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Corporate Stock Buybacks – Do They Affect Markets?

Corporate Stock Buybacks – Do They Affect Markets?

Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,

Fisher Investments recently wrote an interesting article asking whether corporate stock buybacks affect markets. Here is their conc…

Macron, Starmer Blast ‘Unacceptable’ Russian Stance In Talks, Zelensky Urges More Sanctions

Macron, Starmer Blast ‘Unacceptable’ Russian Stance In Talks, Zelensky Urges More Sanctions

Update(11:30ET): Zelensky in a phone call with President Trump soon on the heels of the Istanbul meeting, which lasted just under two hours, touted…

“We’re Going To Be Fair”: Trump Will Set Tariff Rates For Other Nations In Weeks

“We’re Going To Be Fair”: Trump Will Set Tariff Rates For Other Nations In Weeks

President Trump has departed Abu Dhabi aboard Air Force One, concluding a historic week in the Middle East that saw the signing of more than a trillion dollar…

Charter-Cox $34.5 Billion Deal Leapfrogs Comcast As New Cable Giant

Charter-Cox $34.5 Billion Deal Leapfrogs Comcast As New Cable Giant

Charter Communications has agreed to acquire Cox Communications in a blockbuster merger that will create the largest cable TV and broadband provider in the U.S., surpassi…

5 Takeaways From Supreme Court Hearing On Nationwide Injunctions, Birthright Citizenship

5 Takeaways From Supreme Court Hearing On Nationwide Injunctions, Birthright Citizenship

Authored by Sam Dorman and Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times,

The Supreme Court on May 15 heard oral arguments in relation to the Trump administratio…

Single-Family Home Permits Plunged In April, But ‘Renter Nation’ Returns

Single-Family Home Permits Plunged In April, But ‘Renter Nation’ Returns

A day after homeBUILDER sentiment finally cracked (though still dramatically more ‘confident’ than homeBUYERS)…

Source: Bloomberg

…and mortgage rates are rebo…

US Futures Rise For Fifth Day In A Row As S&P 6000 Looms

US Futures Rise For Fifth Day In A Row As S&P 6000 Looms

US stock futures are set for a fifth straight session in the green, as US equity funds benefited from their first inflows since the Liberation Day shock, and with 6000 in the S&P now…

Novo Nordisk CEO To Step Down Following Brutal Bear Market

Novo Nordisk CEO To Step Down Following Brutal Bear Market

Novo Nordisk announced a surprise leadership shake-up, with CEO Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen stepping down by mutual agreement with the Board. The move comes amid a sharp downturn in …

Living On Meds, Vitamin C, & Ibogaine: American Precarity

Living On Meds, Vitamin C, & Ibogaine: American Precarity

Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,

Favoring capital over wage earners is the long-established policy of both political parties.

Cribbing a line from a Grateful De…

Jaw-Dropping Lawsuit Accuses ‘New Soros’ Of Proposing ‘Threesomes’, Other Sexual Harassment

Jaw-Dropping Lawsuit Accuses ‘New Soros’ Of Proposing ‘Threesomes’, Other Sexual Harassment

Swiss billionaire Hansjorg Wyss—dubbed the “New Soros” by conservatives for his funding of leftwing causes—has been accused of sexual harassment in…