Category: Investment Banking

June 18, 2019

The S&P 500 index stands less than 1% shy of a record but investors aren’t loving the climb, based on a recent fund manager survey from Bank of America Merrill Lynch. The survey of 179 global managers overseeing some half […]

June 11, 2019

Gold moved lower for a second day Tuesday as investors shook off trade worries, with appetite for riskier assets boosted by additional efforts by China to stoke its economy. “Trade and tariff talks have distorted gold prices, as misunderstood gold” […]

June 7, 2019

The pendulum has been swinging hard for equity investors lately. The S&P 500 SPX, +0.61% is poised for its best weekly performance of the year thus far (and since November), on the heels of the worst five-day return of 2019 […]

May 28, 2019

J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said that the escalating U.S.-China trade dispute is a “real issue” that could damage corporate confidence. “I think trade is a real issue,” Dimon said Tuesday in a conference in New York. “Trade has […]

May 23, 2019

Tempted by professional-looking social media adverts and websites, investors have been signing up to ‘get rich quick’ online trading platforms – only to find they have been scammed. In the last financial year, reports of crypto and forex investment scams […]

May 22, 2019

QMA’s chief investment strategist has significantly pulled back the firm’s risk exposure during the past few weeks due to the escalating U.S.-China trade war. Ed Keon, who runs more than $50 billion in multi-asset portfolios for QMA, says stocks are […]

May 13, 2019

Uber fell more than 10% to below $38 a share Monday, the first trading day after it disappointed investors in the most highly anticipated initial public offering of the year. Uber began trading at $42 per share but dropped 7.6% […]

May 9, 2019

Layr, which is based in Atlanta, Georgia, participated in the first cohort of the Lloyd’s Lab and used the opportunity to test their cloud-based solution for providing faster access for small businesses looking to purchase liability insurance. The InsurTech company […]

May 6, 2019

White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow, in a tweet that put an awkward exclamation point on Friday’s big stock-market rally, cheered “we’re killing it on the economy” and it’s “totally awesome.” Nice timing, Lar. In the first trading session since […]

April 15, 2019

Performance of investment banking, one of the primary sources of revenues for Bank of America BAC, is expected to be muted in first-quarter 2019. So, this will likely have an adverse impact on the bank’s results, slated on Apr 16. […]