Oil prices were little changed on Thursday after rising to a near one-week high in the previous session, as an industry report showing a buildup in U.S. crude stockpiles pressured the market. U.S. crude stocks rose by 3.34 million barrels last week, market sources said, citing American Petroleum Institute figures on Wednesday. Oil prices edged lower on Thursday because of the stock build in the U.S., said Saxo Bank analyst Ole Hansen.
Australia's biggest non-food retailer Wesfarmers said it may raise prices as a soft local dollar drives up supply costs and warned on Thursday that tariffs ordered by U.S. President Donald Trump may spur inflation. The owner of Australia's biggest hardware chain, Bunnings, and budget department store chain Kmart also said the country's first interest rate cut in five years, announced this week, would help households but alone could not end high living costs nor offset wide-ranging geopolitical headwinds. "You just need to look at some of the challenges in the housing sector that are fairly well understood and reported," Wesfarmers CEO Rob Scott told journalists.
Bill Ackman's Pershing Square proposed to acquire 10 million newly issued Howard Hughes shares at $90 a share — up from $85 a share.
The top tech stocks have soared comprising a larger proportion of the total value of the S&P 500, but some see risks building for the mega-cap cohort.
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(Reuters) -Around $99 million worth of cryptocurrency was withdrawn from the marketplace of a coin at the centre of a scandal in Argentina by eight digital wallets linked to the crypto token's creator, blockchain researchers said. Argentinian President Javier Milei recommended the little-known crypto coin $LIBRA late on Friday in a post on X, but later deleted the post and denied having any link to the cryptocurrency. A federal judge is investigating the token's launch and Milei's involvement in it, after the coin, promoted by Milei on Friday, soon shot up above $4.50 apiece then plummeted just hours later.
Arista Networks shares dropped Wednesday amid some concerns about the company's sales to a key customer. However, several analysts said they're still bullish on the stock, anticipating a boost from demand for AI.
Wall Street was eyeing a dealmaking boom in the Trump era, but an announcement from the administration this week's clouds those views.
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