Tesla CEO Elon Musk might regret his purchase of Twitter—or at least the way he financed it. Based on the agreement Musk signed with bankers to help fund his Twitter purchase, he would have experience...
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Tesla Drops Out of the 10 Biggest U.S. Public Companies
Tesla stock slipped Tuesday to end at a more-than two-year low, and its market value fell along with it. Concerns about demand for new Tesla vehicles looks to be the biggest reason. Tesla shares (tick...
AMC Entertainment Stock Fell Again. 2022 Has Been Rough for Meme Stocks.
AMC Entertainment Holdings stock tumbled this week after the theater chain announced plans to sell stock to a private investment firm. The move extended pain amid what has been a brutal year for meme ...
Occidental, Moderna, and 22 Other Stocks Set to Lag the Market in 2023
There are dozens of overvalued stocks that are good bets to lose big over the coming year. You may be surprised that there are any overvalued stocks left in the market at all. Hasn’t the bear market a...
Look Overseas for Stock Market Investments in 2023, Strategists Say
With the brutal returns of 2022 almost behind investors, those looking to make up lost ground might do better to look abroad next year. Some strategists see a better set-up for foreign stocks than the...
Ford Stock Falls. A $1.7 Billion Truck-Rollover Trial Is a Distraction.
Ford Motor has a legal hearing set to start Monday related to a product liability case that resulted in a $1.7 billion punitive award against the auto maker. Investors seem to be a little nervous abou...
Sell AT&T Stock After Recent Run, Says Analyst
The U.S. telecom sector has seen widely divergent performance among its primary players this year, with T-Mobile US soaring past rivals AT&T and Verizon Communications in market capitalization. Ve...
Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, and T-Mobile: A Peek at 2023 for Telecom Stock
Charter Communications sent a shudder through the world of telecommunications stocks on Tuesday evening. It held investor day that promised billions of dollars of additional network spending over the ...
Tesla Stock Fell Again. Here’s Where It Could Be Headed Next.
Tesla stock is down again, and investors once more are pointing fingers at Twitter. Fixing Twitter might not be enough to fix shares of the electric-vehicle giant, though. Technical stock market analy...
Kohl’s, Macy’s, Toll Brothers, and 6 Other Stocks That Already Price in a Recession
The stock market has begun to reflect a high probability of a recession. Strategists at UBS screened for stocks that have clearly priced in that risk—and are worth considering. A recession seems in th...
Kohl’s, PulteGroup, Macy’s and 6 Other Stocks That Already Price in a Recession
The stock market has begun to reflect a high probability of a recession. Strategists at UBS screened for stocks that have clearly priced in that risk—and are worth considering. A recession seems in th...
Lucid Offers Discounts to Sell EVs. Why That Could Signal a Bigger Problem.
Lucid Group stock has skidded 37% in the month since the electric-car maker said that its order backlog shrank in the September quarter. So investors will be laser-focused on whether Lucid’s order boo...
4 Things to Know About Textron’s Helicopter That Won $80 Billion Army Contract
Textron stock soared Tuesday after the defense company won a contract worth up to $80 billion to build a new helicopter for the Army. Word of the award came late Monday. The Army is turning to Textron...
How to Steer Clear of Holiday Financial Scams This Year
Scammers are taking advantage of the holiday hubbub to defraud consumers in increasingly sophisticated schemes. While prevalent year-round, financial scams are expected to pick up during the holiday s...
McCormick, PulteGroup, and Merck Boost Dividends
McCormick PulteGroup and Merck Merck were among the large U.S. companies that declared dividend increases this week. McCormick (ticker:MKC) will boost its quarterly disbursement to 39 cents a share fr...
ChargePoint Results Fall Short. Guidance Is Saving the Stock.
Shares of EV charging company ChargePoint have been caught in the sell off that’s hammered small-capitalization stocks that don’t produce earnings or generate free cash flow, yet. Investors hoped that...
Carvana Stock Downgraded After a 97% Drop. Why Analysts Waited.
Carvana stock is falling in Wednesday trading, following a BofA Securities downgrade. The move comes after the stock has swooned 97% so far this year, although BofA isn’t alone in riding the used-car ...
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...
Buy Taiwan Semi Stock Into a Weak Chip Market, Says J.P. Morgan
J.P. Morgan says investors should overlook any near-term softness in the chip business and buy Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company shares for the company’s robust future prospects. On Tuesday, ...
Activision Stock Falls on Report FTC Might Block Microsoft Deal
Activision Blizzard stock dropped Friday after a Politico report suggested that the Federal Trade Commission will file an antitrust lawsuit to prevent Microsoft ‘s takeover of the videogame maker. An ...
Oil Stocks Rally Despite Falling Prices. Why People Are Buying.
A unique phenomenon has been playing out in the oil market: Oil stocks have risen 5% in the past month even as the price of oil has fallen 9%. The divide could mean that oil stocks are set for a downw...
Gas Prices May Fall Further, Latest Data Show
Drivers are likely to get a gift heading into the holidays—quickly falling gasoline prices. The latest stats released on Wednesday by the Energy Information Administration show that gasoline is buildi...
Stocks Have Already Bottomed. How We Know.
The ride upward won’t be easy, but there are mounting signals that the stock market has already hit its low point. For starters, the S&P 500 is down 17% from its all-time high of 4796 hit in earl...
GM Has a New Business: Fixing Tesla EVs.
General Motors said something surprising at its investor day in New York City on Thursday. Fixing Teslas is a growing business for the 114 year-old auto maker. That’s right. GM (ticker: GM) dealers ar...
Sell Tesla Stock on ‘Any Rally to $200’
Tesla has been a remarkable stock for a really long time. Not so much in 2022. Investors could use some good news, and some could be on the way. There’s a big headwind to worry about, though. Tesla (t...
Ford Shows That Reshoring U.S. Manufacturing Is Happening
Reshoring is a term industrial investors are becoming as familiar with as outsourcing. Outsourcing manufacturing to the regions of the planet with the cheapest labor to drive lower prices for consumer...
Palantir Stock Is Sliding. One of Its Investments Just Went Bankrupt.
Palantir stock is coming under selling pressure amid concerns about the implications of a chapter 11 bankruptcy filing last week by Fast Radius a provider of cloud-based manufacturing and supply chain...
Tesla Makes Out Better Than Musk If Twitter Files Bankruptcy
What a potential Twitter bankruptcy would mean for Elon Musk isn’t easy to figure out, and it’s harder to sort out how Tesla shareholders would be affected. When running through the likely consequence...
GE Stock Is Flying. Investors Should Be Careful.
This stock market is wild, and it’s been wild for longer than just Thursday’s massive move. Cyclical stocks have been on fire in the fourth quarter. The rally in many beaten-up names, unfortunately, l...
Tesla Stock Succumbed to Elon Musk. Investors, Beware.
Tesla stock fell again Monday—and shares have dropped below a key level that suggests more downside could be ahead. Tesla stock (ticker: TSLA) is coming off a brutal Friday. The stock opened higher to...
Berkshire Sold $5 Billion of Financial Stocks, Possibly Citigroup and Bank of NY
Berkshire Hathaway likely unloaded nearly $5 billion of financial stocks from its portfolio in the third quarter, and two possible candidates for the trimmed positions are Citigroup and Bank of New Yo...
AT&T Stung Investors by Spinning Off Warner Bros. Discovery
AT&T ‘s April decision to parcel out its big interest in Warner Bros. Discovery to all shareholders, rather than giving them the option of receiving an equivalent amount of the phone company’s sto...