Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Dow tops 19000 for the first time as stocks rise to new record highs and other top stories.

  • Dow tops 19000 for the first time as stocks rise to new record highs

    U.S. stocks are rising Tuesday morning after most major indexes closed at record highs the day before. Food producers Campbell Soup and Hormel are trading higher after they reported strong quarterly results, and discount store chains Dollar Tree and Burlington Stores are climbing after raising their forecasts.The Dow Jones industrial average was up 37 points, or 0.2%, to 18,944 as of 9:45 a.m. Eastern time, and it flitted back and forth over the 19,000 mark, topping that level for the first tim..
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  • U.S. Home Sales Reach Strongest Pace in Nearly a Decade

    U.S. Home Sales Reach Strongest Pace in Nearly a Decade
    On Tuesday the National Association of Realtors reported on October sales of existing homes. Elise Amendola/AP. By JOSH BOAK, AP Economics Writer. WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans bought homes in October at the fastest pace in nearly decade, ...
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  • CNN anchor: Donald Trump should denounce alt-right by name

    CNN anchor: Donald Trump should denounce alt-right by name
    Story highlightsJohn Phillips dismissed the alt-right as "kooks"Chris Cuomo said denouncing the group is part of Trump being a leader"It's about being a leader," Cuomo said on "New Day" Tuesday. "You denounce things that are wrong. That's what leaders do."He was responding to CNN political commentator John Phillips, who supported how Trump denounced "racism of any kind" after an alt-right leader urged people at a Trump victory gathering to "hail Trump" and "hail our people!" Trump did not, howev..
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  • Dow Tops 19000 for First Time

    Dow Tops 19000 for First Time
    The Dow Jones Industrial Average breached 19000 for the first time early Tuesday, a day after major U.S. stock indexes hit records. It’s been a fast surge for the blue-chip index, which closed below 18000 less than three weeks ago. Since then, a stocks rally following the U.S. presidential election disparately benefited industrial companies and...
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  • What Will Trump Trade Policy Actually Look Like? Three Possibilities

    What Will Trump Trade Policy Actually Look Like? Three Possibilities
    Here’s what those possibilities look like, from the most benign to the most disruptive.Scenario 1: The assertive stance, within existing institutionsThere really are some elements of the United States’ existing relationships with major trading partners that are dysfunctional and disadvantageous to the United States. By taking more aggressive stands on some of them, a Trump administration may be able to get better deals. Mr. Trump has said repeatedly that he wants to renegotiate the North Americ..
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  • The secretive brain trust of Silicon Valley insiders who are helping Trump

    The secretive brain trust of Silicon Valley insiders who are helping Trump
    Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel speaks at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio earlier this year (Photo by Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel is putting together a brain trust of Silicon Valley insiders to share ideas with the transition team for President-elect Donald Trump. But he’s having trouble finding takers. In recent days, the Facebook board member and PayPal cofounder - who is also a member of the Trump transition - has been appealing to fel..
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  • Sunoco Acquires Energy Transfer Partners

    Sunoco Acquires Energy Transfer Partners
    Pipeline companies Sunoco Logistics Partners and Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), both of which are controlled by general partner Energy Transfer Equity, said on Monday they would combine in a corporate consolidation to cut borrowing and operating costs. ETP is the main company behind the controversial $3.7 billion Dakota Access Pipeline, which has been delayed since September, when federal regulators decided to re-review permitting for the project to cross land owned by the federal government. ..
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  • Surprise! Warren Buffett turns out to be more prescient about stocks than politics

    Surprise! Warren Buffett turns out to be more prescient about stocks than politics
    As many millions of people have been reminded recently, Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, doesn’t always call them right. He predicted two years ago that Hillary Clinton would both run for the presidency and win, and he never lost faith in that prospect until Election Night. On this day two weeks later, nonetheless, it is the right time to look at a widely-noted stock market prediction that Buffett made 17 years ago, in 1999, and that is just reaching its terminal point. Here, Buffett ..
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  • Here's what it's really like to work retail on Black Friday

    Here's what it's really like to work retail on Black Friday
    We asked a former Best Buy sales associate, who worked five Black Fridays until 2013, to describe her experience.Yana Paskova/Getty"Black Friday" is no term of endearment, especially for the people who have to work in retail that day. From retailers' perspectives, being "in the black" is a good thing — it means profits. For many of them, Black Friday is the biggest sales day of the year. But the name has darker origins. As Time reports, newspapers in the 1960s reappropriated the term Black Fri..
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  • Brexit has already cost British people £1.2 trillion in lost wealth

    Brexit has already cost British people £1.2 trillion in lost wealth
    A racegoer wearing a union flag inspired outfit arrives for Ladies' Day at the Royal Ascot horse racing festival at Ascot, southern England. Reuters Voting to leave the European Union cost the UK around $1.5 trillion (£1.2 trillion) in wealth, and robbed 400,000 people of their status as dollar millionaires, according to the latest Global Wealth Report from the Credit Suisse Research Institute. The annual Global Wealth Report — which tracks the distribution of weal..
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