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Wells Fargo shares fall as quarterly revenue misses estimates, bank says credit losses to increase
Wells Fargo signage on May 5th, 2021 in New York City. Bill Tompkins | Michael Ochs Archives | Getty Images Wells Fargo on Thursday reported lower-than-expected first-quarter revenue amid a drop in mortgage lending, but beat earnings expectations as the bank decreased its credit reserves. Wells Fargo shares lost 3% in premarket trading. Here are […]
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Asia-Pacific stocks mixed; Australia’s March jobs data ahead
SINGAPORE — Shares in Asia-Pacific were mixed in Thursday morning trade as investors look ahead to the release of Australian jobs data for March. The Nikkei 225 in Japan climbed 0.55% in morning trade while the Topix index advanced 0.37%. In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.23%. Australian jobs data for March is due at […]
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Stock futures are little changed ahead of major bank earnings Thursday
Stock futures were little changed Wednesday evening as investors awaited quarterly earnings results from the biggest U.S. banks. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average inched lower by 0.04%. S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures slipped 0.08% and 0.04%, respectively. In regular trading the Dow advanced about 344 points, or 1%. The S&P […]
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Investing Club: What to look for when Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley report earnings Thursday
JPMorgan shares took a hit after reporting a miss on Wednesday. But the reasons why investors sold JPM don’t necessarily extend to Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley. Source
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Fed’s Waller sees likelihood of multiple half-point interest rate hikes ahead
Getting inflation under control will require raising interest rates at a faster pace than normal even though the pace of price increases probably has peaked, Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller said Wednesday. That means the central bank likely will hike short-term rates by half a percentage point, or 50 basis points, at its meeting in […]
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Jamie Dimon sees ‘storm clouds’ ahead for U.S. economy later this year
Jamie Dimon, chairman and chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., listens during a Business Roundtable CEO Innovation Summit discussion in Washington, D.C., Dec. 6, 2018. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images The risk that the Federal Reserve accidentally tips the U.S. economy into recession as it combats inflation is rising, according to […]
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Apollo’s head of sustainable investing says we need to speed up the transition toward clean energy
(Click here to subscribe to the Delivering Alpha newsletter.) Geopolitical tensions in Ukraine have had a massive impact on global energy supply chains and prices this year, reminding the world how reliant we are on fossil fuels and how far we are from a true shift toward clean energy. That shift will require $131 trillion in energy […]
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Activist investors are hunting targets in the SPAC market, but battles won’t be easy to win
Daniel Loeb, founder and chief executive officer of Third Point LLC Jacob Kepler | Bloomberg | Getty Images (Click here to subscribe to the Delivering Alpha newsletter.) The once red-hot SPAC market is becoming a fertile ground for activist investors who push for changes at problematic companies and profit from them. A record number of companies went […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: JPMorgan, Delta Air Lines, PayPal
The JP Morgan Chase & Co. headquarters, The JP Morgan Chase Tower in Park Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan, New York. Tim Clayton – Corbis | Corbis Sport | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. JPMorgan Chase – Shares fell 3.5% as JPMorgan Chase reported a $524 million hit from market dislocations […]
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Producer prices rose 11.2% from a year ago in March, the biggest gain on record
The prices that goods and services producers receive rose in March at the fastest pace since records have been kept, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday. The producer price index, which measures the prices paid by wholesalers, increased 11.2% from a year ago, the most in a data series going back to November 2010. […]
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