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Once a place of heroic assumptions about growth, the Tokyo stock market has turned into one of the globe's biggest bargain bins.

Here are some of the companies with shares expected to trade actively in Monday's session.

When Melinta Therapeutics announced it had filed for bankruptcy protection last Friday, some investors were caught off guard. They shouldn't have been.

Everyone knew the International Monetary Fund's projections about the speed of Argentina's recovery after agreeing to bail-out the beleaguered nation with a record US$56-billion loan were unrealistic.

A curated list of 10 songs submitted by WSJ reporters & editors that most represents the money, power and business story of the decade that mattered to them. Listen to see which ones made the cut.

Laws requiring a living wage for cocoa farmers in key growing nations have some traders worrying about a flood of production.

The stock market is starting with overbought conditions and valuation levels similar to two years ago. It could be tough sledding for the first month or two unless the economy becomes stronger.

Bitcoin's price rebounded sharply in 2019, but by other measures it was a less bullish year.

Economic growth and market returns are likely to be lower this decade than over the last one. But Commonwealth CIO Brad McMillan sees possibility ahead.

Gig economy companies like Uber and Lyft may or may not win their legal challenge to California's ambitious new law. Their investors still could use the additional clarity--however it goes.

One factor consistently distinguishes successful and lasting relationships from rocky ones.

Unfortunately, not yet. As we pointed out in a detailed interactive dashboard a couple of months ago, the Inverted Yield Curve is an important indicator of recession. But the yield curve has not always remained inverted ...

Bitcoin has been trading in a channel pattern since June; how it breaks out from this channel is likely to determine its next major trend.

Activision Blizzard's (NASDAQ: ATVI) stock is fairly priced in our view. We estimate the price to be $62 per share based on expected 2020 earnings, which compares with the current market price of $59. Activision Blizzard...

Will he be a puppet, controlled by Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, his vice-president who couldn't help but read his inaugural speech over his shoulder?

Asian economies with large manufacturing sectors, including South Korea and Taiwan, find themselves bound to China's real economic cycle. These countries must get comfortable using fiscal and monetary policy to fight the...

Growth in MetLife's (NYSE: MET) U.S. segment has been key to its intrinsic value over the years, as it is the highest contributing segment with an average revenue share of 51% over the last three years. The segment is ex...

Installment loans and online small-business lending are replacing payday loans for lower-income households, a new report shows. Each year they spend billions of dollars in fees and interest on products including auto loa...

The struggling cannabis sector is likely to see a wave of large and mid-sized mergers in 2020 as growth capital goes up in smoke, stock prices decline and producers report lower-than-expected sales.

With Economy Minister Martín Guzmán in charge, Argentina will face a tough negotiation with private creditors and the IMF, in which the anti-austerity disciple of Joe Stiglitz will look to push payments out several yea...

Allaying once-strong fears of heavy-duty money-market volatility at the end of the year, Wall Street's biggest banks once again sought far less liquidity from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York than the institution was...

Commodities fell in quiet trading but were still on track to close out December with outsize gains, highlighting how a brighter view of the world economy is supporting riskier investments entering 2020.