U.S. stock indexes closed sharply higher Friday, with the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average each snapping a five-day losing streak, after stronger-than-expected retail sales data and a mode...
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Opinion: The SPACsplosion is about to become a liquidation frenzy — and that may be for the best
As the SPAC boom was beginning to rage two years ago, this column asked why in the world any company would want to be acquired by a former chief executive best known for executing one of the worst acq...
California Truckers Struggle to Comply With New Employment Law
Trucking companies and truck owner-operators are scrambling to figure out how to operate under a new California law that toughens definitions of nonemployee drivers, upending decadeslong practices tha...
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Buys More Occidental Stock
Text size Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway purchased more Occidental Petroleum stock. AFP via Getty Images Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway disclosed the purchase of another large block of...
NIO conducts own probe into Grizzly short-seller report, retains forensic accounting firm
NIO Inc. said Monday that it has formed a committee to look into recent allegations that the China-based electric vehicle maker is using an affiliate battery maker to boost financial results. Short-se...
Will Coinbase go bankrupt? Crypto CEO says there is ‘no risk of bankruptcy’
““We have no risk of bankruptcy.”” That’s a quote from Brian Armstrong, chief executive and co-founder of cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase COIN, -10.63%. In a series of tweets on May 10, Arms...
If this stock market is shaping up like 2008, here’s where we could be headed next, says strategist
Those looking for a bit of good news to start the week may have to cast the net further out. Stocks are tilting lower as COVID-19 cases flare up in China, threatening more lockdowns. And the plate was...
iHeart, Audacy, Clear Channel Stocks Fall on Forecast of Ad Market Slowdown
Text size Stock in iHeart has lost about two-thirds of its value so far this year. Jason Kempin/Getty Images for Clear Channel The prospect of an imminent economic recession has triggered a rush to th...
GE Stock Gets a Big Cut but Investors Shrug It Off
Text size GE wind turbines. Sebastien Salom-Gomis/AFP via Getty Images The stock market is said to be forward looking. That seems to be the case headed into second-quarter-earnings season. Stocks are ...
These companies hopped on the crypto train when times were booming. Which are exposed in a downturn?
During recent cryptocurrency booms, companies have been quick to jump on the trend, whether by reorienting their entire businesses around the buzzy theme, building meaningful crypto features alongside...
The Stock Market Had a Great Week. Can the Good Times Last?
Text size *** ONE-TIME USE *** People attend the Mega Job Fair held at the FLA Live Arena on June 23, 2022 in Sunrise, Florida. The job fair had 8,000 jobs available from 100 different employers and e...
The IRS audited ex-FBI director James Comey and former deputy Andrew McCabe. What are the odds?
In recent years, the Internal Revenue Service has been processing around 150 million to over 160 million tax returns annually, doing the work with a shrinking staff and an inflation-adjusted budget th...
Want to Hide Out in Tech? Buy IBM Stock, Morgan Stanley Says.
Text size IBM stock has outperformed the broader market this year. Andreas Arnold/Bloomberg One of the best-performing tech stocks in 2022 has been IBM , as the company continues to show progress on a...
Berkshire Holds Over 18% of Occidental After Fresh Buys
Text size Berkshire CEO Warren Buffett likes Occidental and has been adding to the company’s stake since the holding was disclosed in early March. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc Berkshi...
How inflation affects 2023 tax brackets: You may get an unexpected ‘tax cut’
As you probably know, the federal income tax rate brackets, and many other federal tax parameters, are indexed for inflation using a factor based on the monthly average of changes in the chained Consu...
Tesla Stock Today: Elon Musk’s Twins, EV Charging and What Else to Know
Text size It was revealed that Tesla CEO Elon Musk had twins last year with one of his top executives. Getty Images Shares of electric vehicle maker Tesla rose 1% in premarket trading Thursday. Here’s...
This strategist warned investors not to chase momentum at the top. Now he says it’s time to be a contrarian.
Michael Darda, chief economist and market strategist at MKM Partners, was no fan of the stock market when it was registering record highs. “Blinded by liquidity and false expectations of the proverbia...
S&P 500, Nasdaq book 3rd day of gains after Fed minutes point to another big rate increase this month to tackle inflation
U.S. stocks end higher Wednesday after minutes of the Federal Reserve’s June policy meeting signaled another big interest rate-hike is likely later this month despite the risk of slowing economic grow...
A ‘who’s who of American business’ — big Wall Street names are marking the end phase of the bear market, says adviser
The good news about this bear market in stocks is that we’re more than halfway through it. The bad news is that we’re getting close to the final stage, when “everything must fall.” That’s according to...