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Manpreet Gill, Senior Investment Strategist at Standard Chartered Bank tells CNBC's Cash Flow why he thinks it's important for investors to remain in the U.S. markets.
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Futures added to previous gains Tuesday after retail sales fell less than expected in May and producer price index climbed.
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The U.S. economy continues to expand, but the BRIC countries — Brazil, Russia, India and China — are showing a moderation in economic activity.
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Goldman Sachs gave a paid internship to a top Libyan official’s relative while the bank was carrying out lossmaking trades on behalf of the country’s sovereign wealth fund, the Financial Times has learnt.
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Sixteen state attorney generals say that Boeing is going anti-union for choosing to open its new 787 Dreamliner jet plant in South Carolina. Insight with Texas attorney general Greg Abbott.
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In May 2011, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg bought a $7 million home in Palo Alto, California. Click to see the homes of CEOs in sectors such as technology, energy, fashion and more.
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Stocks ended narrowly mixed in a choppy session Monday, after another downgrade of Greece's credit rating offset gains from a flurry of M&A activity and as investors continued to worry over a slowing global recovery ahead of a handful of key economic news throughout the week.
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For America to return to better days we have to start by thinking better of ourselves and hold ourselves to a higher standard.
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US stock index futures signaled a largely flat open for stocks on Monday, after Wall Street ended down for the sixth week on Friday.
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Following the Federal Reserve’s decision to throw two football fields worth of dollars at the US economy all that has been achieved is a fall in unemployment from 10 percent to 9.1 percent, according to Philippe Gijsels, the head of research at BNP Paribas Fortis Global Markets.
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Banks and foreign governments are mounting an increasingly desperate push against a sweeping US tax law that will force overseas institutions to report their American clients to the Internal Revenue Service, reported the FT.
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Amazon and Ebay, two of the biggest names in online retail, have staked out contrary positions in a debate over the taxation of US internet shopping, which enables many buyers to escape paying sales tax, reported the FT.
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Stocks closed near session-lows Friday with the Dow falling below the 12,000-mark to finish lower for the sixth-consecutive week amid further signs of a global economic slowdown.
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Stocks pared some of their earlier losses, but were still poised to finish lower for the sixth-consecutive week—the longest losing streak since 2002.
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The founder Muddy Waters Research issued a scathing report on a Chinese forestry company, calling it a “pump and dump” scheme that has been “aggressively committing fraud," the New York Times reports.
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To spend or not to spend. That is the question dominating the thoughts of economists and politicians across the world as the impact of austerity, or lack of it, on growth rates slowly becomes apparent.
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Advice for investing in this environment, with Tom Hancock, co-head of the GMO quantitative equity team and CNBC's Tyler Mathisen.
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Futures tumbled Friday, pointing to a possible sixth-consecutive losing week, following a dismal trade data from China underscored fears of a weakening global economy.
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Citigroup’s revelation that hackers stole personal information from more than 200,000 credit card holders makes it one of the largest direct attacks on a major bank, the New York Times reports.
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The foreign exchange market has turned upside down and the dollar no longer has an anchor as investors grapple with the implications of quantitative easing, discussions to raise the debt ceiling and the recent slowdown in US growth, according to David Bloom, the global head of foreign exchange strategy at HSBC.
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Diamonds are, apparently, forever, and they are fetching record prices in the rough.