Stock Markets
Stocks finished mixed this week as markets took in the
strong gains from the month of June. Investors were in a wait-and-see mode
anticipating Friday’s G20 Summit in Japan. The big takeaway would be a trade
truce and resumption of negotiations between the U.S. and...
Stock Markets
This is the third straight week that U.S. stocks finished
higher. Both the S&P 500 and the Dow closed at new record highs. The clear
driver for the for the rally in both bonds and stocks was the Federal Reserve
releasing news that it is...
Stock Markets
The week was pretty quiet with stocks edging higher and in a
bright spot, small-cap companies outperforming. There were a number of
high-profile mergers that lifted investors' confidence this week, but indexes
gave back some gains on Friday, likely due to chipmaker Broadcom’s announcement
that the...
Stock Markets
The S&P 500 rallied 4.4% as stocks finished higher for
the best weekly gain in the last six months. However, bond yields declined to
the lowest levels in nearly two years. Increased expectations of a Fed rate
cut, positive response to the U.S. and Mexico...
Stock Markets
Stocks declined for the 4th straight week impacted by rising
trade tensions and continued geopolitical uncertainty. With the White House
announcing that the U.S. will impose tariffs on Mexico in order to quell
illegal entry, concerns increased on unresolved U.S.-China trade issues. These
have a serious...
Stock Markets
The fact that US stocks finished the week lower seems to
weigh on concerns that U.S. trade tensions with China are expected to be
prolonged. The broad sentiment across economic reports suggest that global
growth is showing signs of slowing. Lower oil prices pushed energy...
THE ROSALIND Franklin rover will explore Mars as part of the next rover mission to the Red Planet. So why was one of the ExoMars Mars rovers named Rosalind Franklin?
The UK made ExoMars rover, due to roam the...
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...
President Trump recently called for action to secure the southern border. This is the same action taken by both President Obama and President George W. Bush.
Yet, immediate opposition for this common sense proposal has arisen from the left. Why?
President Trump did not say this would be permanent. He did...
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...
