Category: Financial News

August 2, 2016
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Australia's central bank dropped interest rates to a new record low Tuesday after a recent run of soft inflation readings, with some economists forecasting further cuts ahead. The 25 basis point cut to 1.5 percent means the Reserve Bank of...

July 26, 2016
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We’re getting close to the final episode of Silicon Valley’s longest running soap opera,All My Yahoos, starring Marissa Mayer and a host of former leads. Pretty soon, we won’t have the internet’s version of Susan Lucci to kick around anymore....

July 26, 2016
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A real estate developer wanted to increase affordable housing in Denver, trying to make fiscal sense out of a plan to build rental apartments for people making only 30 percent of the area's median income—the kind of housing America desperately...

July 6, 2016
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U.S. 10-year notes pare gains after yields fall to record low Fed minutes show heightened uncertainty after payrolls slump The 2016 bond-market rally that drove Treasury yields to record lows this week has generated more than half a trillion dollars...

July 6, 2016
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Jobs, labor force are declining; housing construction in epic boom. The San Francisco housing bubble – locally called “Housing Crisis” – needs a few things to be sustained forever, and that has been the plan, according to industry soothsayers: an...

June 28, 2016
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The European Parliament's first debate on the UK's vote to leave has been marked by bitter exchanges. A central figure in the Leave campaign, UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage, was booed, called a liar and accused of using...

June 24, 2016
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Stocks (^DJI, ^GSPC, ^IXIC) are tanking as investors digest news of the Brexit. Financials (XLF) are getting slammed the hardest, with utilities (XLU) the only sector in the green. Keith Bliss of Cuttone & Co. joins us live from the New York Stock Exchange, and...

June 21, 2016
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America is slipping backward, if you buy the angry rhetoric from this year’s presidential campaign. The rich are getting richer, the middle class can barely make it and the ranks of the poor are swelling. Except the numbers tell a...

June 14, 2016
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Retail sales rise more than forecast in May after April surge Brexit also restraining Fed this month and maybe in July American consumers weren’t letting a slowdown in hiring prevent them from going on a shopping spree. Retail sales increased...

June 7, 2016
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Europe’s benchmark government yield surpasses its 2015 low Slowdown in U.S. labor market, U.K. referendum adding to risks Germany’s 10-year bond yield fell to a record low amid a surge in demand for the safest fixed-income assets. The securities, which...

June 7, 2016
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Verizon Communications Inc plans to submit a second-round bid of around $3 billion for Yahoo Inc's core internet business, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Private-equity firm TPG was also expected to submit a second...

May 31, 2016
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The International Monetary Fund has predicted that inflation in Venezuela will hit 720% this year. That might be an optimistic assessment, according to some local economic analysts, who expect the rate to reach as high as 1,200%. A sharp drop...

May 24, 2016
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How do you solve a problem such as insurance? Do you have a minute to talk about your death? It isn't easy to sell life insurance. Investing in a mutual fund, you feel like you’re saving money. Purchasing insurance, you feel...

May 24, 2016
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Researchers cite less desired to settle down, declining employment among young men. For the first time in the modern era, young adults are more likely to live with their parents than with a spouse or partner, according to a new...

May 17, 2016
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Still reeling from revelations that forced the resignation of its founder and chief executive, Lending Club said on Monday that it had received a subpoena from the Justice Department. The company, which serves as an online matchmaker between small-business borrowers...