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While Wall Street will be parsing the earnings of online review sites Yelp Inc (YELP) and TripAdvisor, Inc (TRIP) for clues on how heightened geopolitical risks and persistent recession fears are siphoning off customer cash flow, the broader travel and hospitality sector will be paying close attention to see whether the industry is finally shedding…

Key Takeaways This week will be a bumper week with scores of companies set to report results, including Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Meta in arguably the busiest week of an already busy earnings season. Moves in big stocks would ripple across the major indexes, and markets could remain jumpy after recent reports from Tesla and…

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When nervous, investors flock to so-called consumer staples, real estate and utilities. These three sectors have indeed been some of the best performing in the past 30 days, even if they remain below recent peaks in a current climate of unprecedented escalation of trade tensions between the world’s two economically dominant powers, the US and…

Key Takeaways The Federal Reserve is poised to issue its most recent rate policy on Wednesday, but the major central bank is not expected to move rates lower this time. Big Tech earnings take centre stage in the coming week with apple, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft all reporting. Investors also will get updates from McDonald’s,…

Under a push from the U.S. and others to trade more with friends and less with rivals, the world would be poorer, the International Monetary Fund reported. In a report published on Wednesday, the IMF researchers noted that these trends towards ‘friendshoring’, which could lead to geopolitical fragmentation of global production networks, would result in…

Rising risks of trade war along with the resulting degrees of increased levels of financial volatility have investors on the lookout for areas of the market where they can increase their capital protection. It might not be immediately evident, but one of the market segments that is worthy of closer inspection is US financials. With…

What Is an At-the-Close Order? An at-the-close order is an order executed at the close of the trading day or as near to it as the broker and/or exchange can fill it. An order marked at-the-close is where the broker and/or exchange is directed to take action to have the order filled only at that…

What Is the Rural Electrification Act? The Rural Electrification Act—part of President Franklin D Roosevelt’s sweeping package of programs (a ‘New Deal’) enacted between 1933 and ’39 to relieve the hardship imposed by the Great Depression—assured federal funding for bringing electricity to Americans in isolated rural communities. Congress passed the enabling legislation on 20 May…