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By Lorraine Woellert, Bloomberg |
May 17, 2013
Americans’ confidence in the economy climbed in May to the highest level in almost six years as rising real estate values and record stock prices boosted household wealth.
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By Debarati Roy, Bloomberg |
May 16, 2013
Billionaire investor George Soros joined Northern Trust Corp. and BlackRock Inc. in cutting holdings of exchange-traded products backed by gold before a bear market in prices last month.
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By Nikolaj Gammeltoft, Bloomberg |
May 15, 2013
U.S. stocks rose, pushing benchmark indexes to fresh records, as data showing weakness in manufacturing fueled bets the Federal Reserve will be in no hurry to scale back stimulus.
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By Christine Harper and Alexis Leondis, Bloomberg |
May 9, 2013
Bill Rubin, a senior investment analyst at BlackRock Inc. who picks financial-company stocks, didn’t mince words a year ago when he e-mailed JPMorgan Chase & Co. right after the bank disclosed a trading loss that ultimately cost more than $6.2 billion.
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By John Gittelsohn, Bloomberg |
May 6, 2013
Six years after the start of the foreclosure crisis, American homeowners are paying their mortgages like the housing crash never happened.
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By David McLaughlin |
May 2, 2013
Credit Suisse Group AG sued Mexico’s biggest homebuilder, seeking $26.7 million over a canceled derivatives transaction.
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By Silla Brush and Dave Michaels |
May 1, 2013
JPMorgan Chase & Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and other U.S. swap dealers could gain limits on the Dodd-Frank Act’s reach for overseas trades.
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By Whitney Kisling, Bloomberg |
April 29, 2013
U.S. technology stocks, the second-best industry of the past decade, have fallen to the cheapest levels in at least seven years and are vulnerable to more losses as analysts reduce second-quarter profit estimates.
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By Lu Wang, Whitney Kisling and Eric Lam, Bloomberg |
April 23, 2013
A false report of explosions at the White House that wiped out $136 billion from the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index in about two minutes highlighted the risks of the computerized trading that dominates the $18 trillion market.
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By Nikolaj Gammeltoft and Stephen Kirkland, Bloomberg |
April 19, 2013
U.S. stocks rose, paring the biggest weekly drop for the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index since November, amid better-than-estimated earnings and Group of 20 nation talks aimed at bolstering the global economy.
