Tag: markets

September 12, 2018

Despite a muted start to the month, the bull case for the U.S. dollar remains intact as the Federal Reserve is seen blazing ahead in raising interest rates, leaving other central banks behind. Net long positions in the U.S. dollar […]

August 31, 2018

Holders of Italian bonds will nervously eye the debt-rating agencies over the next few weeks ahead of what many anticipate is an imminent downgrade of the country’s sovereign-debt rating, a move that would inflict pain on a bond market already […]

August 28, 2018

The recent record levels in the U.S. stock market have punished those who expected equities to turn lower, but at least one prominent skeptic is standing by his call. Michael Wilson, the chief U.S. equity strategist at Morgan Stanley, said […]

August 15, 2018

Prices of digital currencies are trading higher Wednesday, bucking the recent trend which saw as much as $20 billion wiped off the market cap of cryptocurrencies to begin the week. Bitcoin BTCUSD, +5.34% the world’s biggest digital currency, is trading […]

August 10, 2018

After a brief reprieve on Thursday, when most digital currencies finish in the green, all major coins showing losses in early New York trading on Friday. Bitcoin BTCUSD, -0.30% the world’s largest digital currency was last changing hands at $6,308.79, […]

August 7, 2018

The S&P 500 has scrambled up to just 0.8% below its January peak, sparking chatter that the bull market is definitely not over. But the U.S. stock market isn’t necessarily the place to go at this point, if you’re looking […]

July 20, 2018

European stocks fell Friday, with auto and bank shares among those losing ground as U.S. President Donald Trump threatened a significant expansion in tariffs on Chinese imports, underscoring concerns that a global trade war will crimp global economic growth and […]

July 16, 2018

U.S. stock futures traded little changed Monday, with investors looking to a fresh round of quarterly results to help steer trading following last week’s uptrend that took equity benchmarks to their highest levels in weeks despite rising geopolitical worries. A […]

July 13, 2018

Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC) , the U.S. bank struggling to overcome a series of scandals, said second-quarter profit fell, as the bank suffered from Federal Reserve-imposed restrictions on its asset growth while higher competition in home lending led to […]

July 13, 2018

U.S. stock-index futures pointed to a flat open on Friday, as investors digested the first major reads on the second-quarter earnings season, which could start to provide clarity on whether corporate fundamentals are strong enough to offset the uncertainty surrounding […]

July 11, 2018

The second-quarter earnings season will kick off in earnest on Friday, when three of the nation’s biggest banks report, and analysts are expecting somewhat of a repeat of the first quarter, when the sector chalked up record gains. Against the […]

June 25, 2018

Gold futures slipped Monday, with the precious metal sticking to the mostly downbeat trading theme for June even as the U.S. dollar, strong throughout the month, eased in early action. A fresh round of global trade friction was again driving […]

June 14, 2018

Pushed aside by investors who have been distracted by politics and trade bickering, central banks are back and demanding attention. And attention they are getting. With the ink barely dry on that seemingly hawkish Federal Reserve statement, China’s central bank […]

June 12, 2018

U.S. stock futures saw muted action on Tuesday as investors shifted from a historic summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump in Singapore to the start of a series of important central-bank meetings kicking off […]

June 11, 2018

Gold futures slipped Monday as a wait-and-see mood took over ahead of the much-touted meeting over North Korea’s nuclear power and two major central bank decisions on the docket this week. August gold GCQ8, -0.02% fell $3.70, or 0.3%, to […]

June 7, 2018

U.S. stocks on Thursday looked mostly on track to extend gains from the prior session partly powered by financial shares amid a shift in the outlook for tighter monetary policy in both the U.S. and Europe. What are markets doing? […]

June 1, 2018

Troubled Deutsche Bank’s roughly 9 euro-per-share price tag might seem like a bargain, but the company still has plenty to prove to its investors amid a tsunami of negative news. That was the view of some analysts after a trifecta […]

May 17, 2018

Gold futures dropped Thursday, deepening their descent below the key $1,300 line, after falling this week to their lowest point of the year. ”The firm U.S. dollar and rising U.S. bond yields are continuing to exert pressure,” said Carsten Fritsch, […]

April 25, 2018

How much money is in your checking account? Here’s why it matters — and what it might say about you. Markets are experiencing another period of volatility this week, and new research suggests checking account customers are doing something that […]

April 24, 2018

For years, Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc. were viewed as somewhat indistinguishable, both benefiting from the same gradual shift toward card-based payments. Recently, however, they’ve started to move apart. Mastercard MA, +0.81% shares are up 54% over the past 12 […]