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This dividend-paying ETF may help protect investors during wild market swings. Capital Wealth Planning’s Kevin Simpson is recommending to clients the Amplify CWP Enhanced Dividend Income ETF (DIVO), which focuses on blue-chip companies likely to increase future dividends. “We want strong, powerful dividend growth,” the firm’s chief investment officer Kevin …

Upgrade CEO Renaud Laplanche speaks at a conference in Brooklyn, New York, in 2018. Alex Flynn | Bloomberg via Getty Images The technology industry is known for innovation and spawning the next big thing. But at a time of economic uncertainty and rising interest rates, a growing piece of the …

Noel Quinn, chief executive officer of HSBC Holdings Plc, right, Mark Tucker, chairman, center, and Peter Wong, deputy chairman, during the bank’s shareholders meeting in Hong Kong, China, on Monday, April 3, 2023. HSBC’s senior executives faced its Hong Kong shareholders from retirees to taxi drivers as the lender seeks …

The Paramount logo is displayed at Columbia Square along Sunset Blvd in Hollywood, California on March 9, 2023. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. Paramount Global – The media company slumped 10.4% after reporting quarterly profit and revenue that …

general view of a Starbucks store on September 15, 2022 in Plainview, New York Bruce Bennett | Getty Images News | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. Eli Lilly — The pharmaceutical stock rose more than 5% on clinical trial data showing that the company’s …

Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell speaks during a news conference at the Federal Reserve in Washington, DC, on March 22, 2023. Olivier Douliery | AFP | Getty Images There won’t be a lot of mystery surrounding what the Federal Reserve is going to do Wednesday with interest rates. Where …

Maskot | Digitalvision | Getty Images The job market is still hot but is clearly slowing from the scorching levels seen during much of the past two years, according to labor experts. Job openings and voluntary worker departures (or, quits) declined in March, while the layoff rate increased, according to …

The logo of Morgan Stanley is seen in New York  Shannon Stapleton | Reuters As Wall Street’s slump in IPOs and mergers deepens this year, top advisory firms including Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and Citigroup have turned to job cuts in recent weeks. Morgan Stanley plans to eliminate roughly …

DCG, Luno’s parent company, has been grappling with the ongoing fallout from last year’s plunge in token prices and the collapse of FTX. Rafael Henrique | Sopa Images | Lightrocket via Getty Images Vijay Ayyar, a senior executive at cryptocurrency exchange Luno and one of its earliest employees, is leaving …

Singapore’s largest lender DBS Group Holdings expects net interest income to taper off in the future, but the bank is confident that it can ride on other drivers going forward, such as a growth in loans and fee income. On Tuesday, DBS reported record revenue and net profit for the …