Not all is harmony as China prepares for next month’s Group of 20 summit, with a number of nations resisting China’s push to acquire assets abroad. Such rejection is considered even more confrontational than disputes […]
First Trust Advisors has brought to NYSE Arca two exchange-traded funds designed to maximize returns while minimizing volatility. The First Trust Horizon Managed Volatility Domestic ETF, which invests in large-cap US equities, and the First […]
Fiscal spending by core eurozone economies would help offset the negative effects of structural reforms in peripheral countries, according to research released Thursday by the European Central Bank. The findings support ECB President Mario Draghi’s […]
Financial technology groups in more than 20 cities plan to launch a federation next month to pool resources quicker. “We’re hoping to really be able to accelerate the connection of fintechs [start-ups] and institutions to […]
Consumer prices in Japan fell for the fifth month in a row in July, dropping 0.5%, the biggest year-on-year decline in more than three years. Most economists expect the Bank of Japan to respond to […]
Around 3% of the combined workforce of Anheuser-Busch InBev (NYSE:BUD) and SABMiller (OTCPK:SBMRY) could be laid off in the three years following the completion of their merger, says AB InBev. That 3% though, excludes sales […]
Blackstone yesterday announced an agreement to invest $1.5B in a pair of drilling deals in West Texas, and committed another $500M to a group which has just purchased 16K acres in another area of the […]
Federal Reserve officials meeting with Fed Up, a coalition of community groups, said that if the central bank acts too slowly to raise interest rates, it could cause the economy to overheat and then fall […]
The futures market is indicating a 32% chance that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates in September, twice the probability signaled two weeks ago. The implied probability of a rate hike rose after more […]
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