Category: US News

Corn and soybean farmer William Hejl checks one of his soybean fields in Amenia, North Dakota, July 6, 2018. Dan Koeck | Reuters The Trump administration on Thursday outlined the details of a $16 billion aid package for farmers damaged by bad weather and the U.S. trade war with China. The U.S. Department of Agriculture […]

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the F8 Developer Conference in 2017. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg via Getty Images As Facebook prepares to deliver quarterly results on Wednesday, analysts remain bullish on the company’s online ad business, but investors are on edge because of increasing regulatory pressure on Big Tech. On Wednesday, Facebook struck a […]

After raising its revenue forecast Tuesday, Coca-Cola is feeling positive heading into the second half of 2019 as concerns about economic uncertainty wane. “We saw some clouds on the horizon, too,” CEO James Quincey said on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street. ” “But the storm never arrived, so by sticking to our plan, by executing […]

A grizzly bear and her cub Jim Urquhart | Reuters Interest rate cuts might come too late to save an economy that is dangerously close to slipping into recession, according to Morgan Stanley economists. “For now, the path to the bear case of a U.S. recession is still narrow, but not unrealistic,” a team led […]

Earnings season is in full swing and right now, discipline is key. That’s at least according to exchange-traded fund experts, who are starting to err on the side of caution with stocks hovering near their all-time highs. “We’ve got a 10-year bull market in stocks, so the S&P [500]’s done quite fine. It’s really been […]