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Treasury yields ended with a loss in a choppy session that capped a gaining month.

U.S. natural gas futures fell as a lack of weather-driven demand outweighs a weekly storage report that landed at the low end of forecasts.

Gold settled down 1.8% Thursday, and silver fell 3.7%. Both metals ended the month higher.

U.S. stocks fell, with the Nasdaq leading the way down as investors were displeased with earnings of some big-tech companies. The S&P 500 posted its first monthly loss in five months.

Over the past 50 years or so, active funds’ returns have converged toward those of their underlying indexes, research finds. Small-cap funds are the exception.

The WSJ Dollar Index fell 0.2%, its second-consecutive drop. The index gained 3.3% in October.

The Nasdaq Composite suffers its worst day in nearly two months; Meta shares fall.

The SEC said that the bank’s violations included misleading disclosures to investors, not acting or making recommendations in the best interest of shareholders and prohibiting joint transactions and principal trades.

Australia’s biggest investment bank and asset manager said the performance was underpinned by improved realizations in Macquarie Asset Management, as well as further progress in the digitalization program in banking and financial services.

Japanese stocks were lower, dragged by falls in electronics and chemical stocks.

By Mia Berry Howard University alumna Sydney Satchell has had a busy month since winning a gold medal with the U.S. women’s sitting volleyball national team at the Paralympic Games in September. She attended a parade in her honor in her hometown of Windsor, Connecticut, and threw out the opening pitch at a Washington Nationals game. An avid women’s basketball fan, Satchell also was invited to attend a regular-season Connecticut Sun game and got to meet members of the UConn women’s basketball team, a special treat for the longtime Huskies fan. “Wanting to be at this high level as a kid and then accomplishing The post For a Howard alum who won gold at the Paralympics, perseverance is the real prize appeared first on HBCU News.

South Carolina is preparing to put up its first individual statue for an African American on its Statehouse lawn, honoring a man who put on Confederate clothes in order to steal a slaveholder’s ship and sail his family and a dozen others to freedom during the Civil War. But Robert Smalls isn’t just being honored for his audacious escape. He spent a decade in the U.S. House, helped rewrite South Carolina’s constitution to allow Black men equality after the Civil War and then put up a valiant but doomed fight when racists returned to power and eliminated nearly all of the gains The post South Carolina to build state’s first individual monument honoring an African American appeared first on HBCU News.