Text size People wait in line in front of a New York City bank in late May. fake pictures Weaker-than-expected economic data, an increase in coronavirus cases and an unfavorable result for banks in Thursday’s Federal Reserve stress tests left the market lower on Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average …
Read More »Stock market gains despite coronavirus spread, disappointing unemployment claims
Text size Illustration by Mike Haddad. Investors analyzed concerns about the virus midday Thursday, taking advantage of some early gains even amid mixed data. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 rose 0.2% in recent trade, while the Nasdaq Composite rose 0.4%. The latest unemployment figures show that while …
Read More »Dow Jones industrial average jumps as regulators make it easier for banks. Then they made it more difficult.
Text size What were we worried about again? The stock market is certainly not falling, because it doesn’t seem to do so terribly often these days. After falling 710 points on Wednesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 299.66 points, or 1.2%. while the S&P 500 gained 1.1% and the …
Read More »Bank stocks back down in off-hours trading after the Federal Reserve limits dividends and buybacks in the third quarter
Shares of the largest US banks were withdrawn on Thursday after the Federal Reserve after its annual banking system stress test voted to require financial institutions to preserve capital by suspending share buybacks and the dividend payment in the third quarter amid the worst economic and public health crisis in …
Read More »Dow is in retreat as Coronavirus Plus trades spell issues for stocks
Text size Pound for pound, there are many more tons of viral and bacterial life on earth than humans. So in a sense, it’s the coronavirus world. We are just living in it. And while investors are content to ignore that some days, on others it is more difficult to …
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