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As more companies announce diversity and inclusion measures, Ariel Investments’ co-CEO Mellody Hobson believes there’s a simple way to hold corporations accountable: math. “Math has no opinion — have the math. The only way you can do that is commit to having an annual review of these issues to see where you’re gaining ground, where

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE Are you confused about what is going on in the markets? Traders sure are. “We all got comfortable thinking Covid was done or manageable, and it may turn out to still be a wild card,” Peter Tchir from Academy Securities told me. ”Nobody wants another

Gas prices are displayed at a Speedway gas station on March 03, 2021 in Martinez, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images One of the main reasons Federal Reserve officials don’t fear inflation these days is the belief that they have tools to deploy should it become a problem. Those tools, however, come with a cost,

The Federal Reserve on Friday declined to extend a pandemic-era rule that relaxed the amount of capital banks had to maintain against Treasurys and other holdings, in a move that could upset Wall Street and the bond market. In a brief announcement, the Fed said it would allow a change to the supplementary leverage ratio

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell arrives for a news conference following the Federal Open Market Committee meeting in Washington, December 11, 2019. Joshua Roberts | Reuters Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell reiterated his commitment to an “all-in” approach to the recovery, pledging in a commentary piece for the Wall Street Journal to keep policy loose.

Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading.  Visa — Shares of the payment processor fell 4.7% in midday trading after a report said the Justice Department is investigating whether business practices at the payment processor’s debit-card business is leading to unlawful market dominance. The Wall Street

Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Nike (NKE) – Nike came in 14 cents a share above estimates, with quarterly profit of 90 cents per share. The athletic footwear and apparel company’s revenue came in below analysts’ projections, however, and its full-year revenue outlook was also shy of estimates.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (2nd R), joined by national security advisor Jake Sullivan (R), speaks while facing Yang Jiechi (2nd L), director of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission Office, and Wang Yi (L), China’s foreign minister at the opening session of U.S.-China talks at the Captain Cook Hotel in Anchorage, Alaska on March

A Dollar General store in Creve Coeur, Illinois. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading.  Williams-Sonoma – Shares of the retailer jumped more than 20% after the company beat top and bottom line estimates during the fourth quarter. Williams-Sonoma earned $3.95 per share excluding items during

A logo of Ant Group is pictured at the headquarters of the company, an affiliate of Alibaba, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China October 29, 2020. Aly Song | Reuters BEIJING — Vanguard’s experiment with financial technology in China is showing early signs of success. In less than a year, more than 1 million users have

Big Tech’s troubles may be in their early innings. Rich Bernstein, an Institutional Investor Hall of Famer, warns that the tech-heavy Nasdaq faces “way more” than a 10% drop in a downturn that will likely last years. He blames a backdrop dominated by rising interest rates as a major catalyst. “Everybody seems to know when

Robinhood hires Aparna Chennapragada as first chief product officer Robinhood has hired a top Google executive as its first chief product officer ahead of its upcoming public debut. The trading start-up said Wednesday it will bring on Aparna Chennapragada, who spent 12 years at Google leading product, engineering and design teams. She was most recently

Workers make protective masks at a factory in Handan, Hebei province, China January 22, 2020. China Daily via REUTERS BEIJING — While much of the world is still dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, China’s economy is showing signs that it has already passed the peak of a domestic recovery. That means growth ahead will not

Don’t rule out a 10-year Treasury Note yield as high as 2.25% this year. That’s the message from Wells Fargo Securities’ Michael Schumacher, ahead of Wednesday’s Federal Reserve interest rate decision. “The fiscal stimulus is enormous, and the vaccine rollout seems to be accelerating quite a bit — not just here in the U.S.,” the

Federal Reserve Jerome Powell testifies during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on “The Quarterly CARES Act Report to Congress” on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., December 1, 2020. Susan Walsh | Reuters A resurgent economy, percolating inflation and a stock market ripping higher don’t seem to make much of a recipe for easy monetary policy.

Nikola Motor Company Two truck Source: Nikola Motor Company Check out the companies making headlines after the bell on Monday: Maxar Technologies – Shares of the space technology company slid 4% after the company announced a common stock offering of $400 million in an SEC filing. Maxar said it intends to use proceeds from the

Credit Suisse’s Jonathan Golub is urging investors to get clever with recovery plays. He’s advocating a broad strategy that goes beyond reopening trades such as airlines and hotels. “It could be metals and mining companies. It could be machinery and industrial names. Chemical names,” the firm’s chief U.S. equity strategist and head of quantitative research

The Internal Revenue Service headquarters in Washington, D.C. Samuel Corum/Bloomberg via Getty Images The IRS should police wealthy Americans who intentionally dodge their income taxes with more vigor, according to a report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. About 686,000 taxpayers who earn at least $200,000 a year had a combined $38.5 billion

The Leuthold Group’s Jim Paulsen has a message for investors: Don’t give up on Big Tech. According to the firm’s chief investment strategist, Nasdaq volatility associated with rising Treasury Note yields may not be enough to permanently derail its two decade leadership cycle. “It’s quite a coincidence that that same peak we had three weeks

Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Source: NYSE U.S. stock futures moved higher in overnight trading and pointed to gains at the open on Monday, continuing last week’s rally that led the Dow and S&P 500 to record highs. Dow futures rose 95 points. S&P 500 futures gained 0.26% and Nasdaq