The Congressional Budget Office has said that the Senate version of the Republicans’ Affordable Care Act replacement bill could result in 22 million fewer Americans with health insurance.
Charter Communications, Inc. CHTR 1.38% is reportedly offering a new sports-free cable TV bundle for $19.95 per month. The bundle is called Spectrum TV Stream, and it excludes Walt Disney Co DIS 0.25%’s ESPN. While Charter has had a similar offer in the table since 2015, Disney investors should be watching to see just how Charter handles its new offering, according…
Stocks are off to a great start in 2017, with the SPDR S&P 500 ETF SPY 0.09% up 8.6 percent so far this year. But some investors have had a better first half of the year than others.
Now that investors are at the halfway point of 2017, it’s time to take a look back at what has been an exceptionally strong year for U.S. stocks so far. The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust SPY 0.09% is up 8.6 percent in the first half of the year, but not all stocks have been invited to the…
Last week, NYSE president Tom Farley took a personal shot at short sellers when calling for new rules to require them to publicly reveal their positions. Short sellers profit when share prices fall, but they are not currently required to disclose their bearish bets, allowing them to operate mostly under-the-radar.
Oil & gas investors have been among the few groups who haven’t enjoyed the market rally in the first half of 2017. For investors looking to buy the dip in oil and for those looking to avoid further potential downside, Loop Capital has some valuable information about correlations between oil services stocks and WTI crude oil…
Earlier this month, the Federal Reserve issued its third interest rate hike in the past six months. Since the recession of 2008, the Fed has kept interest rates historically low in an attempt to stimulate the struggling economy.
John Maynard Keynes was one of the most influential economists in history. In the first half of the 20th century, Keynes explored ideas related to the economic balance between supply and demand.
Stock market analysts often refer to particular stocks a best of breed for investing. But while it may seem simple enough to select only the best stocks in the market, a lot of factors go into identifying best-of-breed stocks.
Every investor would love a chance to buy a popular blue chip stock at a 70 percent discount to market price. On Friday, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (ticker: BRK.A, BRK.B) did just that when Buffett exercised warrants to buy 700 million shares of Bank of America Corp. (BAC) at a price of only $7.14 per share.