No Bailout for SVB. Here’s What to Expect.

The sudden collapse of Silicon Valley Bank last week segued into an anxious weekend for depositors, as start-ups and Wall Street fretted about the regulatory response to the largest bank failure since...

SVB Financial CEO Greg Becker Sold $3.6 Million in Stock Nearly Two Weeks Ago

Roughly two weeks before SVB Financial Group stock collapsed and its Silicon Valley Bank unit was closed by regulators, its top executive sold millions of dollars of shares. SVB (ticker: SVB) Presiden...

Banking Selloff Goes Global After SVB Trouble. HSBC, BNP Paribas, UBS Tumble.

The selloff in the banking sector spread across the globe on Friday after SVB Financial Group said it was forced to unload assets at a loss following a decline in deposits. HSBC (ticker: HSBA.UK), Eur...

SVB Financial Realigns Portfolio—and Blows Up the Banking Sector

SVB Financial Group stock plummeted Thursday after it sold assets for a loss following a decline in deposits. The impact rippled through the banking sector, which many investors had assumed was largel...

Altria May Sell Anheuser-Busch Stake After Juul Deal

A recent deal by Altria Group involving its stake in Juul Labs could pave the way for the sale of the cigarette maker’s $11 billion interest in Anheuser-Busch Inbev Altria (ticker: MO) last week swapp...

AMC Stock Falls After CEO Warns Company Could Be Forced to Sell More ‘APEs’

AMC Entertainment stock closed down sharply Wednesday in the wake of comments from the CEO that the firm may be forced to sell more stock for less money if shareholders don’t approve measures that all...

FIS walks back Worldpay merger, will spin off its merchant business

Financial-technology company Fidelity National Information Services Inc. plans to spin off its merchant business, the company announced Monday. FIS FIS, -15.21%, which announced a “comprehensive asses...

Largest U.S. Pension Buys Up Apple, Tesla, and Disney Stock. It Sold Walmart.

The largest public pension in the U.S. by assets just made major changes in its investment portfolio. The California Public Employees’ Retirement System bought more Apple (ticker: AAPL), Tesla (TSLA),...

Everything GE CEO Larry Culp Had for Investors in the Annual Report

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Robinhood accidentally sold short on a meme stock and lost $57 million

Robinhood Markets Inc. accidentally sold short on a small stock as it went on a meme-like ride in December, costing the trading app more than the stock’s current market capitalization, executives disc...

Bear market unlike anything I’ve seen since starting on the Street in 1980, says short selling legend Jim Chanos

“I’ve been on the Street [since] 1980 [and] not one bear market has ever traded above nine times to 14 times the previous peak earnings.” That was short selling giant Jim Chanos, founder of Kynikos As...

Giant Fund Buys Up Tesla and Plug Power Stock, Sells GM

A large European asset manager recently made adjustments in its U.S.-traded stock investments that seem to favor electric vehicles over traditional car makers. DNB Asset Management materially increase...

Why Pfizer Is Pulling Back on Research Into Rare Disease, Gene Therapy

Pfizer is planning to pull back on early-stage research into treatments for rare diseases, including the development of new viral-based gene therapies, the company told employees on Thursday afternoon...

GE Healthcare will join S&P 500 as soon as it begins trading

GE Healthcare Technologies Inc. will be an S&P 500 stock as soon as it officially exists. General Electric Co. GE, -1.05% expects to spin off its healthcare arm into a separately traded company on...

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...

Tesla stock suffers worst week since 2020 as Elon Musk sells, large shareholder asks for new CEO

Tesla Inc. shares Friday wrapped up their worst week since 2020, as Chief Executive Elon Musk sold billions in stock and faced a call from a prominent investor to step down from the helm of the electr...

Elon Musk just sold $3.6 billion more in Tesla stock as Twitter turmoil continues

Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk just sold nearly $3.6 billion more of the company’s stock, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission released late Wednesday. Musk sold jus...

Canada’s Largest Pension Sells Apple, Tesla, NIO, XPeng, Li Auto Stock

Canada’s largest pension fund by assets under management recently made striking changes in its investments in Apple and four prominent electric-vehicle makers. Canada Pension Plan cut its stake in App...

Why is portfolio balancing important? Because it’s not different this time.

Asset allocation is about dividing your portfolio among various investment asset classes like stocks, bonds and cash, and sub-asset classes like small, large and midcap stocks. Bonds and international...

Why China’s COVID policies are rattling investors again

Investors in China-related assets who had expected a significant easing of COVID curbs were left disappointed this week as the country battles the worst wave of cases since Shanghai’s outbreak earlier...

Lumen stock falls after dividend is eliminated, but is there a silver lining?

Lumen Technologies Inc. shares were falling sharply in Thursday trading after the telecommunications company announced it was eliminating its dividend and selling another business, moves that have pro...

Medtronic Is Doing a Spinoff. What It Means for Our Stock Pick.

Medical device maker Medtronic is spinning off two business units to try to drive higher growth. The market isn’t impressed.  In theory, it should be. Spinoffs are supposed to streamline operations of...

Mullen Automotive Stock Climbs After Electric Last Mile Bankruptcy Deal

Electric-vehicle startup Mullen Automotive Inc. shares climbed after the company said it gained court approval to buy an Indiana manufacturing plant and other assets from now-defunct Electric Last Mil...

Poshmark to Sell Itself for Less Than Half Its IPO Price to Korea’s Naver

Listen to article (2 minutes) Poshmark has agreed to sell itself in a deal that values the social shopping marketplace at less than half the price where it went public in early 2021. South Korean inte...

Tellurian Stock Sinks on Withdrawal of Bond Sale for LNG Project

Text size Tellurian said it withdrew the bond deal “due to uncertain conditions in the high-yield market.” Spencer Platt/Getty Images Tellurian shares were tumbling Tuesday after the natur...

MicroStrategy Plans to Sell Shares to Buy More Bitcoin. The Stock Is Falling.

Text size MicroStrategy stock is sensitive to swings in the price of Bitcoin. Dreamstime MicroStrategy stock has surged in recent days amid a rally in cryptocurrency prices—but the shares have turned ...

AT&T’s Dividend-Loving Investors Are Dialing the Wrong Number

AT&T income-hungry shareholders should have seen it coming. In April last year, a month before announcing the spinoff of its media division to shareholders in the form of shares of a 71% stake in ...

Ernst & Young Leaders Expected to Approve Plan to Split Accounting Company

Ernst & Young’s leaders are expected this week to give the green light to splitting its auditing and consulting businesses, paving the way for the biggest shake-up in the accounting profession in ...

Bitcoin Prices Are Falling. Why Analysts Say a ‘Massive Capitulation’ Is Coming.

Text size Bitcoin continues to trade at less than one-third its all-time high from November 2021. Ozan Kose/AFP via Getty Images Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were under pressure on Monday. While...

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway sells off more BYD Co. stock

Warren Buffett’s investment company Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has further pared its ownership in Chinese auto maker BYD Co. after recently disclosing that it had started selling some shares. Berkshire H...

Cathie Wood Sells Tesla Stock, Buys Nvidia After Chip Maker’s Tough Day

Text size Cathie Wood’s ARK sold Tesla and bought Nvidia shares in three of its exchange-traded funds on Thursday. Getty Images Cathie Wood seems to have used Nvidia ’s tough day to buy more sto...

Cathie Wood Trades Tesla Stock for Nvidia After the Chip Maker’s Tough Day

Text size Cathie Wood’s ARK sold Tesla and bought Nvidia shares in three of its exchange-traded funds on Thursday. Getty Images Cathie Wood seems to have used Nvidia ’s tough day to buy more sto...