A German payment firm’s shares have plummeted 30% in less than two weeks — here’s why
Shares of German payments firm Wirecard have suffered big losses in less than two weeks. The company drew investor attention last year when its market capitalization climbed above that of Deutsche Bank. It also made waves after the firm joined...
Paul Tudor Jones says ‘mania’ in share buybacks threatens to have ‘social consequences’
Hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones issued a call for more responsible investing, saying that the craze over stock buybacks is causing troubling social ills. “I think we’ve got a mania going on in buybacks and a mania going on...
Plunge in crypto sets stage for Facebook and other tech giants to hire blockchain experts
The drop in cryptocurrency prices is meaning job losses for some, but it may carve out an ideal hiring opportunity for tech giants. Some blockchain start-ups, regardless of having talented teams of engineers, haven’t been able to prove a use...
Krugman expects to see a global recession this year, warns ‘we don’t have an effective response’
There is a decent chance the world economy is headed for a recession in 2019, according to Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman. Market participants are increasingly worried about the prospect of a serious economic downturn over the coming months, with...
Here’s why Wells Fargo has sliced its forecasts for rate hikes and bond yields
As bond yields fall on global growth fears, Wells Fargo is making some changes. This month, the firm cut both its year-end Federal Reserve interest rate hike forecast and bond yield targets. However, the firm’s global head of interest rate...
The housing market is facing risks this year, but here’s why it’s not all bad news for buyers
With spring on the way, many home buyers are starting their hunt for a new home. But with the housing market in transition, will they be able to find what they’re looking for? Thus far this year, the 30-year-fixed has...
A tech bear starts to ‘creep out of the bunker’ and says the Nasdaq could outperform the market
Technology investor Paul Meeks is no longer avoiding the group that made him famous on Wall Street. Meeks, who ran the world’s biggest tech fund for Merrill Lynch in the late 1990s and early 2000s, expects the tech-heavy Nasdaq to...
‘This is the fight of our lives,’ Elizabeth Warren says as she formally launches her 2020 presidential bid
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren formally launched her presidential campaign on Saturday at a rally in her home state of Massachusetts, marking the final step in a process that had been underway for months. Warren made little secret for years of...
Trump’s disruptive foreign policy will be tested in four major ways this month
February brings the most significant series of tests yet of whether President Trump can transform his disruptive U.S. foreign policy into concrete outcomes. The four to watch most closely are: negotiating a trade deal with China denuclearizing North Korea rallying...
Third Point dissolves stakes in Netflix, Microsoft and Alibaba
Daniel Loeb’s Third Point dissolved its stakes in Netflix, Microsoft and Alibaba as of Dec. 31, according to a Friday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The hedge fund previously held 1.25 million shares of Netflix, 4.1 million shares...
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