While Ford and Fiat Chrysler enjoyed vintage third quarters, the world’s largest car maker made little apparent effort to rein in costs. Read More WSJ.com: Markets...
Lenders shun the city’s low-priced homes, and they lose even more value, in a cycle that keeps the housing market depressed. The city of nearly 700,000 saw barely 1,700 mortgages made last year. The solution for some Detroiters is to buy a fixer-upper for a...
Kraft Heinz and Kellogg results show the effects of pantry restocking—a trend likely to have continued with the latest spike in Covid-19 cases. Read More WSJ.com: Markets...
Shell has given investors their beloved progressive dividend back. The energy transition still clouds the investment case, but the move may help Europe’s largest oil-and-gas company shake off some of its discount. Read More WSJ.com: Markets...
Amid the Covid-accelerated shift from brick and mortar stores to online shopping, cloud commerce platform Shopify continues to clean up. Read More WSJ.com: Markets...
Prior Research on Value and Profitability Factors The 1997 publication of Mark Carhart’s paper “On Persistence in Mutual Fund Performance” led to the four-factor model, which added momentum to market beta, size, and value, becoming the workhorse model in finance—replacing the Fama-French three-factor model. The...
Federal Reserve Board publishes detailed noncash payments data from the 2019 Federal Reserve Payments Study Read More FRB: Press Release - All Releases...
Economic growth rebounded sharply in the third quarter, but the hole left by the Covid-19 pandemic won’t heal until the pandemic is controlled. Read More WSJ.com: Markets...
Agencies propose regulation on the role of supervisory guidance Read More FRB: Press Release - All Releases...
The S&P 500 is poised to claw back some ground on a busy earnings day, with technology heavy-weights including Apple and Amazon.com poised to report. Read More WSJ.com: Markets...