Utilities Plan Huge Electric Grid Upgrades, Adding to Power Bills

American utilities are planning their biggest spending increases in decades to upgrade aging grids, prepare for electric vehicles and make the transition to renewable energy—moves poised to further bo...

Tesla Could Reopen Its Shanghai Factory Next Week: Report

Text size An aerial view of Tesla’s Shanghai factory, which closed in late March due to rising cases. Xiaolu Chu/Getty Images Tesla might be reopening its most productive facility earlier than i...

Elon Musk Suffers a Huge Setback in a Fierce Battle

Elon Musk is experiencing a busy Easter week.  The chief executive officer of Tesla  (TSLA) – Get Tesla Inc Report surprised the financial and tech circles by announcing this week that he wanted...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk Will Have No Trouble Financing Twitter

Text size Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk at the “Cyber Rodeo” opening party, April 7, 2022, in Austin, Texas. AFP via Getty Images Rich people rarely have to pay cash. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has ...

Cathie Wood Just Took Her Tesla Price Target to $4,600. Robotaxis Are Why.

Text size Tesla cars recharging Mario Tama/Getty Images ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood is a longtime Tesla bull. Her Tesla models and price targets usually make headlines. That was the case the prior time...

Ford Is Now 3 Businesses. What That Means for the Stock.

Text size Ford stock is down about 25% year to date. Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images Ford Motor Chief Financial Officer John Lawler spoke at the Bank of America conference taking place at the New Y...

EV Battery Firm QuantumScape Stock Is Rising

Text size Car batteries at a factory. STR/AFP via Getty Images Electric-vehicle battery technology company QuantumScape picked up a new rating. It’s lukewarm, but the stock is rising Wednesday. Deutsc...

Here’s the playbook if the rest of the world breaks free from the U.S. dollar, says Credit Suisse’s monetary plumbing guru

It’s pretty well accepted that no one knows as much about the plumbing of the world’s financial system as Zoltan Pozsar, global head of short-term interest-rate strategy at Credit Suisse, who was the ...

U.S. Car Sales Are in a Recession. One Analyst Is Bullish on GM and Ford Stock.

Text size U.S. car sales have tumbled Dreamstime Inflation is raging and the Fed is tightening monetary policy, creating a cycle that might push the U.S. economy into a recession. That isn’t great new...

Elon Musk May Have Nasty Surprises for Twitter Soon

Investors have become accustomed to Elon Musk, Tesla’s  (TSLA) – Get Tesla Inc Report chief executive, making spectacular announcements.  He has a knack for surprising them when they least...

Rivian Gets Its First Sell Rating From Wall Street. The Stock Is Rising.

Text size Rivian is expected to produce fewer cars than Wall Street had anticipated this year. Courtesy Rivian Wall Street has been pretty positive on Rivian Automotive stock, despite some rocky tradi...

Tesla Needs Lithium. Elon Musk Suggests It Could Get Into Mining Business.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has suggested that the electric vehicle maker might get into the mining business. Patrick Pleul/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Text size Tesla CEO Elon Musk lamented the rising cost of ...

Ford Stock: Auto Industry Problems Growing, Car Stock Enthusiasm Wanes

Text size The Ford logo is displayed on the sales lot at the Ford Store in San Leandro, California. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The auto sector faces a number of headwinds that are too much for one a...

The stock market is behaving a lot like it did during the Iraq war. Here’s the future if the pattern continues.

History doesn’t repeat, but it does rhyme. The Iraq war of 2003 doesn’t have many parallels to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, other than perhaps global unpopularity. But there seems to be at least one ...

Stryker and Mullen Automotive Hit by Short Reports

By Sam Boughedda Investing.com — U.S. stock indices are down once again Wednesday, with the Nasdaq decreasing 2.4% and the S&P 500 declining 1.22%. Here are the midday movers on Wednesday, A...

Mullen Automotive “Another Fast Talking EV Hustle,” Says Hindenburg

By Sam Boughedda Investing.com — Mullen Automotive Inc (NASDAQ:MULN) shares have jumped 241% in the past month, but they have dipped slightly on Wednesday after Hindenburg Research released a sh...

Rivian’s Production of Electric Trucks More Than Doubles. The Stock Falls.

Text size Courtesy Rivian Production at Rivian Automotive grew in the first quarter from the fourth, but the stock was falling Wednesday. Rivian (ticker: RIVN) reported first-quarter production on Tue...

NIO Has a Plan to End the Anxiety Over Charging Electric Vehicles

Text size NIO, the Chinese electric-vehicle maker, is in talks to license its battery swapping technology, according to the Financial Times. Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images Electric-vehicle sales are ...

Why GM and Ford Stocks Have Driven Off Course

Are high gas prices and rising interest rates hitting demand for gas-guzzlers? Sales data don’t offer much of an answer these days, leaving investors to fear the worst. On Monday, Ford Motor reported ...

Toyota Keeps a Crown Coveted by GM, Ford

What if the big winner of the difficulties that the automotive industry is currently going through was Toyota  (TM) – Get Toyota Motor Corp. Report? The Japanese vehicle manufacturer seems to be...

Tesla Deliveries Rose in Quarter Elon Musk Calls Exceptionally Difficult

Tesla Inc. vehicle deliveries rose in the first quarter, but missed Wall Street expectations as the company struggled with global supply-chain disruptions and a brief Covid-19 shutdown at its Shanghai...

Airline Stocks Have Soared. Here’s What Happens Next.

Text size An American Airlines flight Daniel Slim/AFP/Getty Images Airline stocks have surged as the price of oil has declined. More gains for the airlines will be hard to come by in the short-term.  ...

Tesla Proposes a Dividend (Not Really). TJX and PNC Announce Payout Hikes (for Real).

Tesla’s proposed ‘dividend’ was really a proposed stock split. Here, a Tesla manufacturing plant near Gruenheide, Germany. Sean Gallup/Getty Images Text size Tesla was among the hand...

Tesla Beat All the Trillion-Dollar Stocks. Berkshire Hathaway Did Even Better.

Text size The new Tesla factory in Germany. Sean Gallup/Getty Images What do Elon Musk and Warren Buffett have in common? Shares of both of their megacapitalization companies posted gains for the firs...

Missed the Dip in Stocks? Where to Find Yields of 3% to 6%.

I sneezed, and missed the buying opportunity in stocks. The S&P 500 was down 13% at one point this year. It ended the first quarter with a loss of just 4.6%, including dividends. But all of the ba...

GM and Ford Shares Are Falling. Vehicle Recalls May Be Taking a Toll.

Text size A Ford Motor plant Scott Olson/Getty Images General Motors and Ford Motor both announced vehicle recalls Friday. Investors appear nervous, as both shares are falling, but that’s probably an ...

Cathie Wood Sold Tesla Stock. She Is as Bullish as Ever.

Text size Tesla stock remains the biggest position in Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation ETF. Courtesy of ARK Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation ETF sold about 22,000 Tesla shares Thursday, according to her...

Investors are fed up with Netflix and Facebook’s parent. Why this portfolio manager is digging in and buying more.

It has been a quarter to forget for two of the megacap tech giants, Netflix and Facebook parent Meta Platforms. The 34% decline for Meta FB was its worst on record — the 30% drop in the third quarter ...

Tesla Deliveries Met Wall Street Estimates. Here’s What Comes Next for Shares.

Tesla reported first-quarter deliveries in line with expectations. Here, new Tesla cars sit in front of a Tesla dealership in Corte Madera, Calif., last year. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Text size Te...

The Horizon Darkens for Faraday Future, Dubbed “Next Tesla”

Faraday Future Intelligent Electric  (FFIE) – Get Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. Report was long seen as the electric vehicle maker that would challenge Tesla’s  (TSLA) – G...

Vietnamese Carmaker Makes Bold and Risky Move to Challenge Tesla, Ford

It’s a bold and risky bet but it sends a clear message to local vehicle manufacturers: the cards for the American electric vehicle market are not yet completely distributed. There are still plac...

Supply Chain Issues Could Recover In Q3 2022

Aggregate Inventories Have Recovered but Auto Inventories Remain Under Pressure: Supply chain issues have been a well-publicized event that has been hard to predict. While there have been improvements...