Category: Finance

The great fear haunting investors is the prospect of a Russian default, writes Dave Fry. That remains a worry, and a default would ripple across the global economy.

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Thursday’s session are Bed Bath & Beyond, GoPro, and Nike.

An afternoon bout of selling dampened the day as gains were wiped out by the close.  A quiet session as stocks rose slowly for much of the day.  It wasn’t until the close to where we saw a big seller whack the market lower.  Crude prices fell on the session …

Brent crude and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) fell 2 and 3.3 percent respectively to start the week and Saudi Arabia is prepared to go much lower in a bid to trim the fat. Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi said as much in an interview with the Middle East Economic Survey on Monday. …

Roots of the price collapse lie in the US shale oil boom

In macroeconomics, this has indisputably been the year of Thomas Piketty. Rarely, if ever, has a single book so profoundly influenced the public discourse on a central topic, the inequality of wealth and income in the developed economies over many centuries. In an age of tweets and sound bites, the …

Morris Mark: We run two interrelated investment disciplines: a group of investment partnerships that we started about 29 years ago and an investment management, long-only separate account business. While the partnerships have more flexibility and can do some shorting, both of them have a core investment approach, which is to …

UK Only Article: standard article Issue: Past and future tense Fly Title: In search of lost time Rubric: Time poverty is a problem partly of perception and partly of distribution Main image: 20141220_TAP001_0.jpg THE predictions sounded like promises: in the future, working hours would be short and vacations …

The emergence of new players in startup financing means you can be pickier.

Below, the DailyFX Analysts list their top trades with these scenarios in mind.

Final push lower in the euro into year-end?

December 26 marks the 10-year anniversary of the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, one of the largest natural disasters on record. The tsunami killed some 230,000 people across 14 countries, wiping out entire villages in the process. Around 9,000 of those victims were tourists, visiting the resorts of Thailand, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka during …

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