Mark Vitner

President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping reached an agreement over the weekend not to introduce incremental tariffs after Jan. 1, 2019. The trade truce will remain in place for 90 days, during which time the two countries will work on a long-term agreement. If talks fail to...

While some large publicly traded companies such as Wal-Mart and Panera recently dropped its objections to raising the Federal minimum wage (currently $7.25 per hour), others have gone a step further. These five companies are paying above the minimum wage or have announced that they...

Mark Vitner, managing director and senior economist at Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC), and David Joy, chief market strategist at Ameriprise Financial (NYSE: AMP), appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box Wednesday morning where they discussed the inevitable tapering that's to come from the Federal Reserve. "There'...

Is the U.S. housing market entering the early stages of a possible bubble? Or is this stagnant industry finally growing? Kathleen M. Howley of Bloomberg published an article earlier Thursday pertaining to these implications in the housing market. In her article, Howley comments that the...