Why Wall Street giants are still in love with China
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Why Wall Street giants are still in love with China

It has been a tumultuous year in China. But for some of the biggest names on Wall Street,the country’s economic prospects look rosier than ever.

  • byLi Yuan

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Risky business:The Fed,and Elon Musk,sound the alarm bells on financial markets

Risky business:The Fed,and Elon Musk,sound the alarm bells on financial markets

The fact that Elon Musk could send the value of a cryptocurrency plummeting after a joke on Saturday Night Live tells you a lot about the state of financial markets.

  • byStephen Bartholomeusz
Credit Suisse races to contain Archegos hit with $2.6b capital raising

Credit Suisse races to contain Archegos hit with $2.6b capital raising

The Swiss banking giant has moved to contain the fallout from two of the worst hits in its recent history with a surprise capital increase and a sweeping overhaul of its business with hedge funds.

  • byPatrick Winters andMarion Halftermeyer
GameStop to sell millions of new shares to cash in on stock frenzy

GameStop to sell millions of new shares to cash in on stock frenzy

Two months after its shares soared to the moon,selling new stock could help the struggling video game retailer to pay down debts and even revive the company by pursuing a new business plan.

  • byMichelle Chapman andAlex Veiga
Connecting the dots:Explaining the strange behaviour in markets

Connecting the dots:Explaining the strange behaviour in markets

A raft of seemingly unrelated incidents and developments have shaken up global markets. But there are two things that connect them.

  • byStephen Bartholomeusz
Greed is not good:Hedge fund’s implosion hurts some of the world’s biggest banks
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Opinion

Greed is not good:Hedge fund’s implosion hurts some of the world’s biggest banks

There’s no mystery about why a collection of the world’s larger and important banks lined up to provide so much funding and leverage to a character with Bill Hwang’s history.

  • byStephen Bartholomeusz
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It’s on again:GameStop shares double after tumbling for weeks

It’s on again:GameStop shares double after tumbling for weeks

The sharp move higher even left some members of Reddit’s WallStreetBets forum,which helped cheer its meteoric rise last month,scratching their heads.

  • byAlex Veiga
Biden sends clear signal to Wall Street after GameStop frenzy

Biden sends clear signal to Wall Street after GameStop frenzy

US regulators are probing possible market manipulation during the GameStop trading frenzy.

  • byTory Newmyer andMatt Zapotosky
Not so SPAC-tacular:Wall Street’s latest $US100 billion gamble

Not so SPAC-tacular:Wall Street’s latest $US100 billion gamble

SPACs are the hottest thing in finance at the moment:Investors are giving publicly traded shell companies a blank cheque to go buy a business,sight unseen - and the cheques are getting bigger and bigger.

  • byAndrew Ross Sorkin
Wolves in fleece jackets:Gen Z faces dark side of Reddit rebellion

Wolves in fleece jackets:Gen Z faces dark side of Reddit rebellion

The GameStop frenzy has captivated markets and the media,but there is a dark side to this rebellion and not all traders are on the same side.

  • bySarah Danckert
Can we stop talking about stocks now,please?

Can we stop talking about stocks now,please?

The sharemarket isn’t the economy,but that’s hard to remember in a bubble.

  • byFarhad Manjoo