Financial Times

Last month, the European Union announced the collapse of its plans to tax internet and tech giants like Alphabet Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google and Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB). The alternative included specific national initiatives. Advancements within the negotiations are slated to be...

Tech stocks, which led the rally for much of the current stock market bull run, are also leading the market sell-off that's occurred since the start of October.  The crème-la-crème of the tech space — Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB), Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN),...

Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE: DB)'s year just went from bad to worse with allegations of involvement in a money laundering case. The stock hit a fresh low Tuesday morning.  What Happened In public testimony, whistleblower Howard Wilkinson, who brought to light money laundering involving...

A new Financial Times article Friday reminded investors of an ongoing investigation in Massachusetts related to a practice known as brokerage payment for order flow. The article suggests broker order routing revenue may be at risk, sending shares of online brokerage stocks tumbling. TD Ameritrade...

Gary Cohn serves at the pleasure of the president and isn't going to bow to public pressure and join the handful of other government officials who resigned from their post. Cohn, a Jewish-American, leads the national economic council and faced pressure to join part ways with the White House after...

The highlight of the economic calendar of the week is the annual Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium to be held on Friday and Saturday. Though the symposium as such, is not a market moving event, there is a lot of excitement generated around it, given the pedigree of the attendees and kind of...

A clear victory for the centrists in France and the stunning loss of a legislative majority by the right in Britain begs the question: Is there a backlash to the populism that put President Donald Trump in power and influences politics through much of the democratic world? In a word, maybe. It does...

Cerberus Capital Management has attempted to take Albertsons Companies Inc public for the last few years, and a Whole Foods Market, Inc. (NASDAQ: WFM) acquisition may now be the decided gateway. Although no formal offers have been submitted, Albertsons has begun informal talks with bankers...

President Donald Trump famously said that media publications such as New York Times Co (NYSE: NYT) are "failing," but the statistics say otherwise. In early February, NYT reported its digital subscriber base grew at its fastest pace since 2011. On Thursday, new data confirmed legacy media...

Shares of Unilever plc (ADR) (NYSE: UL), the British-based conglomerate with exposure in food, home and personal care products, soared higher by more than 10 percent early Friday morning after the company was named as an acquisition target. According to the Financial Times, the American giant Kraft...