An index of global stock markets rallied to a 21-month high on Monday, boosted by growing hopes for a U.S.-China trade deal and the view that the U.S. Federal Reserve this week will deliver its third interest rate cut for 2019.
Many investors, including Paul Tudor Jones or Stan Druckenmiller, have been saying before the Q4 market crash that the stock market is overvalued due to a low interest rate environment that leads to companies swapping their equity for debt and focusing mostly on short-term performance such as beating the quarterly earnings estimates. In the first […] …read more […]
Google reported its Q3 2019 earnings on Monday. …read more […]
Oil prices fell on Monday after four days of gains as expectations U.S. crude stockpiles will rise and worries about weak Chinese industrial data offset hopes oil demand will increase if talks progress on a Sino-American trade deal.
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The Trump administration said on Monday it would try to entice banks to offer more mortgages to low-income borrowers by reducing reliance on a Civil War-era law the Obama administration used in the wake of the subprime mortgage crisis to build bad-lending cases against big banks.
If Amazon.com decides to fight the Pentagon’s decision to award a highly contested $10 billion cloud computing contract to Microsoft, it could act as early as next week.
If Amazon.com decides to fight the Pentagon’s decision to award a highly contested $10 billion cloud computing contract to Microsoft, it could act as early as next week. A challenge to the Defense Department’s award announced Friday is widely expected by legal experts, analysts and consultants, especially after President Donald Trump publicly derided Amazon’s bid for the high-stakes contract. In July, Trump said the administration was reviewing Amazon’s bid after complaints from other companies. …read more […]
Louis Vuitton owner LVMH reportedly offered $14.5 billion to acquire Tiffany, according to Bloomberg. Yahoo Finance’s Jared Blikre joins Akiko Fujita on The Ticker to discuss. …read more […]
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(Bloomberg) — Power grid down? No problem, says Elon Musk.As California girds for its fourth major intentional blackout this month, Tesla Inc.’s chief executive officer is again using the crisis to promote the company’s energy products.But don’t expect the systems to run an entire home, said Michelle Davis, an analyst at Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables.“Tesla, like other solar companies, is taking advantage of this uptick in interest,” Davis said in an interview Monday. “Most solar-plus-batteries can only provide minimal services — just a few circuits in the home.”As California utilities cut off electricity in an effort to prevent wildfires, …read more […]
Ford Motor Co will cut about 450 jobs at its Oakville assembly plant in Ontario, as the No. 2 U.S. carmaker discontinues production of the Ford Flex and Lincoln MKT, Canada’s largest private-sector union Unifor said https://reut.rs/2pmAPhJ on Monday.
The S&P 500 hit a record high on Monday, while the Nasdaq hovered just below its lifetime high touched in late July, as a more conciliatory tone between the United States and China buoyed hopes for a possible trade deal and investors anticipated a rate cut by the Federal Reserve later this week.
An index of global stock markets climbed to a 21-month high on Monday, boosted by growing hopes for a U.S.-China trade deal and the view that the U.S. Federal Reserve this week will deliver its third interest rate cut for 2019.
Boeing Co Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg will acknowledge on Tuesday before Congress that the aircraft manufacturer made mistakes after two deadly 737 MAX crashes killed 346 people, according to written testimony seen by Reuters.
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