All posts by: r4ibom

There’s a lot going on and markets don’t quite know what to make of it yet.

Stock futures on Thursday hold modestly higher as investors brace for the busiest day of the fourth-quarter earnings reporting season and parse a better-than-expected weekly update on employment amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The pound rose on Thursday, after the Bank of England tried to be as cautious as possible in saying it was time to start preparations for adding negative interest rates to its tool kit.

If you’re not up to plugging in yet, every car on this list has a combined fuel economy rating of at least 30 mpg, and the top two achieve over 50 mpg.

European stocks rose on Thursday for a fourth consecutive session, led higher by drug companies.

Day traders from Reddit have often used Robinhood and other low-cost investment and trading apps to buy stock in companies such as GameStop and AMC.

‘He told me straight out that he does not intend to give me any of our joint tax return, because he said that I am no longer working.’

Consulting giant McKinsey & Co. has reached a $573 million settlement with states over its work advising OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP and other drug manufacturers to aggressively market opioid painkillers, according to people familiar with the matter.

Parler, a moderation-light social media platform that was forced offline last month by tech giants over how it policed its content, has fired its chief executive.

Perhaps Jeff Bezos, just 57 and with plenty of things on his plate, is getting out when the getting is good.

The GameStop surge is often cast as a triumph of amateurs over professionals. Which it was, to a degree. But it also was a trade that pitted professionals against other professionals.

Democrats may be forced to scale back their ambitions for a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package as one key senator, West Virginia’s Joe Manchin, has said he won’t support trying to stretch the rules governing the budget process.

Apple Inc. is close to a deal to make its autonomous electric-vehicle with Kia-Hyundai, CNBC reported late Wednesday.

IAC/InteractiveCorp. once again saw strong momentum for its Vimeo unit, though growth at home-improvement platform ANGI Homeservices Inc. slowed as the pandemic impacted demand for indoor projects.