Private payrolls increased 169,000 last month, the ADP National Employment Report showed. While it has a poor track record of predicting nonfarm payrolls, the ADP report poses a downside risk to economists’ expectations for nonfarm payrolls growth of 224,000 in April.
Oil prices rose more than a dollar to 2015 highs on Wednesday, as a month-long rally gained further impetus from a fall in U.S. crude stocks and conflict in the Middle East. “We haven’t seen hedge funds and money managers to be as optimistic and bullish as they are currently,” said Vyanne Lai, an oil analyst with National Australia Bank. Industry group the American Petroleum Institution (API) said on Tuesday
Complex macro concerns on Wall Street are getting boiled down to a single number – 2080.
This trio of cult stocks gets big headlines, but “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer breaks down which one is a buy.
Microsoft is pondering a move after Salesforce was approached by another company as recently as April, said people with knowledge of the matter. Salesforce, with a market value of almost $50 billion, is working with two bankers to determine a response, two of the people said. Microsoft isn’t in talks with Salesforce and no agreement is imminent, the people said. The deal would give Microsoft an additional $6 billion in
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