Stock Markets
U.S. stocks and the global group all rose this week buoyed
by optimism that Chinese and U.S. officials had made real progress in
negotiations late in the week. They expect that the groundwork for a truce on
additional tariffs will allay further volatility. There were...
Climate change? Bad. Wind farms to fight climate change? Maybe...also bad?
That’s the weirdly veiled and instantly controversial conclusion of two new papers out on Thursday in Joule and Environmental Research Letters. The twin papers look at how wind power could create localized warming and how much energy wind farms produce. The results show that...
Stock Markets
What analysts call better-than-expected economic data,
encouraging corporate earnings from U.S. banks, and the signing of the
"phase-one" trade agreement helped raise U.S. stocks to fresh record
highs last week. A surge in housing starts bolstered by strong retail sales
point to a resilient consumer that...
Bitcoin is king — it is still the best performing asset of our lives. It has silenced its harshest critics and only continued to grow in adoption, usability and relevance. The fact that bitcoin has achieved all this in only 12 years...
Stock Markets
In what is the longest streak in two years, U.S. stocks
reached another all-time record high, gaining for the sixth straight week this
week. US-China trade negotiations remain
fluid and, the possibility of a limited deal between the two countries has been
the real power behind...
Stock Markets
U.S. stocks rallied once again last week to a another
all-time high. That accounts for the 26th record high of the current year.
Clearly there is continued optimism that the US and China are making progress
in their efforts to pound out a "Phase 1"...
A business (also known as an enterprise, a company or a firm) is an organizational entity involved in the provision of goods and services to consumers.Businesses serve as a form of economic activity, and are prevalent in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and provide goods...
Digital wallets — such as Apple Pay and Google Pay, which use near-field communication tags, and Amazon Pay and PayPal, which use QR codes — offer shoppers a contactless method to complete their purchases.
Because digital wallets store encrypted debit and/or credit card...
Crisis-stricken Venezuela has been thrust back into the energy spotlight, analysts told CNBC on Monday, with a further slide into political chaos likely to trigger wild swings in the oil price.
The oil-rich, but cash-poor, South American country is...
Stock Markets
In the final week of 2019, stocks rose yet again as several
major indexes hit fresh record highs. Volatility remained under control and
stocks continued upward as we moved to year-end. There are, at present, no
major catalysts or economic issues to disrupt the market...
