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BEIJING, June 7 (Reuters) – China’s foreign exchange reserves, the world’s largest, rose more than expected in May, official data showed on Monday, as the U.S. dollar weakened. The data showed China’s foreign exchange reserves rose $23.62 billion to $3.22 trillion last month, compared with $3.208 trillion seen in a Reuters poll of analysts and $3.198 trillion in April. Foreign inflows into Chinese stocks and bonds have been strong as China gallops ahead of other major economies in its recovery… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Index funds are supposed to cut out the human-driven craziness that periodically infects markets, but the recent meme-stock fever proved the $11 trillion industry is far from immune. The remarkable surge in shares of AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. and a handful of other stocks is showing up in multiple exchange-traded funds, skewing portfolios, altering risk profiles and exerting outsized influence on prices. Take the $68 billion iShares Russell 2000 ETF (ticker IWM). In the… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Wall Street traders like Trey Griggs are finding a new lease on life in the $2.4 trillion crypto Wild West. After two decades in energy trading, the 51-year-old was lured by a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. colleague this February into a new world of market-making in digital currencies. Now he’s in fighting spirits — unleashing old-school finance tricks to exploit the industry’s rampant inefficiencies, volatility and downright weirdness. “All the fun that used to be had 30… Source link

President Joe Biden is calling on Congress to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans in order to pay for programs designed to support families and children — including two years of free community college, paid family leave, efforts to make child care more affordable and universal preschool.  Biden will outline the American Families Plan in his first address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night. The proposal — the second phase of his plan to overhaul the U.S. economy —… Source link

TipRanks Raymond James Predicts Over 60% Rally for These 2 Stocks Bouncing back with incredible force, the S&P 500 has gained 50% over the past 12 months, with the index now landing just shy of its 52-week high. This impressive charge forward has come as investors shrug off COVID-19’s devastating impact on the economy. Going ahead, Raymond James strategist Tavis McCourt believes we’re looking at a prolonged period of higher interest rates, higher taxes, and abundant economic growth. “[It]… Source link

President Joe Biden is set to unveil a $2 trillion economic recovery plan on Wednesday afternoon, which includes raising the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28% to help pay for a massive overhaul of America’s infrastructure. The proposal, called the American Jobs Plan, is the first of the two economic recovery plans the administration plans to roll out in the coming weeks. Biden will detail the first plan focusing on the infrastructure overhaul on Wednesday in Pittsburgh and the second plan… Source link

Two thirds of all searches on Google start and end on Google without a click outside the Google universe and Google ecosystem of knowledge and data and answers, according to a new study of over 5 trillion searches in 2020. And that doesn’t even count Hey Google voice searches on mobile devices and smart speakers. Percentage of Google searches that don’t end in a click to a non-Google website. SparkToro If you’ve noticed less traffic from Google to your websites in the past… Source link

The $1.9 trillion stimulus plan based on President Joe Biden’s proposal and passed by both chambers of Congress includes four key tax improvements that would help Americans in various income brackets. The plan would change the child tax credit, child and dependent care tax credit, the earned income tax credit (EITC), and taxes on unemployment benefits, helping to alleviate some of financial stress from the coronavirus pandemic and economic shutdowns. Read more: Here’s how you should use your… Source link

TipRanks JPMorgan Bets on These 3 Stocks; Sees Over 50% Upside Potential It’s time to check in with the macro picture, to get an idea of just where markets are headed in the coming months. That’s what a JPMorgan global research team, headed up by Joyce Chang, has been doing. The JPM team starts by noting the sell-off in US Treasury bonds last week, pushing up yields as investors acted in response to inflationary fears. However, the rise in bond yields steadied on Friday, and Chang’s team… Source link

The Guardian Biden hails ‘giant step’ as Senate passes $1.9tn coronavirus relief bill Republican opposition holds through marathon ‘vote-a-rama’Speaker Pelosi has said measure should be law by 14 March Joe Biden makes remarks from the White House on Saturday. Photograph: Erin Scott/Reuters Joe Biden hailed “one more giant step forward on delivering on that promise that help is on the way”, after Democrats took a critical step towards a first major legislative victory since assuming… Source link