Here’s a link to a podcast of Bob Greifeld, CEO of NASDAQ, talking about the new tier structures that make up the Global Select Market, introduced on February 15.
Companies' buying the assets of other countries is a massive global trend. With regard to the Arabs wanting to buy a U.S. company managing a major port, I used the example that we'd likely pay little heed to British company doing the same thing and I said that the foreign company we approved of could then turn around and
My view is that the markets are currently overestimating the probability of the Fed raising rates in May. Another rate hike is nearly fully priced in to the fed funds futures. In a WSJ article
The markets are off modestly today. That's no surprise given that the CPI will be released tomorrow morning. The core CPI is an unknown that will be widely watched. If the change is different from the consensus forecast and previous month's 0.2% increase, either up or down, the markets will react to the data. A tick up to