Updates – Earnings

J.P. Morgan is getting less optimistic about the trade conflict between the U.S. and China. The firm lowered its rating for Chinese equities to neutral from overweight, predicting the escalating trade war between the countries will affect the Asian country’s economy next year.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff connects the company’s performance with the condition of the broader economy.

The U.S. economy is humming along with little in the way to derail its recently stronger growth trajectory, the J.P. Morgan chief says.

Retail sales are expected to grow between 5 and 5.6 percent from a year ago, according to Deloitte’s annual retail sales forecast for the holiday season.

Recession risk is low, even when looking out three years from now, according to Goldman Sachs.

China and the U.S., the world’s two largest economies, have been quarreling over trade for months, engaging in a tit-for-tat tariff battle and intermittently frightening investors with the prospect of a full-blown trade war. But the macroeconomic fallout from a worsening of trade relations might not be as severe as feared, according to Capital Economics.

Ten years after the start of a global financial crisis, some strategists are checking in with their go-to “canaries in the coal mine” to get a gut-check as U.S. stocks push higher and confidence in the economy grows.

The U.S. labor market is not yet near the point of getting too tight as unemployed people are still being attracted off the sidelines and into jobs, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard said on Wednesday.

Recent data is pointing to an economy growing at an even more rapid pace that will overcome various headwinds including the intensifying trade war, according to Goldman Sachs.