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Trump third-term amendment ‘impossibly difficult’ to pass, Harvard Law professor says
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to journalists as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2025. Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images A newly introduced constitutional amendment that would allow President Donald Trump to be elected to a third term in the White […]
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These names reporting next week have a history of beating earnings expectations
A host of stocks with earnings on deck next week typically beat Wall Street estimates. Roughly 7% of S & P 500 companies have so far reported fourth-quarter results, collectively notching growth of about 61%. When all is said and done, earnings are forecast to grow by about 12% in the fourth quarter. On Wednesday, […]
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Citigroup shares rise as fourth-quarter earnings top estimates
Jane Fraser speaks during the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., on Monday, April 29, 2019. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg via Getty Images Citigroup reported its fourth-quarter earnings Wednesday morning ahead of Wall Street’s opening bell. Here is how the company did relative to LSEG analyst consensus estimates: Earnings: $1.34 a share, […]
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Europe’s stocks open higher ahead of closely watched U.S. inflation data
European markets opened higher on Wednesday as traders await the latest U.S. inflation data that will inform the Federal Reserve’s decision-making on interest rate cuts. The pan-European Stoxx 600 was around 0.4% higher during early deals, with most sectors and all major bourses in positive territory shortly after the opening bell. London’s FTSE 100 was […]
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9 questions we want answered when our 3 financial names report earnings Wednesday
Wall Street’s biggest financial institutions kick off fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday, with portfolio names Wells Fargo , Goldman Sachs , and BlackRock set to report results before the opening bell. The rally in financial stocks last year, which really started in October 2023, went into high gear in the run-up to the Federal Reserve ushering […]
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Earnings playbook: Big banks kick off the reporting season, along with a major health insurer
The corporate earnings season kicks off in earnest this week, led by the six major U.S. banks. Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America are all scheduled to post fourth-quarter results. UnitedHealth is also among the roughly 20 S & P 500 names on deck to report. Expectations for […]
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Goldman says market ‘increasingly vulnerable’ to correction, recommends downside protection
Stocks are looking more primed for a correction as the new trading year kicks off, according to Goldman Sachs. After an unusually strong two-year surge, Peter Oppenheimer, Goldman’s chief global equity strategist, said there could be a short-term digestion period for stocks before further gains can be made. He noted that the two-year performance from […]
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Black British entrepreneurs find new ways to land funding as diversity efforts are scrapped
Former Goldman Sachs executive Ayesha Ofori was confident that investors would be keen to fund her investment platform startup — then came the wall of rejections. Some of the venture capitalists who gave the cold shoulder to Ofori’s female-focused financial investment platform, Propelle, ultimately rejected her, citing her lack of experience. Ofori notes her background at Morgan […]
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Goldman loves this European stock riding the data center wave
Goldman Sachs is bullish on one of Italy’s cable manufacturing giants: Prysmian . The company is set to benefit from strong secular demand trends and superior earnings visibility, the investment bank said in a Jan. 2 research note. Prysmian makes underground and submarine cables and systems for power transmission and distribution. Prysmian is among the […]
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