Investors settled in for a largely quiet trading session on Tuesday. With a speech expected from Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday, most market participants were content to wait and see what the central banker will say about the future path of monetary policy.
Currency markets settled into an uneasy calm on Friday after the Swiss franc and Japanese yen jumped on reports that Israel had attacked Iran in the latest tit-for-tat exchange between the two adversaries. People familiar with the matter told Reuters that Israel attacked Iran, days after Iran launched an unprecedented assault on Israel in response to a suspected Israeli strike on its consulate in Syria, although Iran played the incident down and said it did not plan a new response.
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Futures initially tumbled overnight, but slashed losses as Israel's attack on Iran seemed limited. The market power trend is about to end. Netflix gave weak guidance.
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A Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate is attempting to play chess nonstop for 58 hours in New York City’s Times Square to break the global record for the longest chess marathon. Tunde Onakoya, 29, hopes to raise $1 million for children's education across Africa. The current chess marathon record is 56 hours, 9 minutes and 37 seconds, achieved in 2018 by Hallvard Haug Flatebø and Sjur Ferkingstad, both from Norway.
Markets have been on edge since over fears of a widening of the conflict in the Middle East — a major oil-producing region.
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Regional banks have steadily increased the interest rates they offer on deposit accounts to retain customers looking for greater returns by parking their money in higher-yielding alternatives. Cincinnati, Ohio-based Fifth Third's net interest income on a reported basis - the difference between what a bank earns on loans and pays on deposits - fell nearly 8.8% to $1.38 billion in the quarter. Fifth Third continues to expect its NII in 2024 to decline between 2% and 4%.
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CAPRI, Italy (AP) — The United States told the Group of Seven foreign ministers on Friday that it received “last minute” information from Israel about a drone action in Iran, Italy’s foreign minister said. Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, who chaired the meeting of ministers of industrialized countries, said the United States provided the information at a Friday morning session that was changed at the last minute to address the suspected attack. Early Friday, Iran fired air defenses at a
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An apparent Israeli drone attack on Iran saw troops fire air defenses at a major air base and a nuclear site early Friday morning near the central city of Isfahan, an assault coming in retaliation for Tehran's unprecedented drone-and-missile assault on Israel. No Iranian official directly acknowledged the possibility that Israel had attacked, and the Israeli military did not respond to a request for comment. However, tensions have been high since the Saturday a
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Squatters slowly emerged from a Gordon Ramsay pub on Friday after lawyers secured a High Court order for the possession of the premises.Four people have so far left the premises after locking themselves into the York & Albany near Regent’s Park last week.It is unclear if and how many people are still inside and the order paves the way for High Court enforcement officers to retake the occupied pub in the coming days.On Friday morning squatters left the Grade II listed building two by two, with the first squatter to leave fist-bumping his friend before taking off on a bike.
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