Earnings growth cooled in the second quarter as companies struggled with disruptions from Japan’s earthquake and higher costs, according to analysts polled ahead of Monday’s unofficial start to the reporting season.
China’s consumer prices accelerate to a-three-year high in June, reaffirming expectations that Beijing won’t be in a hurry to relax its monetary stance even if it may not aggressively pursue more interest-rate increases.
President Barack Obama, leaders in Congress and top aides are set to talk this weekend about raising the debt ceiling and a plan to reduce the deficit as a key deadline nears, and here’s what to watch.
Ask most investors to make a list of the things they want from a company, and they’ll say a solid balance sheet, solid business prospects and a bargain of a stock price. Sometimes, however, those characteristics come together in a good company that, at least for a time, is a bad stock — one with more downside potential than up for the foreseeable future.
SHANGHAI -(MarketWatch)- China's inflationary pressure may ease in the second half of the year and the country's consumer price index is likely to increase by 4.5% to 5.0% in the full year 2011, the state-run China Securities Journal reported Saturday, citing an official at China's top economic planning agency.
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