[unable to retrieve full-text content] U.S. stock indexes headed higher late-morning Tuesday, with the Nasdaq Composite up for an eighth straight session, helped by improving economic data, after an overnight scare over trade relations with China. MarketWatch.com – Top Stories
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Stephen Roach, a Yale University senior fellow and former Morgan Stanley Asia chairman, tells MarketWatch that his forecast for a sharp deterioration of the U.S. dollar could be a very near-term phenomenon, not an event that looms off in the distance. “I do think it’s something that happens sooner rather …
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“ ‘The stock market has already discounted a significant degree of the economic recovery. So, incrementally improving data here might not do much to lift prices. The risk-reward isn’t great here.’ ” That’s Bryn Mawr Trust’s Jeffrey Mills, who oversees $ 16 billion in assets, talking to CNBC Friday about …
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Quadruple witching, a pandemic, a recession, and a stock market that is looking for reasons to add to an epic recovery from the impact of the coronavirus. Could those factors make for a volatile cocktail for the stock market in coming days and weeks? Quadruple witching, occurs on the third …
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U.S. stocks slumped in the final hour of trade Wednesday to end three days of gains, as investors monitored signs of a revival of the coronavirus pandemic in some U.S. states and China, while still hoping for a quick economic recovery as business activity resumes. Investors also parsed the second …
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Read More »World Market Summer Finds
One of my favorite stores for outdoor decor & furniture is World Market. I’ve been working on completing our outdoor space and when I was doing my shopping I found so many great things at World Market I knew I needed to share. As a huge bonus, World Market has …
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