Category: Markets

Markets gave back their gains from earlier this week early on Wednesday. Each of the major indexes was down at least 1%, with the Nasdaq leading the charge lower with … Read More

All three major U.S. equity indexes posted moderate gains Monday and traded higher Tuesday morning, following a strong report on retail sales for April. Consumers spent more at bars and … Read More

Aussie Home Loans founder John Symond has backed a Coalition plan to let people use their superannuation to get into the property market, playing down concerns the policy would simply … Read More

Treasuries showed a substantial move to the downside during trading on Thursday, more than offsetting the advance seen going into the close of the previous session. Bond prices climbed off … Read More

New York (CNN Business)So much for the good feelings on Wall Street. US markets fell sharply Thursday, eviscerating all of the gains from Wednesday after the Federal Reserve’s announcement of … Read More

The Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee announcement is due out Wednesday afternoon, and Fed watchers are expecting a one-half point rate hike and more details on how the Fed plans … Read More

Public corporation CEO compensation has been considered excessive in the United States for decades. What these CEOs make is easy to determine, because publicly traded companies are required to disclose … Read More

A day after recording their biggest single-session drop in two months, gold futures recovered to close modestly higher on Tuesday as the dollar turned weak ahead of the Federal Reserve’s … Read More

The futures were mixed Tuesday, as investors prepare for a huge week of data and an inevitable lifting of the federal funds rate by 50 basis points. The major indexes … Read More

Gold prices moved in a tight band on Thursday before settling slightly up even as the dollar continued its move up north amid rising prospects of sharper interest rate hikes … Read More