May 30, 2024
“Shares of Salesforce tumbled 20% Thursday morning, putting the stock on pace for its worst day in nearly 20 years. Its worst trading day on record is July 4, 2004, when shares fell 27% just days after the company went public. The… Continue Reading…
May 9, 2024
“Apple shares popped 6% Friday after the company reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings and the largest-ever stock buyback program. It was the best day for the stock since Nov. 30, 2022. The iPhone maker announced Thursday it would repurchase $110 billion of its shares,… Continue Reading…
May 9, 2024
“…The parent company of Donald Trump’s Truth Social released a press release on Monday, explaining to its retail investor base how to recall shares from short-sellers. “TMTG wants to clarify that if shares are currently on loan by brokerage firms to facilitate… Continue Reading…
May 6, 2024
“…What’s interesting about the M2 money supply garnering attention is that it’s a metric most economists tend to ignore. It’s been steadily rising for so many decades that it’s almost taken for granted that the money supply will expand as… Continue Reading…
April 24, 2024
“…President Biden has formally proposed the highest top capital gains tax in over 100 years… Under the Biden proposal, the combined federal-state capital gains tax exceeds 50% in many states. California will face a combined federal-state rate of 59%, New… Continue Reading…
March 28, 2024
“UPDATED FRI, MAR 22 2024 4:34 PM EDT… All three major averages notched healthy gains this week, with the S&P 500 rising about 2.3%. The Dow was up just shy of 2% for its best week since December. The Nasdaq is the outperformer… Continue Reading…
March 28, 2024
“Reddit, the 19-year-old website that hosts millions of online forums, priced its IPO on Wednesday at $34 a share, the top of the expected range. The offering brought in $519 million, according to a press release, and values the company at… Continue Reading…
February 8, 2024
“The annual trade shortfall shrank nearly 19% to $773.4 billion from a record in 2022, Commerce Department data showed Wednesday. In December, the deficit in goods and services trade widened slightly from the prior month to $62.2 billion. The figures… Continue Reading…
January 22, 2024
“Sales of previously owned homes fell 1% in December compared with November to 3.78 million units on a seasonally adjusted annualized basis, according to the National Association of Realtors. Sales were 6.2% lower than in December 2022, marking the lowest level… Continue Reading…
January 2, 2024
“…The government-sponsored mortgage finance company forecasted total home sales to slump to just 4.8 million this year, marking the slowest sales environment since 2011. That figure will only improve slightly in 2024, with total home sales expected to hit 4.9… Continue Reading…
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