Tag: federal-reserve
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With weak earnings in tow, focus turns to jobs data
Coming off a barrage of flimsy company earnings reports that included Apple's first revenue drop in 13 years, investors will turn to April jobs data for signs of budding resilience or further weakening in the second quarter. U.S. nonfarm payrolls, unemployment and wages data are due Friday May 6, when the economy is expected to…
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Yellen, alongside Fed alum, says rate hikes on track
The U.S. economy is on a solid course with some hints of inflation so the Federal Reserve is on track for further interest rate hikes, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said on Thursday in a defense of her decision to tighten policy late last year. In a rare spectacle, Yellen spoke on a New York…
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Yahoo board forms committee to explore strategic alternatives
(Reuters) – Yahoo Inc said its board formed an independent committee to explore strategic alternatives, alongside the pursuit of the reverse spinoff of its Internet business. The committee has engaged Goldman Sachs & Co Inc, J.P. Morgan and PJT Partners Inc as its financial advisers, and Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP as its legal adviser.…
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Worldwide M&A activity falls 23 pct, but U.S. has a flurry
Worldwide mergers and acquisitions deals have fallen 23 percent to $336 billion so far this year compared with last year, but cross-border activity by amount targeting U.S.-based companies reached a record high, Thomson Reuters data shows. After hitting a record high by deals value in 2015, worldwide M&A activity has been hurt this year by…
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Wall Street veterans say rate-hike past is not prologue for markets
By Trevor Hunnicutt NEW YORK (Reuters) – It has only been six years since the U.S. stock market rout brought on by the financial crisis, but as far as Deena Katz's clients are concerned, that might as well be ancient history. “People have a thirty-second memory,” said Katz, 65, co-chairman at Evensky & Katz/Foldes Financial…
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Weak retail sales suggest moderate fourth-quarter economic growth
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. retail sales rose less than expected in October amid a surprise decline in automobile purchases, suggesting a slowdown in consumer spending that could temper expectations of a strong pickup in fourth-quarter economic growth. “The weak reports will provide some cause for caution at the Fed, and while they…