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How to Outsmart a Dimming Outlook for Profits
Barron's - 2 Feb 2019 07:03
Corporate earnings growth is expected to slow to a trickle this year. Stick with Microsoft, Spirit Airlines, and other names with product or pricing muscle.
Jim Grant on the Bond Market's 35-Year Bull Run
Barron's - 2 Feb 2019 07:13
The editor of Grant's Interest Rate Observer finds lessons in bonds' long rise--and reason for caution ahead.
Why ETFs Will Shine This Tax Season
Barron's - 2 Feb 2019 07:08
In this debate between mutual funds and ETFs, it's not active versus passive; it's fund structure. Mutual funds pay out capital gains that investors owe tax on--and this year the bill is a whopper. ETF investors avoid th...
Dow Gains 327 Points as Powell Powers Market
Barron's - 2 Feb 2019 03:25
Few had expected the Federal Reserve to go full dove, and the market responded in a big way.
Don't Write Off Quality Stocks
Barron's - 2 Feb 2019 07:20
Even with the Fed backing off a rate hike, high-quality stocks can outperform
FCC faces tough questions from court on net neutrality repeal
Reuters - 2 Feb 2019 06:22
A federal appeals court asked pointed questions of the Federal Communication Commission on Friday in hearing a challenge to whether the Trump administration acted legally when it repealed landmark net neutrality rules go...
The Latest: Jeff Gordon inducted into NASCAR Hall of Fame
Miami Herald - 2 Feb 2019 04:55
The Latest on the NASCAR Hall of Fame induction ceremony (all times local): 9:45 p.m. Jeff Gordon has been inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame. The four-time NASCAR champion …
5 Mental Tricks to Make You a Better Investor
Barron's - 2 Feb 2019 04:28
When the market gets volatile, it's time to resist your fight-or-flight instincts
New Mexico minimum-wage bill ignites debate in New Mexico
Miami Herald - 2 Feb 2019 04:28
A bill to raise the statewide hourly minimum wage in New Mexico for the first time in a decade and do away with exemptions for tipped workers advanced in the …
Gas company fined $3.3M over California pipeline blast
Miami Herald - 2 Feb 2019 01:59
Southern California Gas Co. has been fined $3.3 million over a 2017 pipeline explosion that injured one person. The state Public Utilities Commission on Friday cited the utility for failing …
Goldman Sachs may claw back millions from CEO over bribery scandal
New York Post - 2 Feb 2019 01:52
Goldman Sachs is threatening to claw back millions of dollars from its top brass -- including Chief Executive David Solomon and his predecessor, Lloyd Blankfein -- over a Malaysian bribery scandal that's engulfing the ba...
OxyContin maker wanted to push super-potent pills on patients
New York Post - 2 Feb 2019 01:04
Purdue Pharma executives pushed to get patients on higher and higher doses of OxyContin -- including a super-potent version nicknamed "Oxy-Coffin'' -- despite knowing the dangers, new court papers allege. In 2008, Richar...
Trump Is Getting Played By China's Promise To Buy 5 Million Tons Of Soybeans
Forbes - 2 Feb 2019 15:50French yellow vest protesters back on the streets
Miami Herald - 2 Feb 2019 13:01
France's yellow vest protesters are taking to the streets to keep pressure on French President Emmanuel Macron's government, for the 12th straight weekend of demonstrations. Multiple protests are planned Saturday …
This cool time-lapse map shows Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Arena replacing the Georgia Dome
Fast Company - 2 Feb 2019 10:00
Watch one Super Bowl stadium replace another. When it opened in 1992, the Georgia Dome was an architectural wonder. It had the second largest capacity of any covered stadium in the world, making it the perfect home for t...
A mining tycoon has a $1 billion plan to release China's chokehold on the global electric car race
Business Insider - 2 Feb 2019 10:00
Ng Han Guan, File/AP Images Over the next 20 years, sales of electric vehicles are predicted to outstrip petrol and diesel engine cars. That has huge implications for the supply of metals that go into these vehicles. Sou...
The Best Tech Products Will Overcome Volatile Times
Barron's - 2 Feb 2019 07:25
As tech investors worry about China, trade and a slowing economy, the original iPhone is a reminder that the best products work in any market.
Big Oil Companies Finished 2018 Strong Despite Plunge in Oil Prices
Wall Street Journal - 2 Feb 2019 07:16
Exxon, Chevron and Shell shrugged off a plunge in oil prices in late 2018 and posted some of their biggest annual profits in years.
Can the Fed Stave Off the Next Recession?
Barron's - 2 Feb 2019 07:11
The central bank believes it does not need to raise rates much more, if at all, to keep the economy on an even keel
The Jobs Numbers Looked Super. They Were Merely Great.
Barron's - 2 Feb 2019 07:09
There was a lot less to the outsize 304,000-job jump in January non-farm payrolls than meets the eye.
Fed pause validates market fears about U.S. growth
Reuters - 2 Feb 2019 05:28
While the U.S. Federal Reserve's indication it is done raising interest rates - for now - has fueled stock gains, investors worry the U.S. central bank's pledge is a double-edged sword and implicit confirmation of the ma...
Earnings Watch: Disney and Alphabet highlight another big week of earnings
Market Watch - 2 Feb 2019 05:24
The biggest earnings week of the season is behind us, but a number of big names loom on the horizon.