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Gargi Chaudhuri, BlackRock's chief investment and portfolio strategist, Americas, says there are "tremendous" opportunities in the front-end and belly of the yield curve on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)

Retail spending booms, but these stocks still trade at attractive valuations

FedEx shares are falling after reporting a noisy quarter, as we expected. Alphabet is joining the Dow.

Thailand's central bank keeps policy rate unchanged at 1%

Gold slips to two-week low as Fed rate-hike bets buoy dollar Reuters

Global markets operator Cboe has launched its first prediction markets products to meet consumer demand in the fast growing sector.

Qatar to resume normal liquefied natural gas production 'within a few weeks', PM tells FT Reuters

Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh is changing how the central bank conducts monetary policy. A fresh look is appropriate, especially given the Fed’s failure to achieve its 2% inflation objective for more than five years. But this needs to be done with greater care than Warsh has shown to date.

ECB reports on progress towards euro adoption

When investors feel like the stock market is toppy, as many do now, they often compare what they expect stocks and bonds to pay. The yield on stocks should offer a premium over bonds to compensate for higher risk, and it usually does. When this so-called equity risk premium shrinks or disappears ent