Economy

For the first time in a decade, Corporate America is steering more money into stock buybacks than investing in the future. S&P 500 companies rewarded shareholders with $384 billion worth of buybacks during the first…
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Business leaders and officials in China say that Beijing is ready to dig in for a war of attrition with the United States on trade. The Trump administration launched its biggest barrage of tariffs yetjust as top…
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Wall Street doesn't seem to care about the escalating trade war between the United States and China. The Dow jumped 175 points and the Nasdaq climbed 1% on Tuesday despite Washington and Beijingpushing ahead with another…
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The trade war between China and the United States is intensifying, but Beijing has just taken one potential weapon off the table. Premier Li Keqiang told an audience of global executives and policymakers that China would…
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Companies in the front line of the trade war between the United States and China are anxious about what comes next. Executives at a World Economic Forum event in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin have been digesting the…
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Eying China's voracious demand, Cheniere Energy, ExxonMobil (XOM) and other American energy companies are racing to build more than two dozen expensive facilities to export liquefied natural gas, which is super-cooled natural gas that…
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What trade war? The Dow just soared to its first record high since late January. The milestone shows that Wall Street is mostly unfazed by the escalating trade clashbetween the United States and China. The Dow's…
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Business is worried enough about Britain crashing out of the European Union. Now it has a new nightmare: a blind Brexit that could extend the uncertainty over trade for years. Fears are rising that the United Kingdom may…
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1. The next debt crisis: There's a $6.3 trillion elephant in the room. And it just might cause the next recession. The last downturn was triggered by Wall Streetand Americans accumulating too much debt — particularly in…
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Bond yields in the United States have been rising. But investors aren't freaking out. The Dow and S&P 500 both hit all-time highs last week -- and the Nasdaq is not far from a record, either. The 10-Year Treasury…
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