GoPro CEO: We're 'actively looking' to source outside of China The trade war between China and the United States is intensifying, but Beijing has just taken one potential weapon off the table. Premier Li Keqiang…
Why OPEC Couldn't Move Oil Prices Higher
Shutterstock photoThe latest OPEC meeting was uncharacteristically tranquil, with little of the eleventh hour infighting and arm-twisting that has been so prevalent in previous meetings. The cooperative spirit has allowed OPEC to roll over its…
Mark Zuckerberg supports universal basic income. What is…
Zuckerberg's commencement speech sounds a lot like a campaign speechFacebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg supports an idea called universal basic income. "We should explore ideas like universal basic income to make sure that everyone…
To forecast share returns, count buy-backs as well…
WHAT is the point of buying shares? Ultimately investors must hope that the cash they receive from the company will offer an attractive long-term return.Over the long run, reinvested dividends rather than capital gains have…
GDP Second Estimate In Focus
Shutterstock photoThe first revision to Q1 GDP has hit the tape this morning, and the results are a marked improvement over the disappointing initial read of 0.7%. The new figure is ratcheted up a half…
What the German economic model can teach Emmanuel…
IT IS heartening that the euro area has a knack for surviving near-fatal crises. Yet confidence in the durability of the single currency might be stronger if it suffered fewer of them. Europe dodged its…
Sentiment Speaks: Central Banks Control Nothing
Shutterstock photoMany believe in the Fed/PPT's OmnipotenceThe thickness of intellectual dishonesty amongst pundits and analysts in this stock market needs a power-saw to be cut through. And nothing presents this perspective more clearly than the…
Top Trump aide: Coal doesn't make 'much sense…
Can coal make a comeback under President Trump?President Trump has painted himself as the savior of America's coal industry and the countless miners who have been crushed by its demise. "For those miners, get ready…
Is efficient-market theory becoming more efficient?
BUILD a better mousetrap, the saying goes, and the world will beat a path to your door. Find a way to beat the stockmarket and they will construct a high-speed railway. As investors try to…