By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asian share markets followed Wall Street higher on Tuesday as China’s factories struggled to re-open after an extended break, though analysts warned investors might be underestimating how economically damaging the challenge was likely to be. The death toll from the coronavirus epidemic in mainlandRead More →
For Blackstone co-founder and chief executive Stephen Schwarzman, worrying is fun. In his new memoir What it Takes, the private-equity titan advises readers that worrying “is playful, engaging work that requires you never switch it off.” This approach helped him to protect Blackstone Group Inc. BX, +1.23% investors from theRead More →
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A Wall St. street sign is seen near the NYSE in New YorkNYSE in New York By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors are preparing for more cautious capital investment outlooks from U.S. companies as worries mount heading into earnings season about the possibility ofRead More →
By Richa Naidu and Siddharth Cavale CHICAGO (Reuters) – Investors are chewing out Kraft Heinz Co (O:) for failing to lay out a full strategy for how it plans to compete in the roughly $3 billion-a-year plant-based protein market. At the Kraft Heinz annual meeting to be held in PittsburghRead More →
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (MarketWatch) — Be on guard against one of the popular bullish rationales making the rounds on Wall Street. I am referring to the notion that the U.S. stock market SPX, +0.03% does particularly well in the year leading up to a presidential election, especially one in whichRead More →
There goes the “hope” premium. Stock-market investors spent the first four months of 2019 penciling in an easy resolution to a U.S.-China trade tiff. Things have changed. “While we, like most investors, are hopeful that a trade deal gets done sooner rather than later, we don’t think hoping for theRead More →
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Container cranes are pictured at the Port of Singapore By Jonathan Saul and Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) – More ports around the world are banning ships from using a fuel cleaning system that pumps waste water into the sea, one of the cheapest options for meetingRead More →
The mother of all political battles is coming, and it’s about a wall. No, not that one. It’s another, much bigger wall. One that fewer people are talking about — so far. It’s the wall that Social Security is due to run into in just 15 years. That’s when, sayRead More →
Happy Friday, MarketWatchers. Here are some of the day’s top stories to keep you entertained as we head into the long weekend. Personal Finance H&R Block agents took ‘empathy training’ to handle people upset by smaller tax refunds or surprise tax bills Accountants are investing in customer service as theRead More →
President Donald Trump bemoaned Thursday a lack of media attention for the “great earnings” coming out of Wall Street. Great earnings coming out of Stock Market. Too bad Media doesn’t devote much time to this! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 25, 2019 MarketWatch devotes a great deal of timeRead More →
