Michael P. Regan
PayPal’s old foes MasterCard and Visa are its new pals
PayPal Holdings has buried another hatchet. The digital payments company spun off from eBay last year ended another quarrel with a rival, this time...
Jim Chanos’s latest nightmare features auto loans
If there’s one thing the recent news flow has shown, it’s that there are lots and lots and lots of things to be scared...
This is a bull market?
Are U.S. stocks really still in a bull market?
Technically, yes. Only a bear market can kill a bull market, and traditionally it takes a...
The hidden bear market
The terrible, no-good, very bad year for energy stocks is no secret to anyone, but there's a whole other batch of ugliness that you...
Federal Reserve’s bank stress tests overlook a big one
At banks across the country, workers are busy crunching numbers to determine how their firms would fare under the hypothetical scenarios outlined in the...
What’s the riskiest asset for banks? Bankers
It probably goes without saying, but the financial services sector has placed a tremendous amount of trust in its computers. They’re trusted to execute...
Value trap gets crowded
If your financial adviser put you in a mutual fund that had slumped 24 percent for the year, you'd probably have given him a...
S&P 500 futures maintain gain even as Empire Fed Index slumps
NEW YORK - U.S. stock-index futures maintained gains even as a Federal Reserve report showed New York-area manufacturing shrank more than forecast in December.
The...
S&P 500 index climbs to 4-month high while commodities rally
NEW YORK - Stocks jumped, sending the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index above its highest close in four months, as Cisco Systems Inc.’s sales...
Stocks rise as consumer confidence climbs, treasuries advance
NEW YORK - U.S. equities rose, trimming a weekly loss, as an unexpected increase in consumer confidence and rally in technology shares overshadowed JPMorgan...
