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Home Depot still doing well despite cooling housing market

by Amy Scott
Nov 13, 2018
Despite signs of a cooling housing market, the home improvement giant turned in a $2.9 billion profit for the third quarter.
A sign is posted in front of a Home Depot store on Aug. 14, 2018 in El Cerrito, California.
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SoftBank is taking its mobile division public. But what is SoftBank?

by Marielle Segarra
Nov 12, 2018
SoftBank Group Corp., the massive Japanese holding company, is planning to take its mobile division public. The company is trying to raise $21 billion in its IPO, and it’ll list on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in December. You may not have heard of SoftBank, but it has a hand in a lot of our consumer technologies […]
Softbank group CEO Masayoshi Son delivers a speech during his company's financial results press conference at a hotel in Tokyo on Nov. 5, 2018.
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With holiday shopping approaching, consumers weigh pocketbook issues

by Mitchell Hartman
Oct 26, 2018
Consumer sentiment has been strong.
The billions of dollars spent on holiday shopping each year leaves out one big piece of the gift-giving puzzle.
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With holiday shopping approaching, consumers weigh pocketbook issues

by Mitchell Hartman
Oct 26, 2018
Consumer sentiment has been strong.
The billions of dollars spent on holiday shopping each year leaves out one big piece of the gift-giving puzzle.
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Uber and Lyft are driving toward IPOs

by Emma Jacobs
Oct 18, 2018
Investors could pony up $140 billion for shares even though neither firm is profitable.
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Uber and Lyft are driving toward IPOs

by Emma Jacobs
Oct 18, 2018
Investors could pony up $140 billion for shares even though neither firm is profitable.
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Dow Jones industrials sink 700 points as bond yields rise

by Associated Press
Oct 10, 2018
Companies that have been big winners, including tech firms, suffered steep declines.
Traders work on the floor at the closing bell of the Dow Industrial Average at the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday.
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SEC agreement puts the brakes on Elon Musk

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Oct 1, 2018
Tesla CEO pays the price for tweets.
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The Source Code: Brad Katsuyama

by Molly Wood
Sep 19, 2018
The former trader started his own stock exchange, IEX, to address his concerns about high-frequency trading.
IEX Group President and CEO Bradley Katsuyama, right, and Notre Dame finance professor Robert Battalio prepare to testify before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Investigations Subcommittee about high-speed stock trading in 2014.
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The business case for a stock market speed bump

by Molly Wood
Sep 19, 2018
A 350-millisecond delay can help long-term investors get equal footing with high-frequency traders, argues IEX's CEO.
Bradley Katsuyama, IEX Group president and CEO, testifies before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Investigations Subcommittee about high-speed stock trading in U.S. markets on Capitol Hill in 2014.
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