[ad_1] Jan. 16, 2024 12:49 pm ET Wall Street hardly ended last year with a bang. But given the challenges facing the other major business lines of the biggest banks,…
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Natural-Gas Prices Remain Under Pressure Despite Cold Snap
[ad_1] Natural-gas prices have been low this winter, helped by healthy production and unusually warm weather. The current winter storm could change that temporarily, but the long-term forecast is still…
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,…
These Four Questions Are Top of Mind for Investors in 2024
[ad_1] Updated Jan. 16, 2024 12:01 am ET The blockbuster stock market rally stalled once the calendar flipped to 2024. Some of the big tech stocks that drove the market’s…
Chip Wars Boost Europe’s Top Tech Company—for Now
[ad_1] The more the U.S. government worries about China’s ambitions in the chip industry, the more equipment for making chips that China seems to buy. When ASML, the Dutch company…
Stocks in Japan, India Notch Historic Highs; U.S. Markets to Reopen Tuesday
[ad_1] Stock benchmarks in two of Asia’s largest economies climbed to historic highs, while U.S. equity and bond markets were shut for Martin Luther King Day. Bank earnings and economic…
Peace and Prosperity in the Taiwan Strait Still Have a Chance
[ad_1] Taiwan has voted: bringing the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party an unprecedented consecutive third term in the presidency. Now the world is waiting on Beijing, which claims Taiwan but doesn’t…
The Last Man Standing in Crypto
[ad_1] Brian Armstrong has become the new face of crypto. Coinbase Global, the cryptocurrency exchange he co-founded in 2012, is one of the last big digital-asset companies standing after a…