Stocks Turn Higher
Wall Street turned positive Monday after the worst weekly decline of the year, even as investors face the prospect of a lackluster corporate earnings season. The Standard Poor’s 500-stock index was 0.3...
View ArticleStocks End Higher
Wall Street stocks rose in a volatile session on Monday as investors were reluctant to make large bets going into an earnings season that is expected to be lackluster. The Standard Poor’s 500-stock...
View ArticleI.M.F. Lowers Estimates for Global Growth for 2013
In a periodic update to its economic projections, the fund said Tuesday that it expected global growth of about 3.3 percent this year and 4 percent in 2014. That is a reduction of 0.2 percentage point...
View ArticleStrategies: Japan Starts to Recharge After Two Lost Economic Decades
Envious foreigners called its export-driven economy a “miracle.” Its real estate and stock markets seemed to defy gravity, and its financiers were so flush with cash that they bought skyscrapers, golf...
View ArticleNikkei Sinks Again Amid Mixed Signals From Central Bank
HONG KONG — The Japanese central bank on Monday released minutes of a recent meeting that showed some board members skeptical of the bank’s own strategy of lifting Japan from deflation, while another...
View ArticleDealBook: In a Shift, Interest Rates Are Rising
Richard Drew/Associated PressA specialist at the New York Stock Exchange. Investors have braced themselves for a new era of higher interest rates. It has been a reliable fact of life for investors,...
View ArticleDow Falls Below 15,000; Retailers Add to Slump
Video game shops, restaurants and retailers led the stock market lower Wednesday. Without any good news to drive the market up, investors grappled with the question hanging over financial markets: When...
View ArticleFundamentally: Japanese Stocks, Trying to Return to High Gear
As the administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pushed to devalue the yen, investors gravitated toward long-forgotten Japanese exporters, which directly benefit from this policy. That’s because a...
View ArticleRising Price Index Hints at Rebound in Japan
TOKYO — Japanese consumer prices rose in June at their highest annual pace in nearly five years in an early sign of an end to persistent deflation, boding well for the central bank’s bold stimulus plan...
View ArticleMarkets Rise as Traders Weigh Employment Data
Stocks on Wall Street edged higher on Thursday, putting equities on track for a third consecutive session of gains, as a flurry of economic data pointed to improving economic conditions. Gains were...
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