Fred Dunkley

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• Asian Markets Up Amid Confusion Surrounding North Korean Summit

  Published 28 May 2018 | viewed 1,863 times

  In one of the biggest ticket items that could move markets this week, Trump announced Sunday that a U.S. team had arrived in North Korea,…

• Millennials Are Waiting For A $30T Inheritance That Might Not Come

  Published 24 May 2018 | viewed 2,954 times

  There was a time when there was no question that your parents’ generation would pass on their millions in an inheritance. Keep it in the…

• Can Europe Beat U.S. Sanctions on Iran?

  Published 21 May 2018 | viewed 2,304 times

  Europe now finds itself crushed between two intense pressure points, as the U.S. pushes it to fall in line with sanctions on Iran, while the…

• Walmart’s E-Commerce Rebound Fails To Boost Stock Price

  Published 17 May 2018 | viewed 2,013 times

  Walmart’s been making an aggressive e-commerce push, including a major deal for a nice chunk of the massive Indian market recently, and quarterly earnings show…

• Trump's Trade Dilemma: Export Growth Or National Security

  Published 16 May 2018 | viewed 2,384 times

  According to the U.S. administration, Chinese tech giant ZTE violated sanctions by selling equipment to Iran and North Korea. In April, this led to a…

• Trump Backtracks On Big Pharma Crackdown

  Published 14 May 2018 | viewed 1,899 times

  From the Trump administration’s perspective, Friday’s drug bust represented “the most sweeping actions in history to lower the price of prescription drugs for the American…

• Asian Markets Up On High Oil Prices And Weak Dollar

  Published 11 May 2018 | viewed 2,146 times

  While some speculated that Asian markets might respond poorly to Trump’s announcement that the U.S. would withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal and initiate new…

• A New Battleground In The Global E-Commerce War

  Published 10 May 2018 | viewed 2,157 times

  China is a huge venue in the global battle for e-commerce dominance, but India is emerging as a major second front in this war, with…

• Will Comcast Thwart The Disney-Fox Deal?

  Published 08 May 2018 | viewed 1,933 times

  The Disney-Fox mega merger—one of the biggest deals in history—is facing another potential obstacle as reports emerge that Comcast may be preparing an attempt to…

• The Leveraged Loan Bubble Could Be About To Burst

  Published 07 May 2018 | viewed 2,427 times

  Drawn in by the lure of higher yields and floating interest rates, U.S. investors have been throwing money at heavily indebted companies thus fueling explosive…

• Dow Jones Jumps Despite Disappointing Jobs Report

  Published 04 May 2018 | viewed 1,890 times

  The Dow was down .064 percent right after the opening bell Friday, responding to a jobs report that saw unemployment reach below 4 percent for…

• Tech Lender Sees Stock Plummet On Fraud Charges

  Published 02 May 2018 | viewed 1,626 times

  Technology lender Lending Club has seen its share drop sharply yesterday after charges from the Federal Trade Commission that the company was misleading customers about…

• Megadeal Mania Hits The Markets

  Published 27 April 2018 | viewed 2,118 times

  First-quarter deal-making value jumped a whopping 60 percent over the last quarter, and while the number of deals declined, it was definitely a quarter that…

• Is It Wise To Trade The Trump Effect?

  Published 24 April 2018 | viewed 2,539 times

  If you bought shares in U.S. aluminum companies because of the harsh sanctions Trump slapped on Russia, including its Rusal aluminum giant, you lost dearly…

• Financial Sector Reports Record Profits

  Published 23 April 2018 | viewed 2,987 times

  First quarter 2018 earnings season is underway, and the bulls are once again ringing the register with nearly 80 percent of companies exceeding Wall Street…

• Farmers On Edge As Trade War Hits U.S. Grain Shipments

  Published 20 April 2018 | viewed 16,358 times

  The global grain glut is already killing commodity prices, and while the latest Chinese efforts to tame Trump hit at sorghum imports, if corn and…

• Why Smart Money Is Selling Off Right Before The Bell

  Published 19 April 2018 | viewed 2,585 times

  More than one-quarter of all trading activity occurs a half an hour before the market closes, and lately ‘smart money’ is selling off—and the bulls…

• Nearly One-Third Of U.S. Lottery Winners Declare Bankruptcy

  Published 17 April 2018 | viewed 15,670 times

  Luck is a tricky thing. And when it comes to those lucky Americans who have won windfalls in the lotteries, it seems to be short-lived.…

• Wall Street Unfazed By Syria Strikes

  Published 16 April 2018 | viewed 1,792 times

  Some 100 missile attacks against three separate Syrian regime targets by a U.S., British and French ‘coalition’ over the weekend hasn’t spooked Wall Street, with…

• Trump Looks To Rejoin The Trans-Pacific Pact

  Published 13 April 2018 | viewed 2,504 times

  At this point in the trade war game, the only thing that’s clear is that venting isn’t policy, and what was said yesterday may mean…