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Thursday’s Market Minute: To Taper Or Not To Taper; That Is The Question!

For the rest of the week, the focus for investors and traders will be squarely on the Fed at the Jackson Hole Symposium as we await comments from chair Jerome Powell on Friday. Market participants are looking for further insight as to the Fed’s position on when they expect to begin tapering the $120B in monthly asset purchases currently in place.

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Square To Acquire Buy-Now, Pay-Later Firm Afterpay In $29B Stock Transaction

Payments services provider Square (NYSE: SQ) announced on Sunday night that it was acquiring Afterpay for approximately $29 billion in stock. The deal is an all-stock transaction, with Square acquiring all the issued shares of Afterpay, pending a court-approved "Scheme of Arrangement."

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