Wall Street Raises Alarm on Trump Ending Quarterly Earnings

For more than half a century publicly-traded US corporations have reported earnings at quarterly intervals, but during an early-morning wave of social media posts on Monday, President Donald Trump reignited a long-standing debate over the requirement. Trump is pushing...

Investors Cut Dollar Exposure at Record Pace, Deutsche Bank Says

Overseas investors are slashing their dollar exposure at “an unprecedented pace” as they put on currency hedges when buying US stocks and bonds, according to a Deutsche Bank AG analysis of exchange-traded funds. For the first time this decade, flows into dollar-hedged...

JPMorgan’s Kelly Warns Fed Cuts Risk Hurting Stocks and Bonds

The Federal Reserve’s widely expected interest rate cut this week will increase risks for stocks, bonds and the dollar if it’s perceived to be driven by political pressure and doesn’t align with the central bank’s forecasts for the economy, according to David Kelly,...

North Korean Hackers Used ChatGPT to Help Forge Deepfake ID

A suspected North Korean state-sponsored hacking group used ChatGPT to create a deepfake of a military ID document to attack a target in South Korea, according to cybersecurity researchers. Attackers used the artificial intelligence tool to craft a fake draft of a...

China Starts Probes Targeting US Semiconductor Sector

China launched two investigations targeting the US semiconductor sector ahead of planned talks between the two nations on trade and other issues. The Ministry of Commerce said in a statement on Saturday that it’s opened an anti-dumping probe relating to certain...

France’s Debt Woes Mount as Fitch Downgrades Credit Rating

Fitch Ratings downgraded France, indicating the upheaval of repeated government collapse has locked the country into an enduring battle to contain a swelling debt burden. The rating company cut its credit assessment to A+ from AA-, taking it a notch lower than...

US Consumer Sentiment Falls to Lowest Since May on Job Worries

US consumer sentiment fell in September to the lowest since May and long-term inflation expectations rose for the second straight month, as concerns about the labor market and prices weighed on the economic outlook. The preliminary September sentiment index declined...

US Political Violence Surges to Record, Bloomberg Analysis Shows

Political violence in a polarized US is surging, with the past five years of assassinations and attempts on the lives of politicians the highest on records dating back to the 1960s, a Bloomberg Geo-Economic analysis shows. Since the start of 2021, there have been five...

France’s Political Gloom Crushes an Otherwise Resilient Economy

France’s political crisis is eroding an otherwise solid economy, leaving the country trailing the recovery in the rest of Europe. The latest forecasts from national statistics agency Insee show growth of just 0.8% in 2025 compared to 1.4% in the rest of the euro area,...

Tech Stocks Are Doing So Well Investors Are Starting to Worry

Technology stocks are rising so far, so fast that some investors are starting to position for the move to lose momentum. After advancing for five consecutive months, the Nasdaq 100 Index has risen each day but one in September as investors bet on optimism around...

Apple Analyst Sentiment Hits Five-Year Low After Two Downgrades

Apple Inc. was hit with a pair of downgrades on Thursday, in the latest sign of caution toward the iPhone maker, which has sharply underperformed its large-cap tech peers this year. With the downgrades, Apple’s recommendation consensus — a proxy for the ratio of buy,...

Dimon Says US Economy Is Weakening After Record BLS Revision

Jamie Dimon said the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ record revision to US payrolls data is further proof that the US economy is battling a slowdown. “The economy is weakening,” the JPMorgan Chase & Co. chief executive officer said in an interview with CNBC Tuesday....

US Payrolls Marked Down a Record 911,000 in Preliminary Estimate

US job growth was far less robust in the year through March than previously reported, adding to mounting pressure on the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates. The number of workers on payrolls will likely be revised down by a record 911,000, or 0.6%, according to...