Health care suffered a health scare this week. The XLV health care sector ETF tumbled more than 4% since Monday, its worst week of the year and sending the group negative for 2019. Craig Johnson, chief market technician at Piper Jaffray, says the prognosis does not look good. “No question that the health care sector
Month: April 2019
© 2018 Bloomberg Finance LP Malaysia is already caught in China’s web, and there’s no escape from it. The best it can do is to bring Beijing to the negotiating table, and try to get better deals for projects under way. In the early days after his election, Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad sent a
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Photocredit: © 2019 Bloomberg Finance LP © 2019 Bloomberg Finance LP The performance of the S&P in the coming week may very well reflect the prior week. In the new week the S&P is likely to be flat or down. The 29th is a projected turning
Houston, TX, USA – February 8, 2015: Monopoly Board Game – money around the car, dice, houses and hotels Getty If I was redesigning a new Monopoly game, I would include a set of spaces called Opportunity Zones. This new type of property could be extremely valuable, even more so than Boardwalk and Park Place.
An interview and Q&A with billionaire investor and founder of the world’s largest Hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, Ray Dalio. In this interview, Ray discusses his early life and career, including the path to starting his hedge fund Bridgewater Associates. Ray also talks about economic risks and how these have previously played out in the past.
Cannabis advocates have a lot to celebrate this April 20, the unofficial marijuana holiday. Efforts to legalize marijuana are gaining momentum at both the state and federal level. Congress legalized marijuana’s close cousin, hemp, in December. And public support for cannabis is higher than ever. “Never in modern history have we had more political support
IBM will release first-quarter earnings after market close on Tuesday. Here are the numbers to watch: Earnings: $2.22 per share as expected by analysts, excluding certain items, according to Refinitiv. Revenue: $18.46 billion as expected by analysts, according to Refinitiv. The estimate implies that analysts expect IBM’s revenue to be down 3.2% from the year-ago
Investors will soon apply environmental, social and governance standards to global governments as the role of ethics grows in the investing world, according to Paul O’Brien, the former deputy CIO of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, which manages more than $700 billion in assets. “People [are] taking a more ethical approach to their investing. That
As the Massachusetts gaming commission began hearings last week to decide if the Wynn Co will retain its license to operate the first major urban casino on the East Coast, I thought back to my original introduction to the casino industry in 1983. I considered much that industry has changed, but also how each sector
Hoping to avoid a tax surprise for 2019? Talk to your accountant before you use the IRS tax withholding calculator. That’s because user error and failure to consider state and local taxes could result in incorrect adjustments to the income taxes you have withheld at work. The 2018 tax year brought in a host of
Photographer: Asad Zaidi/Bloomberg © 2018 Bloomberg Finance LP America should stop providing aid to Pakistan, which ends up supporting the country’s rich and powerful. It should let China and Saudi Arabia do it. Providing financial aid to poor countries around the world makes a great deal of sense for America, both on humanitarian and geopolitical
Bank of America is jumping ahead of the $15 minimum wage movement. Beginning May 1st, it will hike its minimum wage to $17, and to $20 by 2021. Other big banks like JPMorgan Chase have already announced plans to hike the minimum wage to $18. As of 2017, Bank of America was the fourth largest
Strong home price appreciation last year led many to wonder if housing was unsustainably strong. I thought not and in November 2018 wrote Housing Forecast: Not A Bubble In 2019. This update shows that housing will continue to soften, though not quite so much as previously expected. The most important factor determining housing construction and
A Bud Light ad targeting two of MillerCoors’ beer brands led the Chicago-based company to take out a full page ad in the New York Times, pull out of a meeting that included Bud Light’s parent and file a lawsuit. But Anheuser-Busch InBev alleged in its response to MillerCoors’ lawsuit that behind the scenes, an
Netflix fell about 1% after reporting its first-quarter earnings after the bell Tuesday. The company posted quarterly revenue that beat estimates but included light guidance for the following quarter. Here are the numbers Netflix reported compared to Wall Street’s expectations: Earnings per share: 76 cents, vs. 57 cents expected, per Refinitiv consensus estimate. Revenue: $4.52
Check out the companies making headlines midday Thursday: Zoom Video Communications — Shares of the videoconferencing software company Zoom surged 80% on Thursday, its first day of trading. The stock traded as high as $66, compared with its initial price of $36. The bump gave Zoom a market cap of $16.7 billion. Pinterest — Pinterest
Thursday’s session signaled that the market is “getting genuinely overexuberant” and the major averages could become wobbly if more IPOs become overvalued in the near future, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said. Pinterest and Zoom made a big splash in their debuts to public markets, while other unicorns like Uber and Slack, among others, sit in the
Health insurance can get pretty complicated. Typically, the point is to pay some money every month so that when you have an accident or get sick, your medical costs aren’t so expensive that they bankrupt you. Two of the most important terms in health insurance are premiums and deductibles. Your premium is that monthly cost.
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin If your “retirement plan” is to continue working longer, turn your plan into reality by taking steps to make it happen. Getty If working longer is part of your retirement plan, to make it a realistic plan, you need to take some smart steps to make
Gen X gets a lot of negative press when it comes to personal finances. In fact, in the personal finance world, Gen X is often seen as the runt of the generational cohort litter. The rhetoric is repetitive: “Gen X isn’t saving enough.” “Gen X has the most debt of any other generation.” “Gen X
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