UK retail sales up but £18bn government borrowing makes tax rise ‘all but certain’ - Stock market news and latest business and personal finance updates from Friday

FOMC has cut the benchmark interest rates by 25 bps to 4%-4.25%, and has signaled two more rate cuts this year. Asian markets traded higher, while the Indian stock market benchmark indices, Sensex and Nifty 50,

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IBD MarketSurge Growth 250 name Bloom Energy BE jumped nearly 8% and reached an all-time high on the stock market today. On Tuesday, Morgan Stanley raised its price target to 85 from 44 and maintained its overweight rating on the clean energy stock.

The Federal Reserve cut its key interest rate by a quarter-point Wednesday and projected it would do so twice more this year as concern grows at the central bank about the health of the nation's labor