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11:55 a.m. March 3, 2016
- By Mark DeCambre
Bond guru Bill Gross believes negative rates sweeping Europe and Japan have the potential to roil the global economy by upending the business model of the banking sector.
8:26 a.m. March 3, 2016
- By Rachel Koning Beals
Count global headwinds, financial market instability, and the rise of protest politics at the hands of Donald Trump and others as chief factors that could slow the U.S. economy.
7:56 a.m. March 3, 2016
- By Tomi Kilgore
Gold prices produced a rare, bullish “golden cross” technical pattern, but gold bugs shouldn’t take it as an all-clear signal to buy.
4:54 p.m. March 2, 2016
- By Anora Mahmudova
Lower volume on positive day than on negative days suggest lack of conviction, according to a trader.
4:18 p.m. March 2, 2016
- By Wallace Witkowski
Money managers are looking for a few new stock ideas as funds appear to be selling off more top holding stocks than they are buying.
2:59 p.m. March 2, 2016
- By Sue Chang
A lot of ink has been devoted to savvy millennials. But by at least one recent measure, they’re trailing their parents’ generation by a wide margin: investing.
6:59 a.m. March 2, 2016
- By Tomi Kilgore
Bill Ackman has lost more than $2 billion on his investment in Valeant Pharmaceutical International, according to an analysis of regulatory filings.
2:18 p.m. March 1, 2016
- By Shawn Langlois
The “smart money” currently holds an “extreme” net short position in yen futures. In fact, they haven’t been this short in more than four years. If the yen does crater, it could mean good news for bulls.
3:18 p.m. Feb. 29, 2016
- By Tomi Kilgore
Carl Icahn was losing big on the large stake of Federal-Mogul Holdings Corp. he already owned, before offering to buy the rest of the shares outstanding for a hefty premium.
1:47 p.m. Feb. 29, 2016
- By Silvia Ascarelli
Earnings estimates are falling faster than stock prices, pushing up the P/E ratio for the S&P; 500.
11:10 a.m. Feb. 29, 2016
- By William Watts
Billionaire Warren Buffett on Monday said investors shouldn’t try to get rich by piggybacking on his investment picks or mimicking other high-profile financiers.
10:02 a.m. Feb. 29, 2016
- By Trey Williams
For the second year in a row, it seems that who isn’t at the Oscars will be as hot a topic as who is.
7:39 a.m. Feb. 29, 2016
- By Victor Reklaitis
Watch out because a key stock benchmark is close to a “bearish crossover,” warns one chart watcher.
10:33 a.m. Feb. 26, 2016
- By Sara Sjolin
Sliding oil prices have sparked a round of impairment charges, project delays and reduced exploration among Europe’s oil majors, with the majority of the Stoxx Europe 600’s oil and gas producers reporting losses in the one-billion dollar territory.
12:51 p.m. Feb. 27, 2016
- By William Watts
Warren Buffett says politicians bashing America’s economic prospects have it all wrong.
12:34 p.m. Feb. 27, 2016
- By Anora Mahmudova
Dow and S&P; 500 both up more than 5% since co-founder and chief executive officer of DoubleLine Capital made purchases.
1:02 p.m. Feb. 25, 2016
- By Ellie Ismailidou
Issuing debt, one of the most common ways for companies to finance their operating needs, has become dramatically harder in 2016, making this the toughest capital market to tap since 2005, according to data from Janney Montgomery Scott.
8:24 a.m. Feb. 25, 2016
- By Sara Sjolin
Apple engineers are working on boosting security for its iPhone software, which would make the phone almost impossible to hack by the company itself and government agencies, according to media reports.
7:34 a.m. Feb. 25, 2016
- By Sara Sjolin
‘Brexit’ fears, slower Chinese growth and weakness in developed markets are all raising the risk of a recession — which Citi defines as less than 2% economic growth
3:26 a.m. Feb. 25, 2016
- By Sara Sjolin
U.S. companies could see their bottom lines slashed if the U.K. votes to leave the European Union in a so-called Brexit referendum this summer, according to Bank of America.
3:24 a.m. Feb. 25, 2016
- By Sara Sjolin
After a solid rally in 2016, analysts at Citigroup on Wednesday cut their ratings on the metals and mining sector to neutral from bullish, arguing the sector is now more reasonably valued with little impetus to boost the share price.
2:27 p.m. Feb. 24, 2016
- By Wallace Witkowski
Contrary to the popular narrative that a drop in oil prices is presaging a global economic meltdown, the drop in crude may actually be signaling the opposite, that the worst is already behind us, according to one market strategist.
11:38 a.m. Feb. 23, 2016
- By Sara Sjolin
The global economic slowdown is taking its toll on Germany, Europe’s economic powerhouse, as exports slump for the first time since 2012 and business sentiment at the lowest level in more than a year.
7:36 a.m. Feb. 23, 2016
- By Sara Sjolin
U.K. stocks have been unloved by many investors in recent years, but a perfect storm of a weaker pound, attractive valuation and improving earnings make now the ideal time to jump back into the region’s equities, J.P. Morgan says.
4:18 p.m. Feb. 22, 2016
- By Sue Chang
As of Monday, governments around the world collectively owe $59.66 trillion in debt and by the time you finish reading this story, they will owe another few million dollars in just interest alone, according to the NationalDebtClocks.Org.
4:13 p.m. Feb. 22, 2016
- By William Watts
Sovereign-wealth funds sold or exited more than $213 billion worth of listed equities in 2015 and could dump nearly double that amount this year if oil remains below $40 a barrel, the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute says.
1:30 p.m. Feb. 22, 2016
- By Mark DeCambre
According to a Deutsche Bank note dated Feb 19, short squeezes aren’t the dominant factor underpinning this climb for stocks.
1:28 p.m. Feb. 22, 2016
- By Anora Mahmudova
Dividend cuts have already cost shareholders more than $3 billion so far this year. Watch for what Exxon Mobil does in April.
1:10 p.m. Feb. 22, 2016
- By Shawn Langlois
If you’re one those panicky types scrambling to prepare for some sort of imminent collapse by overhauling your approach and trying to time the carnage, Larry Swedroe offers this timely bit of advice: Stop it. Just. Stop.
5:41 a.m. Feb. 22, 2016
- By Victor Reklaitis
Protesters worldwide plan to blast the FBI for trying to break into a terror suspect’s iPhone, and the public looks like it’s mostly with Apple in this fight. Meanwhile, the FBI’s director, James Comey, says everyone should essentially chill out.
8:24 a.m. Feb. 20, 2016
- By Tomi Kilgore
A “bearish engulfing” reversal pattern appeared in the exchange-traded fund tracking financial stocks, to warn of a deeper selloff, less than a week after a bullish “abandoned baby” pattern suggested a bottom may be in place.
12:36 p.m. Feb. 19, 2016
- By Tomi Kilgore
Carl Icahn sells half his holding in Mentor Graphics a week before the company reports quarterly results.
11:41 a.m. Feb. 19, 2016
- By Sara Sjolin
The recent winter months have been tough for oil, but a summer reprieve from plunging prices could be coming for the struggling energy markets.
8:14 a.m. Feb. 19, 2016
- By William Watts
Saudi Arabia and other Gulf oil producers saw their credit ratings downgraded this week. Here’s what that says about cheap oil and the global economy.
5:05 p.m. Feb. 18, 2016
- By Ellie Ismailidou
Either the Atlanta Fed is wrong and the U.S. economy is headed towards deep recession or the Treasury market is significantly mispriced.
12:29 p.m. Feb. 18, 2016
- By Sara Sjolin
Sales of Apple’s iPhone dropped for the first time in the fourth quarter last year, losing market share in an arena that is increasingly being taken over by low-cost phone makers in developing countries.
3:12 a.m. Feb. 18, 2016
- By Sara Sjolin
After Draghi hinted more stimulus could be coming in March, expectations have risen deposit rates will be yanked further into negative. But could the most bullish ECB outcome be no rate cut at all?
4:06 p.m. Feb. 17, 2016
- By Wallace Witkowski
It could be the biggest blow to boxer Manny Pacquiao since his loss to Floyd Mayweather this past May.
3:16 a.m. Feb. 17, 2016
- By Sara Sjolin
On the surface, the announcement marks a major step toward instilling a modicum of confidence in the beaten-down oil market, but the devil is in the details and the agreement is far from perfect, according to analysts.
6:41 p.m. Feb. 16, 2016
- By Sally French
The Velocity Shares 3X Long Crude ETN came in number 5 on the list of top 10 stocks traded by millennials in 2015.
