Dow ends nearly 200 points lower as investors weigh ISM manufacturing and inflation data, await jobs report

U.S. stocks finished a choppy session mostly lower on Thursday after the ISM manufacturing index showed American factory activities contracted to a 30-month low in November. Stocks had opened mostly h...

This trader sees a 43% drop for the S&P 500 and says to take shelter in these ETFs instead.

A day after the Dow DJIA, -0.11% climbed out of bear territory on hopeful comments by Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, stocks look ready to rethink on that optimsim, even after fresh inflation data showed ...

Elon Musk Fears Economic Disaster if This Is Not Done Immediately

The economy’s health remains the main subject of concern for consumers and investors, who just about every week see another wave of corporate job cuts. On Nov. 30, DoorDash was the umpteenth com...

Banks are short more than $1 trillion in capital, says this analyst, who fears the shortfall will only get worse

The new year is nearly upon us, and one idea for where to invest is the banking sector, whose margins benefit from the high interest rates, at not terribly demanding valuations. That claim may surpris...

XPeng’s Results Miss Forecasts but the Stock Is Soaring

XPeng investors desperately needed some good news. They didn’t get much with the company’s third-quarter earnings report. Shares are soaring anyway to start the day. It looks as if the badly beaten up...

China electric vehicle maker XPeng posts wider than expected 3Q loss of CNY2.38 billion ($332m)

XPeng Inc. XPEV, +6.53% said Wednesday that it expects its fourth-quarter vehicle deliveries to decline as much as 52% as the Chinese electric-car maker reported a wider loss for the third quarter. XP...

VinFast is shipping 999 of its electric vehicles to California as the Vietnamese company looks for a place in the U.S. market

Brace yourself, America; VinFast is on the way. The Vietnam-based electric vehicle maker is taking the slow boat to California as it sends its first batch of 999 VF 8s, the company’s 5-seater el...

Generac Catches Another Downgrade. This Time Ford’s EV F-150 Is to Blame.

Shares of backup power provider Generac caught another downgrade. This time electric vehicles are to blame. Jefferies analyst Saree Boroditsky downgraded shares of Generac (ticker: GNRC) to Sell from ...

Lordstown Stock Rises as Endurance EV Trucks Are Cleared for Sale

Lordstown Motors hit an important milestone. Shares are rising, even though many people may not know the word used to describe that step. The Ohio-based electric truck startup announced Tuesday that i...

China EV ‘honeymoon’ is ending, Jefferies says; XPeng stock downgraded

The “honeymoon stage” for electric vehicles in China is coming to an end, analysts at Jefferies said in a note Monday, highlighting EV makers BYD Auto Co. Ltd. and Li Auto Inc. as their top picks and ...

XPeng Stock Gets Another Downgrade. It’s Becoming More Controversial Than Tesla.

Shares of pure-play electric vehicle producers can be controversial on Wall Street. High-growth car stocks can be difficult to value when the traditional auto players trade for less than seven or eigh...

Many investors are betting on an inflation peak. Here’s why a former hedge-fund manager says they’re wrong.

Investors are waking up to big trouble in big China. Stock futures and oil prices are falling after angry anti-COVID zero protests swept the country. “This is a sudden powerful new distraction for mar...

Buying a Car Now? How to Score a Deal With High Prices and Loan Rates Going Up.

Car buyers just can’t catch a break these days. Vehicle prices climbed sharply during the pandemic, and now the cost of financing a new set of wheels is going up. Even if prices ease, interest rates o...

Elon Musk Email Was Old News. He Still Likes His Advice For Managers.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk looked to have some welcome news for investors. But it was old news. All that investors can take away from a Saturday tweet is Musk doesn’t like a lot of meetings. An email from Mu...

Second-Largest U.S. Pension Buys Up Rivian, Snowflake, Airbnb, and Noble Stock

America’s second-largest public pension by assets recently increased its investments in some of the market’s more volatile stocks. The California State Teachers’ Retirement System doubled its stakes i...

Bear markets come in three stages; and we’ve only just started the second, says veteran analyst.

Stocks will start the Black Friday half-session near 10-week highs, having rebounded partly on hopes the Federal Reserve will be slowing the pace of interest rate rises as it waits to see how much pre...

The Next U.S. Energy Revolution Is Here

Until now, the U.S. clean-energy revolution has been imported. Other countries make almost all of the batteries, solar panels, and critical chemicals used in America. But the revolution is starting to...

No Break For Carvana, the ‘Amazon of Used Cars’

Concerns are mounting around Carvana, the “Amazon of used cars.”  The online car retailer was an investor darling during the pandemic. They hailed the new economy that wanted consumers to ...

Billionaire George Soros Punishes Rivian

George Soros is betting on the auto industry.  The billionaire continues to invest in this sector, which is in the process of abandoning gas cars in favor of electric cars, while public policies in Eu...

Billionaire George Soros Embraces Ford

The automobile sector is of particular interest to George Soros.  The legendary investor has invested a lot of money in this industry, which is in full transformation towards electric vehicles. Soros ...

George Soros Backs Elon Musk, Tesla

Elon Musk has spoken a lot less about Tesla  (TSLA) – Get Free Report in recent months. Very busy finalizing the acquisition of Twitter for $44 billion, and finding new sources of revenue for th...

The best-performing sector in 2022 is not finished crushing it, says Citi, offering three stocks to buy

You can count on it, says our call of the day provided by Citigroup, though they say investors can’t expect as lofty returns. “We see market rotation into energy equities as having further to run, eve...

Tesla Dangerously Loses Its Luster

In minds and numbers, Tesla remains the star of the automotive industry.  The market capitalization of Elon Musk’s group is above $532 billion at last check. Toyota  (TM) – Get Free Report...

Elon Musk’s Fortune Is Melting Away

Elon Musk has evolved in a world apart.  For more than 10 months he was the only member of the most select financial club on the planet, one that has never welcomed more than two members at the same t...

Tesla Stock Has Cost Musk $200 Billion. Here’s Who, and What, to Blame.

The drop in Tesla stock has cost investors and CEO Elon Musk a huge amount of money. As the end of the year approaches, investors—and maybe even Musk—should consider how it happened. On Monday, Tesla ...

Rout of Carvana, the ‘Amazon of Used Cars,’ Has No End

Concerns are mounting around Carvana, the “Amazon of used cars.”  The company was an investor darling during the pandemic. They hailed the new economy that wanted consumers to buy everythi...

Tesla Slumps; Chart Highlights Major Support Nearby

Down more than 50% this year, Tesla  (TSLA) – Get Free Report stock is finally succumbing to the 2022 bear market. Interestingly, though, the electric-vehicle leader’s stock is not breakin...

Markets will shift to a ‘hope’ phase next year, and investors would be wise not to miss it, says Goldman Sachs

Fresh China COVID-19 worries are threatening to nix any preholiday gains for Wall Street, with stocks struggling, oil tumbling and the dollar higher as Monday’s session gets underway. In a shortened w...

Why Are Automotive Chips Still In Short Supply?

The auto industry is still short semiconductor chips getty By now almost everyone knows that the auto industry is still short semiconductor chips, although the situation seems to be improving. While i...

How a Hot Norwegian Battery Start-Up Beat the SPAC Deep Freeze

Stocks associated with special purpose acquisition companies crashed in 2022—with an exception: Freyr Battery The shares are up some 34%, year to date, despite stumbling this past Monday after releasi...

Collapse of Carvana, the ‘Amazon of Used Cars’, Continues

The sky is not clearing up for Carvana.  On the contrary, big clouds continue to gather over the company which was one of the big winners of the covid-19 pandemic, with a massive growth.  Since announ...

A year after the Nasdaq peak, why stocks could rally from here.

This weekend a year ago the Nasdaq Composite hit a record high. And why not. The Fed Funds rate was then effectively zero, while the central bank continued to buy assets, pumping liquidity into the ma...