Dollar Is Losing Its Luster as Investors Line Up to Go Short (Bloomberg) — After rocketing higher in March as the ultimate haven currency, the dollar is now headed for its worst month since the beginning of 2018, and many strategists see the sell-off continuing. Negative real rates inRead More →
Gains in Japan and Hong Kong led an otherwise mixed early Asian stock session Thursday after the Federal Reserve signaled it will likely keep U.S. interest rates on hold throughout 2020 amid a solid economy. U.S. stocks gained slightly, the 10-year Treasury yield fell below 1.8% and the dollar DXY,Read More →
Investing.com — Here is a summary of regulatory news releases from the London Stock Exchange on Tuesday, 19th November. Please refresh for updates Full-year profit before tax at EasyJet (LON:) will be between 420 and 430 million pounds ($554-$557 million), the airline said after what it called a “solid performanceRead More →
Investing.com — Here is a summary of regulatory news releases from the London Stock Exchange on Tuesday, 19th November. Please refresh for updates Full-year profit before tax at EasyJet (LON:) will be between 420 and 430 million pounds ($554-$557 million), the airline said after what it called a “solid performanceRead More →
© Reuters. Logo of Line Corp is seen at the company’s headquarters in Tokyo TOKYO (Reuters) – SoftBank’s Yahoo (NASDAQ:) Japan, one of Japan’s top internet firms, confirmed it is in talks to merge with Line Corp (T:), a $27 billion union that would bring the messaging app operator underRead More →
These cruise lines offer a sea of savings. U.S. News & World Report released its 2020 list of the best cruise lines, on Tuesday, naming Royal Caribbean International as the best cruise line for your money. Royal Caribbean inched up from its No. 2 spot on the previous year’s list,Read More →
This woman from Texas, then aged 36, wrote to the Moneyist in September 2018. She didn’t have a college degree, said she would never earn more than $30,000 a year, and worked full-time for $15 an hour, in addition to a part-time job for $10 an hour. She paid $1,050Read More →
Happy Tuesday MarketWatchers. Don’t miss these top stories: Facebook’s cryptocurrency Libra may be a red line some people will refuse to cross Some social-media users regard Mark Zuckerberg’s financial-services ambitions with skepticism. This father paid $400,000 to get his child into Georgetown, but his son said he didn’t know —Read More →
Facebook is getting into crypto. The biggest social network on the planet said Tuesday it’s launching a cryptocurrency-based payments system called Libra. Unlike Bitcoin BTC, -3.42% it will be tied to the value of real-world currencies. A new subsidiary called Calibra that will offer the digital wallet for the Libra.Read More →
Carnival Corp. and its subsidiary Princess Cruise Lines has been ordered to pay $20 million for environmental violations just two years after it paid $40 million for dumping oil-contaminated waste into the ocean, the largest penalty of its kind at the time. ‘Carnival sought to avoid the discovery of problemsRead More →
Lucy Hewett Students work in a classroom at Buffalo Grove High School. This is the fourth in a six-part series of stories about programs that offer high-school students the opportunity to take college classes. The series was produced with support from the Education Writers Association Reporting Fellowship program. (Read partsRead More →
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: People look at the arrival of U.S. Carnival cruise ship Adonia at the Havana bay, the first cruise liner to sail between the United States and Cuba since Cuba’s 1959 revolution By Sarah Marsh and Nelson Acosta HAVANA (Reuters) – Cruise line Carnival (NYSE:) Corp isRead More →
“Free travel” — two little words that can jump-start the pulse, excite the imagination and, if you’re not careful, actually take money right out of your pocket. Travel rewards credit cards offering big sign-up bonuses and seemingly endless opportunities to earn points toward free flights, hotel stays and more canRead More →
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Signage for Lyft is seen displayed at the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square in celebration of its initial public offering (IPO) on the NASDAQ Stock Market in New York By Sinéad Carew and Lance Tupper NEW YORK (Reuters) – Lyft Inc (NASDAQ:) shares had seen strongRead More →
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May says she has secured the concessions required to get her divisive Brexit deal through parliament at the second time of asking. MPs will vote on the withdrawal agreement she has hammered out with European Union officials at around 7 p.m. on Tuesday, less than threeRead More →
At Lyft Inc., they were called “the O.G.” This iteration of an original gang comprised the first 50 or so drivers who took a chance on what may then have sounded like a crazy concept. Now, as Lyft and rival Uber Technologies Inc. gear up for the transition from startupRead More →
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A branded sign is displayed outside a William Hill betting shop in London (Reuters) – British bookmaker William Hill Plc said on Friday that 2019 results would be in line with market expectations while reporting a slight dip in full-year adjusted operating profit, as it bookedRead More →
Facebook Inc. suffered a series of data and privacy scandals and controversies in 2018, its worst year in the public eye. Have there been any actual consequences, though? Not according to what Facebook FB, +4.32% showed off Wednesday. The world’s largest social network reported record profit and revenue in theRead More →
© Reuters. Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York By Stephen Culp NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street advanced in low-volume trading on Monday as revelers gathered to ring in 2019, marking the end of the worst year for U.S. stocks sinceRead More →
