NEW YORK, Aug. 25 -- Most of the money in American retirement accounts is invested according to a list that a committee decides. Not an algorithm, not a market-capitalisation cutoff applied automatica... Read More
NEW YORK, Aug. 25 -- On Monday afternoon the September S&P 500 futures contract traded at 7,672.00 while the index it settles against stood at 7,653.82. The 18-point difference looks like a rounding e... Read More
NEW YORK, Aug. 25 -- An investor who sets an alarm for the opening bell in New York has, on a typical day, already missed about half of what the Nasdaq is going to do. The other half happened while th... Read More
NEW YORK, Aug. 25 -- Tell someone to watch the Nasdaq and they will pull up the Composite, because that is the number the evening bulletins read out. They will believe they are watching close to 3,000... Read More
NEW YORK, Aug. 25 -- Someone who owns the Nasdaq 100 through a fund is 5.5 per cent below the high water mark. Someone who picked one of the hundred companies inside it is, on the median outcome, 17.6... Read More
DENVER, Aug. 25 -- Palantir Technologies paid $15.4 million of income tax in the three months to June 30. It earned $1.08 billion before tax over the same period. The rate works out at 1.4 per cent, a... Read More
REDMOND, Aug. 25 -- The question every hyperscaler has been asked this year is what the capital spending returns. Microsoft has an unusually specific answer: $678 billion of contracted revenue it has ... Read More
BERLIN, Aug. 25 -- Johann Wadephul spent Saturday to Monday in Ukraine, went to Kharkiv, and came away saying the quiet part. Asked by Tagesschau what European governments could still do for Ukraine's... Read More
MANAMA, Aug. 25 -- The number that CENTCOM publishes every few days is going up by about one a day. On Monday it stood at 71 commercial vessels redirected since the United States reimposed its naval b... Read More
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 -- The instrument of American policy toward Iran this week is not a carrier group. It is a telephone. Scott Bessent told reporters on Monday that President Donald Trump is working ... Read More