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U.S. Futures Slide After Spat Over Fed Stimulus: Markets Wrap

Posted on November 21, 2020 by TeamIcarus | 0 Comments

U.S. futures retreated Friday after a dispute between Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and the Federal Reserve over its emergency lending facilities. European futures and Asian stocks were little changed.

Here’s How Bad Commercial Real-Estate Pain Could Get For Banks, Other Lenders

Posted on November 18, 2020 by TeamIcarus | 0 Comments

Low rates and rosy assumptions about how much rent properties might collect helped fuel the record $5 trillion debt boom in U.S. commercial real estate over the past decade.

Online Shopping Could Be Up 35% This Holiday Season, and Two More Numbers to Know

Posted on October 14, 2020 by TeamIcarus | 0 Comments

Wall Street’s consensus estimate for S&P 500 earnings per share is $33.11 in the third quarter. It would be a more than 21% drop from a year earlier.

Copper Supply Faces Struggle to Keep Up with Growing Demand

Posted on October 7, 2020 by TeamIcarus | 0 Comments

A deficit in the copper market is set to deepen over the next several years as supply of the widely used metal struggles to keep up with strong demand from…

Nasdaq Snaps 3-Week Losing Streak as Apple Restores Tech Health

Posted on September 26, 2020 by TeamIcarus | 0 Comments

Investing.com – The Nasdaq snapped a three-week losing streak on Friday, as tech rebounded with a strong showing from Apple ahead of its iPhone 5G launch widely expected to be…

Wall Street Tumbles Again With Tech Stocks Leading

Posted on September 25, 2020 by TeamIcarus | 0 Comments

Wall Street’s sell-off resumed on Wednesday as a drop in the shares of large technology companies dragged stocks to their fifth decline in the last six sessions.

These 74 Stocks in the S&P 500 Hit All-Time Records on Wednesday

Posted on September 3, 2020 by TeamIcarus | 0 Comments

U.S. stocks staged a broad rally Wednesday as all sectors of the S&P 500 Index, except for one, rose. A total of 74 members, or 15%, of the benchmark large-cap…

Dow Jones May Climb on Dovish Fed, Improving Macro Data

Posted on August 30, 2020 by TeamIcarus | 0 Comments

The Dow Jones Industrial Average stockindex has rebounded 56.4% from its trough observed in March, marking it one of the best-performing stock indices globally after the S&P 500 and Nasdaq…

With the Market Back at a Record, Wall Street’s Top Analysts Think These Stocks Can Go Even Higher

Posted on August 30, 2020 by TeamIcarus | 0 Comments

Stocks are once again at record high levels — with the S&P 500 now up over 21% on a one-year basis. That’s following Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s more-relaxed inflation targeting…

Salesforce’s 30% Stock Rally This Week is a Possible ‘Nightmare’ Scenario for the Dow Committee

Posted on August 27, 2020 by TeamIcarus | 0 Comments

As part of a shake-up in the stocks comprising the Dow Jones Industrial Average announced earlier this week, Salesforce.com Inc. was among a trio of companies included in the venerable…