4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (202+ words) The Hang Seng Index, the benchmark for the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, closed Tuesday's session at 25,317.18 points, down 95.94 points or 0.38% from Monday's close of 25,413.12. The index opened at 25,252.07, climbed as high as 25,394.60 during the session — briefly testing the previous close…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (207+ words) Canada's main stock index, the S&P/TSX Composite, traded through one of the more consequential sessions of the year on Tuesday, 8 September 2026 — the day Ottawa's retaliatory tariffs on approximately $27.6 billion of US goods officially took effect. Why is the…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (866+ words) BBN Times S&P 500: Wall Street's Benchmark Climbs to 7,666.60 as Oil and Yields Cool The S&P 500 closed at 7,666.60 on Wednesday, 2 September 2026, up 35.13 points, or 0.46%, in the first full session of the month following Monday's Labor Day holiday. The index…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (812+ words) BBN Times Hong Kong Stock Exchange Today: Hang Seng Falls Amid US-Iran Tensions and Strait of Hormuz Closure The Hang Seng Index fell to 25,324 points on Tuesday, 1 September 2026, a decline of 0.95% from the previous session's close. The session's weakness was…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (708+ words) In September 2025, the White House issued a proclamation adding a $100,000 payment requirement to certain new H-1B petitions. For companies that had budgeted H-1B sponsorship as a predictable, if competitive, way to bring in global engineering talent, that changed the math overnight. This…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (309+ words) The Trump White House has entered the second half of the president's term facing a wave of senior staff departures, with press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed to be stepping down at the end of August and top congressional liaison James…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (248+ words) Germany's DAX 40 climbed 0.59% on Friday to close at 26,136.56, adding to Thursday's finish of 25,983.04 and, crucially, pushing the index back above the psychologically important 26,000-point level it had lost for the first time since early August in the previous session. The…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (862+ words) France’s benchmark stock index ended Friday, August 21, 2026, at 8,484.43, as European equities staged a modest recovery following a difficult week marked by rising government-bond yields, elevated oil prices, and geopolitical uncertainty. The CAC 40 gained 31.16 points, or 0.37%, to close at 8,484.43. The advance…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (842+ words) BBN Times FTSE 100: London Bucks the Global Slide, Closing Modestly Higher at 10,728 The FTSE 100 closed Tuesday's session at 10,728.04, up 7.74 points, or 0.072%, making London one of the few major global benchmarks to finish in positive territory on a day dominated by…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (239+ words) The FTSE 100 closed down 22.56 points, or 0.21%, at 10,750.11 on Friday, 14 August 2026, extending London's losing run to a fifth consecutive session. The index had opened around 10,833.58 and swung between an intraday low of 10,723.66 and a high of 10,846.25 before fading into the close,…...