THE REVISIONERS By Margaret Wilkerson Sexton “The Revisioners,” Margaret Wilkerson Sexton’s stunning new novel, is told in alternating chapters from the points of view of Ava and Josephine, two African-American women connected by blood and similar circumstances but divided by nearly a hundred years. The story begins in 2017 as …

A Chinese clerk counts renminbi yuan banknotes at a bank in China on December 2015. Jie Zhao | Corbis News | Getty Images The Chinese yuan soared past 7 per U.S. dollar on Tuesday, climbing to a fresh three-month high as investors became increasingly hopeful about the chances of a …

ON SWIFT HORSES By Shannon Pufahl “I did not place my dreams of California inside a long history of dreaming,” Shannon Pufahl wrote in her 2015 memoiristic essay “Interventions.” Something similar might be said of her Odyssean debut novel, “On Swift Horses.” It’s a book about the midcentury American West, …

Americans have a complicated relationship with cars. Aside from buying a home, a car is probably the second-most expensive purchase you will ever make in your life. After more than 10 years of writing about money on my personal finance website, Financial Samurai, I’ve found that being too fixated on …

Here are the most important things to know about Tuesday before you hit the door. A monitor displays Peloton Interactive Inc. signage during the company’s initial public offering (IPO) across from the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images …

As politicians increasingly call for antitrust crackdowns on Big Tech companies, it’s worth considering some of the positive effects these companies have had as they’ve grown. The five largest tech firms in the United States — Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet (the parent company of Google), and Facebook — have collectively …

Uber is gearing up for earnings after the bell today, its third release since going public. The stock — a poster child in the shift in appetite for unprofitable IPOs — has fallen 7% in just a week. Matt Maley, chief market strategist at Miller Tabak, says there are a …

Chinese stocks are breaking out as trade progress between the U.S. and China hits the headlines again. The FXI China large-cap ETF soared more than 1% on Monday, adding to 2% gains seen at the end of last week. “The charts have definitely seen some notable recent strength, but I …

With the 2020 election now only a year away, Morgan Stanley put together a cheat sheet for investors to trade the eventual outcome. For example, the firm sees bank and oil stocks as the biggest winners if President Donald Trump wins re-election and the Republicans keep the Senate. Morgan Stanley …

The Dow Jones Industrial Average on Monday was the last of the three major stock market indices to regain its high, but if the lagging small cap Russell 2000 can join in, that could signal a stronger bull run. The Dow on Monday opened at a new intraday high, and traded …