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India extends its lockdown to cover almost the entire nation of 1.3 billion. The Indian authorities are grounding all domestic flights and putting most of the country, the world’s second most populous, in full lockdown. The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the country remains relatively low — about 420. But the government has steadily …

U.S. stocks capped the week with another session of painful losses on Friday amid worries around the COVID-19 outbreak’s potential to upend the global economy. Stocks trimmed Friday’s losses by the closing bell with the Nasdaq turning positive. The S&P 500 SPX, …

The old saw used to be that when the U.S. sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold. Now, a more apropos adage for market bears may be that when an outbreak of coronavirus grinds the world’s second-largest economy to a halt, the rest of the world catches a recession. Indeed, recession fears resurfaced …

The external fund manager backed by Berkshire Hathaway’s Charlie Munger, Li Lu, makes no bones about it when he says ‘The biggest investment risk is not the volatility of prices, but whether you will suffer a permanent loss of capital. So it seems the smart money knows that debt – which is usually involved in …

U.S. stocks tumbled Friday, with the Dow and S&P 500 index recording their biggest one day falls since August, as fears that Chinese coronavirus epidemic would slow economic growth rattled Wall Street. A busy week of mixed U.S. corporate earnings reports preoccupied investors, with shares of bellwether Caterpillar slumping while shares of Amazon.com soared after …

Bixby Research and Analytics, a financial technology company that is modernizing information flow, announced that it has launched the first comprehensive web platform dedicated to the private debt market – and selected Rightpoint, a Genpact company, and the digital consultancy with technology at its core, for its experience design and development capabilities. The platform connects asset …

David Iben put it well when he said, ‘Volatility is not a risk we care about. What we care about is avoiding the permanent loss of capital. So it might be obvious that you need to consider debt, when you think about how risky any given stock is, because too much debt can sink a …

U.S. stocks were slightly higher Wednesday as investors hoped to keep a five-day winning streak going in the wake of a preliminary U.S.-China trade deal and fading worries over the global economic outlook. The likely impeachment of President Trump by the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington later Wednesday held little risk for investors, analysts …

Text size Photograph by Krzysztof Kowalik Fintech—the nexus of finance and technology—is undeniably a huge investment opportunity. But a major factor in whether investors are successful is how they define fintech. After all, there’s a big difference in between a fintech investment strategy that bought shares of credit card and digital payments companies Mastercard (ticker: …

Imagine there’s no trade deal and that the U.S.-China battle is left to rumble on through most of next year instead. That scenario is one that stock-market participants must now debate as equities tumbled Tuesday after President Donald Trump indicated he’s in no hurry to complete any accord with Beijing and that it might be …