Market Pulse - Usa
US close: Stocks power on to record levels as GDP numbers shrugged aside
US stocks finished at record highs on Friday, with strong results from Intel helping to underpin the mood following the release of disappointing fourth-quarter growth figures, as the dollar came off lows.
Trump offers dreamers 1.8m visas in exchange for funding for wall
The White House has announced the outline of an immigration plan that would allow 1. 8m immigrants to become US citizens in exchange for a $25bn budget to fund a border wall with México and tighter controls on legal immigration.
Intel posts record results but warns on security flaws
Chipmaker Intel beat market expectations to report a record finish to 2017 – but the US giant also warned, for the first time, that fallout from recently discovered security flaws could prove damaging.
FX round-up: Dollar ends higher as traders try to decipher policymakers' remarks
The US dollar edged higher after in a volatile day of trading on Thursday, as US president Donald Trump argued at Davos that remarks made during the previous day by the country's Treasury Secretary, Steve Mnuchin had been taken out of context.