21:48:08
Bank of Canada Governor Macklem: Interest rate decisions will be guided by the latest data.
21:47:59
Bank of Canada Governor Macklem: Job growth "has been weak."
21:47:53
Bank of Canada Governor Macklem: We are also focused on keeping the consumer price index below our target of 2%.
21:47:19
Bank of Canada Governor Macklem: We need to be wary of the risk of an economy that is too weak.
21:47:12
Bank of Canada Governor Macklem: As inflation approaches our target, we hope to see faster economic growth to absorb spare capacity in the economy.
21:47:05
Bank of Canada Governor Macklem: The economy is most likely to grow by about 2% in the first half of 2024.
21:46:51
Bank of Canada Governor Macklem: If inflation continues to slow broadly as we forecast in July, then further rate cuts are a reasonable expectation.
21:46:37
Bank of Canada Governor Macklem: We need to increasingly guard against the risks of an economy that is too weak and inflation that falls too much.
21:43:33
The S&P 500 turned positive, while the Nasdaq narrowed its losses to 0.3%.
21:39:04
The Dow Jones Industrial Average turned positive and was last up 0.3%.
21:35:00
The Bank of Canada will announce its interest rate decision in ten minutes.
21:34:59
Google (GOOG.O): Starting in the second quarter of 2025, video action ads will be upgraded to demand-generated ads.
21:31:18
Zscaler shares fell 18%, their biggest one-day drop since Feb. 21.
21:30:32
At the opening of the US stock market, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by about 45 points, the S&P 500 fell by 0.39%, and the Nasdaq fell by 0.71%. Semiconductor leaders continued to fall, with ASML (ASML.O) falling nearly 5%, Intel (INTC.O) falling 1.4%, and Nvidia (NVDA.O) falling 2.1%.
21:18:07
The annual rate of Red Book commercial retail sales in the United States for the week ending August 31 was 6.3%, compared with 5% in the previous period.
21:00:08
At the opening of the night session, the main domestic futures contracts rose and fell. Pulp and coking coal fell by more than 2%, coke, methanol, and Shanghai tin fell by more than 1%; in terms of increase, rapeseed meal, paraxylene, and corn rose slightly.
20:49:45
German Chancellor Schulz: Provide another 17 IRIS-T air defense systems to Ukraine.
20:49:32
German Chancellor Schulz confirmed the order for another 22 IRIS-T air defense systems.
20:31:51
The U.S. trade account was -78.8 billion U.S. dollars in July, the largest deficit since June 2022.
20:30:53
U.S. imports in July were $345.3 billion, compared with $339.0 billion in the previous month.