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| Can the financial markets climb a wall of worry? The first several months of 2018 have given us plenty to worry about, from happenings in corporate America, to broader events involving monetary and foreign policy. After witnessing the Dow Jones Industrial Average fall over 10 percent, from Jan. 26 to Feb. 8, the market regained a bit of momentum, ...
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| Markets Right Now: Stocks skid again on Wall Street The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local):. 11:45 a.m.. Stocks are skidding again on Wall Street as the market continues a sell-off that began late the previous day. Big losses for insurer AIG are hurting financial stocks Thursday, while Cardinal Health tumbles and takes the health ...
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| Markets Right Now: Stocks open broadly lower on Wall Street NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local):. 9:35 a.m.. Stocks are opening broadly lower on Wall Street, putting the market on track for its third decline this week. Financial companies and health care stocks contributed the most to the declines in early trading on ...
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| Revealing how much tax companies pay doesn't move markets or reduce tax avoidance However, for the second and third releases of ATO data, there was no reaction from the financial markets at all, not even for those firms included in the disclosures. In combination, these results suggest that the ATO disclosures provide little new or useful information to investors about corporate tax ...
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| CMBS Issuance Soars 55% In Q1 Looming risk retention rules that took effect in December 2016 caused lenders to tread lightly in the first half of 2017 to see how the new regulations would impact the market. The amended rules require lenders to keep 5% of the value of any loan on their balance sheets, rather than selling it entirely in ...
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| World shares drift as markets mull Fed, China trade talks Global stock markets were generally lower Thursday as investors analyzed the Fed's decision to keep interest rates unchanged and kept an eye out for developments from China-U.S. trade talks in Beijing. KEEPING SCORE: In Europe, France's CAC 40 was down 0.3 percent at 5,155 while Germany's ...
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| Why the stock market is unimpressed by the best first-quarter results in 24 years By at least one measure, corporate earnings are the best in nearly a quarter-century. However, the stock market is not enthused! Rather than rally on the back of upbeat results, the main equity benchmarks have sulked lower. According to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S, of the 343 companies, or about 70%, ...
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| Private equity firm KKR opts to become C-Corp after US tax reform KKR said it expected to pay an annualized dividend of 50 cents per common share as a corporation for the third quarter. KKR also said its first-quarter earnings per share fell by a less-than-expected 35 percent year-on-year, the latest private equity firm to feel the brunt of turbulent financial markets.
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Why The Dollar's Days Are Numbered Both men are certain we are into a global equity and bond bear market and into a bull market in commodities and precious metals despite all efforts by the government and Federal Reserve to keep financial bull markets alive. Oliver explains why the current credit cycle is likely to be the last one for the ...
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| Euro area financial integration improves in 2017 Reintegration trend strongly resumed in prices but not in quantities; Euro area financial integration more resilient to adverse shocks; Further development of equity markets would promise to foster innovation, growth and risk sharing in Europe. Financial integration in the euro area resumed last year, the ...
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| Treasury, Needing Money, Plans to Slowly Boost Debt Auctions The more modest pace of growth in borrowing reflects the government's desire to raise auction sizes as slowly as possible to minimize the impact of the additional debt on financial markets. The government is able to make smaller boosts to auction sizes because its cash position is better following the ...
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| Why Diversification Pays in Rising Markets, Too However, my purpose in writing the column did not include disclosing the composition of the featured portfolios during any particular part of the momentous 17-month downturn in the stock market in 2007-2009. Portfolio A was simply a 60/40 allocation, while the values of the two other portfolios were ...
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| Tesla analysts call out Elon Musk after 'truly bizarre' conference call "Model 3 production targets [were] pushed back slightly again (for the fourth time)," wrote KeyBanc Capital Markets analyst Brad Erickson, who has a sector weight rating on the stock. "The company now expects to hit the 5,000/week production run rate sometime in about two months. We recognize these ...
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| MIDEAST STOCKS-Markets down on Iran concerns, EM weakness; blue-chips lift Saudi Iran concerns weigh on markets. * Pre-Ramadan selling adds to general weakness. * But Saudi blue-chips offer support to index. * Dubai keeps falling. * Egypt also down but EFG-Hermes remains bullish. By Davide Barbuscia and Saeed Azhar. DUBAI, May 3 (Reuters) - Middle East stock markets ...
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| M&A daily wrap: BMO, A&M, InterGrowth, board diversity, innovation investing BMO Financial Group (NYSE: BMO) is acquiring KGS-Alpha Capital Markets, a New York-based fixed income broker-dealer specializing in U.S. mortgage- and asset-backed securities in the institutional investor market. KGS has 135 employees, including 84 sales and trading professionals, mostly in ...
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| Niche lending markets central to GreenSky's $100M IPO Seeking $100 million in an initial public offering, the point-of-sale fintech provider GreenSky wants to expand beyond arranging financing for home improvement projects and into other niches, including helping customers arrange to pay for car repairs and even luxury items. Facilitating health care ...
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| The Hedge Fund Manager Who Became A Billionaire From Tech By concentrating on what has been the most relevant sector in today's financial markets, Laffont has built his Coatue Management into a thriving firm that oversees $16 billion made up of hedge funds that trade tech stocks and vehicles that invest in private tech companies and startups. In an era when ...
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| Cash conundrum has investors clamoring for capital ideas "If you are in boom times, by and large capital tends to be allocated poorly," Ben Whitmore, manager of the Jupiter Special Situations Fund, said. After a nine-year bull run in stock markets, many analysts consider British and European companies to be close to peak values, ramping up the risk of ...
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| BlackRock, BNP Pivot to Mortgage Bonds as Corporate Binge Wanes An average of around $221 billion of the securities changed hands daily in April, compared with about $32 billion of company notes, according to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, a trade group. The liquidity means that if clients start demanding their money back, fund managers ...
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| UPDATE 1-China c.bank signals resumption of RQDII outbound investment scheme (Rewrites lead, adds background). BEIJING, May 3 (Reuters) - China's central bank on Thursday signalled the resumption of an outbound investment scheme that allows qualified domestic financial institutions to buy yuan-denominated products in overseas markets, the latest move by Beijing to relax ...
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