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Markets Round-Up 3rd November 2017. Stock Markets In the US the S&P only just managed to close higher overnight after investors digested a few of the details of the tax-reform plan proposed by Republicans.  (The Nasdaq ⇓0.02% to 6714.94, the Dow

Markets Round-Up 1st November 2017. Stock Markets With 268 shares up and 225 down on the S&P, it was a mixed but positive day on Wall Street for the S&P as tech stocks helped it end October on a positive

Markets Round-Up 31st October 2017. Stock Markets Retailers and health-care companies slipped following a raft of downgrades from analysts. The declines weighed on the U.S. stock indexes at the start of a busy week that was set to include another

Markets Round-Up 30th October 2017. Stock Markets The US stock markets hit new peaks on Friday after forecast-beating results from the technology companies including Google’s parent company Alphabet, Amazon and Microsoft (The Nasdaq jumped 144.49 points or ⇑2.2% to 6,701.26,