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The New York Stock Exchange resurrected the dying art of open outcry at the close of play Thursday after a series of computer snags interrupted ...
July 3 (Bloomberg) -- The New York Stock Exchange , which last month finished replacing a 25-year-old system so that trades are processed in 5 milliseconds, was forced to close the world’s largest equity market by hand yesterday after a 15 minute delay.
July 2 (Bloomberg) -- NYSE Euronext extended today’s close of U.S. stock trading by 15 minutes to 4:15 p.m. in New York because of a computer malfunction.
CHICAGO (Dow Jones)--U.S. wheat futures finished near session lows Thursday and extended losses for the week amid pressure from other markets and fund selling.
Gains posted by the U.S. dollar combined with pre-holiday liquidation to send gold and other precious metals lower Thursday.
For previous business day.
As John Rowe promised Thursday morning in a conference call with Wall Street, July will be a "very interesting" month as he pushes to complete Exelon Corp.'s deal for NRG Energy Inc.
CME Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, today announced that June volume averaged 11.4 million contracts per day, down 20 percent from June 2008, but up 6 percent from May 2009.
Exelon Corp. has scheduled a conference call with investors for 7 a.m. CST Thursday to discuss its attempted takeover of NRG Energy Inc. The Chicago-based utility has resisted pressure to sweeten its all-stock offer, which it made in October. NRG has rejected it as inadequate.
CHICAGO (Dow Jones)--U.S. wheat futures extended losses Wednesday on continued harvest pressure, comfortable supply levels and a lack of buying interest, analysts said.
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