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Stock and bond markets around the world will be closed Friday in observance of Christmas. Before the holiday break,Nike and Micron Technology report on Monday,BlackBerry and General Mills on Tuesday, and CarMax,Cintas,and Paychex on Wednesday.It will be a busy week of economic data releases. On Monday, the Conference Board publishes its Leading Economic Index for November, followed by its Consumer Confidence Index for December on Wednesday.On Thursday, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reports per

- Wall Street finished lower on Friday, weighed down by Big Tech as investors worried about the Omicron coronavirus variant and digested the Federal Reserve's decision to end its pandemic-era stimulus faster.All three main U.S. stock indexes ended with a decline for the week after the Fed on Wednesday signaled three quarter-percentage-point interest rate hikes by the end of 2022 to combat surging inflation.Nvidia dropped 2.1% and Alphabet lost 1.9%, both weighing on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq.The S

After-Hours Stock Movers: Spruce Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRB) 26.6% HIGHER; Oppenheimer initiate

Fed says it will end bond purchases in March Tech and healthcare the strongest sectors Indexes: Dow

* Fed policy decision awaited on Wednesday * November PPI logs highest rise since 2010 * Tech leads

* Pfizer to buy Arena Pharma, shares of both companies rise * Meme stocks GameStop, AMC slump to mul

The main event for investors this week will be the Federal Reserve’s rate-setting committee’s last meeting of 2021. Recent commentary from officials has leaned more hawkish, setting up a potential announcement of plans to accelerate monthly asset purchase tapering.The Federal Open Market Committee’s two-day meeting takes place on Tuesday and Wednesday.Earnings reports this week are few, but will include Campbell Soup on Tuesday;Lennar,Accenture,FedEx,Rivian Automotive, and Adobe on Thursday; and

The IPO market is expected to stay relatively quiet in the week ahead with three IPOs scheduled to r

Dec 10 - A federal jury on Friday awarded $22.5 million to a U.S. Army veteran who alleged that combat earplugs sold by $3M$ Co caused him to suffer hearing loss and tinnitus, the biggest verdict yet in massive litigation over the product.Jurors in Pensacola, Florida, sided with former U.S. Army soldier Theodore Finley in the latest trial to result from more than 272,000 lawsuits by servicemembers and veterans who say defective earplugs made by 3M caused their hearing damage.Finley, who used th

Dec 10 - Blackstone Inc said on Friday it would buy Singapore wealth fund GIC's 49% stake in an Australian logistics trust for A$2.1 billion , as the U.S. private-equity giant looks to tap into the country's fast-growing e-commerce market.The deal for the stake in $Dexus$ Australia Logistics Trust $$ will be the largest investment in Asia under its Core+ Real Estate strategy, Blackstone said.Dexus will own the rest of the joint venture.About 90% of DALT's portfolio is exposed to Sydney and Melb