Tag: News

May 25, 2022

U.S. stock futures traded slightly lower in early pre-market trade after the Nasdaq Composite tumbled around 270 points in the previous session. Investors are awaiting earnings results from DICK’S Sporting Goods, Inc. (NYSE:DKS), NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) and Williams-Sonoma, Inc. (NYSE:WSM). […]

May 25, 2022

Stocks shook off some early weakness and turned tentatively higher Wednesday, led by gains in store operators and other retailers. Retailers had been beaten down in recent days over concerns that soaring inflation was eating into their profits. Some of […]

February 18, 2022

Finance leaders of the world’s biggest economies called Friday for a cautious and well coordinated approach to navigating recoveries from the pandemic. Finance ministers and top central bankers of the Group of 20 industrial nations agreed on a need to […]

February 18, 2022

Stocks capped a week of volatile trading on Wall Street with a broad sell-off Friday that left the major indexes with their second straight weekly loss. The selling lost some momentum into the afternoon, but the intensified again in the […]

February 17, 2022

The U.S. dollar treaded water on Thursday and the Japanese yen held on to its earlier gains after a Russian news report of mortar fire in eastern Ukraine jangled market nerves and boosted the appeal of safe haven bets. Russia-backed […]

February 17, 2022

India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) has revised its outlook on the banking sector to ‘improving’ from ‘stable’ for 2022-23, helped by better credit demand and strong balance sheet of lenders. For next fiscal year, the agency expects credit growth to […]

February 16, 2022

Interest in colleges’ return on investment runs high because it is a key selling point for higher ed in an era of high tuition prices, substantial tuition discounts and concerns about student debt. Georgetown CEW has been working to explore […]

February 16, 2022

I looked at a litany of setups in this webinar, but as I said up front, much near-term price action seems to be driven by threats, worries or concerns about the Russia-Ukraine scenario. And given the headlines that we’ve already […]

February 15, 2022

As FIS has looked to accelerate its e-commerce offerings for businesses, the acquisition allows the payments company to incorporate Payrix’s embedded finance technology for small and medium-sized businesses. “Payrix is a small but really highly strategic acquisition for us,” FIS […]

February 14, 2022

The start of the year marks budget season for many states, and governors nationwide have been putting forth spending proposals. While not finalized, many of these plans call for significant increases in public higher education funding. That’s in part because […]