12:11 PM EDT, 03/14/2025 (MT Newswires) -- The Toronto Stock Exchange is up 308 points at midday, with most sectors higher. The biggest gainers are miners and technology, both up 2.4%. Telecoms, down 1%, is the sole negative. Oil prices rose early on Friday as Russia appeared to reject a U.S.-backed ceasefire in Ukraine, reducing the chance for the lifting...

11:47 AM EDT, 03/14/2025 (MT Newswires) -- All three major US stock indexes were trending higher around midday Friday, with the Nasdaq Composite leading the way, amid increasing expectations that US legislators will devise a stopgap funding measure to prevent a government shutdown. In economic news, the University of Michigan's preliminary consumer sentiment index fell to 57.9 in March from...

(For a Reuters live blog on U.S., UK and European stock markets, click LIVE/ or type LIVE/ in a news window.) * Indexes up: Dow 0.59%, S&P 500 0.90%, Nasdaq 1.21% * Consumer sentiment stands at 57.9 in March * Tesla up on report it is planning lower-cost Model Y in Shanghai * Bullion miners up as gold prices cross...

March 14 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury yields rose on Friday on concerns over the potentially inflationary impact of tariffs as trade wars between the U.S. and its trading partners escalate, while a stock market recovery reduced safe-haven demand for U.S. government debt. Market participants are grappling with uncertainty over how many of President Donald Trump's tariffs are going to be...