LOS ANGELES — Thousands of central and Southern California grocery workers have voted to authorize their union to call a strike against several major supermarket chains as contract negotiations are set to resume this week. About 47,000 workers at hundreds of Ralphs, Albertsons, Vons and Pavilions voted starting last week and the results were announced […]
US oil refiners are once again making good money, but investors aren’t quite piling into the shares. They should be, a top energy analyst tells me. The profit boom could last through the end of the decade, helped by a price mishap that won’t be easy to fix: the giant premium Europe must pay for […]
LOS ANGELES—After a 111-minute family drama called “CODA” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2021, the usual phalanx of distributors began vying for the film. According to a person involved in the negotiations, the iPhone maker saw something in the movie, about the hearing daughter of an all-deaf family, that few others did: […]
What better time to invest in financials than at a time with rampant inflation and a Federal Reserve promising 11 rate hikes over the next two years? That’s not the view at Deuterium Capital, which is expecting a sharp slowdown in the economy. The Deuterium Global Dynamic Allocation Fund is mostly driven by a macroeconomic […]
The price action has been nothing short of breathtaking — oil has swung by $55 a barrel this year. On Thursday alone, it surged by more than 7% after peace negotiations stalled in Ukraine and billionaire Warren Buffett boosted his stake in a high-flying US oil company. Early on March 17, West Texas crude oil […]
Text size Alibaba stock notched its best-ever one-day gains on Wednesday. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg Investors in Chinese stocks, long-accustomed to pain, have just seen an astonishing turnaround. What comes next? Shares in Chinese tech giants Ali Baba (ticker: BABA) and JD.com (JD) both notched eye-watering gains on Wednesday, climbing 37% and 39%, respectively. It was, by […]
Text size Alibaba stock notched its best-ever one-day gains on Wednesday. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg Investors in Chinese stocks, long-accustomed to pain, have just seen an astonishing turnaround. What comes next? Shares in Chinese tech giants Ali Baba (ticker: BABA) and JD.com (JD) both notched eye-watering gains on Wednesday, climbing 37% and 39%, respectively. It was, by […]
Text size Alibaba stock notched its best-ever one-day gains on Wednesday. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg Investors in Chinese stocks, long-accustomed to pain, have just seen an astonishing turnaround. What comes next? Shares in Chinese tech giants Ali Baba (ticker: BABA) and JD.com (JD) both notched eye-watering gains on Wednesday, climbing 37% and 39%, respectively. It was, by […]
Text size Fed Chair Jerome Powell will host a press conference at 2:30 pm Eastern. Graeme Jennings/POOL/AFP via Getty Images After a brief bout of weakness, the stock market ended the day sharply higher after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a quarter-point and signaled that another six could follow. It was a wild […]
“Markets appear to have been trafficking in an odd mix of hope, fear and uncertainty.” That was Mizuho Bank, summing up the state of play for markets since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine nearly three weeks ago. For Tuesday, China’s COVID-19 worries and tensions with the US are adding to the mix, with equities wobbling, and […]
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