Investing A Convertible-Bond Boom in China Isn't All Good News for ShareholdersThe Wall Street Journal. - Shen HongSHANGHAI—Chinese companies have become avid issuers of bonds that convert into shares, building on a stock-market rally to raise funds at low interest rates. The surge in issuance of yuan-based convertible
Stocks Investors Try Stock Picking as Volatility RisesThe Wall Street Journal. - Michael WursthornThe stock market’s sharp moves up and down over the past 18 months have caught the attention of some individual investors who believe the market has reached a point where picking the right stocks matters
Investing The Swiss Surfer Behind $2 Billion Payments StartupThe Wall Street Journal. - Peter RudegeairThe newest face of the payments frenzy that has investors cheering and bank bosses scrambling is a 37-year-old Swiss surfer who dropped out of college to ride waves up and down the California coast. Guillaume
Investing First American Financial Exposed Customers' DataThe Wall Street Journal. - Geoffrey RogowReal estate title insurance company First American Financial Corp. may have given unauthorized access to customers’ financial information. The firm said it learned of a design defect on Friday in one its
Investing Dow Industrials Fall for Fifth Straight WeekThe Wall Street Journal. - Corrie Driebusch, Paul J. DaviesThe stalemate between the U.S. and China on a potential trade deal dragged the Dow Jones Industrial Average lower for a fifth consecutive week, its longest such losing streak since 2011. Escalating rhetoric
Investing Yen Gains Against Dollar on Trade Concern, Political UncertaintyThe Wall Street Journal. - Ira IosebashviliThe yen rose against the dollar Friday as global political uncertainty and trade concern drove investors to haven currencies. Japan’s currency was up 0.3% against the dollar in late-afternoon New York
Investing Loeb's Hedge Fund Wants Centene to Consider Selling ItselfThe Wall Street Journal. - Cara LombardoDaniel Loeb’s Third Point LLC has built a stake in Centene Corp. and wants the health insurer to consider selling itself before spending $15.3 billion on its deal to purchase WellCare Health Plans Inc.,
Investing The Score: The Business Week in 7 StocksThe Wall Street Journal. - Laine HigginsMajor indexes drifted downward this past week as investors flocked to so-called safe-haven assets amid fresh concerns about trade. U.S. markets fell three of the first four days of the week before recovering
U.S. Treasury U.S. Government Bond Yields RiseThe Wall Street Journal. - Sam GoldfarbU.S. government bond prices ticked lower Friday, a day after a sharp rally carried yields to new 2019 lows. The yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note settled at 2.327%, compared with 2.296%
Investing Oil Prices Finish HigherThe Wall Street Journal. - Stephanie Yang, Amrith Ramkumar• Oil prices rose Friday, stabilizing from the previous day’s slide after data showed the number of rigs drilling for oil in the U.S. fell in the past week and President Trump said he is sending more to
Copper Copper Prices Rise on Trade HopesThe Wall Street Journal. - Amrith RamkumarCopper prices edged higher Friday, climbing for the second consecutive session as analysts looked ahead to developments on U.S.-China trade policy. Front-month copper for May delivery rose 0.7% to $2.7065
Tesla Investors Helped Build Tesla. They Could Undo It, Too.The Wall Street Journal. - Charley GrantThe reasons Tesla Inc. climbed so far and is now stumbling are one and the same. The auto pioneer relies on investor confidence the way its cars rely on electricity. The stock closed at $190.63 Friday,
Almaty Happy Trails to Almaty?The Wall Street Journal. - Spencer JakabCultural learnings of Donald Trump make benefit glorious nation Kazakhstan? Maybe. Fans of fictional Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev, played by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, will recall when he put on cowboy
Investing Hedge Funds Score Win Against Regulatory ThreatsThe Wall Street Journal. - Carol RyanMuddy Waters, the pugnacious Californian hedge fund run by Carson Block, is enjoying a day in the sun. A French company it warned about more than three years ago admitted Thursday night that it is in distress.
Investing Think Before You Fish for Bargains in Chinese StocksThe Wall Street Journal. - Jason ZweigThe trade battle between the U.S. and China hasn’t just hurt American farmers and Chinese exporters; it has also hit U.S. investors who pumped $2.8 billion into China funds in the first four months of
Investing Plain-Vanilla Debt Could Bring Pain in Next CrisisThe Wall Street Journal. - Aaron BackFederal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell warned this week of dangers from rising business debt, saying it makes the U.S. economy more vulnerable. He follows many analysts and investors who have raised alarms
U.S. Treasury U.S. Government Bond Yields Bounce Higher With StocksThe Wall Street Journal. - Sam GoldfarbU.S. government-bond prices ticked lower Friday after rallying sharply a day earlier. In recent trading, the yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note was 2.327%, according to Tradeweb, compared
Investing China Takes Over Bank Linked to Missing FinancierThe Wall Street Journal. - The Wall Street JournalBEIJING—Chinese banking authorities seized control of a small, troubled commercial bank, citing severe credit risk, in a move analysts said likely owes more to a disgraced financier than danger to the
Intuit Stocks to Watch: HP, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Intuit, Target, Ross StoresThe Wall Street Journal. - Francesca Fontana, Amrith RamkumarHere are some of the companies with shares expected to trade actively in Friday’s session. Stock movements noted by ticker reflect movements during regular trading hours; premarket trading is specified
DoorDash DoorDash Venture Capitalists Send Dough to Wrong AddressThe Wall Street Journal. - Lauren Silva LaughlinSand Hill Road venture capitalists surely order lots of pizza, but buying a pizza chain probably never occurred to them. It might not be a bad idea. Investors in delivery company DoorDash have stumped
Investing Theresa May's Political Demise Is Noise for InvestorsThe Wall Street Journal. - Jon SindreuSterling took a fresh battering this week as the stuttering Brexit process ground to a halt and U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May resigned. Like most of the pound’s gyrations over the past two years, the
Investing Political Risks Loom Over European MarketsThe Wall Street Journal. - Avantika ChilkotiFears of a global economic slowdown and trade tensions have weighed on markets in recent days. Investors in Europe have an added dimension of worry: political risk. European Union elections, in which parties
Investing WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: Market Jitters, Deutsche Bank, St. Petersburg CruiseThe Wall Street Journal. - WSJ StaffIn a little more than a decade robo-advisers have shaken up financial services, and even storied Wall Street firms like J.P. Morgan and Merrill Lynch now offer digital investment management products. market
Investing Gas Lines Are Gone, Replaced by ComplacenceThe Wall Street Journal. - Spencer JakabThe whole notion of shortages caused by events halfway around the world is starting to seem quaint in an era of surging American shale production and relative geopolitical calm. Now it is demand shocks,
Investing Broker Sales Practices to Face LimitsThe Wall Street Journal. - Dave MichaelsWASHINGTON—Stockbrokers will soon have to disclose more about conflicts of interest that can bias investment advice under a government plan favored by Wall Street. The Securities and Exchange Commission
Investing U.S. Dollar Falls as Housing Data DisappointsThe Wall Street Journal. - Gunjan BanerjiThe U.S. dollar fell as fresh data stoked worries about economic growth in the U.S. and abroad. The WSJ Dollar Index, which measures the U.S. currency against a basket of 16 others, fell 0.2% to 91.09
Investing Endeavor Group, Owner of UFC and Miss Universe Pageant, Files for IPOThe Wall Street Journal. - R.T. WatsonEven as Hollywood’s biggest talent agency tries to reinvent itself as an international entertainment and marketing powerhouse, it remains heavily dependent on its business of representing actors, athletes
Hewlett Packard Hewlett Packard No Longer Tips the ScalesThe Wall Street Journal. - Dan GallagherHaving executed one of the more effective crash diets in corporate history, Hewlett Packard Enterprise now seems in need of putting a little meat on the bone. Once the corporate tech half of the old H-P
Investing U.S. Stocks, Bond Yields Fall Amid Trade TensionsThe Wall Street Journal. - Michael WursthornThe Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 286 points Thursday after the latest flare-up in U.S.-China trade tensions damped investors’ expectations of a near-term resolution between the world’s two biggest
