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Stocks

“…3 Top-Ranked Dividend Stocks – August 19, 2020”

“PSEG (PEG) is currently shelling out a dividend of $0.49 per share, with a dividend yield of 3.59%. This compares to the Utility – Electric Power industry’s yield of 3.44% and the S&P 500’s yield of 1.63%. In terms of dividend… Continue Reading…

Business, Economy

“Companies are taking on another $1 trillion in debt”

“Powered by ultra-low interest rates, corporate borrowing was already at an-all time high before the pandemic. Now, as cash-strapped companies frantically try to shore up their balance sheets, debts are expected to get even bigger. What’s happening: Corporate debt is poised to soar… Continue Reading…

Banking

“Bank Stocks Are Either Cheap or Signal More Pain”

“Something strange happened in the U.S. stock market on Tuesday… Rather, the most unusual part of the latest rally is that bank shares clearly led the advance. As of last week, Bloomberg’s 18-company S&P 500 Banks Index was down more than 40% in… Continue Reading…

Stocks

“Stock market news live updates: S&P 500 breaks above 3,000 amid vaccine hopes, reopenings”

“Stocks jumped Tuesday, and the S&P 500 traded above 3,000 for the first time since March 5, as hopes for an effective coronavirus vaccine combined with optimism over updates around states’ reopenings and better than expected new economic data. Each… Continue Reading…

Business, Economy

“With cuts at Vice, Quartz, BuzzFeed, even media’s savviest digital players are hurting”

“The layoffs came swiftly last week. At Vice Media, 155 people lost their jobs. Quartz laid off 80. Condé Nast, publisher of glossy magazines like Vogue, cut 100 people. And as BuzzFeed furloughed staffers at its overseas divisions, its U.S.-based… Continue Reading…

Economy

“How to reopen our economy? The same way we closed it down”

“It is not “stimulus” if there’s nothing to stimulate. With almost all states having ordered citizens to stay home and most businesses to shutter, the coronavirus “stimulus” bill passed by Congress and signed by President Trump on March 27 is really a “bridge” bill — a… Continue Reading…

Stocks

“…Stocks extend gains, Dow adds 700+ points”

“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…

Economy

“Markets Enter New Phase—Where Cash Is All That Matters”

“A rush for cash shook the financial system Wednesday, as companies and investors hunkered down for a prolonged economic stall, taking the recent market turmoil into a new, more troubling liquidation phase. Investors sold nearly everything they could in the… Continue Reading…

Stocks

“Stock market news… Oil crashes, stock futures crater…”

“9:49 a.m. ET: Stocks resume trading, S&P, Dow plunge anew The S&P 500 and Dow extended losses after reopening following a 15 minute halt for trading. The broader market index slid about 7.2%, or more than 200 points, while the… Continue Reading…

Economy

“Economists are even more optimistic about the US economy”

“The National Association for Business Economics said in a survey released Monday that 67% of respondents expect America’s gross domestic product — the most complete measure of the nation’s economy — to grow by 1.1% to 2% this year. A… Continue Reading…