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Apps like Acorns and Stash can be great learning tools for first-time investors, but they may inadvertently encourage people to overreact.

A calm market suddenly went crazy in the final two weeks leading up to Cardlytics Inc.’s initial public offering, but top executives didn’t even discuss the possibility of turning back.

Commenters on Reddit confess their biggest money wasters

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Dow rallies over 450 points heading into the close

Shares of pharmacy-benefit managers fell Friday after the White House released a paper pushing for lower biotech drug prices. Shares of Express Scripts Holding Co. declined 2.8%, CVS Health Corp. shares slipped 1.5%, while shares of UnitedHealth Group Inc. , with its OptumRx PBM business, swung from a slight loss to be up 0.5%. On Friday, the White House's Coucil of Economic Advisers released a white paper entitled "Reforming Biopharmaceutical Pricing at Home and Abroad" which called for reducing... Читать дальше...

The decentralized payment system known as Bitcoin is becoming the most divisive topic in the financial industry.

The stock market’s decline is more in line with historical behavior during periods of accelerating inflation and slowing growth, writes a Pimco economist.

Apps like Acorns and Stash can be great learning tools for first-time investors, but they may inadvertently encourage people to overreact.

The company’s latest innovation could change delivery.

Oil fell for a sixth straight session on Friday, with the U.S. benchmark settling below $60 a barrel for the first time in 2018, to notch its biggest weekly loss in more than a year.

Shares of United Technologies Corp. moved lower in late trading Friday, after The Wall Street Journal said Airbus has a problem with an engine made for its A320neo aircraft by United Tech business Pratt & Whitney. Pratt & Whitney's engine margins have come under pressure in the last year because of production and mechanical problems with the geared-turbofan engine, which is a new-generation of jet engine. Pratt & Whitney issued a short release to say it is in close contact with clients to address the recent finding... Читать дальше...

The collapse of short volatility products earlier this week prompted Fidelity, one of the largest retail brokerage companies, to prevent clients from trading ProShares Short VIX Short-term Futures ETF temporarily, the Financial Times reports. SVXY and VelocityShares Daily Inverse VIX Short-term ETN , two most popular trading vehicles that allow investors bet on low volatility lost more than 90% of their value during the recent market rout. The Cboe Volatility Index more than tripled since the... Читать дальше...

Shares of women's clothing brand Guess Inc. were lower Friday, after the company said it would form a special committee to investigate allegations of sexual harassment by co-founder Paul Marciano. "The company is committed to completing an extensive and impartial investigation into all of the facts," Guess said in a statement. Marciano has denied the allegations, which were made earlier this week by model Kate Upton, who has worked for the brand for several years. Shares fell 18% the day the... Читать дальше...

We're in the final trading hour of a wild week for stocks. How will it end?

One man made a costly mistake along with millions of Americans.

Oil prices fell Friday, with the U.S. benchmark marking its lowest settlement in seven weeks. A report from Baker Hughes on Friday revealed that the number of active U.S. rigs drilling for oil climbed by 26--the largest weekly rise in more than a year. The uptick in drilling activity fed concerns about growing U.S. production. March West Texas Intermediate crude fell $1.95, or 3.2%, to settle at $59.20 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Steep losses in the global stock market this week also contributed to oil's losses. Читать дальше...

President Donald Trump on Friday defended a staffer who resigned in the wake of spousal abuse allegations as he signed into law a bill raising spending by over $300 billion over two years.

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Shares of United Technologies Corp. moved lower in late trading Friday, after The Wall Street Journal said Airbus has a problem with an engine made for its A320neo aircraft by United Tech business Pratt & Whitney. Pratt & Whitney's engine margins have come under pressure in the last year because of production and mechanical problems with the geared-turbofan engine, which is a new-generation of jet engine. Airbus said Friday the air safety regulator has warned about A320neo in-flight engine shutdowns, according to the journal. Читать дальше...

The volatility on Wall Street put cryptocurrency markets in the back seat for another day as a wild session in equities saw the Dow post a 500-point range before lunch time.

Stocks remain higher Friday but the buying lacks breadth

Treasury yields pulled back from their highs on Friday as stocks looked on track to post their worst week in years.

Although the Big 3 market indexes have seesawed back to positive territory, overall market breadth is still negative. The number of advancing stocks are outnumbering decliners 1,669 to 1,291 on the NYSE and 1,507 to 1,346 on the Nasdaq. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 34 points, with 18 of 30 components trading higher. The S&P 500 gained 0.3% and the Nasdaq Composite tacked on 0.2%.

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