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Trump tweet sends Chinese stocks soaring on American exchanges over hopes that trade war agreement can come about to avoid more tariffs.
Snap and Pinterest both see analyst upgrades, with different reasons and different types of upside.
Stocks were indicated to open higher on Tuesday after a small gain in the Dow and S&P 500 on Monday. It may be the summer, but investors need to be considering how they want their portfolios and...
U.S. stocks were trading higher on Monday as bad-to-less-good economic news has come into play at a time when the markets and economists are trying to factor trade war and tariffs into their mix. The...
It is not at all unusual for economists and market watchers to worry about trade tensions escalating. Where things break apart between the glass viewed as half-empty or half-full is if the trade...
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has released its Empire State Manufacturing report for the month of June. While this is just one region, it is viewed as being close to a real-time report that...
Stocks were indicated to open marginally higher on Monday after gains of about 0.4% for the Dow and S&P 500 last week. This summer Monday is not seeing any vast amounts of new news rattling the...
Top stock stories for the week of June 14, 2019 from earnings, mergers, analyst calls and more.
After the markets came roaring back a week earlier, the end result if you only look at weekly stock index changes for the week of June 14, 2019 might have made you wonder if anything even happened....
The Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank's model now projects real GDP growth in the second quarter that looks better than prior forecasts but is still shy of the first quarter,
Merck is set to host its Investor Day on June 20. Investors will have a high bar of expectations because so much of Merck's story is known.
GE is still looking for ways to raise capital from inside the company. One possible means of raising cash may come from its years worth of playing venture capitalist and private equity manager.
May's reading on retail sales did manage to post a 0.5% seasonally adjusted gain. That's the good news.