Uniqlo owner’s shares slump after Q1 net profit falls 9.1%
Fast Retailing Co. shares 9983, -7.95% fell sharply Friday morning after its first-quarter net profit dropped 9.1% from a year earlier due to higher costs and weaker sales in China. The shares were recently 6.9% lower at 74,340 yen after falling as much as 7.1% earlier. The owner of Uniqlo said that net profit for […]
The housing market is showing signs of ‘normalizing’ and IRS says ‘Tax Day’ will be different this year — put these important tax dates on your calendar
Hi, MarketWatchers. Don’t miss these top stories.IRS says ‘Tax Day’ will be different this year — put these important tax dates on your calendar Two thirds of households received income-tax refunds last year, IRS statistics show. Read More U.S. mortgage rates slip, giving some relief to homebuyers The 30-year mortgage rate is averaging at 6.33%, […]
Reparations for Black Americans ‘could finally lead to closure’: Sandy Darity
Black Americans whose ancestors were enslaved have been excluded from full citizenship in the United States for the last 247 years — and granting them full citizenship will cost between $13 trillion and $14 trillion, economist William “Sandy” Darity told a conference of fellow U.S. economists last week. To see the impact of second-class citizenship […]
How the Fed is ‘collapsing’ real estate activity with higher interest rates
U.S. real estate has undergone a dramatic slowdown in transaction activity in the months since the Federal Reserve began jacking up interest rates. Sales of existing homes plunged from peak pandemic levels to about 4.1 million in November (see chart) from over 6 million units sold per year in 2021 as the Fed has dramatically […]
Why value stocks may not repeat their vast 2022 outperformance in 2023
Are so-called value stocks still living up to their name? Some aren’t so sure. After more than a decade of lackluster returns, the value factor beat the broader market and outperformed rival growth stocks in 2022 by the widest margin since 2000. Still, both broad categories suffered sizable declines during a bear market that sent […]
Nursing-home reform may finally become a reality: Three breakthroughs that are turning talk into action
Nursing-home reform, long advocated by long-term care analysts and the public, seems to finally be happening. The problems at these facilities — where people reside in close proximity for extended periods and the average age of residents is 86 — are many. More than 133,000 nursing-home residents and staff members have died from COVID-19 during […]
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing reports record net profit and revenue on chip demand
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. said Thursday that fourth-quarter net profit rose to a new record thanks to growing demand for high-speed computing and better margins. The world’s largest contract chip maker 2330, +0.41% TSM, +0.63% said net profit for the quarter ended Dec. 31 rose 78% from a year earlier to 295.90 billion Taiwan dollars […]
Labor board upholds Amazon union victory at Staten Island warehouse, after months of wrangling
A U.S. labor representative on Wednesday dismissed Amazon.com Inc.’s objections to a historic union-election victory at a warehouse in Staten Island, N.Y. last year, following months of aggressive efforts by the online retailer to squash the organizing effort. Amazon said it would appeal the decision, which came from a regional director of the National Labor […]
Salesforce layoffs at its home base in San Francisco number in the hundreds so far
Salesforce Inc., which last week said it would be slashing 10% of its workforce, or about 8,000 people, has disclosed a wave of layoffs at its San Francisco headquarters in a filing with the state of California. A total of 752 job cuts will become effective March 24, Salesforce CRM, -1.72% said in a letter […]
Holy high rollers: phony pastors targeted immigrants in $28 million Ponzi scheme
“I’m everything you imagine me to be, as long as it’s good and it’s Godly.” That’s how Dennis Jali, a South African self-proclaimed finance guru sold his Christian-themed program of financial success to crowds of mainly African immigrants at churches and banquet halls in and around Baltimore and Washington, D.C. But while Jali claimed he […]