EghtesadOnline: World shares climbed for a third day running on Tuesday, as China promised fiscal action to support the world’s second-largest economy and stellar results from internet giant Alphabet underpinned the tech stocks.

EghtesadOnline: U.S. stocks opened little changed on Thursday, with the Dow barely above 22,000, a milestone it breached a day earlier on the back of Apple's strong quarterly results.

EghtesadOnline: As always, the motion of benchmark indexes tells only some of the story in the stock market. Below the surface, pain is getting hard to bear in some spots.

EghtesadOnline: A selloff in technology shares spoiled an otherwise buoyant day in the U.S. stock market as companies from Apple Inc. to Nvidia Corp. tumbled. The British pound dropped as the U.K.’s ruling Conservative Party lost its parliamentary majority, plunging the country into uncertainty just days before Brexit negotiations were due to start.