WSJ.com’s inside look at the markets After a brutal trading day in Asia and a stomach-churning morning in Europe, December futures in the Dow Jones Industrial Average traded on Globex hit limit down Friday, a further sign of extreme market ...
Investors world-wide have rarely rolled out of bed to face a Monday morning quite like the one theyll contend with this Monday. Sundays have long been host to important corporate news, from big mergers to bankruptcies. But this weekend, in an ...
WSJ.com’s inside look at the markets If you find yourself watching from behind the barricades while your kids hop on some nauseating rollercoaster this summer, you’ll have some idea about how foreign investors have felt about the U.S. financial ...
WSJ.com’s inside look at the markets Any athletes thinking of melting down their gold medals after the Olympics to pay for their plane rides home may want to think again. Metals futures were pounded on Friday, with gold dropping below the key $800 ...
The consumer-price index surged 5.6% in annual terms last month, price growth last seen when the current President Bush’s father was in the Oval Office, as the cost of fuel, airline tickets, food and clothing accelerated. The bond market mostly yawned. ...
Wal-Mart Stores‘ sheer magnitude makes the giant discount operator’s results an economic indicator in their own right. But just what sort of signal the world’s largest retailer is sending is an open question. Wal-Mart shares were up 1% in premarket ...
Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan Chase have been the A students of the financial-services industry since the start of the credit crunch — and that’s why it was so jarring for the two firms to end up wearing the dunce cap on Tuesday. J.P. Morgan saw the ...
WSJ.com’s inside look at the markets Big U.S. multinational corporations have been big beneficiaries of the weak dollar. But with the buck taking off, companies that have had their bottom lines fattened by friendly exchange rates may soon be taking ...
With stocks rallying, the dollar soaring and oil falling out of bed, there are suddenly a lot fewer metal fans in the market. Are metal prices headed for a big bottom? (Wikipedia) Futures prices on a range of different metals were flattened like a ...
Suddenly the greenback is buying a whole lot more than it was a week ago. That’s a good thing, right? Maybe not, according to Ashraf Laidi, chief foreign exchange strategist at CMC Markets in New York. Sure, the dollar’s surge against the euro has made ...
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