Finance
Stock market news: Opening bell, November 30, 2018
Here is what you need to know.
Trump says he will be ‘very productive’ at the G20
summit. President Donald Trump arrived in
Argentina on Thursday, and tweeted that he has “a
very busy two days planned,” with the main event being trade
negotiations with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Goldman Sachs has some low risk, high reward trading strategies
to help investors profit from the G20. The
bank’s derivatives strategy team studied the seven periods of
volatility surrounding various trade-war headlines this year
and identified 21 stocks and four sectors where investors can
make realtively low-risk bets by buying calls.
China’s manufacturing sector hits stall
speed. The government’s purcashing managers
index printed 50.0 in November, its weakest reading since July
2016, and is at a level that shows the sector is neither
expanding nor contracting, according to data released Friday by
China’s National Bureau of Statistics.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. and DJ Khaled will each pay big fines
after illegally touting ICOs. The boxing champ
Floyd Mayweather Jr. and the record producer DJ Khaled will
each pay fines of more than $100,000 to settle charges that
they promoted initially coin offerings without disclosing they
were paid for it, the US Securities and Exchange Commission
said on Thursday.
Marriott says 500 million customers had their data
hacked. The hotel chain announced Friday that
500 million customers who stayed at hotels including W,
Sheraton, and Westin as far back as 2014 had their information
accessed, including an unspecified number who had their credit
card details taken.
Sheryl Sandburg reportedly wanted to know if George Soros was
shorting Facebook’s stock. Sandburg, Facebook’s
COO, reportedly requested opposition research on the
billionaire and wanted to know if he was shorting her company’s
stock, after he publicly critcized the social-media network.
Nintendo Switch sales are on track to miss Wall Street targets
despite a record-setting Black Friday weekend. The
Nintendo Switch saw sales jump 115% year-over-year on Black
Friday weekend, but the video-game maker is on track to sell 35
million units by March 2019, shy of the 38 million units that
analysts surveyed by Bloomberg are hoping for.
The Tesla of China loses its US CEO. Padmasree
Warrior, the US CEO of the Chinese electric-car maker Nio, will
leave the company in December for “personal interests,”
according to a filing out Friday.- Stock markets
around the world trade mixed. China’s Shanghai
Composite (+0.81%) led the advance in Asia and Britain’s FTSE
(-0.7%) trails in Europe. The S&P 500 is set to open lower
by 0.26% near 2,731.
US economic data trickles out. Chicago PMI will be
released at 9:45 a.m. ET. The US 10-year yield is down 2 basis
points at 3.01%.
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