The stock market has been on a tear over the past month as Wall Street celebrated signs of progress in U.S. tariff negotiations and easing trade tensions with China. Since our last Monthly Meeting on April 16 through Tuesday’s close, the S & P 500 jumped 12.6%, while the tech-heavy …
Credit and debit card issuer Capital One sees a path to make its blockbuster acquisition of Discover Financial even sweeter than investors currently expect it to be. It requires going abroad. At the heart of Capital One’s announced $35 billion all-stock deal for Discover, set to close next month, is …
More than three weeks after the calamitous April 2 “reciprocal tariffs” announcement threw the stock market into chaos, investors are trying to make sense of a world in which higher tariffs are likely here to stay — and one in which the U.S. may have lost its edge. Stocks have …
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the Business Roundtable’s quarterly meeting at the Business Roundtable headquarters on March 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images America’s richest and most powerful companies shelled out millions to fund President Donald Trump‘s inauguration festivities. Three months later, some may …
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Financial markets that spent two years anticipating a recession that never came took two days to price in surging odds of a recession that might come by invitation. With one of the nastiest two-day selloffs in history following President Donald Trump’s launch of punitive tariffs on most trading partners, the …
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