Новости за 12.02.2016

U.S. equity markets ended the week on a high note as they surged during Friday’s session. But the late rally wasn’t enough to push the major averages into positive territory for the week after stocks were battered by plunging oil prices and more talk about negative interest rates in the U.S.

Oil futures rallied Friday, buoyed in part by comments from the United Arab Emirates' energy minister who said that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is willing to cooperate on possible production cuts.

Gold futures settled lower on Friday, pulling back after rallying to a one-year high a day earlier.

Shares of Vulcan Materials Co. climbed 1.1% in afternoon trade Friday, after the construction materials maker said it was doubling its quarterly dividend.

Oil prices continued to climb after data Friday from Baker Hughes showed that the number of active U.S. oil-drilling rigs edged down for an eighth week in a row.

New York Federal Reserve President William Dudley said concerns that U.S. central bankers are considering negative interest rates are “extraordinarily premature.”

L Brands Inc. shares fell 2.2% on Friday after the company announced that Sharen Jester Turney, chief executive of Victoria's Secret, resigned.

Visa Inc. has disclosed details of its nearly five-year-old investment in Square Inc., raising questions about Visa's plans for its stake in the mobile-payment startup.

Federal Reserve policy is "appropriately quite accommodative" given the low level of inflation, which poses little threat to a U.S. economic expansion that will only grow older unless there is an outside shock, an influential Fed official said on Friday.

Deutsche Bank AG said it will buy back $5.4 billion of its senior unsecured debt, in a move designed to bolster investor confidence in the German lender's liquidity and in the value of its securities.

Consumer confidence drifted lower in February as the economic outlook deteriorated.

U.S. stocks opened higher on Friday, aided by a jump in oil prices and better-than-expected retail sales data.

Shares of Red Robin Gourmet Burgers Inc. are up 4.7% in premarket trading after it reported fourth-quarter earnings that beat Street estimates and a $100 million share repurchase program.

Netflix Inc. was downgraded Friday at FBR & Co., which cited concerns over slowing subscriber growth, increasing competition and cash burn.

Deutsche Bank AG on Friday unveiled a multi-billion euro and dollar bond buyback program, confirming media reports from earlier this week.

IAC/InterActiveCorp was upgraded to buy from hold at Stifel on the belief that the company is entering another period of share repurchases.

Prices for imported goods fell sharply in January, the latest sign that a slumping global economy and plunging oil prices are weighing on inflation in the U.S.

The Commerce Department reports retail sales rose 0.2% in January, compared to expectations for a rise of 0.1%. Excluding the volatile auto component, sales rose 0.1%, compared to expectations of sales being unchanged.

A near 7 percent slump in China shares listed in Hong Kong this week and meltdown in financial markets globally is putting investors on edge ahead of the reopening of mainland China markets on Monday.

Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase, on Thursday bought 500,000 shares of the company's stock for more than $25 million, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Japan's Nikkei share average stumbled to a fresh 16-month low in heavy trade on Friday, and posted the biggest weekly drop since 2008 as investors scrambled to dump risky assets.

U.S. crude jumped more than 3% to above $27 per barrel after comments by the energy minister of OPEC-member United Arab Emirates sparked hopes of a coordinated production cut.

After a week that has seen the yen soar against rivals, specifically the dollar, the country's finance minister on Friday sent a warning to investors.

When the diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba started to ease in late 2014, Bacardi thought it was just a matter of time until it would reacquire full ownership of the Havana Club rum prized trademark.

American International Group Inc , the biggest U.S. commercial insurer by premiums, reported a bigger-than-expected quarterly operating loss, hurt by weak underwriting and lower returns on investments in a turbulent market.