(Reuters) - Shares of vaccine makers and packaged food companies fell on Tuesday after President Donald Trump's pick for U.S. health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., moved closer to the job after a favorable vote by a Senate panel. The vote by the U.S. Senate Finance Committee paves the way for the full Senate to vote to confirm him as...

* US JOLTS report shows lower job openings * US factory orders drop * US yield curve steepens as bond market stabilizes (Recasts, adds analyst comment, bullets, byline, updates prices) By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Long-dated U.S. Treasury yields rose on Tuesday after the Trump administration granted 30-day tariff reprieves to Canada and Mexico, unwinding some...

Feb 4 (Reuters) - Shares of vaccine makers and packaged food companies fell on Tuesday after President Donald Trump's pick for U.S. health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., moved closer to the job after a favorable vote by a Senate panel. The vote by the U.S. Senate Finance Committee paves the way for the full Senate to vote to confirm...

12:12 PM EST, 02/04/2025 (MT Newswires) -- The Toronto Stock Exchange is up 120 points with energy (+1.7%) and miners (+2.5%) the biggest gainers. Financials and utilities, down 0.5% and 0.4%, are the sole decliners. The Toronto Stock Exchange is higher today after U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to a 30-day pause on tariffs on Canadian imports into the U.S....