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Source: Live Mint Stocks rose for a fifth straight session, Bitcoin topped $84,000 and the dollar was on track for a one-year high, with investors continuing to bet those trades will benefit from President-elect Donald Trump’s agenda. Economically sensitive shares led gains, with the Russell 2000 index of smaller firms hitting the highest since 2021….
Source: Live Mint In past few days, Wall Street witnessed stock indices climbing to records after Republican candidate and former president Donald Trump resoundingly won the US election against Vice President Kamala Harris. The US Federal Reserve’s latest quarter-point interest rate cut also boosted market sentiments. In the week ahead, Wall Street will see a…
Source: Live Mint —Donald Trump, The Art of the Deal Some have called it the ‘greatest political comeback of all time’. Others labelled it as the world’s most extreme ‘reality television show’. Donald Trump’s crushing victory in the US presidential elections has elicited a range of responses, from giddy delight to soul-crushing despair. But for…
Source: Live Mint Stock Market News: The domestic benchmark indices, Nifty 50 and Sensex, declined on Friday, concluding the week in negative territory, as worries over lackluster corporate earnings and ongoing foreign fund outflows overshadowed the gains made in information technology (IT) shares after the US Federal Reserve’s anticipated interest rate reduction. The Nifty 50…
Source: Live Mint On Wall Street the S&P 500, the Nasdaq and the Dow Jones rose to all-time highs on Wednesday as Donald Trump won the 2024 US presidential election. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1,450.11 points, or 3.43 per cent, to 43,671.12, the S&P 500 advanced 138.27 points, or 2.39 per cent, to 5,920.87…
Source: Live Mint The Iranian Rial fell on Wednesday, November 6, to an all-time low as former President Donald Trump raced for the U.S. presidency again, reported the news agency AP. The rial traded at 703,000 rials to the dollar. The last two times the Iranian Rial took a hit was in 2015. At the…
Source: Live Mint Trump Media & Technology Group Corp., the parent company of the former president’s Truth Social platform, jumped more than 15 per cent on Tuesday as voters head to the polls. The stock, which trades as the ticker symbol DJT, is notoriously volatile and is broadly considered a meme stock. The former president’s…
Source: Live Mint Political risk—the notion that an election might have a meaningful impact on financial markets—used to be something that was the concern of emerging-market investors. Those in rich countries paid attention to central bankers, rather than politicians. Things are a little different today. In the run-up to America’s presidential election on November 5th,…
Source: Live Mint Bitcoin prices jumped past $71,000 for the first time since June on Tuesday, boosted by inflows into dedicated exchange-traded funds and speculation about the US Presidential Election next week. The largest digital asset, Bitcoin was up 5% at $71,020. Bitcoin prices hit an all-time high of $73,750 in March and have jumped…
Source: Live Mint Bitcoin price today: Bitcoin extended last week’s gains as the crypto bulls are setting their sights on the record highs reached in March. Optimism is building around riskier assets and the looming US presidential elections. The original cryptocurrency gained as much as 2.9 per cent to $68,376 on Wednesday, October 16, before…
