Stock index futures were aiming for a higher start for Wall Street on the last day of July on Friday after Apple and Amazon made windfall profits and Facebook and Alphabet, Google’s parent, beat expectations. However, the lack of progress in Congress on another financial aid bill, the continued increase …
Read More »Gold has no role in wealth client portfolio, says Goldman’s manager
Do not believe the exaggeration. That’s the message from Sharmin Mossavar-Rahmani, director of private wealth management investments at Goldman Sachs, who thinks gold is too expensive and doesn’t have a clear role in the portfolios of his private clients. Our view is that gold is only appropriate if you have …
Read More »How Apple’s stock split will change hierarchical order in the 124-year-old Dow
Apple Inc. is planning a 4-for-1 stock split and has major implications for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, of which it is a key component. The iPhone maker announced Thursday that its board approved the stock split. The division will affect registered owners beginning August 24 and Apple AAPL shares, …
Read More »European stocks and Dow futures are trading lower amid earnings deluge and worries about slow recovery
Shell Oil Refinery at Pulau Bukom off Singapore on July 16, 2020. Roslan Rahman / Agence France-Presse / Getty Images European stocks traded lower on Thursday on the busiest day of the second-quarter earnings season, with growing concerns about a slow economic recovery and a possible second wave of the …
Read More »Dow slips on Friday, Nasdaq posts consecutive declines amid mounting tensions between China and the United States and languishing fiscal stimulus
US stocks closed lower on Friday as the tech-laden Nasdaq Composite registered its first consecutive drop since mid-May, while investors worried about rising Sino-American tensions and lack of progress in another. fiscal stimulus bill in Washington. The increase in coronavirus cases in 40 US states is also limiting consumer and …
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