provides folks with extra time to digest the events of the outgoing year and to strategize for the upcoming one. Given the many market drivers that we saw over the trailing […]

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The XAU/USD (Gold) has broken above the key resistance trend lines (dotted), which indicates a potential restart of the previous strong uptrend.

(Bloomberg) — Netflix Inc. has been making its own movies for years, but 2019 may be remembered as the year it truly became a film studio.The company began the year by joining the Motion Picture Association of America, the Hollywood trade group that represents movie studios. It went on to release nearly 60 English-language feature […]

(Bloomberg Opinion) — “When does it end?” is a perfectly reasonable question for New Year’s Eve. And in the case of anyone still holding onto oilfield services stocks, it is more than rhetorical.Core Laboratories NV, which offers services to enhance output from oilfields, dropped the ball early on Thursday evening, or New Year’s Eve Eve […]

(Bloomberg) — If in the throes of this bull market’s earliest stages of recovery someone told you to forgo stocks, forget commodities, renounce fixed-income assets and buy an unknown digital token, the first of its kind, and watch it grow beyond your wildest dreams, you’d call them crazy, right?Emerging out of the ashes of the […]

Dividend paying stocks like Yamana Gold Inc. (TSE:YRI) tend to be popular with investors, and for good reason – some…

(Bloomberg) — Gold’s end-of-year stealth rally is gaining ground even as investors target risk assets including equities and early data suggest that macro-economic conditions are set to be more benign in 2020 than this year.Prices climbed for the fifth time in six sessions as the dollar fell again and funds plowed more money into bullion-backed […]

(Bloomberg) — Sign up to our Next Africa newsletter and follow Bloomberg Africa on TwitterRio Tinto Group is resuming operations at its South African mine that was shuttered earlier this month because of escalating violence in surrounding communities.The Richards Bay Minerals unit should be back at full operations in early January, leading to regular production […]

After a big drop in late October, Nokia (NYSE:NOK) is holding steady. The stock trades around $3.50/share. The telecom equipment maker has struggled to rebound after slashing guidance for the coming year. In addition, Nokia's pause of its dividend to save cash is another factor keeping shares close to their 52-week low.Source: RistoH / Shutterstock.com […]