- Yahoo Finance
Energy stocks lead March gains in sign of broadening market rally
Energy stocks are the biggest winners this month as oil prices push higher. It's a sign the market rally is broadening beyond just Big Tech.
- Reuters
EMERGING MARKETS-Latam stocks advance, weak copper prices drag currencies of Chile, Peru
* Brazil's inflation well below expectations * Brazil's Gol files for U.S. bankruptcy * Chile central bank to cut rates by 100bps next week- poll * Latam stocks up 0.5%, FX up 0.1% By Amruta Khandekar Jan 26 (Reuters) - Most Latin American stocks gained on Friday as data pointing to a downward trend in U.S. inflation helped sentiment towards riskier assets while lower copper prices weighed on the currencies of Chile and Peru. MSCI's index for Latin American stocks rose 0.5% by 1507 GMT and was set for its first weekly gain in four. A gauge of currencies edged up 0.1%, on track for a marginal weekly advance.
- Reuters
Blinken hails progress in construction of Angola's Lobito rail corridor
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken hailed progress in the construction of the Lobito Corridor, a rail link key to metals exports from the central African Copperbelt, during a visit to Angola on Thursday. The United States has been supporting the project that links resource-rich Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Zambia to the port of Lobito in Angola to bypass logistics bottlenecks in South Africa that have held up exports of copper and cobalt.
