Taleb and Asness feud on Twitter over tail-risk hedging

“Black Swan” author Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Cliff Asness, the founder of AQR Capital Management, feud on Twitter. | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 3 years ago

Senate may vote on bill that could delist Chinese companies from US exchanges

Congress looks set to consider sweeping new legislation that could ultimately bar many Chinese companies from listing shares on U.S. exchanges, or otherwise... | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 3 years ago

Tech CEOs predicting many employees will never come back to the office

If you rebuild the workplace after COVID-19, will the workers ever come back? In Silicon Valley, the answer from many tech companies is that many won’t, and... | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

Mortgage delinquencies will exceed Great Recession levels

The troubles homeowners face now could make it harder for other people to get home loans in the future. | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

Boeing CEO warns of possible industry bankruptcy

Airline stocks suffered a broad selloff Tuesday after Boeing Co. Chief Executive David Calhoun provided a dire outlook for the industry which included a... | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

Retired coders to the rescue: They’re helping state agencies

Their proficiency in older computer languages has suddenly become a valuable skill. | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

Musk dares Alameda county to arrest him

Tesla Inc. undefined Chief Executive Elon Musk late Monday vowed to reopen the car maker's factory in California against local shutdown orders. "Tesla is... | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

Redfin: Vacation real-estate ‘toast’ as Airbnb owners rush to offload homes

As the company reopens its iBuying division, Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman sees opportunity for iBuyers in beach towns. | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

US spending on health care collapses 18% in midst of pandemic

You might think that during a pandemic, spending on health care would go up. You’d be wrong, at least for now. | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

Facebook to allow staff to work from home for remainder of year

Facebook Inc. undefined said late Thursday that it will allow its staff to work from home through the end of the year, according to reports. Facebook shares... | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

Lunch is no longer free for Googlers working from home, among other perks

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Google has nixed some perks and instituted a hiring freeze. | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

Apple borrows $8.5B, joins record corporate debt borrowing spree

Apple Inc’s massive cash pile didn’t stop the iPhone maker from adding to the bonanza of U.S. investment-grade companies borrowing in the bond market during... | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

As British car sales collapse, Tesla Model 3 becomes top-selling U.K. vehicle

During a huge fall in the number of new car sales, Tesla’s Model 3 became the top-selling car in the U.K. in April | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

Fed says it will start buying corporate bond ETFs in early May

The Federal Reserve said it would start buying corporate bond exchange-traded funds in early May, as it offered up further details on its planned purchases... | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

‘the single best trade of all time’ netted investor a $2.6B profit

Bill Ackman had a hunch back in February that the coronavirus pandemic would have a greater impact on the stock market than investors were pricing in, so he... | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

Lyft lays off nearly 1k; puts an additional 288 on furlough

Shares of Lyft Inc. undefined jumped 4% Wednesday after the ride-hailing service announced deep cuts, including 982 layoffs and the furlough of an additional... | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

Lyft lays off nearly 1k; puts an additional 288 on furlough

Shares of Lyft Inc. undefined jumped 4% Wednesday after the ride-hailing service announced deep cuts, including 982 layoffs and the furlough of an additional... | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

Uber to cut staff by 20%; CTO resigns

The chief technology officer of Uber Technologies Inc. undefined is resigning, amid a report that the ride-hailing company is discussing plans to cut about... | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

Longtime Silicon Valley CEO says coronavirus could kill the open office

Nothing will be the same whenever corporate America goes back to the office, and one casualty could be the open office, said longtime tech chief executive... | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

‘We will have coronavirus in the fall. I am convinced of that,’ Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said... | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

Coronavirus survives longer airborne and travels further in these public spaces

‘While the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 via human respiratory droplets and direct contact is clear, the potential for aerosol transmission is poorly understood.’ | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

Facebook is readying a competing service to Zoom, Microsoft Teams

Facebook Inc. undefined on Friday said it is launching a new video chat feature that appears to be a rival to Zoom Video Communications Inc. undefined and... | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

Longtime Silicon Valley CEO says coronavirus could kill the open office

Nothing will be the same whenever corporate America goes back to the office, and one casualty could be the open office, said longtime tech chief executive... | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

SEC enforcement actions against 23 companies for claims relating to Covid-19

The Securities and Exchange Commission has taken enforcement action against 23 companies in connection with statements made relating to COVID-19 and is... | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

What air travel could look like in a post-coronavirus world

It’s hard to imagine a return to normalcy any time soon, but the time will come, likely well before we have a vaccine for the coronavirus, when the world... | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

Employers start to suspend 401k matching

Will employers, as in previous recessions, restore the match as the economy recovers? | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

U.S. oil’s June contract tumbles 25% to around 21-year low

Oil futures face further pain on Tuesday, with the most-active June contract for the U.S. benchmark falling to a roughly 21-year nadir a day after the May... | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

The next 45 days are the ‘most critical period in U.S. financial history’

After recovering a chunk of the losses racked up during the worst of the coronavirus-induced selloff last month, the stock market finds itself at a crucial... | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

Social Security’s day of reckoning may be even closer than we thought

A lot less money is coming in, and pretty soon, more will be going out | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

Gilead drug produced 'rapid' recovery in coronavirus patients, report says

University of Chicago Medicine researchers said they saw “rapid recoveries” in 125 COVID-19 patients taking Gilead Sciences Inc.’s experimental drug... | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

Trump’s new advisory group on reopening economy includes Tim Cook, Mark Cuban, Jerry Jones

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he’s enlisting advisers from nearly all sectors of American commerce, the medical field and elected office to help... | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

Stock Market Lessons – Stay Calm

In times like these, a longer-term perspective can help. While the S&P 500 is down 2% over the past year, the tech sector has climbed 16%. Here are the big... | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

Groupon to lay off or furlough 2,800 employees from Covid-19 pandemic

Shares of Groupon Inc. dropped Monday, after the online-deal company said it expects to lay off or furlough more than 40% of its staff, as the COVID-19... | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

Groupon to lay off or furlough 2,800 employees, as business ‘deteriorated’

Shares of Groupon Inc. dropped Monday, after the online-deal company said it expects to lay off or furlough more than 40% of its staff, as the COVID-19... | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

Burger King might give you a free Whopper if you can solve math problem

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@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

My 3-D printing co. is making thousands of COVID19 test swabs a day – here’s how

Formlabs went from a prototype in mid-March to clinical tests to production in a matter of weeks. | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

Fed should pay every American, let hedge funds and billionaires ‘get wiped out’

Is the Fed’s massive coronavirus stimulus package helping the ultra-rich at the expense of ordinary American workers? That’s what Chamath Palihapitiya, chief... | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

Eventbrite to lay off 45% of workforce because of coronavirus

Eventbrite Inc. undefined, a ticketing and event management site among the hardest hit by coronavirus, on Wednesday said it will lay off 45% of its 1,000 to... | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

FDIC announces first bank failure of coronavirus crisis

A small bank in West Virginia has become the first institution to fail during the coronavirus crisis, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. announced Friday.... | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

Trillions in coronavirus spending could explode deficits to World War II levels

The trillions of dollars Washington is spending to combat COVID-19 is likely to push annual deficits relative to the size of the U.S. economy close to levels... | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

Bitcoin enthusiasts, liberal lawmakers cheer a Fed-backed digital dollar

Proposed legislation to create a digital dollar is a major step forward in the digitization of money and commerce | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

US to roll back standards that encouraged car makers to produce electric cars

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is poised to roll back ambitious Obama-era vehicle mileage standards and raise the ceiling on damaging fossil fuel... | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

Zoom is being looked at by New York AG for privacy practices

Shares of Zoom Video Communications Inc. were flat in extended trading Monday following a New York Times report that the New York Attorney General's office... | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

Zoom is being looked at by New York AG for privacy practices

Shares of Zoom Video Communications Inc. were flat in extended trading Monday following a New York Times report that the New York Attorney General's office... | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

Onetime hit app HQ Trivia resurrected by anonymous investor

The mobile quiz app HQ Trivia is coming back Sunday night thanks to an anonymous investor who provided the funding it needed to resume operations, according... | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

New Fed study finds efforts to slow pandemic don’t depress the economy

The economy isn’t helped by rushing back to work in the face of a pandemic, according to a new study by Federal Reserve researchers. At a time when the... | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago

Author argues the coronavirus may have leaked from a Chinese virology lab

The author of this New York Post op-ed, Steven W. Mosher, is the president of the Population Research Institute and the author of “Bully of Asia: Why China’s... | Continue reading


@marketwatch.com | 4 years ago