U.S. and Chinese trade negotiators are “laying the groundwork for a delay of a fresh round of tariffs set to kick in on Dec. 15” as the countries continue to work through how a Chinese promise to make huge ag purchases from...more
Breaking News- Washington Attorney General Reaches Settlement with Seven Fast Food Franchisors Over “No Poach” Provisions in Franchise Agreements- Washington AG Bob Ferguson announced settlements with Arby’s Franchisor,...more
Here’s the other shoe for that news that all the big banks passed their Fed stress tests the other day: are the “bad old days of enormous leverage and freewheeling deals” and the risk inherent in them back, too?....more
We covered the move by Exxon shareholders to push the company for greater climate-change accounting last week. Now we’re learning that the NY AG believes that Exxon’s been “misleading” its shareholders about the impact that...more
It’s Jobs Report Friday. The Journal suggests that it may again be millennials’ time to shine (especially after scoring 421,000 jobs in January) – WSJ... And while we’re talking US jobs, a recent Federal Reserve working...more
So the bull market may be on its way out of town after a nearly 7-year stretch [care to jump on the “blame the Fed” bandwagon?], but even when combined with usual predictors like declines in industrial production and...more