Financial Services

Don’t blame the stock market’s decline Wednesday on the surprisingly close mid-term election results. I know it’s tempting to do so. Conventional wisdom holds that the Republican Party is more business-friendly…
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Updated Jan. 12, 2022 9:45 am ET Wall Street stock indexes edged up after inflation data showed the largest annual jump…
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Billionaire hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman said the Federal Reserve needs to deliver old-fashioned “shock and awe” to financial markets by delivering a much larger onetime increase to benchmark interest rates to…
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A decline in technology stocks dragged down major U.S. stock indexes Thursday, leaving the Nasdaq Composite at its lowest close since October.Technology stocks have come under pressure in the new year as government-bond yields have…
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average’s seven-day plunge has produced the most oversold reading in a key technical indicator in nearly two years, but as history suggests, oversold doesn’t necessarily mean over. The Dow…
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The threat of a devastating European ground war hasn’t done much to rattle financial markets so far, but investors still appear likely to snap up traditional safe-haven assets should Russia attack Ukraine, market watchers said.In that…
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European Union carbon credits aren’t so much a commodity as a political tool. That has underpinned a stunning rally over the past year, but it also caps the market’s potential for financial speculation.…
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Text size Wall Street is on track to close out a turbulent week with the Nasdaq…
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Jon Winkelried, CEO and a partner of TPG. Photo: Bess…
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ISTANBUL—Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met Thursday with the leader of El Salvador, the first country to make bitcoin legal tender, while the Turkish central bank kept interest rates on hold in a…
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