While U.S. equity investors have kept their cool during this year’s escalation of trade tensions, the warnings from Wall Street are only getting louder. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. have weighed in, highlighting the potential danger…
Over the past several months, some of the weakest sectors of the U.S. stock market have been those considered the most exposed to escalating tensions between the United States and its major trading partners.Thus far this year, the materials sector…
One of market’s biggest bulls goes on sell-off watch from CNBC. One of the market’s biggest bulls is on sell-off watch. Federated Investors’ portfolio manager Steve Chiavarone sees a 5 to 8 percent drop in stocks before summer ends. And,…
Why stock-market traders are still in ‘wait-and-see’ mode on trade-war threat That may be one of the reasons why, knee-jerk reactions aside, investors remain relatively relaxed about the tit-for-tat series of tariffs, threats and counterthreats flying between Washington and Beijing….
Stocks didn’t move much last week. Generally strong earnings and economic reports faced off against worries of rising trade tensions to keep both the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) stuck in a narrow range. So far this year,…
Chinese shares ceded their ranking as the second-largest stock market in the world to Japan, the Financial Times reported on Friday. Chinese stocks were worth a total of $6.09 trillion at the market close on Thursday, the FT said, referring to figures…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian stocks inched up on Friday, following a tech-led rise on Wall Street, although the latest exchange of trade threats between Beijing and Washington limited gains and drove safehaven flows to the dollar, which brushed a two-week…
(Changes slug from JAPAN-WEALTHFUND/) * Tokyo seeking ways to avert trade friction with U.S. * Economy Minister wants to “take some ideas” to Washington * Finance Minister says no specific plans for fund TOKYO, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Japan is…
Donald Trump’s multi-front trade disputes are gradually turning into something that could be even more damaging to the global economy: a currency war. China, in particular, appears ready to use the value of the yuan as a weapon in the trade war….
BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares were flat Friday in mixed trading ahead of the U.S. jobs report later in the day. There appeared to be scant carry-over Friday from overnight gains on Wall Street as Apple reached $1 trillion in…