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By Jeff Greenblatt |
February 24, 2013
The current situation involving budget pressure and looming sequester have an eerie resemblance to a past political battle that rattled the markets.
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By Margaret Talev and Mike Dorning |
February 12, 2013
President Obama addressed the deficit, spending cuts, unemployment, a minimum wage spike and other potentially market-moving topics in his annual State of the Union address to Congress.
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By Bill Gross |
December 4, 2012
Well, I guess that settles it: you didn’t build that after all. Or maybe you did, but not all of it. Or maybe like the convoluted John Lennon above “you think you know a yes, but it’s all wrong. That is you think you disagree.”
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By Daniel P. Collins |
November 28, 2012
The CFTC recently filed an action against Intrade, the Ireland based election market that creates binary option contracts on election results
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By Michael P. Regan and Inyoung Hwang, Bloomberg |
November 28, 2012
U.S. stocks erased early losses and commodities pared declines as House Speaker John Boehner said he is optimistic lawmakers engaged in budget talks can “avert this crisis sooner rather than later.”
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By Kasia Klimasinska and Ian Katz, Bloomberg |
November 27, 2012
The Obama administration declined to brand China a currency manipulator, while saying the yuan “remains significantly undervalued.”
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By Noah Buhayar and Dakin Campbell, Bloomberg |
November 27, 2012
JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon would be the best person to lead the U.S. Treasury Department in a financial crisis, billionaire investor Warren Buffett said.
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By Whitney Kisling, Inyoung Hwang and Rita Nazareth, Bloomberg |
November 19, 2012
The post-election rout in U.S. stocks has driven the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index down so far that it would have to advance 26 percent to reach the valuation of bull markets since John F. Kennedy was in the White House.
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By Thomas Black, Bloomberg |
November 19, 2012
Companies from Wynn Resorts Ltd. to IDT Corp. are paying special dividends at four times the pace of last year, helping investors stay a step ahead of the taxman with rates poised to jump in 2013.
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By Debarati Roy, Bloomberg |
November 12, 2012
Speculators cut bullish commodity positions by the most in five months as prices had their biggest gain in eight weeks on mounting speculation that stimulus measures will bolster economic growth.
