Junk Bond Spreads Ignore Weak Economic Data
Despite signals the economy may be slowing, including a persistently inverted Treasury yield curve and disappointing recent sales trends at
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Author: Jim McFadden
Good Money After Bad? Lucid Motors Raises US$3 Billion From Stock Sale
After the market close on May 31, Lucid Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: LCID) announced that it had raised about US$3 billion.
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Advance Auto Parts Crushed After Weak Earnings, Has Something Changed in the Auto Parts Business?
Before the market opened on May 31, Advance Auto Parts, Inc. (NYSE: AAP) reported disappointing results for the sixteen weeks ended April
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Natural Gas: Debt Ceiling Legislation Includes Provision For Stalled Equitrans Midstream Pipeline
An adage in politics is that laws are like sausages; it is best not to see either being made. Sausage-making
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State Farm Insurance Stops Writing Home Policies in California Due to Wildfire Risk
In a little-noticed press release on May 26, just before the Memorial Day holiday weekend in the U.S., State Farm
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Will The OPEC+ Meeting Push Oil Higher?
The frenzy surrounding artificial intelligence (AI)-related companies’ stocks seems to be sucking the proverbial “oxygen out of the room” for
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Does Brazil’s High Rate Environment Serve As A Sign Of What’s To Come For The US?
A soap opera regarding a central bank which holds short-term interest rates at high levels to curb uncomfortably high inflation
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Copper Declines On Weak China Macro Data; Little Reason to Expect a Near-Term Rebound
Aside from NVIDIA Corporation’s (NASDAQ: NVDA) graphics processing unit (GPU) chips used for generative AI applications, few global commodities seem to be
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New COVID Variant Sweeps China, Is North America Next?
Remarkably, the world could be facing another bout with COVID this year, and with negative COVID test requirements having been
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Declining Ocean Shipping Rates Suggest The Economy Is Weaker Than Markets Believe
Stock market indices such as the S&P 500 (which stands at its highest level since August 2022) and the NASDAQ
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