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Benchmark Mineral Intelligence EV Battery Metal Prices
Battery / EV Metals Price BMI Lithium Carbonate, EXW China, >=99.2% Li2CO3 9,500 BMI Lithium Hydroxide, EXW China, >=56.5% LiOH 9,250 BMI Cobalt Sulphate, EXW China, >20.5% Co 6,693 BMI Nickel ...
U.S. stocks finish mostly higher, with Dow and S&P seeing seventh day of gains
U.S. stocks finished mostly higher on Wednesday, handing the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 a seventh straight session of gains, despite data which showed a sharp slowdown in first-quarter ...
Meta's daily active people growth accelerates, tops Wall Street forecasts
Meta said Q1 family daily active people, or DAP increased 6% from a year ago to 3.43 billion, which just topped the FactSet consensus of 3.39 billion. That marked an improvement from 5% growth in both ...
Microsoft's cloud growth accelerates and breezes past estimates
Microsoft's Azure cloud-computing business grew revenue by 35% in constant currency for the fiscal third quarter, well ahead of the 31% growth that analysts tracked by FactSet were projecting. This ...
Microsoft cruises past estimates, and its stock is popping
Microsoft crushed expectations with its headline fiscal third-quarter results, delivering $3.46 in earnings per share with a top-line total of $70.1 billion. Analysts tracked by FactSet were expecting ...
Meta extends streaks of profit, revenue beats. The stock rallies.
EPS that rose to $6.43 from $4.71 a year ago, and beat the average analyst estimate compiled by FactSet of $5.23, to extend its streak of bottom-line beats to nine quarters. Revenue grew 16.1% to $42.
Here’s what this real-time barometer says about tariff-induced recession risks rising
Copper prices more than doubled their losses for the month of April in a single trading session Wednesday. If the industrial ...
Copper drops 8% in April, signaling ‘deepening economic pessimism’
Copper prices fell sharply Wednesday to tally a loss of 8.4% for the month of April, the biggest monthly loss since June 2022, [signaling a deepening economic pessimism]( ...
Meta is seen as overly reliant on advertising revenue
Meta is still overly reliant on its advertising business, which makes up 98% of its revenue, according to BNP Paribas Exane. Advertising revenue still represents 98% of its overall revenue, noted ...
When are we in a recession? Here are 6 things to know about how that call is made.
The odds that recession is coming appear more likely after the GDP decline last quarter — but that alone may not be enough to ...
Julong Holding Plans 1.25M Share IPO
Julong Holding said it was planning to offer 1.25 million ordinary shares in its upcoming initial public offering. The intelligent integrated solutions provider said it expects the IPO to price ...
30-year Treasury yield rises on inflation risks, ending six-session streak of declines
The 30-year government bond sold off on Wednesday, sending its yield higher, as traders weighed the impact of longer-term inflation if the Federal Reserve ends up cutting interest rates to bolster the ...