On Saturday, July 16, 2014 I played in a tennis tournament with a partner that worked at Trulia, an online real estate company. He just got his job and was explaining to me how the company makes money through its ad placements for Realtors. If you’ve ever wondered why companies like Trulia and Zillow have done nothing to lower selling commission […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of Party City jumped over 20 percent in their stock market debut Thursday.The Elmsford, New York, company designs, sells and makes balloons, invitations, costumes and other party goods. It operates about 900 stores and sells its products in other retailers.Party City raised about $372 million in its initial public offering, selling 21.9 million shares at […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Netflix soared, big corporations turned in quarterly results, and investors welcomed new companies into the market. There was plenty of news, but major indexes finished the day just short of where they started.Stocks drifted lower at the start of trading, followed oil prices higher in the early afternoon, then flipped back to slight losses in the […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Stock markets in China and Hong Kong extended gains on Friday on expectations of further policy easing, but other stock markets in the region were subdued.KEEPING SCORE: Shanghai Composite index gained 1.1 percent to 4,241.57 while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng rose 0.3 percent to 27,821.62. South Korea’s Kospi inched up 0.1 percent at 2,141.53. Japan’s […]
TOKYO (AP) — Asian stocks were mixed in muted Tuesday morning trade amid a lack of fresh news to buoy market sentiments following an overnight slide on Wall Street.KEEPING SCORE: Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 was barely unchanged, inching down 0.04 percent to 19,896.94 in the morning session. Investors were looking to sell after the index reached the psychologically key 20,000 […]
Among most shorted stocks trading on the New York Stock Exchange, Chesapeake Energy and Petrobras once again saw sharp increases in their short interest between the March 13 and March 31 settlement dates. On the other hand, short sellers fled from Pfizer and Verizon for the second period in a row.All of the top five had more than 120,000 shares […]
Why China’s stock market surge is too powerful to ignoreJONATHAN SHAPIROLast updated Mon Apr 13 03:09:31 UTC 2015
ChinaFotoPressChina’s stock market is up 20 per cent this month, 30 per cent for the year and almost 100 per cent over 12 months.
China’s stock market is on fire. The Shanghai Stock Market Index is up 20 per cent just this month, 30 […]
REUTERS/Bobby Yip Ding Biyan, Chairman and Executive Director of Huisheng International Holdings Ltd, a regional pork producer in China’s southern Hunan province, poses beside a gong during the debut of the company at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange February 28, 2014.Hong Kong stocks are having a pretty amazing run right now.The Hang Seng climbed another 0.84% on Friday, capping off […]
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Adrees Latif /ReutersIran’s President Hassan Rouhani gives a news conference on the sidelines of the 69th United Nations General Assembly at United Nations Headquarters in New York September 26, 2014.TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The Tehran Stock Exchange has rallied after world powers clinched a nuclear framework agreement with Tehran, reflecting hopes that some crippling international […]
