August 30, 2021
“…Stocks gained in the past week, surging again to new highs Friday after a speech by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. The chairman acknowledged that Fed officials expect to taper back their $120 billion a month bond-buying program this year, a… Continue Reading…
July 2, 2021
“Futures contracts tied to the major U.S. stock indexes rose slightly on Friday as the June jobs report beat expectations, putting Wall Street on track to post a solid week of gains across the board. Contracts tied to the Dow… Continue Reading…
May 7, 2021
“The Labor Department released the April jobs report Friday morning at 8:30 a.m. ET. Here were the main results from the report, compared to consensus data compiled by Bloomberg: Non-farm payrolls, April: +266,000 vs. +1.000 million expected and a revised +770,000… Continue Reading…
April 14, 2021
“Goldman Sachs on Wednesday blew past analysts’ expectations with record first-quarter net profits and revenues on strong performance from the firm’s investment banking and trading businesses. The bank posted per-share earnings of $18.60, crushing the $10.22 estimate of analysts surveyed by… Continue Reading…
March 19, 2021
“Lamborghini reported record profits in 2020 as its wealthy customers — especially in China — rode the global bull market in style. Despite a mandatory factory shutdown of over two months during the Covid-19 pandemic, the “raging bull” of the… Continue Reading…
October 2, 2020
“The US economy saw another 661,000 jobs added back in September and a modest improvement in the unemployment rate, as the recovery in the labor market continues at a stagnating rate… Change in non-farm payrolls: +661,000 vs. +859,000 expected and +1.489 million in… Continue Reading…
September 5, 2020
“U.S. Treasury yields shot higher on Friday, propelled by a drop in the August unemployment rate and ahead of a big burst of supply next week. The benchmark 10-year yield was last up 9.1 basis points at 0.7131%. The U.S.… Continue Reading…
August 26, 2020
“Shares of Salesforce soared more than 27% Wednesday morning, as investors continued to rally around the enterprise-software company’s strong fiscal second-quarter earnings. Salesforce reported adjusted earnings per share of $1.44 on revenue of $5.15 billion on Tuesday. That blew away analyst expectations of… Continue Reading…
July 22, 2020
“Typically, when a public company reports earnings, it highlights a positive in its release, no matter how much money it lost in the previous three months. But on Tuesday, United Airlines did not spin, telling investors it recently completed “the… Continue Reading…
May 6, 2020
“Private payrolls hemorrhaged more than 20 million jobs in April as companies sliced workers amid a coronavirus-induced shutdown that took most of the U.S. economy offline, according to a report Wednesday from ADP. In all, the decline totaled 20,236,000 — easily… Continue Reading…
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