President Donald Trump at a news conference on Monday evening defended his decision to visit Kenosha, Wis., as he also declined to criticize the teen accused of fatally shooting two protesters in that small city. The president was asked at the news conference about whether he had considered not making …
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MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE Apple Inc.’s stock price will appear quite a bit lower Monday morning, but investors shouldn’t fret. See full story. What the Federal Reserve inflation policy means for your retirement savings Low interest rates can be a blessing or a curse See full story. These ‘Dividend Aristocrat’ stocks …
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“ ‘ We have to remember that Amazon was in a bubble in 2000. It crashed, it fell 90% — I don’t think Tesla is going to fall 90% — but it crashed, and then 10 years later it was running the world. So even if Tesla is going to …
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The stock market will be feeling the impact of COVID-19 for decades to come. That’s because the pandemic is causing the U.S. birth rate to fall. A report from the Brookings Institution, predicts between 300,000 and 500,000 fewer births in 2021, calling it the “Covid Baby Bust.” You have plenty …
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“ ‘The S&P’s new highs are a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing about the hardship of millions of people on food stamps, or the millions about to be fired from service jobs, or the homeless, or the people who are just huddled at …
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When companies’ share prices move very high, some consider splitting the shares so that the lower prices will attract more investors. This can be a positive for stock performance over the long term. Tesla Inc. TSLA, +1.83% will split its stock 5-for-1 on Aug. 31 and Apple Inc. AAPL, -0.08% …
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President Donald Trump on Monday tied the latest gains in the stock market to his coronavirus-aid moves on Saturday, as he spoke at a news conference that was interrupted by a shooting outside the White House. “So we issue those executive orders, and the stock market went up 358 points …
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Stock market bulls are giddy. What is there not to be happy about — the stock market mostly rises, and making money seems easy. While newly minted investors are focusing on running up small, speculative stocks, institutions are hiding in big-cap tech stocks. For prudent investors, the time to understand …
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The stock market’s ability to shrug off the economic destruction and gloomy coronavirus headlines continues to enrich emboldened bulls and baffle even some of the savviest Wall Street pros. A big dose of reality, however, looms large, if Andrew Lapthorne, the global head of quantitative research at Societe Generale, has …
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