Author: Ross Wilkers|| Date Published: April 4, 2016
The GovCon Index started the first full week of April and second-quarter trade Monday with a decline of 0.191 points to 74.189 in a session that saw U.S. stocks hold slightly negative throughout the day.
The S&P 500 composite index closed down 6.65 points — or 0.32 percent — as investors slowed down the flurry of positive movement in U.S. markets in search of new indicators on the pace and timing of interest rate hikes.
Reuters cited the CME Group FedWatch program’s projection that traders expect the Federal Reserve to raise rates one time compared to the central bank’s projections of two hikes.
Crude oil futures in New York fell 2.96 percent to a one-month low of $35.70 with the brent benchmark in London down 94 cents to $37.73 a barrel over continued concerns that major producers are not close to a production freeze agreement.
HawkEye 360, provider of space-based signals intelligence, has acquired Innovative Signal Analysis, a Dallas, Texas-based company manufacturing high-performance signal-processing technologies.…
The Defense Health Agency awarded a combined $8.07 billion in contracts to Humana Government Business, Evernorth Federal Services and Ipsos Public Affairs…
The GovCon Index started the first full week of April and second-quarter trade Monday with a decline of 0.191 points to 74.189 in a session that saw U.S. stocks hold slightly negative throughout the day.
