XIAOSHAN AIRPORT, HANGZHOU, ZHEJIANG PROVINCE, CHINA: An outbound tourist group is waiting for check-in in front of the counter of China Customs. Chinese nationals have become the largest number of foreign tourists visiting other countries in 2015 as the number of outbound visitors crossed 120 million, registering an 11 million increase from last year. Zhang
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A damaged pipeline is seen at Saudi Aramco oil facility in Khurais, Saudi Arabia, September 20, 2019. Hamad Mohammed | Reuters Saudi Aramco, the world’s biggest oil producer, is expected to file its IPO prospectus by the end of the month, people familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal. The prospectus will reportedly
Jerome Powell, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, speaks during the NABE annual meeting in Denver, Colorado, U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019. Daniel Brenner | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Federal Reserve will soon start growing its balance sheet again, a response in part to the jolt to overnight lending markets in September, Chairman
Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 95 points The Dow fell 95.70 points, or 0.36% to close at 26,478.02. The S&P 500 slipped 0.45% to close at 2,938.79. The Nasdaq Composite pulled back 0.33% to end the day at 7,956.29. Stocks traded in a tight range for most of the session as investors awaited trade talks
An American Airlines Boeing 737-800 plane takes off from Los Angeles International airport. Mike Blake | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Shares of American Airlines dipped 1.65% during extended trading after authorities in Miami forcibly removed a man on a flight to Newark, New Jersey earlier Monday. The man reportedly
At the very top of Twitter‘s corporate values website, there’s a statement: “We believe in free expression and think every voice has the power to impact the world.” What’s left unsaid in the company’s value statement is: “What if you don’t want to impact the world?” The National Basketball Association and one of its franchises,
The Robinhood app on IOS and Android Source: Robinhood A move by major brokerages this week to scrap trading fees could be a direct hit to Robinhood, the start-up that kicked off the trend six years ago. Charles Schwab, TD Ameritrade and E-Trade all announced this week that they would no longer charge for individual
Katie Haun, Andreessen Horowitz general partner. Source: Andreessen Horowitz Seven years ago, bitcoin was a foreign language to federal prosecutor Katie Haun. That changed when her boss at the U.S. attorney’s office asked her to look into shutting it down. What’s now the most widely used cryptocurrency was a niche payment method being used in
This is a developing story. Check back for updates. Boston Federal Reserve President Eric Rosengren believes the U.S. economy is on track for GDP growth of just 1.7% for the second half of 2019. Asked by CNBC’s Steve Liesman on Friday how much he thinks the economy will grow by year’s end, the Fed official
PNC Financial’s Amanda Agati expects the fourth quarter to take investors on a wild ride. But that doesn’t mean investors will be clutching their stomachs the whole time. According to the firm’s chief investment strategist, stocks should still deliver gains for investors over the next three months despite the recent batch of sluggish economic reports.