June 4, 2020
“Stocks reversed earlier losses and rose Thursday, pacing toward a fifth straight day of gains as investors looked past a new report showing new unemployment insurance claims totaled another 1.877 million last week, coming in slightly above expectations. The Nasdaq 100 rallied… Continue Reading…
April 24, 2020
“Shares of Chesapeake Energy tore higher again on Friday, adding to gains of more than 90% in the past three days, after the oil and hydrocarbon driller announced it adopted a poison pill to thwart any takeover attempts spurred by… Continue Reading…
April 16, 2020
“It took only four weeks for the U.S. economy to wipe out nearly all the job gains in the last 11 years. The coronavirus and the forced closure of business throughout the country again fueled the number of Americans applying… Continue Reading…
April 7, 2020
“10:38 a.m. ET: Stocks pare some gains Stocks eased up after surging at market open. Each of the three major indices, however, was still up at least 1%. Gains in the S&P 500 were led by the Energy sector, up… Continue Reading…
March 10, 2020
“Markets in Asia and Europe staged a recovery Tuesday, and the Dow soared 800 points a day after novel coronavirus fears and an oil price war sparked a worldwide panic… The Dow (INDU) soared 3.3%. The S&P 500 (SPX) rose 2.9% and the Nasdaq (COMP) was up 2.7%.JPMorgan equity strategists… Continue Reading…
February 10, 2020
“The unemployment rate ticked higher to 3.6%, but for the right reason as the labor force participation rate increased 0.2 percentage points to 63.4%, matching its highest level since June 2013, according to data released Friday by the Labor Department…… Continue Reading…
February 5, 2020
“The jobs market kicked off 2020 in grand fashion, adding 291,000 in private payrolls for the best monthly gain since May 2015, according to a report Wednesday from ADP and Moody’s Analytics. That was well above the 150,000 estimate from… Continue Reading…
January 31, 2020
“Shares of Amazon climbed as much as 11% in extended trading on Thursday after smashing earnings expectations for the fourth quarter. The company’s market cap surged above $1 trillion after hours on the back of the powerhouse earnings report. In doing so, it joined Apple, Alphabet and Microsoft,… Continue Reading…
January 15, 2020
“Americans in every U.S. metropolitan area experienced economic prosperity in 2018, according to a recent report from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. For the first time in 26 years, no metro area saw per-capita incomes fall that year — the… Continue Reading…
December 31, 2019
“…the richer they were at the start of the year, the richer they got. The world’s 500 wealthiest people tracked by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index added $1.2 trillion, boosting their collective net worth 25% to $5.9 trillion… Leading the 2019… Continue Reading…
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