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Watch the latest video at foxnews.com CNN was lampooned by critics on Thursday after a headline of its report on Senate Democrats blocking financial relief for small businesses was quickly changed. A $250 billion urgent request to shore up a depleting small business fund failed to pass the Senate Thursday after Democrats objected to the measure pushed … Read more

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Major U.S. lenders are preparing to become operators of oil and gas fields across the country for the first time in a generation to avoid losses on loans to energy companies that may go bankrupt, sources aware of the plans told Reuters. JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N), Wells Fargo & Co … Read more

by FiscalFrontier I think I know why the stock market is up… and it’s not because the Coronavirus is going away. It requires some macroeconomic and finance knowledge, but maybe, just maybe: Fed actions (buying assets) are lowering risk premiums Fed actions (lowering rates) are lowering asset yields overall Both of these actions lower stock … Read more

by cjw_5110 Relevant for USAA auto insurance members: https://communities.usaa.com/t5/Press-Releases/USAA-to-Return-520-Million-to-Members/ba-p/228150 Relevant passage: USAA, the country’s fifth largest property-casualty insurer, will be returning $520 million to its members. This payment is a result of data showing members are driving less due to stay-at-home and shelter-in-place guidance across the country. Every member with an auto insurance policy in … Read more

by StonkAutist Let’s say we end all this JPOW money printer nonsense for over leveraged shit bird big corporations and decided we are going to kickstart American consumerism by paying every person that pays taxes an equal amount of money from the 6 Trillion dollars in stimulus. Let’s also say there are about 150 million … Read more

by asdasci In order to calculate whether an asset is under- or overvalued, it makes sense to compare the price of the asset to the average earnings it generates. That’s why we always looked at the price to earnings ratio, or P/E. The problem is our misconception: Owning an asset does not only give you … Read more

Briahna Joy Gray Verified account @briebriejoy On the plus side, I can drop the “Democratic” from my tweets about why Socialism is good. View post on imgur.com On the plus side, I can drop the “Democratic” from my tweets about why Socialism is good. 😉 — Briahna Joy Gray (@briebriejoy) April 8, 2020 There you … Read more

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by Shaun Richards Yesterday as the media clustered around the news from the Bank of England the real news came from the US Federal Reserve which in many respects is acting as the world’s central bank. So it has two roles right now the first is for the world’s largest economy and the second is … Read more

More than half of non-food retailers will run out of cash and collapse if the lockdown lasts until summer in a catastrophe for the high street, industry experts have warned.. Most chains have been forced to shut.. Sales are thought to have fallen by as much as 70pc Half of the 34 biggest players are … Read more