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...
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GE stock gains after tender offer to buy up to $7 billion of debt securities
Shares of General Electric Co. GE, +0.65% rose 0.4% in morning trading Tuesday, after the industrial conglomerate announced a tender offer to buy up to $7 billion worth of outstanding debt. GE said th...
Dow Jumps 400 Points As Midterm Elections Set Stage For ‘Impressive Rally’—Here’s Why This Is Normally A Good Time For The Market
Topline Major stock indexes rose Monday as investors prove optimistic about U.S. midterm elections Tuesday that could break up Democratic control of Congress—this is why experts expect midterms to be ...
Carvana, Dealers Show Risks of Deflation. Ford, GM Investors Should Watch Out.
Text size A Carvana car-vending machine in Huntington Beach, Calif., in 2019. Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images Why buy now if prices are going to be lower tomorrow? That isn’t a question U.S. consumers h...
New stock-market lows ahead? What investors need to know as Fed signals rates will be higher for longer.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell sent a clear signal interest rates will move higher and stay there longer than previously anticipated. Investors wonder if that means new lows for the beaten-dow...
Nikola Stock Is Rising. The Company Is Making More Trucks.
Stock in the electric and hydrogen truck-technology firm Nikola is rising after the company reported better-than-expected third-quarter sales. The company is ramping up production—a good sign for any ...
‘Oh, my gosh, why am I not in the market?’ This forecaster says investors will be shocked by what’s about to happen next.
Slower, but higher rates and no pivot this side of Christmas. That was the message from Fed Chairman Jerome Powell after the central bank’s fourth-straight jumbo hike. Bruised investors continue to se...
Dow Falls 700 Points As Powell Says There’s A ‘Ways To Go’ For Rate Hikes
Topline Stocks fell Wednesday as Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell crushed short-lived optimism about monetary policy loosening any time soon. Jerome Powell said Wednesday interest rates have a w...
U.S. Treasury sweetens the pot on I-bonds by adding a fixed rate
After record-breaking sales of I-bonds in October, the U.S. Treasury is dangling another good deal in front of savers for the next six months. Starting Nov. 2, when I-bonds will be available again af...
What Fed Chair Powell can say to keep the stock-market rally going — or kill it
Whatever Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says when he steps up to the podium on Wednesday will likely have ramifications for financial markets. But what do equity investors need to hear from th...
Dow Closes Best Month In 46 Years As Investors Shake Off Fed’s Ghouls
Topline The stock market dipped Monday as investors spent Halloween spooked by the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hike plans, though major indexes closed out a banner month after suffering one of the...
Stocks Drop As Investors Haunted By Fed’s Ghouls—Though Halloween Isn’t Always A Spooky Day For Market
Topline The stock market dipped Monday as investors spent Halloween spooked by the Federal Reserve’s rate hike plans, but history says Halloween is not typically a spine-chilling day for the market. H...
Adidas Bails From Yeezy. Why That Packs a Punch.
Times are tough at Adidas The German company has too much inventory and falling China sales. It’s slashed guidance, and earnings ran about half what Wall Street expected. The stock is down by more tha...
Why China’s party congress left investors feeling gloomy
Financial-market investors were craving economic policy guidance from the China’s Communist Party Congress, but when the ruling party wrapped up its twice-a-decade political gathering on Saturday to t...
Volkswagen and Porsche’s Earnings Don’t Make a Lot of Sense. The Numbers, Explained.
Text size Investors should ask themselves why Volkswagen is worth nothing when its stake in Porsche is backed out. AFP via Getty Images European auto makers Volkswagen and Porsche both reported third ...
The Dow soars, Big Tech tumbles: What’s next for stocks as investors await Fed guidance
The past week offered a tale of two markets, with gains for the Dow Jones Industrial Average putting the blue-chip gauge on track for its best October on record while Big Tech heavyweights suffered a ...
Rising Markets Seem to See the Fed Easing. It’s Too Early for That.
What everybody knows isn’t worth knowing, according to market wisdom. The Federal Reserve will raise its key federal-funds target rate by 75 basis points this coming week, as we all know, from the cur...
‘We are facing a retirement crisis in our country,’ says head of TIAA, as ‘40% of Americans run the risk of running out of money’
“ ‘We are facing a retirement crisis in our country’” — Thasunda Brown Duckett, president and CEO of TIAA That’s CEO of TIAA Thasunda Brown Duckett, who oversees some $1.2 trillion of retirement asset...
Ford Earnings Are Coming. What To Expect.
Third-quarter results from Ford Motor are due after the close of trading Wednesday. They should tell investors something about the state of the U.S. auto industry. Wall Street is looking for third-qua...
There Is A Stock Market Santa!
Even in Bear Markets – Holiday Season is Usually Profitable So far, this year has been a “poster child” for investors who follow the stock market’s seasonal trends. The 2022 Bear Market in a Nutshell:...
Boeing’s Earnings Are Coming. This Is What to Watch.
Boeing has reported positive free cash flow in only one quarter in more than three years. Whether the company generated more than it burned through in the three months through September, and how much ...
Why investors are fleeing Chinese assets as Xi tightens grip on power
China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, secured a groundbreaking third leadership term on Sunday and introduced a new Politburo Standing Committee stacked with loyalists in a clean sweep not seen since the er...
Opinion: How Powell pivoted away from the Fed’s dovish message and tanked the markets
Fed Chair Jerome Powell is learning on the job. He didn’t repeat the mistake he made in his July press conference, when he said some things that markets interpreted as signs that the Fed was wavering ...