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Well-run private equity firms are currently in a strong position to boost the value of their investments. The main reason: COVID-19 has opened opportunities for many such firms to snap up assets at...

Is the oil rally already fraying?Crude’s fifth straight week of gains means that whatever upward momentum oil has from hereon in may be limited, despite the continued feel-good narrative on...

The intensifying power struggle between Republicans and Democrats nearly torpedoed Christopher Waller’s nomination to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, but the chief economist at the St....

Stocks closed at new record levels on Friday. Ongoing optimism over the COVID-19 vaccine's progress and expectations for further stimulus drove Friday's rally in U.S. indexes.The Dow and S&P 500...

Equity market investors continued to show optimism on the post-pandemic economic recovery this past week, by primarily buying cyclical shares that they believe will benefit the most when the virus is...

December started on a high note for many US stocks as the S&P 500 index hit an all-time high on the first day of the month. Year-to-date (YTD), the index is up close to 14%. Similarly, the SPDR...

Technically, the most brutal market corrections often result in the most aggressive reversals. If that adage is to apply to gold in its bid to return to $1,900 an ounce, then consider a fundamental...

Buying shares of the companies that are developing vaccines against COVID-19 has been a great bet this year. Some of the leading candidates in the race to beat the deadly virus have seen their stocks...

The UK's leading share index, the FTSE 100, has had a strong start to December, following solid gains in November.Gains in the FTSE mirror the recent strength shown by US indices as well as many world...

US suffers highest ever virus deaths in a single day Congress still unable to pass relief bill OPEC+ rumored to have reached production agreement ahead of upcoming meeting Key EventsOn Thursday, US...

Demand for cybersecurity products is surging as the pandemic increases the global reliance on technology.In the stay-at-home environment, people are increasing their online presence to maintain...

Long-only investors in natural gas are yearning for a return of $3 pricing, as weather models suggest colder temperatures that may finally bring an end to the unseasonably warm winter that has...

Investors aren't thrilled with Salesforce.com's (NYSE:CRM) acquisition of Slack Technologies (NYSE:WORK), announced Tuesday, for $27.7 billion, mostly in cash. It is the software and cloud-based...

Bitcoin has been wavering, fluctuating between a 2.3% gain and 0.9% loss today, remaining little changed around the $19K level at the time of writing.Yesterday, the price of the cryptocurrency plunged...

Long/short equities is a market strategy in which investors take a long position in stocks or buy stocks they believe will rise in the future and, at the same time take short positions, or short...

Another round of US stimulus remains in stalemate Cyclical rotation reverses back to favor tech Biden will keep tariffs on China for now Key EventsFutures on the Dow, S&P, NASDAQ and Russell 2000...