Stock index futures traded on opposite sides of unchanged Friday after July retail sales showed a weaker rise than expected. Market participants this weekend were also eager for a round of virtual trade talks between the US and China against a backdrop of growing tensions between the two countries. What …
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The thought must have plagued many investors in the pandemic. Why not just get out of the markets and switch into cash? Fund management giant Vanguard Group looked at the investors who did just that, in a recently published study. Now, the Vanguard audience is not exactly that of Robinhood …
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Futures for the stock index turned positive Thursday as claims for unemployment benefits fell much faster than expected for the first time, but gains remained suppressed as investors checked a stalemate between Congress Democrats and the White House over a package of coronavirus. What do key benchmarks do? Futures on …
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Warren Buffett once wrote that investors would have seen the dot-com crash from a mile away if they had paid attention to what he described in a 2001 Fortune article as “probably the best single measure of where valuations at any given moment stand. “ Known in investment circles as …
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Stock market benchmarks were mostly higher on Monday as investors checked signs that a long-awaited rotation on Wall Street could be extended into more growth-sensitive equities, at the expense of their high-growth counterparts. Investors also focused on President Donald Trump’s weekend of signing executive orders aimed at extending some elements …
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