China’s biggest e-commerce player sets its sights on international markets.

ROTTERDAM: Palm oil on the European vegetable oils market was little changed on Friday due to lack of direction from the Malaysian palm oil futures market, which was closed for a public holiday.

As U.S. tax cuts prompt Apple Inc. and other tech companies to bring home their overseas cash hoards, it’s leaving a void in the market for short-term corporate bonds, where those firms had invested much of the money. That’s now making it more expensive for other companies to borrow.

Buying real estate is a big decision, but whether it’s better than investing in the stock market is a question that investors shouldn’t be overlooking.
Home prices have increased over the years, but so too have stock prices. There are different pros and cons to each option, and there are many factors to consider, which I’ll examine in a bit more detail below.

One of the world’s biggest indexers is adding more mainland China stocks to its offerings on Friday.
This comes as trade tensions rock Chinese markets and should give them a boost from foreign investors.
MSCI is slowly increasing the number and weighting of China stocks in its indexes to avoid roiling markets.

Salesforce gives weaker-than-expected outlook

U.S. stocks fell slightly on Thursday, in what represented a fractional retreat after a multiday rally that took indexes to repeated records.

Palladium logs 3rd gain in 4 sessions

Gold fell Wednesday, pressured after a small upward revision to second-quarter U.S. gross domestic product data, as a leading dollar index stabilized near a one-month low, helping to send prices for the metal down a second straight session.

Labor Day means shopping, not Wall Street trading.

Labor Day in the U.S. is Sept. 3, and although financial markets will observe regular hours on Friday to wrap up trading in August, most trading platforms will be shuttered Monday.

This stock is on track for its biggest-ever one-day gain

Shares of discount footwear and accessories retailer DSW Inc. soared more than 20% Tuesday to put them on track for their biggest-ever one-day gain, after the company crushed earnings estimates for the second quarter and raised its full-year guidance.

Three reasons why interest rates will rise, eroding the present value of future profits

The stock market has been on a tear since 2009, but it won’t always go up.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Project Syndicate) — The U.S. stock market achieved its longest rise in its history on Aug. 22, with the Standard and Poor’s 500 index SPX, +0.03% up by 230% since 2009. Although this wasn’t the biggest increase in a bull market, it marked the longest period of increasing share prices.