Business, Safety

Amazon Stock Stability Turns Perceptions of Investor Safety Upside Down

Investors are redefining what constitutes safety in the stock market as the unprecedented lockdown of the U.S. economy takes hold.

Luke Kawa | Bloomberg News
April 8, 2020
Business

Outlook for US Corporate Earnings Is at a Six-Year High

Wall Street doesn’t think corporate America will have a hard time coming up with those employee bonuses that were promised after taxes were slashed.

Luke Kawa | Bloomberg News
January 2, 2018
Business

Global Trade Growth Is About to Roll Over

Signs are pointing to a looming slowdown in global trade growth, according to Morgan Stanley.

Luke Kawa | Bloomberg News
May 3, 2017
Government, Business

Infrastructure Stocks Slump as Stimulus Not Seen Until 2018

Investors who bet Donald Trump would quickly make good on his pledge to fix the nation’s highways and bridges are being taken for a road-trip in financial markets.

Luke Kawa | Bloomberg News
February 23, 2017
Government

Here Comes the Economic Growth That Confidence Data’s Predicting

It turns out businesses and consumers have reason to be confident economic growth is about to pick up. But it’s not because of President Donald Trump’s policy prescriptions.

Luke Kawa | Bloomberg News
February 6, 2017
Government

Deutsche Bank: Trump Could Push the US Economy and Stock Markets to New Records

It's looking more likely that President-elect Donald Trump will preside over a continuing U.S. expansion that could take its place as the longest among American business cycles, according to Deutsche Bank AG.

Luke Kawa | Bloomberg News
November 22, 2016
Business

Lower-Paying Industries See Fastest Wage Growth in US

"Joe six-pack gets a raise," proclaim Bank of America Merrill Lynch economists Emanuella Enenajor and Lisa Berlin, commenting on the biggest source of upward pressure on U.S. wages in 2016.

Luke Kawa | Bloomberg News
August 29, 2016
Business

Manufacturing Recession Might Be Over, Goldman Sachs Says

Goldman Sachs projects that the ISM Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index will break above 50, the level that separates contraction and expansion, in its March reading that is due out on April 1.

Luke Kawa | Bloomberg News
March 29, 2016