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Business Is Thrilling Again. Enjoy the Spectacle, From a Distance.

We've got trade wars, spectacular start-ups, scandals, and mad, stomach-churning swings in the stock market. Do you feel the excitement? It's almost like the good old days — the kind of heart-pounding financial ride that led to the dot-com crash of early 2000 ...

Aussie dollar up on hopes of US-China trade deal, sterling holds gains

Reuters

Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - The Australian dollar and China's yuan, often seen as barometers of investor risk appetite, rose on Friday on hopes of progress in U.S.-China trade talks, while optimistic comments from Ireland on Brexit boosted the British pound.

Here's how the Fed's balance sheet expansion that's got the market excited is going to work

Investors likely will have to wait a few weeks before finding out how the Federal Reserve will resume its asset purchase program, but Wall Street already is beginning to handicap what it expects — and what to call it. Key issues will be how ambitious the ...

Asian oil buyers grapple with rising costs as global freight rates jump

Moneycontrol.com

Reuters

... * Mideast to China VLCC freight more than tripled in two weeks. * Higher freight, narrow Brent-WTI spread hit US oil flow to Asia. * Refiners want higher product cracks to offset rising freight. By Nidhi Verma and Chen Aizhu. NEW DELHI/SINGAPORE, Oct 11 ...

Forbes

It's the China 'Yippee-Ki-Yay' Trade

Forbes

China is a buy! So is the U.S. And so, by default, is the rest of the world. President Trump has spoken, or rather tweeted: The trade talks, which end on Friday, aren't just going well; they are going really, really well. We've heard this one before. But so what?

Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency Faces Exodus of Partners

Libra, Facebook's cryptocurrency effort, has been met with doubts and questions almost from the moment the company unveiled it in June.CreditCreditJim Wilson/The New York Times. By Erin Griffith and Nathaniel Popper. Oct. 11, 2019 Updated 7:32 p.m. ET.

What to watch today: Dow rises on Trump's China optimism and Iran says missiles struck tanker

With President Donald Trump casting a positive view on the China trade talks, U.S. stock futures were pointing to a sharply higher open. The projected gains would send the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq positive for the week, and put the Dow and S&P in ...

Dow rallies 400 points. Investors hope Trump can make a trade deal with China

CNN

CNN

New York (CNN Business) The Dow and broader stock market were rallying again on Friday as US President Donald Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He were due to hold trade talks in Washington. Trade has dominated markets once again this week, ...

Cramer's week ahead: It is shaping up to be a good week for earnings

CNBC's Jim Cramer said Friday that he wants to read the fine print before he turns positive about President Donald Trump's claim that U.S. and China trade negotiators reached a "phase one" deal. Investors responded positively to the news. The three major ...

Wall Street has doubts after partial trade deal: 'I don't think this gets us to Christmas'

After a partial trade deal, what's next? The next move could be a ratcheting up of the attacks on Chinese listed companies in the United States. Today's rally clearly indicates that the market is happy for the moment with just a partial deal, though the Dow gave ...