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Despite slowing economic growth, corporate earnings under pressure and a property market in a funk, China’s long-maligned stock market is among the strongest in the world.
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Swiss airport retailer Dufry said it has agreed to buy Italy’s World Duty Free in a deal that values the latter at about €3.6 billion ($3.9 billion), including debt.
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Financial firms are creating a murky market where the red-hot stocks of closely held technology companies trade largely out of sight of regulators, other investors and the companies themselves.
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The Intelligent Investor: After more than six years of a bull market, investors should stare a cold, hard truth straight in the face: Future returns on stocks are likely to be far slimmer than the fat gains of the past few years.
Bubbly biotech stocks go flat, while Mideast tension roils oil. Here, in five charts, is a look at this week’s financial-market highlights.
A possible deal at Intel Corp. led the semiconductor sector and the broader market higher Friday afternoon.
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Sure, yields are puny. But when stocks next tumble, the value of cash will be clear, says columnist Morgan Housel.
They have tended to make better-timed moves with their money than active-fund investors, says columnist Jonathan Clements.
In 1964, the Internal Revenue Service sent a bill for $413.44 to the Mary Archer W. Morris Trust, claiming the trust owed unpaid taxes on shares it held in American Trust Co., a small North Carolina bank that had recently merged with a rival.
The so-called secondary market for shares of private companies held by employees and other investors is booming because of the runaway popularity of up-and-comers like Uber Technologies. Participants in pre-IPO trading estimate that $10 billion to $30 billion in stock changed hands last year.
Companies, directors and underwriters received good news on Tuesday from the U.S. Supreme Court, which limited their potential liabilities under the securities laws. Or did they?
A possible deal at Intel Corp. led the semiconductor sector and the broader market higher Friday afternoon.
Investors think the merger of Kraft and Heinz keeps getting tastier.
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Companies’ first-quarter results will be much worse than analysts had expected at the start of the year. The squeeze has only just begun.
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Dow’s chlorine spinoff marks an important step in raising margins and possibly the chemical company’s valuation multiple.
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Shares in highly valued diabetes specialist Novo Nordisk jumped on its decision to resubmit insulin Tresiba to U.S. regulators. That is the latest thing to fall into place for the Danish company.
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Inflation in Japan has fallen to zero, but the economy is still headed in the right direction.
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China’s lack of clarity on natural gas pricing leaves a gray area when analyzing energy giants PetroChina and Sinopec.
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