BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares were mostly higher on Friday after another day of gains on Wall Street amid a deluge of news about the economy, interest rates and corporate profits.
Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney advanced while Seoul and Shanghai declined.
TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares fell Tuesday after a slump on Wall Street erased recent gains. U.S. futures and oil prices also declined.
Investors are on the lookout this week for updates on inflation and corporate profits, while renewed coronavirus outbreaks are adding to jitters.
NEW YORK (AP) — The good news for stocks is that this year’s sell-off means they no longer look eye-wateringly expensive.
The bad news: That won’t matter if corporate profits give out.
A stock’s price rises or falls for essentially two reasons: how much cash a company generates and how much an investor is willing to pay for it.
NEW YORK (AP) — Since inflation began bursting higher last year, big U.S. companies have found a simple way to keep making record profits: Pass all those price increases along to their customers.
NEW YORK (AP) — What’s immune to high inflation? So far, the profits at big U.S. companies.
Businesses are facing higher gasoline and heating bills, just like consumers, in addition to higher expenses for labor and raw materials.
Wall Street delivered another strong year for investors in 2021, as a resurgence in consumer demand fueled by the reopening of the global economy pumped up corporate profits.
As of Dec. 22, the S&P 500 had risen 25%, its third-straight annual increase.
Wall Street delivered another strong year for investors in 2021, as a resurgence in consumer demand fueled by the reopening of the global economy pumped up corporate profits.
As of Dec. 22, the S&P 500 had risen 25%, its third-straight annual increase.
BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets followed Wall Street lower on Tuesday as jitters about the fast spread of the coronavirus's delta variant dented enthusiasm about strong corporate profits.
NEW YORK (AP) — With the U.S. economy humming, corporate profits flowing and stock prices peaking, investors on Wall Street are beginning to pose an anxious question: Is it all downhill from here?
Financial markets are always trying to set prices now for where the economy and corporate profits are likely to be in the future.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department supports a global minimum corporate tax rate of at least 15% — below the 21% minimum it has been seeking to impose on the foreign profits of U.S.-based companies.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department said Thursday that it supports a global minimum corporate tax rate of at least 15% — below the 21% minimum it has been seeking to impose on the foreign profits of U.S.-based companies.
WASHINGTON (AP) — From John Kennedy to Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump, American presidents have taken aim at corporate America's tax-avoidance schemes before — and mostly missed...
NEW YORK (AP) — Like that last roll of ultra-thin toilet paper left on the shelves or the latest Star Wars movies, it’s tough to be disappointed in something when expectations were low to begin with...
NEW YORK (AP) — Corporate profits continued their yearlong slide during the third quarter and analysts expect another decline this quarter before the numbers start improving...
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are back at a record. Don't feel excited? Neither does Wall Street.
After a shaky few months, the stock market has pushed through worries about President Donald Trump's trade wars, weakening corporate profits and the slowing global economy to set another all-time high.
NEW YORK (AP) — Once this trade-war cloud gets lifted, investors should have little to worry about, right...
Wall Street has rewarded its most patient investors handsomely over the past 10 years. Is there more to come...
NEW YORK (AP) — Welcome to the brave new world of investing, where every day in the stock market can feel like bedlam...
Wall Street started 2018 strong, buoyed by a growing economy and corporate profits. It didn't end that way...
Wall Street started 2018 strong, buoyed by a growing economy and corporate profits. It isn't ending that way.
U.S. stocks climbed to new highs early, shook off a sudden, steep drop by spring and rode a wave of tax cut-juiced corporate earnings growth to another all-time high by September.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nerve-wracking anxiety that's gripped the U.S. stock market might seem oddly unmoored from economic reality: Economic growth is strong, unemployment ultra-low and consumers exceptionally confident...