Trading Ideas

China has agreed to take measures to boost imports from the United States to reduce America’s trade deficit, the two countries said on Saturday, although without mentioning the $200 billion target the White House had touted earlier. Beijing and Washington agreed they would keep on talking about measures under which China would import more commodities from the United States to close a $335 billion annual trade gap between the two countries that has threatened to ignite a global trade war. “There was a consensus on taking effective measures to substantially reduce the United States trade deficit in goods …read more […]

Microsoft is shaking up the way it asks for your input on the future of …read more […]

The Tacoma TRD Pro, TRD Sport and TRD Off Road trim levels come with features such as beefier shocks and suspensions, skid plates, an electronic locking differential and a Terrain Select system. …read more […]

The tech world and investors are awaiting a 60 Minutes segment highlighting “The Power of Google” on Sunday evening. And experts think some sort of damage control will be required. …read more […]

The royal wedding was a star-studded affair, as one might expect when a prince marries a US TV star. The guest list was filled with singers and actors but there were scant few tech moguls to be seen with one big exception: Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian. The wedding event of the year took place on Saturday when Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were married at St George’s Chapel in Windsor in an elaborate and elegant royal ceremony. …read more […]

On Wednesday, the “G” key on my 15-inch 2016 MacBook Pro — a model sporting the newest butterfly keyboard design — started acting up for the second time since I bought it. For the rest of this short post, I will not correct any typographical errors related to the letter “G,” and I’ll embolden the affected words to show what happens when Apple’s butterfly keyboard becomes defective, startin now. …read more […]

Like every good royal wedding, it was all about the hats, the dresses and the posh tails, with some fashion standouts among the guests at Windsor Castle. Amal Clooney was undeniably regal in a mustard yellow Stella McCartney dress with cap sleeves and a long tie in back that bordered on a train as she glided into St. George’s Chapel on Saturday for the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Granted, it’s difficult for Ms. Clooney merely to blend in, but her jauntily tilted and perfectly matched wide-brim hat, displaying a dainty veil in front, brought gasps …read more […]

Want to invest in this promising industry but don’t know where to start? Here are three stocks that can get the ball rolling. …read more […]

Everyone can invest.

But not everyone is good at it.

Successful investing all comes down to picking the right stock at the right time, which is easier said than done, especially in a market that moves up and down unpredictably.

Not to mention that sifting through all the pages of company filings and analyzing every news report to figure out whether a stock is a good buy can be overwhelming.

You might be all set to buy after The Wall Street Journal gives a company a favorable rating – but then Bloomberg might publish contradictory stats.

So how do you choose the stocks that …read more […]

While Hawaii is getting all of the attention right now, international markets will absorb a significantly larger proportion of Southwest Airlines’ capacity growth in the long run. …read more […]

What’s really going to happen if Social Security depletes its $3 trillion in asset reserves by 2034? …read more […]

Meghan Markle picked Paris fashion house Givenchy’s Clare Waight Keller to design her royal wedding dress, a boost for the British designer who is the company’s first female artistic director since its founding in 1952. Waight Keller’s “timeless and elegant aesthetic, impeccable tailoring, and relaxed demeanor” played a role in Markle’s selection, Kensington Palace said in a statement on its website as the American actress married Prince Harry at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Saturday. Markle also wanted to highlight the success of a leading British talent and the two worked closely together, according to the statement. …read more […]

Berkshire Hathaway now owns about 5% of Apple. Buffett thinks that stake could go higher. …read more […]

Few Americans wait this long, but here’s why you might want to. …read more […]

Passengers on Boeing’s new line of 777 planes might not have to take a bus …read more […]