Fresh manufacturing data from the US, UK, and Asia painted a problematic picture for global economic growth.

Still-high iron ore prices gave miner Rio Tinto its best six months in five years – but steelmakers aren’t happy.

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The Federal Reserve broke its 10-year streak by lowering US interest rates in a bid to keep the economy growing.

Credit Suisse, BNP Paribas, and BBVA all surprised investors with better-than-expected quarterly updates.

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Apple reported quarterly earnings, while Huawei’s revenue growth slowed sharply in its second quarter.

BP bucked the recent trend among oil and gas companies with stronger-than-expected results – but UK stocks at large may now look less dependable.

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A potential tie-up between Just Eat and Takeaway.com was just an amuse-bouche for investors ahead of Beyond Meat’s second-quarter results.

The London Stock Exchange’s own stock surged 15% after announcing it was in talks to buy market data provider Refinitiv.

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A slowdown in US economic growth in the second quarter set the stage for an imminent interest rate cut.

Consumer goods companies Nestlé, Colgate-Palmolive, and Unilever reported earnings updates.

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Amazon reported better-than-expected revenue, but its profit got caught up in the weeds.

Alphabet, however, smashed profit out of the park with its quarterly report.

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An under-fire Facebook updated its second-quarter status to “stronger than expected”.

Aston Martin and Peugeot were the first of the big carmakers to report earnings amid the eurozone’s manufacturing gridlock.

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Snap Inc’s quarterly results beat investor expectations, exorcizing the specter that’d been haunting the company last year.

UBS and Santander’s results were better than investors expected, but the International Monetary Fund’s banking on a gloomy remainder of 2019.

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A new group of Chinese stocks hoping to rival America’s tech giants rose 140% on their first day of trading.

Halliburton’s quarterly results exceeded expectations as geopolitical turmoil threatens to push oil’s price higher.

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AB InBev raised a glass to the $11 billion sale of its Australian beer business to Japan’s Asahi.

BlackRock’s disappointing second-quarter update painted a picture of what investors have been doing in the last three months.

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