Stocks take a beating after Apple reports iPhone sales slip
The rare warning of disappointing results from Apple stoked investors' fears that the world's second-biggest economy is losing steam and that trade tensions between Washington and Beijing are making things worse. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 660 points.
Wall Street makes holiday rebound with its best day in 10 years
The Dow Jones Industrial Average shot up more than 1,000 points — its biggest single-day point gain ever — rising nearly 5 percent as investors returned from a one-day Christmas break.
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Does the president have legal authority to fire the Fed chair?
President Trump's recent criticism of Jay Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve, has prompted questions about whether the president might try to fire Powell. But does he have the legal authority to do so? New York Times correspondent Binyamin Appelbaum…
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Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Mattis departure, government shutdown
Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report and Tamara Keith of NPR join Nick Schifrin to discuss the accelerated departure of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, why the ongoing government shutdown grants President Trump the fight he desires and how the…
How are today’s stock investors going to react if the market continues to plummet?…
In a speech to the Economic Club of New York, Powell said that rates are close to "neutral," the level at which they neither hold back growth nor aid it. That relieved investors who feel the nine-year-old bull market could…
The Dow dropped by as many as 1,500 points, before rebounding to close the day down nearly 1,200 points.
The Chinese stock market dropped 7 percent in the first 29 minutes of trading, before shutting down to stem further losses. China’s second major crash in the past four days drove investor skittishness around the globe, including a Dow loss…
The sudden slide in the Chinese stock markets has spurred worries that the panic could spread beyond China's borders. What’s the root cause of the deflating bubble? Chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner joins Gwen Ifill to discuss the economic…
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