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CSX's Margin Improvement Will Face Hurdles in 2025, but Long-Te Growth Opportunities Remain
With help from the precision scheduled railroading playbook, CSX's adjusted OR improved to 58.1% in 2022, from 66.5% in 2017. Despite setbacks over the past few years, we expect CSX to rekindle OR ...
Trump's $7 billion meme coin hasn't made him richer, Forbes and Bloomberg say
The two journalistic wealth trackers agree the Trump meme coin hasn't added anything to the president's wealth - yet. Donald Trump launched a meme coin in the days before his return to the White House ...
Moody's Upgrades Argentina's Rating as Inflation and Debt Levels Improve
Moody's Ratings upgraded Argentina's currency ratings as high inflation and government debt are beginning to ease. The ratings firm also changed its outlook to positive from stable.
Trump tariff talk is heating up on Wall Street, signaling a rocky road ahead for investors
"At the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated his threat to use tariffs to bring manufacturing back to the U.S.," said Solita Marcelli, chief investment ...
Target joins Walmart in pulling back on DEI. But this big retailer and its shareholders are staying the course.
Over the past year, companies like Walmart Inc. (WMT) - one of Target's main rivals - McDonald's Corp. (MCD) and others have also rolled back their diversity goals. Before Trump's election, some ...
'I paid for everything from day one': My husband barely worked during our marriage. Can I leave my $500,000 IRA to my son?
I have a pretty good amount in my IRA ($500,000) that I have contributed to for years. I also funded my husband's IRA spousal account ($70,000) as he seldom worked and made zero contributions himself.
JPMorgan Will Continue to Benefit From Higher Rates, but Shares Are Priced for Perfection
The bank's supplementary leverage ratio was 6.1% at the end of fourth quarter of 2024, in excess of the minimum of 5%. JPMorgan's liabilities are prudently diversified, with more than half of assets ...
Why 2024 was arguably the toughest year for home buyers and sellers in 30 years
U.S. existing-home sales fell in 2024 to the lowest level in 30 years, as high mortgage rates and low housing inventory weighed on home-buying activity.
Space-sector IPOs set to take off as industry braces for a busy 2025
Citigroup (C) and Evercore ISI are acting as book-running managers for the proposed IPO and as representatives of the underwriters. RBC Capital Markets and William Blair are acting as joint ...
Trump says there are bigger China threats than TikTok. Here's where he could be going wrong.
The law was designed to shut down TikTok in the U.S. as of Sunday if the app continued to be controlled by ByteDance. Thanks to Trump's promise on Sunday that he would give TikTok more time once he ...
New Mexico Refinery Reaches $172 Million Settlement After Air Quality Violations — OPIS
The Navajo refinery, in conjunction with a refining facility in Lovington, New Mexico, process sweet and sour Permian crude. The refinery has a crude oil capacity of 100,000 b/d, serving New Mexico, ...