US Market Indexes Gain on Thursday

U.S. market indexes were higher on Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 24,272.35 for a gain of 331.67 points or 1.39%. The S&P 500 closed at 2,647.58 for a gain of 21.51 points or 0.82%. The Nasdaq Composite closed at 6,873.97 for a gain of 49.58 points or 0.73%. The VIX
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The constant news stories about powerful, highly visible men accused of sexual harassment feel like a brutal, unrelenting cavalcade of horrors. But the fact that there's been a tremendous opening for women to come forward to tell stories about these crimes is encouraging. The outpouring of stories
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Lending an Eye to a Beleaguered Guardian of the Environment. David Sedlak (Editor-in-Chief). Environ. Sci. Technol. , Article ASAP. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b06119. Publication Date (Web): November 30, 2017. Copyright © 2017 American Chemical Society. View: ACS ActiveView PDF | PDF | PDF w/
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The products of modern slavery “stare at us in the face” as we shop on Britain's high streets, the International Development Secretary has said.
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The Monetary Authority of Singapore warned that recent developments could pose risks to the property market, and developers, potential buyers and banks 'should proceed cautiously'. — TODAY pic. SINGAPORE, Dec 1 — The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) yesterday warned that recent
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While two new ferries have arrived in St-Pierre-Miquelon this week, their first run to Newfoundland will likely fall behind schedule due to a lack of funding for wharf upgrades in Fortune. Work that's needed on the wharf there hasn't even started, because of a budget shortfall of $600,000 to $700,000.
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Even with signs of a cooling real estate market, Toronto is once again counting on housing prices to balance its $11-billion municipal operating budget. The city's top bureaucrat, city manager Peter Wallace, unveiled a preliminary 2018 budget on Thursday that will be debated and amended before a final
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Decentralized lending platform ETHLend raised $10 million in the first 30 minutes of its initial coin offering (ICO). The token sale started on November
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Now, Jerome “Boom-Boom” Bechard is making yet another transition, this one into the highly competitive world of Columbus and Phenix City real estate, with the goal of succeeding once again as he works to help area citizens make one of the biggest purchases of their lives. “Over the years, I've been
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President Donald Trump's reshaping of the Federal Reserve continued this week when he nominated economist Marvin Goodfriend to serve on the
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Good morning and welcome to the Monmouth Real Estate Investment Corporation's Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year-end 2017 Earnings Conference Call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. [Operator Instructions] After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. [Operator
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If we compare the situation of investments in the real estate market in 2017 and … The trends of real estate investment go up, stagnate and stagnate.
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One of Mick Mulvaney's first actions after he took over as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was to institute a hiring freeze,
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South Korean lenders' mortgage rates inched down Friday despite the central bank's first rate increase in more than six years, a market source said. … Analysts said the mortgage rate reductions came as market interest rates have already gone up after factoring in expectations of a key rate raise.
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MELBOURNE has dropped to a clearance rate in the 60 per cent range for the past three weeks and the trend is tipped to continue, as about 1500
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This week, the Bank of England published its 2017 bank stress test results and this revealed what scenarios major financial institutions could and
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First Trust Advisors LP lowered its position in shares of Encore Wire … primarily as interior wiring in homes, apartments and manufactured housing,
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Birmingham, Ala. (AP) — With Roy Moore's Republican U.S. Senate candidacy threatened by sexual misconduct claims, one of his closest aides recently stepped up to a microphone outside the state Capitol and jabbed at the air. Declaring that God has picked Alabama voters to decide the nation's future,
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