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2.2KEconomic Stability For Payments and Commerce: An Old-Fashioned Idea
When it comes to currency and global trade, “stability” seems like a quaint concept these days, an increasingly distant memory that takes...
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2.4KThe Rise Of Currency Hedging And Risk Management
Currency hedging has long been a part of global business and trade — but now it is becoming more important thanks to...
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4.7KRising Wages May Be A Headwind For Retailers
As the market grapples for momentum before companies report second-quarter earnings, rising wages may prove to be a headwind: Labor Department data...
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4.0KIPOs Make Comeback With $35.2B So Far In 2018
With 120 companies using initial public offerings (IPOs) to raise more than $35 billion on U.S. exchanges, companies are raising capital through...
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2.2KAmerican Households Gain $1T In Wealth
Bolstered by increasing home values and stock prices, The Fed said that American households gained $1 trillion in wealth over the first...
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2.9KApple’s CEO Meets With Trump To Talk Trade
Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, had a meeting with President Donald Trump on Wednesday (April 25) in the Oval Office. Bloomberg...
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7.0KTech Stock Slump Extends Into Third Week With Billions In Value Gone
Tech stocks continued their bloodletting Monday (April 2), with everything technology related slumping, extending what is now a three-week decline as fears...
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3.2KCiti’s Q3: U.S. Consumer Credit Down And Credit Losses Up
It was a beat, for Citigroup, but maybe not as clean a beat as investors might have liked, muddied a bit by...
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3.4KMacro Hurts, And Starbucks Takes Leave Of Teas (Well, Teavana)
Even the coffee giant, that purveyor of caffeinated craving, is not immune to the vagaries of macroeconomics. Starbucks, as noted by Forbes...
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3.8KBlue Apron Shares Surge After Buy Rating
In Wall Street news, shares of Blue Apron Holdings, Inc., ARPN.N, jumped as much as 20 percent on Monday after several brokerages...
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3.0KJob Growth Remains Strong In U.S.
In the U.S., job growth continues as the Wall Street Journal notes a nine-year economic expansion. But a paradox continues: jobs are...
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4.0KYahoo Bids Adieu With Earnings Beat
In the end, Yahoo managed to beat the Street just before becoming property. As has been reported, Verizon is buying Yahoo, but...
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3.8KCard Spend Pushes Amex Top/Bottom Lines Above Consensus
With Costco increasingly in the rearview mirror, American Express hurdled Street estimates, as members spent more both here and abroad.
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3.4KMoving Beyond The Crowded ‘Big Short’ Trade On Malls
It may have been relatively easy pickings, the so-called “mall short.” But on Wall Street, crowded trades can become traps, when sentiment...
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2.4KAnalysts Remain Optimistic About Costco
While Costco has had a rough time this month, with an earnings release that didn’t live up to expectations and shares that...
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2.3KStocks Slide On Concerns Over Trump Agenda
The Trump rally got a bump on Tuesday — down. The U.S. stock market and several other asset classes, including bonds, sank markedly...
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2.8KGrocery Tracker: Weis Markets Up In Q4
This past week saw grocery stocks down again — with one exception — as stateside food deflation continues to eat away at...
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3.2KFor Jobs Report, Glass Half-Empty or Half-Full?
The first jobs report post the surprise (and for many, shock) of Donald Trump’s election can be viewed, as so much in...
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2.5KDow, S&P Climb, Trump’s Stock Rally Runs On
Looks like the Trump rally may have some legs. The Dow Jones Industrial Average touched a new high on Tuesday, notching gains...
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More Of The Same For Wild Stock Markets?
In just the first few days after what can only be termed stunning election results, the stock market’s rise can only be...
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3.6KBrexit Stock Shock Part Deux — This Time from the American Election?
Sure, all eyes are on the election. But come Wednesday, what will we all talk about? All the negativity will be gone....
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3.3KBeyond The Fed, Japan’s Tell For Stocks
All U.S. eyes may be on the Federal Reserve and the ongoing policy meeting — and, by extension, where rates are headed...