Tag: Business

U.S. stock markets tumbled on Friday as threats from the White House and Beijing raised concerns about a trade war between the world's two largest economies.

Trade tactics transform stock market’s ‘Trump Bump’ into a slump

James Langford · April 6, 2018 12:53 pm

How a group calling itself the ‘Small Business Majority’ works to harm small businesses

Alfredo Ortiz · April 4, 2018 12:00 am

Wilbur Ross lays out how companies can seek exclusions from steel and aluminum tariffs

Sean Higgins · March 22, 2018 11:00 am

Facebook is responding to criticism that its platform was misused during the 2016 presidential campaign with new rules that force buyers of "hot button" ads to verify their identities beforehand.

Facebook stock takes a $50 billion hit from Cambridge Analytica probe

James Langford · March 20, 2018 12:48 pm

Twitter sets Bitcoin rules after Facebook, Google ban crypto ads

James Langford · March 19, 2018 1:56 pm

The dichotomy of America's healthcare system shows "there's something wrong," Jamie Dimon said. (Photo by Rick Osentoski/Invision for JPMorgan Chase Co./AP Images)

Jamie Dimon on JPMorgan’s healthcare venture: ‘Something better for our country’

James Langford · February 27, 2018 6:53 pm

A cyclist passes in front of Liebman's store on Main Street in New Rochelle, N.Y. The leaders of small and mid-size companies are increasingly optimistic about the state of the U.S. economy and their own abilities to increase sales, according to a new survey by JPMorgan Chase.

Economic recovery reaches Main Street payrolls

James Langford · February 27, 2018 5:01 am

United airplanes sit outside the company's hangar at Newark Liberty International Airport. Investing giant Berkshire Hathaway owns stakes in that airline and its three biggest U.S. competitors with a combined value of $10.2 billion. (Timothy Fadek/Bloomberg)

Warren Buffett’s own private airline? Billionaire investor won’t ‘rule it out’

James Langford · February 26, 2018 11:31 pm

Warren Buffett talks with reporters before Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting in Omaha, Neb., in May 2017. The company has a war chest of about $116 billion to fund dealmaking this year. (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg)

Don’t thank Warren Buffett for Berkshire Hathaway’s earnings windfall

James Langford · February 24, 2018 2:57 pm

Both the SEC and the commodities-trading commission "are trying to sharply the curb the market in the United States for digital currencies," Jaret Seiberg, an analyst with Cowen Washington Research Group, said in a report.

Why bitcoin conjures dot-com ghosts, and worse, for regulators

James Langford · February 6, 2018 5:01 am

Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, and Jamie Dimon hold a fair concentration of financial power. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)

Beltway Confidential

Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan Chase: If they can’t fix healthcare, who the heck can?

Tim Worstall · January 31, 2018 7:40 pm

There are few details as to what exactly the joint venture will focus on. A statement Tuesday only said that the companies would look at ways technology can give employees a simple and cheap way to get good healthcare. (AP)

Amazon-Berkshire-JPMorgan venture sends health stocks tumbling

Robert King · January 30, 2018 6:30 pm