BENGALURU, June 19 (Reuters) - India's Nifty IT index slumped 5.8% on Friday after industry bellwether Accenture forecast quarterly sales below Wall Street view and lowered the upper end of its
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<body><p>STORY: Wall Street's main indexes closed higher on Thursday, with the Dow ticking up more than a tenth of a percent, the S&P 500 adding more than 1% and the Nasdaq gaining nearly 2%.</p><p>The session began with oil prices sliding to their lowest levels since early March after the U.S. and Iran signed an interim agreement that extends the April ceasefire by another 60 days.</p><p>But Alexander Morris, CEO and chief investment officer at F/m Investments, warns that lower oil prices won't immediately ease other inflationary pressures.</p><p>"Certainly energy prices are set to come down and meaningfully so in the short run. But energy prices have been elevated for a while, and that influences way more than just the cost at the pump. That's the cost of fertilizer for the Northern Hemisphere. All of the plants that needed to be planted and immediately fertilized, they've been in the ground for weeks. So that is now baked into the price of our future soft commodities, grains, corn, soybeans, et cetera. So we're going to see this reverberate."</p><p>Investors on Thursday were still assessing Kevin Warsh's first press conference as Federal Reserve Chair a day earlier, in which he stressed the central bank would keep its focus on price stability but provide less guidance on the path of interest rates.</p><p>:: Archive</p><p>:: Intel</p><p>Among individual stock moves, semiconductor companies outperformed the rest of the market, with Intel's shares jumping more than 10.5% to a record high. President Donald Trump said Apple had agreed to work with Intel to design and manufacture its chips in the U.S. </p><p>Shares of Elon Musk's SpaceX shed 3.5%, falling for a second straight day. The stock had rallied sharply earlier in the week following last Friday's blockbuster market debut.</p><p>And shares of Kroger tumbled almost 8.5% after the grocer reported a lower-than-expected quarterly profit and kept its annual forecasts unchanged.</p><p>The U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed on Friday for the Juneteenth holiday.</p></body>
Netflix remains one of streaming’s strongest businesses, with investors looking for signs that ad growth and cash flow can add more upside beyond future price hikes.
Intel on Thursday named Seok-Hee Lee executive vice president of its contract chip-manufacturing division as it sharpens focus on its advanced packaging business. The American chipmaker has been trying to reinvigorate its manufacturing business under CEO Lip-Bu Tan, after missing out on the AI boom. The appointment follows President Donald Trump's announcement earlier in the day that Apple had agreed to work with Intel to design and manufacture its chips in the U.S. in a boost to the chipmaker's contract manufacturing business.
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A California agency said Thursday it has asked a U.S. court and the Federal Communications Commission to reject the request of AT&T to stop offering traditional copper wire phone service to new customers. The California Public Utilities Commission said AT&T's was trying to get out of its obligations as a carrier of last resort.
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Moderna shares rose 3.5% Thursday after an advisory committee voted to recommend the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approve the biotech’s proposed new flu shot for people 50 and older. The FDA had initially declined to consider Moderna’s application for the shot’s approval, but then agreed to review it after Moderna amended it. The advisory committee vote in favor of the vaccine isn’t binding, but the FDA generally follows such recommendations.