Some big investors see warning signs ahead for markets but are holding their positions. Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris is taking action: He's put half of his $5.7 billion net worth into gold. He said in an interview Monday that he believes gold prices will rally further, reaching $1,800 per ounce from
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While it's usually best to just sit back with a bucket of popcorn and watch reality business drama unfold, I was surprised by the severe reactions insinuating Facebook's eagerness to profit at the expense of its users' data, creating paranoia around …
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Questionable, opaque accounting has hidden the true state of the province's books, while the financial watchdog herself was kept “out of the loop,” said an unusually blunt Bonnie Lysyk. “They took a risk and fortunately, I would say, for all the legislators and for the citizens, my staff is pretty strong and we
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One thing became clear during Wednesday's oral argument at the U.S. Supreme Court about President Donald Trump's travel ban: Justice Elena Kagan has a strategy to persuade swing Justice Anthony Kennedy to vote against the ban. Her approach will be to depict the case as a watershed moment in
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Hope is again rising on the Korean peninsula. On Friday, South Korea's President Moon Jae-in and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un will hold a summit in the Demilitarized Zone that has divided the two states for 65 years. The meeting raises the prospect that this pointless and anachronistic conflict
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