By Andrea Shalal WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said he would extend the June 19 deadline for China-based ByteDance to divest the U.S. assets of TikTok, the short video app used by 170 million Americans, if no deal had been reached by then."I would ... I’d like to see it done," Trump told the NBC News program "Meet the Press with Kristen Welker" in an interview t ...
Investing.com – Israel stocks were higher after the close on Sunday, as gains in the Biomed, Communication and Technology sectors led shares higher.At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 rose 0.09% to hit a new 1-month high.The best performers of the session on the TA 35 were Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (TASE:TEVA), which rose 10.65% or 584.00 points to trade at 6,069.00 at the close. Meanwh ...
(Reuters) -Australia’s Westpac Banking (NYSE:WBK) Corp recorded a marginal 1% drop in its first-half net profit on Monday, as a rise in operating costs due to technology investments offset growth in total loans. Westpac recorded growth in home, business and institutional lending volumes, but its operating expenses rose nearly 6% to A$5.70 billion, driven by costs tied to its UNITE simplificat ...
Investing.com -- Citi analysts are standing by their preference for growth stocks heading into 2025, favoring the Nasdaq-100 (NDX) over the Russell 2000 (RTY) based on a combination of technical and fundamental metrics. “We continue to view Growth as defensive in the short to intermediate term,” Citi wrote, adding that “this aligns with favoring the NASDAQ-100 over Russell 2000.” ...