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Stocks fall again on trade war, rate worries

9/7/2018, 9:55:32 PM
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes fell Friday after President Donald Trump said he may intensify his trade battle with China. A strong jobs report also pushed investors to gird f ✔ What everyone's trying to figure out is at what point do you get the intersection of higher wages pushing into inflation and the Fed starting to get a little more aggressive, said Joy ✔ FILE- This Dec. 21, 2016, file photo shows the New York Stock Exchange ✔ The U.S. stock market opens at 9:30 a.m. EDT on Friday, Sept


Japan braces as Trump trade war nears its shores

9/7/2018, 9:14:24 PM
President says talks with Tokyo have started ✔ A few strong words won't change the nature of the relationship between Japan and the U.S., an official involved in trade talks said ✔ We look forward to a frank exchange to advance the dialogue, said Toshimitsu Motegi, the minister in charge of trade talks ✔ Get unique insights on Asia, the most dynamic market in the world ✔ Try 3 months for $9 Offer ends September 30th


Veteran strategist Yardeni urges investors to stay the course as U.S. stocks are still in meltup mode

9/7/2018, 9:17:24 PM
It may be a hard sell with stocks mostly down this week but at least one prominent investor believes that the market is still in the midst of an extended meltup despite the recent gyrations and things can only improve going forward. ✔ There is method in Trump’s madness, he said, channeling Hamlet ✔ The difference this time is that I expect a happier ending than in Shakespeare’s play ✔ Sue Chang Sue Chang is a MarketWatch reporter in San Francisco ✔ We Want to Hear from You Join the conversation Comment


Trump turns up the heat in trade conflict with China

9/7/2018, 10:28:40 PM
U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Friday to slap tariffs on all of the Chinese goods imported into the United States, ramping up the already tense trade relations with Beijing, while talks with Canada and the EU continue. His comments, which contradicted the more diplomatic remarks earlier Friday from his top… ✔ But businesses warn there are other ways China can strike back, through regulations and other administrative means, or even through sales of its large holdings of U.S. Treasury debt ✔ The NAFTA talks between Washington and Ottawa have been hung up over Canada's insistence on retaining a dispute resolution mechanism in Chapter 19 and US objections over Ottawa's tight controls over the dairy market


Wall St sinks on tariff talk, tech stocks the week’s big losers

9/7/2018, 8:46:10 PM
undefined ✔ Speculation about a fresh round of tariffs on Chinese imports from the Trump administration weighed on US stocks, handing the S&P 500 its first four-day losing streak in a month ✔ Weakness in tech stocks was an overarching theme in markets during the holiday-shortened week


Cramer's game plan: Be ready for another Trump tariff-fueled sell-off

9/7/2018, 10:30:31 PM
Jim Cramer lays out his game plan for the week ahead and warns of potential market weakness after the president's latest warning to China. ✔ We're not going to like many of these numbers going forward because when you combine a roaring economy, which we do have, with new tariffs, you get a toxic inflationary brew that the Fed must feel compelled to stop, and the way they do that, of course, is [by] rais[ing] interest rates, Cramer warned


Trump threatens fourth round of China tariffs on $267bn in goods

9/7/2018, 10:49:29 PM
Entirety of US imports now face prospect of higher duties ✔ © Reuters At a rally in Montana on Thursday, Trump extended his criticism of Beijing ✔ Last year we had a trade deficit of anywhere from $375 billion, he said, adding that the situation was unacceptable ✔ Get unique insights on Asia, the most dynamic market in the world ✔ Try 3 months for $9 Offer ends September 30th


Trump ups ante, threatens duties on nearly all Chinese imports

9/7/2018, 11:19:10 PM
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE--U.S. President Donald Trump warned on Friday he was ready to slap tariffs on v ✔ The U.S. Trade Representative's office received nearly 6,000 comments and held seven days of public hearings on the proposed levies ✔ These are taxes and they're going to find their way into the pocket book of folks around the country, French said ✔ Those have been our asks for many months and so far those asks have not been satisfied, he said


Alibaba's Jack Ma to retire from company he co-founded: NYT

9/7/2018, 11:09:34 PM
The New York Times reports that Ma is retiring as China's business environment has soured, with Beijing and state-owned enterprises increasingly playing more interventionist roles with companies. ✔ Alibaba later rolled out Alipay, an online payment service, to facilitate transactions in a country where few people had credit cards ✔ He cited the Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates as an example ✔ Mr. Gates stepped down as Microsoft's chairman in 2014, at the age of 58


How to Spot the Next Crisis

9/7/2018, 8:58:54 PM
Ten years after the fall of Lehman Brothers amid the financial crisis, the markets are high and unemployment is low. But watch out as the Federal Reserve tightens. ✔ Riley FBR, who warned early on of Greece’s debt crisis ✔ BofA ML’s Hartnett writes, Wall Street deflation, rather than Main Street inflation, is the quickest route to recession (see Japan, Europe, China) ✔ An economic downturn could have further-reaching political and social impacts, as Kolanovic suggests


Cramer Remix: Don't own this entire sector, just the best of breed

9/7/2018, 11:09:35 PM
Jim Cramer explains why he thinks Home Depot and Lowe's will trounce Floor & Decor in the home improvement sector. ✔ They do think that the business will grow at least 10 percent this year and for small businesses, the construction and design, this is pretty meaningful, 10 percent ✔ Hit him up! Mad Money Twitter - Jim Cramer Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - Vine Questions, comments, suggestions for the Mad Money website


How the Financial Crisis Still Affects Investors

9/7/2018, 11:22:03 PM
Stocks have rallied and investing has changed in the 10 years since Lehman Brothers, but some wariness of the market persists among investors. ✔ For investors, it felt like the end of the world ✔ That is exactly the kind of growth-oriented allocation that most money managers recommend for young people saving for retirement ✔ A diminishing number hold so-called extreme portfolios: either 100% equity or zero


Who wrote the ‘resistance’ op-ed? Despite denials, most people are still in the running.

9/7/2018, 11:20:22 PM
We sorted some officials into loose groups based on likelihood of authorship and theories offered in public spaces. ✔ The Fix and The Post’s graphics department surveyed the landscape of intrigue and the full range of denials offered ✔ As a military man, would likely balk at publicly undercutting commander in chief, given chain of command, etc ✔ The author couldn’t possibly be any of these people ✔ All the key firings and resignations from a turnover-heavy White House


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