Will It Get Worse For Big Tech?
Investors call them the FAANGs — Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google — and in recent years, Wall Street has put a lot of faith in their continued success.But in the last few weeks, tech sector...
View Article'The China Hustle' and the Coming Financial Crisis
Director Jed Rothstein discusses his new documentary, The China Hustle, along with Dan David, a Philadelphia-based investor who is featured in the film. The China Hustle is a Wall Street horror story...
View Article‘Hedge Fund King’ Steven Cohen Gets Back to Business
Before he was known for an insider trading scandal, Steven Cohen was known as the “hedge fund king,” bringing sky-high returns to clients at his super successful firm, SAC Capital Advisors — and...
View ArticleStock Market Crashes Happen. It’s Your Response That Matters
This week marks thirty years since "Black Monday," when the Dow Jones had its biggest one-day percentage drop in its history. Nowadays, even as the Dow hits record highs, there are still investing...
View ArticleStock Market Crashes Happen. It’s Your Response That Matters
This week marks thirty years since "Black Monday," when the Dow Jones had its biggest one-day percentage drop in its history. Nowadays, even as the Dow hits record highs, there are still investing...
View ArticleLessons Learned (and Forgotten) After the 1987 Stock Market Crash
Today marks the 30th anniversary of "Black Monday," one of the worst days in Wall Street history. The Dow Jones lost dropped nearly 23 percent in a single day of trading.These days, it seems like the...
View ArticleLessons Learned (and Forgotten) After the 1987 Stock Market Crash
Today marks the 30th anniversary of "Black Monday," one of the worst days in Wall Street history. The Dow Jones lost dropped nearly 23 percent in a single day of trading. These days, it seems like the...
View ArticleRemembering 'Black Monday'
On October 19, 1987, the Dow Jones had its biggest one-day drop in Wall Street history. On the 30th anniversary of the crash, Alexandra Starr, WNYC reporter, looks at the causes, and how that might...
View ArticleWhen Good Ideas Go Bad on Wall Street
Thirty years after "Black Monday" — one of the worst days in Wall Street history — economists and historians are still analyzing the causes of the crash. One factor, a new, financial strategy that had...
View ArticleWhen Good Ideas Go Bad on Wall Street
Thirty years after "Black Monday" — one of the worst days in Wall Street history — economists and historians are still analyzing the causes of the crash.One factor, a new, financial strategy that had...
View ArticleRemembering Black Monday, a Day of “Utter Devastation” on Wall Street
October 19th marks the 30th anniversary of what's called "Black Monday" when the Dow Jones had its biggest one-day percentage drop in its history; it was one of the worst days in trading in Wall Street...
View ArticleRemembering Black Monday, a Day of “Utter Devastation” on Wall Street
October 19th marks the 30th anniversary of what's called "Black Monday" when the Dow Jones had its biggest one-day percentage drop in its history; it was one of the worst days in trading in Wall Street...
View ArticleColumn: How can the stock market rally possibly continue?
Photo by Brendan McDermid/ReutersEditor’s note: Vikram Mansharamani, for years a professor at Yale and who now teaches at Harvard, is an investment consultant, public speaker on economic trends and...
View ArticleAfter years of slow recovery, U.S. economy boasts solid gains
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: July was the second straight month of solid job gains in the United States.The Labor Department says employers added 209,000 jobs last month. That...
View ArticleMaking Sense of The Economy in the Trump Era
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. On Wednesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit 22,000 points for the first time. The surge in the markets is something the president often...
View ArticleColumn: The stock market hates Trump’s economic policies
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Aug. 21, 2015. Photo by Brendan McDermid/ReutersMost people see last week’s “Trump stock market rally” as an endorsement of the president’s...
View ArticleColumn: How Chicken Little got Dow 20,000 so terribly wrong
A trader wears a hat referencing the proximity of Dow Jones Industrial Average to 20,000 as he works on floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Economist Terry Burnham predicted that the Dow Jones...
View ArticleThe Year That Challenged Elites
This was the year that defied predictions — the United Kingdom did indeed vote to leave the European Union, Donald Trump will be the country's 45th president and the stock market is soaring.With the...
View ArticleColumn: Markets were wary of a Trump presidency. What changed?
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange the day after the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 9, 2016. Were the pre-election and election night markets wrong to be so pessimistic about...
View ArticleColumn: The stock market doesn’t like the idea of a Trump presidency
the New York Stock Exchange in New York City on October 24, 2016. Photo by Brendan McDermid/ReutersWhat do financial market participants think of the 2016 presidential election? It would be helpful to...
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