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Goldman Sachs just refreshed its conviction lists of global stocks — giving one 64% upside
Goldman Sachs has refreshed its lists of top global stock picks for September, adding some and removing others. The stocks are featured in the investment bank’s “Conviction List – Directors’ Cut,” which aims to offer investors a “curated and active” list of 15 to 25 buy-rated stocks. Stocks on the list are selected by a […]
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Chinese consumer companies have a ‘disproportionate’ advantage over Asian peers in winning the global market
Pictured here in Nov. 2023 is a storefront for Chinese retailer Miniso in London. Peter Dazeley | Getty Images News | Getty Images BEIJING — Chinese brands turning to global markets for growth have a major advantage over the first wave of Asian businesses that went global: a large ethnic Chinese diaspora. That’s according to […]
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U.S. Steel shares drop more than 15% on report White House preparing to block Nippon Steel takeover
United States Steel Mon Valley Works Clairton Plant and Clairton Coke Works facility in Clairton Pennsylvania, Monday, September 11, 2023. Thomas O’Neil | Nurphoto | Getty Images U.S. Steel shares tumbled nearly 18% on Wednesday as the White House is reportedly preparing to block the company’s sale to Japan’s Nippon Steel. People familiar with the […]
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There are more turbulent market days ahead this third quarter, according to the charts
Over the last 11 months, the S & P 500 ‘s advance has been compared to various bull markets of the past: 2021, 2019, 2017, 2009, 1995-1999, etc. One year that hasn’t come up is 2022. Why would it? That was a harsh bear market, characterized by lower lows, raging inflation and historic rate hikes. […]
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Summer box office bounced back thanks to ‘Inside Out 2,’ ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’
Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman star in Marvel’s “Deadpool & Wolverine.” Disney Box office analysts and cinema owners braced themselves a few months ago for the possibility that the summer movie season could be the worst showing in a decade. Thanks to some anthropomorphic emotions and a bad-mouthed, fourth-wall breaking antihero, the domestic summer box […]
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British luxury icon Burberry dropped from UK’s FTSE 100 stock market index
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – 2020/07/16: Storefront of the Burberry store in the prestigious New Bond Street. (Photo by Dave Rushen/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images LONDON — British luxury fashion house Burberry Group dropped out of the U.K.’s FTSE 100 stock market index on Wednesday, as waning sales and […]
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Atlanta Fed President Bostic says officials can’t wait for inflation to hit 2% before cutting
speaking at Jackson Hole on August 23, 2024. David A. Grogan | CNBC Atlanta Federal Reserve President Raphael Bostic signaled Wednesday that he is ready to start lowering interest rates even though inflation is still running above the central bank’s target. Previously one of the more hawkish policymakers, or in favor of tighter policy to […]
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UBS just downgraded critical chip firm ASML on expectations of a demand ‘normalization’
Critical chip equipment supplier ASML is set to face softer demand from buyers of its products in the coming years — and the artificial intelligence boom won’t be enough to offset these downside risks, according to analysts at investment bank UBS . In a fresh research note, UBS downgraded ASML to “neutral” and cut its price […]
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Europe stocks close sharply lower as tech stocks lead losses; Dutch chip firm ASML falls 6%
LONDON — European stocks closed sharply lower on Wednesday, tracking losses on Wall Street and in Asia-Pacific markets. The pan-European Stoxx 600 index provisionally ended down 1%, with most sectors and major bourses in negative territory. Technology stocks dropped 3.2% to lead losses, while household goods fell 2%. The broad declines stateside prompted Asia-Pacific markets […]
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Job openings fell more than expected in July in another sign of labor market softening
Job openings slumped to their lowest level in three and a half years in July, the Labor Department reported Wednesday in another sign of slack in the labor market. The department’s closely watched Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey showed that available positions fell to 7.67 million on the month, off 237,000 from June’s downwardly […]
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