Description: BlackRock Inc. BLK, +3.25% Chief Exeuctive Larry Fink says that with stocks knocking on the door of records, a surge to the upside appears more likely than a market collapse. That is because so many investors still have lots of cash to put to work, the head of the world’s largest asset manager told CNBC in a Tuesday interview.
Source: MarketWatch.com
Date: Apr 16, 2019
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Description: First Cobalt Corp., the $50-million company, is inching closer to becoming the first producer of battery-grade cobalt to feed the nascent North American electric vehicle market, but there are still plenty of roadblocks in its way.
Source: FinancialPost.com
Date: April 11, 2019
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Description: Economic growth won’t last as the U.S. labors under the burden of growing entitlement programs and weakness around the world, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told CNBC.
Source: CNBC.com – video report
Date: Apr 12, 2019
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Description: For Disney, the price is the story. Disney announced pricing for its new streaming service on Thursday, and it’s surprisingly low: $6.99 per month and $69.99 annually (or $5.83 per month). The service won’t include any advertisements.
Source: CNBC.com – video report
Date: Apr 12, 2019
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Description: Dig a little into Apple’s business and you’ll find plenty of problems
Source: MarketWatch.com
Date: Apr 12, 2019
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Description: A deal with Commerzbank could be a solution, but it could also make things a lot messier.
Source: Bloomberg.com
Date: Apr 12, 2019
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Description: Uber and Lyft have competed for riders and drivers across North America. They raced each other to go public. They even filed paperwork for their initial public offerings with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the same day late last year.
Source: NYTimes.com
Date: Apr 11, 2019
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/business/dealbook/uber-vs-lyft-ipo-financials.html
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Description: Low rates set off a borrowing boom. But will it all end badly?
Source: Bloomberg.com
Date: Mar 26, 2019
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Description: Mohamed El-Erian, chief economic adviser of Allianz, said the Federal Reserve made a “massive U-turn” to become more dovish in recent months. Other global central banks have followed suit. For that reason, El-Erian thinks that the current bull market could go on for another one or two more years.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: Apr 03, 2019
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Description: “We’re back to the levels as if the December decline never happened and I think what’s interesting is what’s pushing that is the Fed has decided to not hike for the rest of 2019 and only once in 2020. Now that is a double-edged sword, that’s a canary in the coal mine,” Sanchez said Monday on CNBC’s “Trading Nation” segment.
Source: CNBC.com – video report
Date: Apr 03, 2019
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