• Nov 29, 2024

TipRanks’ Perfect 10 Picks: 2 Top-Scoring Stocks to Watch as 2024 Wraps Up

Thanksgiving is here, marking the start of the 2024 end-of-the-year holiday season – and what better time to get your stock portfolio in order for the coming year? Investors get into the market for a whole range of reasons, and bring their own array of skills and opinions, but the end goal is always the same: to generate a return and realize a profit. That requires good stock-picking, and the Smart Score tool is available to smooth out that process. The Smart Score is a data collection and sorti

  • Nov 29, 2024

Inflation worries drive bargain hunt among Black Friday shoppers

Brushing snowflakes off her hair, Teagan Hickson walked into a Walmart Supercenter in Fort Wayne, Indiana, with hopes of picking up a few holiday deals on Black Friday. "I'm trying to not spend too much," said Hickson, 43. As retailers reopened U.S. stores after the American Thanksgiving holiday, some locations drew clusters of shoppers.

  • Nov 29, 2024

Ex-City Trading Boss Goes From Capital to UK Cattle Markets

(Bloomberg) -- Murray Roos was until earlier this year central to an effort to revolutionize the world’s capital markets via the London Stock Exchange’s nascent digital assets platform. Now, the 48-year-old former trader is using technology to take on even more entrenched market — the UK’s centuries old livestock auctions. Most Read from BloombergIn Traffic-Weary Toronto, a Battle Breaks Out Over Bike LanesIn Italy’s Motor City, Car-Free Options Are GrowingNew York City’s ‘Living Breakwaters’ Br

  • Nov 29, 2024

BofA Strategists Make Contrarian Bet on Shunned European Stocks

(Bloomberg) -- Strategists at Bank of America Corp. are making a contrarian bet on European stocks as the continent’s main equity index heads for its worst year of underperformance relative to the US since 1976.Most Read from BloombergIn Traffic-Weary Toronto, a Battle Breaks Out Over Bike LanesIn Italy’s Motor City, Car-Free Options Are GrowingNew York City’s ‘Living Breakwaters’ Brace for Stormier SeasScope for fiscal spending appears to be improving in Europe, while any potential ceasefire in

  • Nov 29, 2024

French Yields Close In on Italy With Safe Market Image in Ruins

(Bloomberg) -- First Ireland, then Portugal and Spain, and now Greece. One after another, countries at the heart of Europe’s debt crisis more than a decade ago are outshining France, as its standing as a safe-and-stable bond market disintegrates.Most Read from BloombergIn Traffic-Weary Toronto, a Battle Breaks Out Over Bike LanesIn Italy’s Motor City, Car-Free Options Are GrowingNew York City’s ‘Living Breakwaters’ Brace for Stormier SeasAs the political crisis in Paris drags on, the question on