We should be asking much deeper questions now than simply about whether and when another stock market bubble burst might come. We should be re-examining the role of private and public sectors in allocating financial resources to the global economy. Failure to do this could result in a dramatic rise in tax rates around the
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While the U.S. stock market has been pricing in a “soft-landing” scenario for the economy, a blowout January jobs report, relatively strong corporate earnings, and Federal Reserve Jerome Powell’s comments during the past week could point to the possibility of “no landing,” where the economy is resilient while inflation stays target. Such a scenario
Published: Jan. 16, 2024 at 6:22 p.m. ET Walt Disney Co.’s board on Tuesday nominated a slate of 12 directors that notably left out activist investors from Trian Fund Management (Nelson Peltz, James Rasulo) and Blackwells Group (Craig Hatkoff, Jessica Schell, Leah Solivan), both of which have been highly critical of Disney Chief Executive Robert
Thank the social media makers. Meta’s Threads is in the United States, alongside many other countries including India, Canada, Mexico and the UK. This has been one of the most asked-for tools Keyword search appeared last week as a and it looks that beta was a success given today’s announcement. Keyword search, known as hashtags
A much-demanded feature is finally coming to very soon, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has . is on the way. Until now, the search box has only been useful for looking up user accounts. In fact, the company is already testing the function in Australia and New Zealand. It plans to roll out keyword search more
Stock-market investors fear a megacap meltdown. Here’s what history says.
Investors spent 2023 fretting about the sustainability of a stock-market rally largely driven by a handful of megacap tech stocks. Those worries remain in place as the S&P 500 has returned to record territory in the new year. “With the usual set of select megacap stocks pacing early 2024 performance, concentration-risk worries have been getting