A federal judge from Texas blocked President Joe Biden’s student debt relief program on Thursday. This could be good news for lenders like Navient In August, Biden announced his student loan debt plan...
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Big Pharma Stocks Are Breaking Out. Here Are Some Winners.
Big pharma stocks are trying to break out to new heights. They have reported more-than-satisfactory earnings and are expecting further progress on new pipelines of drugs. These stocks had been outpe...
Crypto and tech are the first dominoes to fall as stimulus liquidity dries up, says this money manager. Here’s what could happen next.
Read: Sequoia on its FTX investment: Some surprise to the upside, and some surprise to the downside JPMorgan is predicting a “cascade of margin calls, deleveraging and crypto company/platform failures...
Bonds Look Attractive Now. Why Warren Buffett Doesn’t Like Them.
Text size Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett. Alex Wong/Getty Images Bonds don’t excite Warren Buffett even after the sharp rise in yields this year. The Berkshire Hathaway (ticker: BRK/A, BRK/B) C...
Elon Musk Made Unusual Request in Falling Out With Top Tesla Lieutenant
Last year, Elon Musk parted ways with one of his top deputies at Tesla Inc., a French auto-industry executive named Jerome Guillen. Mr. Guillen worked at Tesla for roughly a decade, rising to oversee ...
‘Voters are looking for help’: With control of Congress too early to call, here are 3 burning tax questions
A day after midterm elections, it remains uncertain whether either party will end up with Congressional control or whether it will be a divided Congress — and that has consequences for these tax quest...
Rivian shows ‘improvement’ but Wall Street remains cautious on the stock
Wall Street cheered “signs of improvement” for Rivian Automotive Inc., but remained cautious about the stock on worries that the electric-vehicle maker still faces a steep production ramp. Rivian RIVN...
NIO shares soar in Hong Kong despite earnings miss
NIO Inc. 9866, +17.06% shares soared in Hong Kong, tracking Wall Street gains overnight as slower-than-expected U.S. inflation buoyed markets and helped investors shrug off the Chinese electric-car ma...
Berkshire Hathaway Cuts Stake in U.S. Bancorp By More Than Half
A new filing indicates that Berkshire Hathaway cut its stake in U.S. Bancorp by 56% to 52.5 million shares that are now worth $2.4 billion. In a form 13-G filing dated Thursday, Berkshire Hathaway (BR...
FTX lent over half of its customer funds to affiliated trading firm: WSJ
Embattled crypto exchange FTX, once the third-largest crypto exchange by trading volume, reportedly lent more than half of its customer funds to its affiliated trading firm Alameda Research, exposing ...
Binance CEO in internal memo: ‘I had very little knowledge of the internal state of things at FTX’
“‘It was less than 24 hours ago that SBF called me. And before that, I had very little knowledge of the internal state of things at FTX.’” — Changpeng Zhao, CEO of Binance Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao o...
Carvana’s Earnings Crash Spurs Bond Selloff
Carvana Co. ’s bonds are touching all-time lows, spotlighting investors’ concerns about the used-car seller’s long-term trajectory as it burns cash and faces rising borrowing costs. Carvana’s long-ter...
Amazon Has Lost $1 Trillion in Market Cap. Ouch.
Amazon.com has now lost more than $1 trillion in market capitalization, the most ever by a U.S. company and the first time one company has shed that much market value. It’s a painful reminder to inves...
Disney stock tumbles to worst day since 2001 after ‘massive earnings downgrade’
Walt Disney Co. has a profit problem, and that’s helped send shares of the media giant to their worst daily performance in more than two decades. Though Disney DIS, -13.16% notched record sales during...
Tesla Stock Keeps Falling as Elon Musk Sells
Elon Musk sold Tesla stock on Friday, Monday, and Tuesday. Investors were following his lead on Wednesday. Although the stock (ticker: TSLA) traded higher at points early in the day, the gains didn’t ...
Plug Power Missed Sales Estimates By a Mile. Wall Street Isn’t Worried.
Hydrogen fuel-cell technology company Plug Power reported third-quarter results that fell way short of Wall Street expectations, but analysts still believe the company’s future is very bright. Tuesday...
Lucid Stock Plunges as Reservations for Cars Drop
Electric-vehicle maker Lucid turned in respectable third-quarter earnings and stuck with its forecast for vehicle shipments this year, but the stock was dropping. Reservations were the issue. Lucid (t...
Binance Takeover of FTX Is a Huge Red Flag for Crypto
One of the most dangerous moments in any hurricane is when the eye passes. Gale winds give way to calm, tempting those hunkering down to come out and assess the damage only to find that more of the st...
Plug Power results come in below Street view following warning
Plug Power Inc. shares fluctuated between small gains and losses in the extended session Tuesday after the hydrogen- and fuel-cell systems company made good on its warning a few weeks ago and results ...
Tyson Foods CFO’s arrest is a ‘critical moment’ for corporate governance at the company
Good morning, Being new on the job as a CFO means you’re in the spotlight, and it’s time to make a good impression. But Tyson Foods Inc. CFO John R. Tyson, the son of the chairman of the company...
Here’s the trouble under the hood at Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway
It’s midterm day in America, so pack your weapon (where legally permitted), have your local election lawyer on speed dial and get out the popcorn. U-S-A, U-S-A. More on that later. The company lost $2...
Microsoft Deal, Not Earnings, Is the Focus for Activision Stock
Wall Street barely reacted to Activision Blizzard’s third-quarter results on Monday because investors are much more focused its deal to be acquired by Microsoft for $69 billion in cash. Activision Bli...
Digital Ocean Earnings Raise More Big Questions About the Cloud
DigitalOcean posted better-than-expected third quarter results, but the provider of cloud-based computing service to small- and medium-size businesses offered guidance for the fourth quarter that fell...
You need to understand the FTX debacle even if you have no investments in crypto
The sudden collapse of FTX, the world’s third-largest cryptocurrency exchange, underlines how important it is for any investor to learn about the risks they take when they park their money with a ligh...