Wall Street banks are paying their CEOs like it’s 2006 again
Chief executives all received annual compensation of at least US$40 million, with their total pay surpassing records set in 2006 and 2021 R years of restraint following the…
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US: Wall Street muted as markets assess softer-than-expected inflation data
Wall Street’s main indexes were muted on Friday (Feb 14), with communication services weighing as markets assessed softer-than-expected inflation data that kept Federal Reserve rate cut…
Wall Street rebounds after week-long tech rout, Amazon down on AI capex jump
Wall Street’s main indexes opened higher on Friday (Feb 6) following a bruising sell-off in technology shares through the week, though optimism was tempered by Amazon’s drop after…
Wall Street ends down as AI worries slam tech stocks
stocks ended lower on Wednesday (Feb 4), with losses in Advanced Micro Devices, Palantir and other technology companies, as investors worried about pricey valuations and whether…
Oracle chases $50 billion for AI buildout as doubts mount on Wall Street
Oracle shares fell 2% Monday following the company’s announcement it planned to raise upwards to $50 billion in 2026. Funding rounds of that size are no longer unusual. The surge in AI…
Wall Street opens lower as commodity rout rattles markets
Wall Street’s main indexes opened lower on Monday (Feb 2), as a violent sell-off in precious metals unsettled investors at the start of a week packed with corporate earnings and…
Sell America is the new trade on Wall Street
A NEW investment thesis has spread through global markets at the start of 2026, as trading strategies long built on the primacy of the United States now opt for a new approach:…
ICE claim that a man shattered his skull running into wall triggers tension at a Minnesota hospital
Intensive care nurses immediately doubted the word of federal immigration officers when they arrived at a Minneapolis hospital with a Mexican immigrant who had broken bones in his face and…
Hoka and Ugg’s Stellar Q3 Sends Deckers Stock Soaring, Quiets Wall Street Naysayers
Were concerns over a slowdown in sales at Deckers Outdoor Corp., the parent of the Ugg and Hoka brands, overblown? If anything, third quarter results posted Thursday after the markets…
Wall Street opens lower after Trump picks Fed critic Kevin Warsh to succeed Jerome Powell
stocks opened lower on Friday (Jan 30) after US President Donald Trump nominated former Federal Reserve governor Kevin Warsh to head the US central bank, as traders mulled over…
ExxonMobil beats Wall Street targets for Q4 profit with help from lower-cost oil production
ExxonMobil beat Wall Street targets in fourth-quarter earnings reported on Friday (Jan 30), with lower-cost oil production in the Permian Basin and Guyana helping to boost the No…
STI tracks overnight Wall Street declines as it slides 0.5%
Across the broader market, decliners beat gainers 365 to 228, with 1.6 billion securities worth about S$2.1 billion changing hands Singapore’s Straits Times Index (STI) dropped on Friday…
Apple sales, profit beat Wall Street estimates amid ‘staggering’ iPhone demand
E beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly revenue on Thursday (Jan 29), powered by strong demand for its iPhones and a sharp rebound in China, with CEO Tim Cook telling…
Wall Street opens mixed as markets digest Big-Tech AI splurge
Wall Street opened mixed on Thursday (Jan 29), as investors waded through mega-cap tech results that showcased another surge in AI spending, while the Federal Reserve held rates…
Trump’s JPMorgan lawsuit underscores his growing clash with Wall Street
President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase and its CEO Jamie Dimon highlights a growing, and politically fraught, conflict in the administration’s policy agenda…
Wall Street grapples with new risk: A European buyers’ strike
Money managers from London to Berlin to Madrid have been increasingly fielding inquiries from clients about ways to at least lighten up on US assets US COMMERCE Secretary Howard Lutnick…
INTC stock is plunging today despite Intel earnings that beat Wall Street expectations. Here are 2 reasons why
Shares in Intel Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC) are plunging in premarket trading this morning. The stock price fall comes after the chipmaker reported its Q4 2025 earnings after the closing…
US stocks: Wall Street ends up as investors buoyed by tariff relief, upbeat data
Many of the so-called Magnificent Seven stocks are due to report earnings next week Street’s main indexes ended higher on Thursday, the second straight day of gains, as…
Wall Street opens higher on tariff relief
stocks opened higher on Thursday (Jan 22), inching towards all-time highs, after President Donald Trump dialed back his threat of tariffs on European countries, while fresh…
US stocks: Wall Street ends higher on Greenland framework deal
three Wall Street benchmarks closed higher on Wednesday, buoyed by the news that a framework for an agreement on Greenland had been reached, averting the possibility of new US…
Wall Street opens higher after rout, Trump speech in focus
stocks staged a modest recovery on Wednesday (Jan 21) after the sharpest equities sell-off in three months, as investors digested President Donald Trump’s speech at Davos,…
Asian equities hold ground as Japan bond jitters ease, after Wall Street slide
Spillover from Japan’s debt market moves appear limited as regional investors turn to policy signals from Davos Asian equity markets remained on a stable footing on Wednesday (Jan 21),…
Asian equities hold ground as Japan bond jitters ease; Wall Street up in early trade
Spillover from Japan’s debt market moves appear limited as regional investors turn to policy signals from Davos Asian equity markets remained on a stable footing on Wednesday (Jan 21),…
US stocks: Wall Street ends lower amid global selloff on Trump Greenland tariff threats
ALL three major Wall Street indexes closed lower on Tuesday, joining other global stock markets in a broad selloff triggered by concerns that fresh tariff threats from President Donald…