BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said on Sunday he believes China and the United States can make progress in opening China's financial and healthcare sectors.
Lew was speaking to students in Chinese capital Beijing.
(Reporting by David Lawder; Writing by Ben Blanchard)
Investors have been buoyed this year by the fact that a mooted recession has failed to materialize. However, Morgan Stanley’s chief U.S. equity strategist, Mike Wilson, says that it does not mean the prospect of one taking place has completely evaporated. “While the investor sentiment pendulum on a recession arriving in 2023 has swung from roughly ’70/30′ to ’30/70′ over the past 6 months based on our dialogue, there is more debate on whether we have avoided it altogether – i.e., soft/no landing
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Ford Motor and Unifor, a union representing Canadian hourly employees, reach a new, three-year labor deal.
Millions of investors who had accounts at TD Ameritrade became Charles Schwab customers this month. Many individuals and registered investment advisers who were switched over following Schwab’s acquisition of TD Ameritrade say they miss their old accounts. Schwab says the conversion of TD Ameritrade customers is going well, but user opinion isn’t unanimous.
It's been a rough half of the year for the S&P 500 — with it slipping nearly 3%. But that's not stopping analysts from bullish calls.
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This Barron's reporter has been testing Tesla's Full Self Driving product for a month. We have some thoughts.
As it rolls toward downtown San Francisco, the California Street cable car passes the gothic Grace Cathedral and an 8-foot tall statue of Tony Bennett. Among them is 650 California Street, a 34-story office building that has defaulted on its mortgage. Further on is 101 California, whose second-biggest tenant left last year and whose biggest is slashing staff and office space.
Too many consumers settle for savings accounts that pay almost no interest. High-yield alternatives aren't hard to find.
It's a now-familiar dance: Federal Reserve officials signal to the world that interest rates are not dropping anytime soon. Financial markets respond with bets to the contrary. Forecasts published on Wednesday by the U.S. central bank showed that a majority of its policymakers see the Fed's benchmark overnight interest rate ending this year at 5.6%, which implies one more interest rate hike in the next three months.
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Amazon’s cloud customers will get early access to Anthropic’s technology through Amazon Bedrock, the company’s generative AI platform for businesses.
Friday's bounce fizzled, capping a grim week, with the S&P 500 hitting three-month lows. Tesla is close to breaking, but there are some stocks trying to hold up.
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Higher interest rates have washed away much of the wackiness. Two years ago, the Federal Reserve was targeting a core interest rate of 0% to 0.25%. Meanwhile, prices for ordinary investments are as agreeable as they’ve been in years, with the possible exception of a handful of U.S. stocks.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped Monday, as the market correction worsens. The 10-year Treasury yield spikes to new highs.
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Last year's high-profile divorce between Bill Gates and Melinda Gates made headlines, not only for being one of the most expensive divorces in history — Melinda reportedly walked away with an estimated $70 billion — but also for casting a spotlight on an unusual marital agreement. From the start of their marriage, Gates had Melinda's blessing to continue an annual vacation with his ex-girlfriend Ann Winblad. This arrangement is one many people would find unconventional if not unacceptable. Don’t
Authorities in China have ordered a senior Nomura Holdings banker overseeing the firm's investment banking operations there not to leave the mainland, two sources with knowledge of the matter said. Charles Wang Zhonghe, China investment banking chairman at Nomura, is prohibited from travelling outside the mainland, said the sources, who sought anonymity as they were not authorised to speak to media. Wang was based in Hong Kong, his LinkedIn profile showed, though his nationality was not immediately known.
A deal would put an end to some of the uncertainty media stocks have been facing amid Hollywood's double strike.
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