


Nasdaq said it would file with the Securities Exchange Commission on Monday to apply for near-round-the-clock stock trading, extending the trading hours for stocks and exchange-traded products to 23 hours from 16 hours on five trading days a week. Nasdaq currently has...

If 2025 already looks like a strong year for emerging markets, 2026 could be even better, according to Fidelity International. Mike Riddell, portfolio manager at Fidelity's Strategic Bond Fund, said US interest rate cuts had boosted the attractiveness of emerging economy assets with higher interest rates and still room for currency appreciation. "While the market has been talking about emerging market deals all year, the big money has yet to come in," Riddell said. "This sets the stage for 2026,...

Traders on Friday upped their bets that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates for the third time in a row at its December meeting after Williams said the central bank could cut rates in the "near term", according to foreign media reports. Short-term interest rate futures are now pricing in a 57% chance of a rate cut in December, up from below 50% previously.

Microsoft (MSFT. O) and NVIDIA (NVDA. O) announced the latest advances in artificial intelligence at the GTC conference, and Microsoft said it will be the first to offer NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs on the Azure cloud platform.