
On Tuesday, European stock markets rose slightly early in the morning after a steep decline in China’s market Monday took global stocks spiraling after it. In early gains, Paris rose 0.36%, Frankfurt 0.31%, Milan 0.94% and London 0.71%, while the
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.5 Jan 2016, 2:52 AM PST0

In a year marked by a relentless Democratic push for more gun control, stocks of two of the most prominent gun makers—Smith & Wesson and Sturm, Ruger & Co—saw their value nearly double.
by AWR Hawkins1 Jan 2016, 8:03 PM PST0

With wearable fitness devices the fastest-growing sector of consumer electronics, Fitbit, Inc. (FIT-NYSE) and Jawbone are engaged in a life-or-death marketplace and legal war.
by Chriss W. Street4 Nov 2015, 3:36 AM PST0

Hewlett-Packard Inc. is officially spinning out its personal computer and printer operations into a free-standing company from its enterprise software systems and consulting business on Monday, creating two companies with market capitalizations of about $25 billion each.
by Chriss W. Street2 Nov 2015, 12:01 AM PST0

A huge stock market rally kicked off when the U.S. Treasury was forced to pay out a net $32 billion last week after the Republican Congress failed to raise the legal debt ceiling on the U.S. government’s $18.113 trillion Ponzi debt scheme.
by Chriss W. Street26 Oct 2015, 6:34 AM PST0

Credit Suisse claims that China’s middle class is now the biggest in the world, growing much faster than America’s, but the reason for this situation is less obvious than one would think.
by William Bigelow16 Oct 2015, 8:10 AM PST0

In an interview with The Hill, Donald Trump warned of a stock market bubble on the verge of bursting, and slammed the Dodd-Frank financial regulations, which were roundly praised by the 2016 Democrats during their first primary debate on Tuesday night. Trump called Dodd-Frank “terrible” and said he would “absolutely” repeal it as President.
by John Hayward14 Oct 2015, 2:35 PM PST0

Chinese journalist Wang Xiaolu has been arrested and has “confessed” to causing the stock market to crash in what the nation is calling its “Black Monday” last week. State media outlet Xinhua reports that nearly 200 others were also arrested for “causing panic” by “spreading rumors” in publications or on social media.
by Frances Martel31 Aug 2015, 6:51 AM PST0

One of the important lessons to take away from China’s stock market crash is a lesson nobody on Earth should need repeated: communists lie.
by John Hayward31 Aug 2015, 5:49 AM PST0

You might think, as many investors do, that a loss of confidence in Beijing caused the Chinese market rout, but Beijing thinks you’ll find the real culprits along the banks of the Potomac.
by John Hayward28 Aug 2015, 6:19 PM PST0

As China’s stock market meltdown continues to worry the world’s financial markets, media outlets everywhere are rife with the story. Everywhere, that is, but China itself, where the communist government there has placed a blackout on the financial story.
by Warner Todd Huston27 Aug 2015, 2:56 PM PST0

With the “one percent” paying more than 50 percent of state taxes, a sustained stock market crash would shrivel California’s “one-time” capital gains taxes and throw the Golden State back into a financial crisis.
by Chriss W. Street27 Aug 2015, 12:56 PM PST0

The Chinese market crisis has been described as a loss of investor confidence prompted by Beijing’s search for innovative new ways to control China’s economy.
by John Hayward26 Aug 2015, 6:37 PM PST0

Investors hope the U.S. and European markets are stabilizing after Monday morning’s free fall, but China’s stock market dropped again on Tuesday. It looks as if the parachutes are finally popping, as the AP reports the Shanghai Composite rallied from a 6.4% drop on Tuesday morning to a 4.3% loss by midday. This follows an 8.5% plunge on Monday, the worst performance in eight years.
by John Hayward26 Aug 2015, 5:41 AM PST0

From Reuters: LONDON, Aug 25 (Reuters) – Britain’s top share index jumped on Tuesday, recovering some of the ground lost in the previous session when it hit multi-year lows on concerns about China’s economy. The blue-chip FTSE 100 was up 2.8
by Reuters25 Aug 2015, 2:55 AM PST0

Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee declared “We now seem to be more interested in stabilizing Iran than we are America” on Monday’s “Your World with Neil Cavuto” on the Fox News Channel. Huckabee said that President
by Ian Hanchett24 Aug 2015, 4:33 PM PST0

As much as global financial concerns are going to hit tech companies harder than other sorts of enterprise, so too will their own lack of ambition. The ugly truth is that Silicon Valley has largely given up trying to fix big problems and has retreated into photo-sharing apps and productivity tools.
by Milo Yiannopoulos24 Aug 2015, 3:50 PM PST0

One of the big problems with allowing an authoritarian communist/crony-capitalist regime to become a world financial leader is that they lie about everything. China’s long-concealed economic woes finally became impossible to hide, and we got a worldwide market panic that sent the
by John Hayward24 Aug 2015, 2:29 PM PST0

Monday on CNBC’s “Squawk Alley,” network CME floor reporter Rick Santelli offered his thoughts on the day’s dramatic sell-off in U.S. stocks, which is tied to fears about the fall of the Chinese economy. According to Santelli, there’s a disconnect
by Jeff Poor24 Aug 2015, 12:25 PM PST0

While on the campaign trail in Iowa, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s office said the 2016 contender will tell voters that blame for stock market losses lies entirely with President Obama, whose economic policies will ultimately “crash” America’s economy.
by Dr. Susan Berry24 Aug 2015, 11:32 AM PST0

As White House spokesperson Josh Earnest is blaming China and Chinese policies for the on-going market crash and selloff, GOP presidential candidate former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee says strong economic policies aren’t built by empowering Washington, D.C. and Wall Street elites.
by Alex Swoyer24 Aug 2015, 10:31 AM PST0

Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina declared the stock market “has been way too high” because of Federal Reserve policy and is now having a “correction” that is “warranted” on Monday’s “Fox & Friends” on the Fox News Channel. Fiorina commented
by Ian Hanchett24 Aug 2015, 8:26 AM PST0

GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina weighed in on the market crash and what can be done to stop the sell off that’s occurring.
by Alex Swoyer24 Aug 2015, 8:03 AM PST0

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie reacted to the news of the stock market crash on Wall Street earlier today on Fox News, blaming President Obama for racking up too much national debt. “What’s happened is, because this president has run up more debt than any president in American history, that debt has been given to us in large measure by the Chinese,” he said.
by Charlie Spiering24 Aug 2015, 7:54 AM PST0

Monday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Allianz Chief Economic Adviser Mohamed El-Erian warned that sticks have even further to go as markets begin a sell-off triggered by turmoil in the Chinese economy. El-Erian blamed central bank policies, which have inflated stock prices
by Jeff Poor24 Aug 2015, 6:16 AM PST0