General Electric's tipping point is gaining momentum as key businesses improve, while the industrial giant continues to reduce its debt load. Does this mean investors should pay close attention to GE stock?

Gold prices rose on Wednesday as a decline in U.S. Treasury bond yields and worries about lockdowns in the eurozone boosted demand for the safe-haven asset, although a stronger dollar limited the upside potential for the precious metal.

As stated by the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco M. Daly:

Foreign Buying of Japanese Bonds for the period ending March 20th was reported at ¥551.6B, and Foreigners Buying of Japanese Stocks was reported at -¥79.7B.

The Preliminary French Market Manufacturing PMI for March is predicted at 56.5. Forex traders can compare this to the French Market Manufacturing PMI for January, reported at 56.1.

U.S. stock indices closed Tuesday's trading lower, following the shares of companies that will be most affected by the slowdown in economic activity after the pandemic.

Verizon Communications was not resilient to the negative effects of the coronavirus pandemic last year. Like many other companies, its revenues were down in 2020 compared to 2019.

Canada: January retail sales -1.1% to $54.5 billion vs. -3,4%.

Cisco Systems stock continues to rise periodically as the market turns to securities tied to the economic upturn. The outlook for CSCO stock hinges on trends in spending on cloud computing infrastructure and enterprise and telecom networks.

The U.S. stock market closed yesterday on the upside amid growing shares of technology companies. Investors continue to monitor the situation on the US government bond market.