Profits Comeback Paired With Rate Cuts Make a Powerful Mix

[ad_1] Profits are growing again, and the Federal Reserve looks as if it will start cutting rates sometime this year. It is an unusual combination and, for the stock market,…

Americans Begin to Believe Inflation Is Cooling

[ad_1] Jan. 11, 2024 10:56 am ET It matters that inflation is lower now than it was a year ago. It also matters that people’s inflation expectations are moving lower.…

Blockbuster Natural-Gas Merger Is Almost Too Perfect

[ad_1] Jan. 11, 2024 12:04 pm ET Chesapeake Energy’s merger with Southwestern Energy would create the largest natural-gas-focused producer in the U.S. It also creates an investment story that is…

Americans Have Started to Believe Inflation Is Cooling

[ad_1] Jan. 11, 2024 10:56 am ET It matters that inflation is lower now than it was a year ago. It also matters that people’s inflation expectations are moving lower.…

What Nvidia Does for an Encore

[ad_1] How does any company follow up a year in which business doubled and market value tripled? For Nvidia, that answer seems to be: staying the course.  Nvidia announced its…

How the 2023 Bank Crisis Can Still Be Felt in 2024

[ad_1] The Federal Reserve may be poised to loosen the reins on the economy with interest-rate cuts. But for now, banks are still keeping themselves on a relatively tight leash.…

India’s Infrastructure Push Is Key to Taking on China

[ad_1] The coming few years will be a litmus test for India’s ambition to become a manufacturing hub rivaling China. A big question mark is how quickly it can build…

The Pandemic’s E-Commerce Stars Are Coping

[ad_1] Online retailers that experienced dizzying growth in 2020 and 2021 are settling into their postpandemic reality. [ad_2] Source link

The Chip Wars Are Metastasizing

[ad_1] It’s getting harder—both technically and financially—to make semiconductor chips smaller. The fight for chip tech supremacy has begun to migrate into a new area: how to package chips together…

How Can Spending Be Up When People Feel Down?

[ad_1] Dec. 26, 2023 11:00 pm ET According to the Misery Index, Americans shouldn’t be all that miserable. But they might only recently have started to catch on. Invented by…