Economy

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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General Electric, once America's most valuable company, is now in sharp decline. In a year full of dubious landmarks, GE has encountered another: The storied conglomerate is now worth less than $100 billion. That hasn't…
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CEOs are using the market boom to quietly cash in their own chips. Insiders at US companies have dumped $5.7 billion of stock this month, the highest in any September over the past decade, according to an analysis of…
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Tesla will turn in a critical production reporton Tuesday that will show investors whether the company can sustain and surpass its long-promised target of building 5,000 Model 3s per week.That report will go a long way toward…
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Now, as the first female CEO of Land O'Lakes — and the first openly gay female CEO in the Fortune 500list of largest US companies — Ford remembers a conversation with her mother years ago that taught her that "while we may not have…
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