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U.S. stocks end the most tumultuous week in memory with modest weekly gains after closing virtually unchanged on Friday.

U.S. stocks end the most tumultuous week in memory with modest weekly gains after closing virtually unchanged on Friday.

President Barack Obama said Friday the recently negotiated agreement with Iran blocks ‘every pathway’ for the country to acquire nuclear weapons, defending the deal in a web cast with two Jewish organizations.

The S&P 500 index became the latest index to catch the “death cross” virus that is spreading fast through the stock market.

U.S. stocks ended the most tumultuous week in memory with modest gains after closing virtually unchanged on Friday. The main indexes spent most of Friday's session diving in and out of negative territory, as investors seemed undecided on how to interpret comments from Federal Reserve officials. Fed Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer indicated the central bank is keen on raising rates this year, but provided little clarity on whether it will be in September. The Dow Jones Industrial Average which... Читать дальше...

Stocks close mixed Friday as indexes end wild week higher

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - President Obama has appointed James O'Brien, an associate of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, to be the first Special Envoy for Hostage Affairs, the White House announced Friday. O'Brien is now vice chair of the Albright Stonebridge Group, a business consulting firm chaired by Albright. O'Brien previously worked at the State Department as a negotiator. The envoy for hostage affairs post was created earlier this summer after a review of U.S. hostage guidelines. Читать дальше...

Twitter Inc. said Friday that it would increase the percentage of women in the company to 35% and the percentage of women in leadership roles to 25%, among other diversity goals. Twitter has been criticized for its lack of females in leadership and mostly white team. Its 2015 numbers show that 66% of its staff is male and 34% is female worldwide, with its leadership made up of 78% men and 22% women. In the U.S., 59% of the company is white and 31% is Asian, with smaller percentages of other minorities. Читать дальше...

A New Hampshire jury found a graduate of an exclusive prep school not guilty of rape charges but convicted him of lesser sex offenses, the Associated Press reported. The jury took eight hours to reach a verdict in the case against 19-year-old Owen Labrie, of Tunbridge, Vt., who was accused of raping a 15-year-old freshman girl in a room at St. Paul's School just days before he graduated in 2014.

Oil futures settled higher Friday, with U.S. prices up by nearly 12% for the week as analysts mulled the likelihood of declines in production on the back of overall weakness in oil prices. October crude rose $2.66, or 6.3%, to settle at $45.22 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Prices climbed 11.8% for the week, the largest weekly increase since about March 2009, according to FactSet data.

Dennis Lockhart, the president of the Atlanta Fed, said that chances of a rate hike have come down since earlier in August and are now '50-50.' "That seems to me to be a reasonable assessment of the situation," Lockhart said in an interview on Bloomberg News. Earlier in August, Lockhart told the Wall Street Journal he was likely to support a rate hike in September. But Lockhart said the market volatility in recent days was a "new" risk factor. "It has to be considered an open question whether we move now or wait a little while," he said. Читать дальше...

Lockhart: 'Open question' whether Fed hikes rates in September

Gold futures finished higher on Friday but suffered a 2.2% loss for the week, their biggest weekly decline since the week ended July 24. The dollar strengthened this week, putting pressure on the metal as the market weighed prospects for an interest-rate hike this year by the Federal Reserve. December gold climbed $11.40, or 1%, for the session to settle at $1,134 an ounce on Comex after declines over the past four sessions.

Dow industrials down triple digits as stock-market decline accelerates

Oil futures added to gains after data from Baker Hughes released Friday showed that the number of active oil-drilling rigs edged higher, but the total number of active rigs fell. The number of oil rigs rose 1 to 675 as of Aug. 28. The total active rig count, which includes natural-gas rigs, was at 877, down 8 rigs. Compared to last year, the total rig count has fallen by 1,037, with the oil rig count down 900. Oct. crude was up $3.22, or 7.6%, at $45.78 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Читать дальше...

Amazon, Apple and Google are among stocks that are being oversold after the market pullback, analysts say.

Nasdaq again pokes into positive territory; Dow, S&P in red

Tesla Motors Inc. has reached a long-term agreement with two mining companies to get lithium hydroxide for its battery factory going up outside Reno, Nev. Bacanora Minerals Ltd. and Rare Earth Minerals Plc are calling themselves the Sonora Lithium Project partners, and said on Thursday they will be exploring lithium from clay deposits in northern Mexico. Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry said Friday the $5 billion battery factory is "the key strategic differentiator" for Tesla, and... Читать дальше...

Twitter commits to increasing percentage of women at company to 35%

The yields on Treasury notes spiked Friday after Federal Reserve Chairman Stanley Fischer suggested that the Federal Reserve is still open to raising interest rates at its September meeting. The 10-year yield was up 2.2 basis points on the day to 2.188%, while the two-year yield was up 4.7 basis points to 0.731%. Shorter-term Treasurys are more sensitive to rate-hike expectations. Yields had been moving lower earlier in the session. The yield on the 30-year bond was up 0.4 basis point to 2.906%. Читать дальше...

A negative comment from One Direction’s Harry Styles and an employee scandal at SeaWorld have generated a range of negative comments on social media.

U.S. dollar rises after Fed vice chairman's televised remarks

The dollar gained sharply against the euro Friday after comments from Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer suggested that the door was still open to an interest-rate increase at the Fed's next meeting. Fischer said that the case for a rate hike in September was "pretty strong" before Chinese policy makers decided to allow the yuan to depreciate, though it's still too soon to say what the Fed might do. The euro fell to $1.1180 from $1.1230 ahead of the comments. The dollar rose to... Читать дальше...

Gold sets up for first gain in five sessions