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Zürich (awp) - Der Schweizer Aktienmarkt hat den Handel am Mittwoch mit ziemlich deutlichen Verlusten abgeschlossen. Nachdem der Leitindex SMI die in der ersten Handelshälfte erlittenen Abgaben bis am frühen Nachmittag noch eingrenzen konnte, drückten ihn gegen Börsenschluss vor allem die Gewinnmitnahmen der Pharmaschwergewichte Roche und Novartis ins Minus. Dabei konnte der Index die Marke von 11'900 Punkten knapp nicht verteidigen. In dem an Impulsen äusserst armen Handel war allgemein von einer Konsolidierung auf hohem Niveau die Rede. Nicht nur die Pharmawerte, sondern auch andere T...

How the Fed Fails Gamed speculation — using knowledge of how markets can be pushed to profit those doing the pushing — has long been decried. Declaring that the unproductive profiteering of greedy speculators will be the death of the Republic goes back to Rome, and in American history, to Alexander Hamilton’s battle in 1791 to pay the speculators who had bought up the new nation’s war bonds for pennies on the dollar full value plus interest. Gamed speculation — and the cheery presumption that there will always be a liquid market of chumps willing to buy insiders’ pumped-up balloon...

Asian markets flat to lower. on wall street, what's going to happen? futures leaning up here. it looks like a bons or attempt to bounce after a tough day. stocks down two days in a row on trade tensions between the u.s. and china ahead of the really important trade talks this week. the dow closed 314 points lower. the s&p fell 1.6%, the nasdaq, 1.7%. the fed chief jerome powell said the fed will soon start buying short-term treasuries to help stabilize short term lending markets. >> we'll add to the is up play of reserves over time. >> powell didn't go into the specifics about those plans. p...

>> i'm not thrilled because, you know, we go up and every time you go up, they want to raise rates again. i don't really -- i am not happy about it. but at the same time, i'm letting them do what they feel is best. i don't like all of this work that goes into doing what we're doing. >> is it a safe bet that the fed follows the numbers and continues the policy? or does the fed get intimidated by the president at all? >> well, no. the expectation is that the fed will, despite the president's unusual intervention there, maintain its traditional independence. >> very polite way to say it. >> i don...

271,000 jobs added. that dwarfed estimates for about 180,000 jobs. that means that the headline unemployment number has come down to just 5%, a level that a lot of economists consider full employment. if we dig into the actual monthly numbers, you can see 271,000. this is what you're looking at, the headline unemployment number. this shows we are now at 5%, jose. the last time we were at 5% was basically before the crisis, 2008. this is a big improvement in the labor market. in terms of sectors, the recovery was broad-based. we saw big gains in professional services, in construction, in retail...