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When stock exchanges malfunction, what keeps total chaos from taking hold?
Oct 20, 2020
A lot of investment banks and brokers are working behind the scenes to straighten out all of the stock exchange orders.
Stocks plunge, resuming volatility, as traders, analysts find data lagging
by
Scott Tong
Mar 5, 2020
"Analysts have their hands in the air," one investment strategist says as markets struggle to predict the future.
What’s really happening when markets react to trade war news
by
Kai Ryssdal
and Bennett Purser
Aug 26, 2019
When news breaks on the trade war, algorithms and wishful thinking kick in.
Apple shares drop after news of waning iPhone sales
Jan 3, 2019
Cook also attributes challenges in China to the projected downturn in revenue.
Can Trump fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell?
by
Adriene Hill
, Janet Nguyen
and Daisy Palacios
Dec 24, 2018
The president isn’t happy with the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes.
How falling bond yields are both good and bad for the economy
Dec 20, 2018
Thursday saw another big stock market sell-off. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slumped 464 points, or 1.9 percent. The Dow is off 10 percent for December, and the Nasdaq is down more than 19 percent since Aug. 29. The bond market has been heading in the opposite direction these last few weeks, as increased investor interest […]
When presidents are laid to rest, Wall Street takes a break
Dec 5, 2018
The tradition dates as far back as the 1800s.
For public good, not for profit.
Here’s why the market is looking past the trade war
by
Justin Ho
Sep 20, 2018
As the trade conflict between the United States and China goes on, it can sometimes feel like there’s no end in sight. Just this week, the Trump administration announced plans to slap $200 billion in tariffs on Chinese goods on top of the $50 billion in duties already in place. We’re now talking about tariffs […]
How savvy investments help members of Congress
by
Amy Scott
Aug 9, 2018
U.S. Rep. Chris Collins of New York was arrested and charged this week with allegedly passing on information he learned as a board member of a Australian pharmaceutical company to family members who quickly sold their stock to avoid big losses. Collins, like about of half of his colleagues in Congress, owns stock in publicly […]
2019 might be a dangerous period for the economy, according to the biggest hedge fund in the world
by
David Brancaccio
and Janet Nguyen
Jun 18, 2018
U.S. stocks and bonds might be overvalued.