Year: 2024

Pictured here is a McDonald’s store in Yichang, Hubei province, China, on July 30, 2024. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images BEIJING — A theme emerging in the latest slew of U.S. companies’ earnings reports is a drag from the China market. The Chinese economy — home to more than four times the population of […]

While Wall Street may still be rattled after Monday’s massive sell-offCNBC’s Jim Cramer said many of Tuesday’s corporate earnings reports do not indicate there is a serious recession on the horizon. “I think we’re in a recessionless recession because I follow the actual micro data from individual companies that report,” he said. “When you run […]

Investors may want to consider bonds to help navigate the market’s recent volatility. Joanna Gallegos, BondBloxx co-founder and CEO, recommends prioritizing income and high-yield bonds. “It can be really important to start looking at fixed income as you start to diversify and manage more risk,” she told CNBC’s “ETF Edge” on Monday. Gallegos also suggests […]

Audiobooks – “talking books” as they were first known – are a fairly recent phenomenon, but they go back much further than Apple and Amazon. The concept of talking books began in the 1930s and existed for use by the visually impaired. It wasn’t until the 1970s that books on tape began to soothe the… […]