Month: November 2019

European markets opened higher on Monday, with investors hopeful of progress in the U.S.-China trade dispute. The pan-European Stoxx 600 jumped 0.6% after the opening bell, with basic resources adding 1.7% to lead gains as all sectors and major bourses entered positive territory. U.S. National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien on Saturday said a so-called “phase
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A top Wall Street economist is lowering his recession forecast. But Barclays’ Michael Gapen warns it’s too early to give the U.S. economy the all-clear. “We do need to get over some of these hurdles that are a problem for business-sector spending of which is both U.S.-China trade concerns as well as things like Brexit
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Rido81 The U.S. economy has now been growing for over ten years, the longest period of economic expansion in our history, but nothing lasts forever. Lately clients have been asking me about how to prepare for the upcoming recession. They’re unsettled by the political environment, threats of climate change and growing tensions with other countries.
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Source: Justice League In 2017 Warner Bros. released its big DC Comics superhero team-up movie, Justice League, to battle Disney Marvel Studios’ Avengers franchise. It lost. “Justice League” was released to harsh critical reviews (40% on Rotten Tomatoes) and while it earned $658 million worldwide, that was on a $300 million budget and with domestic
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled the electric car maker’s first pickup on Thursday night and Wall Street analysts were highly critical of the truck’s dramatic styling. “Tesla’s Cybertruck looks weird … like, really weird. Musk had warned investors that Tesla’s pickup would be ‘really futuristic, like cyberpunk Blade Runner,’ and he wasn’t kidding,” Bernstein analyst
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Passengers entering customs at Miami International Airport, ranked among the bottom five for immigration processing by Airside Mobile. JodiJacobson | iStock Unreleased | Getty Images If you’re traveling abroad this Thanksgiving weekend, you might want to think about waiting until the very last minute to fly home. That’s because you’ll find some of the shortest
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Getty You’ve heard about the wealth tax proposed by presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. Her wealth tax would target high-net-worth individuals and is intended to address income inequality. But do you know about the other version of a wealth tax that’s getting some buzz? In a recent article in Tax Notes Federal, Dan Palmon and Jay Soled,
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Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Marcelo Claure laid out WeWork’s new strategic plan. Riccardo Savi/Getty Images for Concordia Summit Topline: A day after the company cut almost 20% of its workforce, WeWork’s new chairman, Marcelo Claure, addressed employees at an all-staff meeting on Friday in which he outlined sweeping changes to
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