Fortune - USA (2019-12)

FORTUNE.COM // DECEMBER 2019 America’s first billionaire President promised to bring a C-suite sensibility to the Oval Office. I ...

NOV. 1, 2016 NOV. 1, 2019 SOURCE: S&P GLOBAL –50% 0 50 100 150% –29.4% S&P 500 PRICE CHANGE IN U.S. STEEL STOCK SINCE NO ...

STEEL TRAP 61 FORTUNE.COM // DECEMBER 2019 Business, began to slump substantially a year ago. Hundreds of industry associations, ...

SEASONALLY ADJUSTED, 1986=100 OCT. 2016 2018 2019 SEPT. 2019 101.8 SOURCE: NFIB SMALL-BUSINESS OPTIMISM INDEX 95 100 105 110 0 2 ...

63 FORTUNE.COM // DECEMBER 2019 Tax Fairness, a left-leaning advocacy group— just 10 companies account for 37%. Just one company ...

NOV. 1, 2016 JAN. 26, 2018 NOV. 1, 2019 SOURCE: S&P GLOBAL S&P 500 INDEX S&P 500 GROWTH RATE 2 , 000 2 , 500 3 , 000 ...

65 FORTUNE.COM // DECEMBER 2019 in peril, believes Christine Lagarde, former head of the International Monetary Fund and now chi ...

66 FORTUNE.COM // DECEMBER 2019 JOE BIDEN WOULD STRENGTHEN labor unions in multiple ways— denying federal contracts to union-unf ...

67 FORTUNE.COM // DECEMBER 2019 and practices to keep more people out. U.S. business overall hates these changes for obvious rea ...

CORPORATE PROFITSADJUSTED FOR INFLATION, 2012 DOLLARS Q1, 2017 Q1, 2018 Q2, 2019 $1.562 TRILLION PROFIT CHANGE IN PROFIT, ANNUAL ...

UNDOING THE DAMAGE 69 FORTUNE.COM // DECEMBER 2019 That’s trouble because uncertainty hurts economies. We all know from life exp ...

JOSEPH CAVATONI, THE U.S. MANAGING DIRECTOR of the World Gold Council, keeps a packed suitcase by his desk. While he has always ...

With gold prices climbing by 18.5% over the past year—to $1,487 an ounce as of late October, outperforming the S&P 500’s 9% ...

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another recession is a tax-free, penalty-free transfer into gold to, in effect, change your exposure from a fi at-backed currenc ...

“LEAD FROM THE BACK,” Nelson Mandela famously said, “and let others believe they are in front.” In a year dominated by political ...

76 FORTUNE.COM // DECEMBER 2019 S A T Y A NADELLA CEO MICROSOFT CHALLENGE ASSEMBLING THE RIGHT TEAM When Satya Nadella was named ...

BUSINESSPERSON OF THE YEAR MICROSOFT APPLE MARKET CAPITALIZATION 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 $1.2 trillion NOV. 1, 2016 NOV. 1, 2019 77 FORT ...

CHALLENGE MANAGING THROUGH VOLATILITY Elizabeth Gaines knows how to get off to a fast start. Since she took over as CEO of Perth ...