European stocks trade choppy as a strong euro hampers gains, while U.S. equity futures rise. Investors are watching a policy shift by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and the resignation of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is leaving his post amid health issues.
Ireland’s EU Commissioner for Trade resigned late Wednesday after reports alleging that he did not abide by the rules of his 14-day quarantine period, in addition to attending an 81-person dinner, also directly contravening government guidelines
Here’s why investors need to start thinking about life beyond the big tech superstars that have propelled markets higher. Jefferies equity analyst Steve DeSanctis says it’s time for investors to wake up.
In what is shaping up as a newfangled nightmare in their efforts to stop election interference, Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and others are as concerned about misinformation and other issues in days after the U.S. election as they are in the months preceding it.
Palantir Technologies Inc., a software company founded in Silicon Valley to help governments and companies collect and parse data, used its Tuesday filing for a direct listing to confirm a move away from the California technology hub and declare that “we seem to share fewer and fewer of the technology sector’s values and commitments.”
Palantir Technologies Inc. has created controversy by selling its data software to militaries and other enforcement agencies for years, but it has the private sector to thank for revenue growth that is now expected to bring the company to Wall Street.
The U.S. business of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. has been indicted on charges the drugmaker fixed prices on generic drugs, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Repealing the payroll tax without putting in place a new source of funding for Social Security would mean disability payments would end in mid-2021 and payments to the elderly would stop in 2023, according to the program’s chief actuary.
A day after Salesforce.com Inc. was announced as the first cloud-software entry into the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the San Francisco company announced that it had collected $5 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time, sending its stock toward fresh record highs.
Here’s the biggest unknown about the economy right now: Just how much will the loss of federal coronavirus aid for families and businesses stunt a recovery that already has lost steam.