Investor confidence in Chinese earnings’ growth remains the missing ingredient to drive a sustained stock market rally in the world’s second-largest economy, already barraged by government stimulus measures and the overhang of U.S. tensions. “For Chinese equities to meaningfully outperform, we need to see the policy announcements result in an actual easing of deflationary pressures and a rebound in corporate earnings, both of which will take time,” Aaron Costello, head of Asia at Cambridge Associates, said in an email Thursday. The CSI 300 index dipped 1% last week, tumbling 2.4% on Friday alone, after Beijing reaffirmed plans for increasing the…
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Pavlo Gonchar | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesAmid concerns over elevated valuations in the U.S. stock market, there are several stocks that continue to look attractive based on the future growth potential they promise.To pick such stocks, investors can track the recommendations of Wall Street experts, who perform in-depth analysis to offer useful insights about a company’s strengths and growth opportunities.Here are three stocks favored by the Street’s top pros, according to TipRanks, a platform that ranks analysts based on their past performance.GitLabWe start this week with GitLab (GTLB), an artificial intelligence-powered company that offers software development tools. The company recently reported…
Financial planning. Budgeting. Expense tracking. Profit and loss analysis. Data analysis. Spreadsheet software. Productivity. Efficiency. Financial literacy. Personal finance. Business finance.Natalia Gdovskaia | Moment | Getty ImagesAs Adinah Caro-Greene maps out her financial future, there’s a variable that may have held less weight for previous generations: her child.The employee benefits broker said she’s seen how rising education, housing and health-care costs have created economic challenges for her Gen Z son and his peers. Part of the Bay Area resident’s long-term financial goals is to fully pay off a rental property that he can inherit and potentially live in.”It’s uniquely hard…
A briefcase filled with Iranian rial banknotes sits on display at a currency exchange market on Ferdowsi street in Tehran, Iran, on Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018.Ali Mohammadi | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe Iranian currency extended its fall on Saturday, hitting a new all-time low against the U.S. dollar amid uncertainties about Donald Trump’s imminent arrival in the White House and tensions with the West over Tehran’s nuclear program.The rial plunged to 756,000 to the dollar on the unofficial market on Saturday, compared to 741,500 rials on Friday, according to Bonbast.com, which reports exchange rates. The bazar360.com website said the dollar…
Car transporters are loaded with new Tesla Model Y electric vehicles at the Tesla Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg site. Patrick Pleul | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesThe Trump transition team wants the incoming administration to drop a car-crash reporting requirement opposed by Elon Musk’s Tesla, according to a document seen by Reuters, a move that could cripple the government’s ability to investigate and regulate the safety of vehicles with automated-driving systems.Musk, the world’s richest person, spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars helping Trump get elected president in November. Removing the crash-disclosure provision would particularly benefit Tesla, which has reported most of the…
A protester holding a cardboard reading “Leader of insurgents” on an image depicting the face of South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol takes part in a protest calling for his ouster outside the National Assembly in Seoul on December 8, 2024. Philip Fong | Afp | Getty ImagesSouth Korea’s acting president, Han Duck-soo, moved on Sunday to reassure the country’s allies and calm financial markets a day after President Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached and suspended from his duties over a martial law attempt.Han spoke with U.S. President Joe Biden by phone, the White House and Han’s office said.”South Korea will carry out its foreign and security…
By doing two jobs — and doing them both as well as any other player in the country — Travis Hunter delivered on coach Deion Sanders’ hype and brought the Heisman Trophy to Colorado for the first time in 30 years.The Buffaloes’ two-way superstar won college football’s most prestigious individual player of the year award Saturday night, outpointing Boise State running back Ashton Jeanty to become CU’s second Heisman winner.Hunter received 552 first-place votes and 2,231 points to Jeanty’s 309 and 2,017. By point total it was the closest Heisman vote since 2009, as Hunter and Jeanty hoarded all the…
Stanford running back Toby Gerhart sprinted around, blasted through and passed over Notre Dame’s defense in a performance so complete fans chanted “Heis-man, Heis-man” as he left his home stadium that November night in 2009.In the Big Ten’s first consensus No. 1 vs. No. 2 game in 1985, Iowa quarterback Chuck Long guided the top-ranked Hawkeyes on a game-winning drive to beat Michigan 12-10. Iowa ultimately secured the outright Big Ten title because of that victory.Texas quarterback Colt McCoy outdueled Oklahoma rival Sam Bradford to win the Red River Rivalry, pounded Texas A&M in the season finale and completed more…
As a teenager, Charlie McAvoy used 100 flex on his right-shot sticks for one reason: Charlie McAvoy Sr. had a limit to how much he cared to spend.“When I got to senior sticks,” the younger McAvoy recalled with a smile, “he would get me 100 flex sticks so I wouldn’t break them. So that was all I really knew: a really stiff stick. I got used to that. I developed with that and was a good hockey player with that. So I just stayed there until someone was like, ‘You use 100? You should go down.’”Ten years later, both as…
We’re always tossing around dream Super Bowl matchups during the regular season, but this game might actually be the real deal. This past week, I spent a few days at the league meetings in Irving, Texas, where Roger Goodell, team owners and executives gathered to discuss league business. While a historic decision to allow NFL teams to sell minority stakes to private equity firms headlined the gathering, there was plenty of chatter about the Buffalo Bills’ visit to Detroit on Sunday. When the “big bosses” of the NFL are buzzing about a matchup, you know this is gigantic. It could…
