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The president is not the economy

Aug 23, 2018
The word “impeachment”  has been getting a lot of play over the last few days, including by President Donald Trump, who said this during an interview on “Fox and Friends”: “I tell you what, if I ever got impeached, I think the market would crash. I think everybody would be very poor.” Setting aside whether […]
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What is a stock’s target price?

Aug 20, 2018
Really, it’s just an informed guess about how high or low a stock will go.
A video board shows the Dow Jones closing above 20,000 for the first time at the New York Stock Exchange January 25, 2017 in New York. 
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President Trump wants companies to report earnings less often. Good idea?

Aug 17, 2018
There’s a dance called earnings season that happens in the corporate world every three months. Public companies are required to open their books and add up all those debits and credits so that investors, analysts, and the media can comb through their financial statements. President Donald Trump on Friday said he’s asked the Securities and […]
US President Donald Trump, center, hosts a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Aug. 16, 2018 in Washington, DC. 
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Bayer facing possible growing legal costs, consumer backlash after Roundup jury award

Aug 13, 2018
It’s been a rough day for Monsanto, the maker of the weedkiller Roundup. On Friday a jury awarded a California groundskeeper $289.2 million, concluding that exposure to Roundup caused his cancer. On Monday stock in Bayer, the company that acquired Monsanto earlier this year, tumbled 10 percent. Click the audio player above to hear the […]
Bottles of Monsanto's Roundup are seen for sale June 19, 2018 at a retail store in Glendale, California.
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A hedge fund gets hungry for Campbell Soup

Aug 10, 2018
Big investment groups are scouring the market for companies whose stock they think could be worth more.
Hedge fund Third Point has invested nearly $700 million in Campbell Soup Co.
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How savvy investments help members of Congress

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 […]
The U.S. House of Representatives chamber is seen December 8, 2008 in Washington, DC. 
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Why Tesla is flirting with the idea of going private

Aug 8, 2018
The company is weathering growing pains and may retreat from the stock market spotlight.
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For public good, not for profit.

Why big companies are buying up their own stocks

Aug 7, 2018
Buybacks among S&P 500 companies are projected to hit $1 trillion this year.
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2008 crash is now an economic case study

Jul 30, 2018
Economics students in the U.K. led the charge to include lessons from the financial collapse in university curricula.
News tickers at the Nasdaq MarketSite show negative numbers October 9, 2008 in New York City. 
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Why delaying Social Security reform now could cause our children's wealth to shrink further

Jul 11, 2018
"I think it's up to our generation to fix the mistakes that we've made," Arun Muralidhar, founder of MCube Investment Technologies and co-author of "Rethinking Pension Reform," told us.
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