Text size Chernetskaya/Dreamstime.com McDonald’s and A.O. Smith declared dividend increases this week in an otherwise quiet stretch on that front for large U.S. companies. McDonald’s (ticker: MCD) pla...
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Plug Power Stock Drops On Revenue Shortfall
Plug Power stock fell on Friday after the fuel-cell company said its annual revenue would be lower than expected because of supply-chain problems. Revenue for 2022 will be 5% to 10% lower than the $90...
An Alzheimer’s Drug’s Big Surprise: What It Means
Until this past week, there seemed to be no answers to the Alzheimer’s puzzle. The leading theory of the disease, that it was caused by a buildup of beta amyloid plaque in the brain, had been disprove...
Fed to put a ‘firm foot on the brake pedal’ this week
The Federal Reserve is widely expected this week to raise its benchmark interest rate by 0.75 percentage points in an effort to slow the economy as a way to cool inflation. “What the Fed was doing ear...
China’s Factories Accelerate Robotics Push as Workforce Shrinks
China installed almost as many robots in its factories last year as the rest of the world, accelerating a rush to automate and consolidate its manufacturing dominance even as its working-age populatio...
Why FedEx’s stock plunge is so bad for the whole stock market
FedEx Corp.’s profit warning has cast a pall on the broader stock market, as a record plunge in the package delivery giant’s stock has helped trigger one half of a Dow Theory “sell” signal. FedEx shar...
A further 27% drop in the S&P 500 could be coming if inflation hawks are right, Goldman Sachs team warns
Not exactly TGIF this Friday. What the sellside is slowly realizing is not just that the Fed is going to be aggressive in September after the latest shocking inflation figure, but that the central ban...
Goldman Sachs Is Preparing Layoffs. Tech Isn’t the Only Industry Cutting Jobs.
Text size Goldman Sachs is putting together a plan to lay off employees, according to reports. Jason Alden/Bloomberg Goldman Sachs is putting together a plan to lay off employees, according to media r...
Elon Musk Has a Solution for the Energy Grid. And He’s Probably Right.
Text size Tesla sells more than just cars. It sells battery storage solutions to utilities around the globe. Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images Heat, climate change, renewable power, and the grid are al...
Shopify Announces Changes in Top Leadership
Text size The company announced a 10% cut to its workforce in July. Dreamstime Shopify announced a new chief financial officer and chief operating officer on Thursday, a little less than two months af...
Shrinking the Fed’s balance sheet sheet is not likely to be a benign process, new Jackson Hole study warns
“If the past repeats, the shrinking of the central bank’s balance sheet is not likely to be an entirely benign process and will require careful monitoring of the banking sector’s on-and off-balance sh...
Deere Stock Tumbles as Earnings Miss Expectations
Text size Higher crop and food prices tend to boost demand for Deere products. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Deere reported fiscal third-quarter earnings that missed analysts’ expectations and the stoc...
Three Chinese corporate giants are leaving the New York Stock Exchange
Three state-owned Chinese corporate giants announced plans Friday to remove their shares from the New York Stock Exchange, adding to a growing financial separation between the biggest global economies...
21 dividend stocks yielding 5% or more of companies that will produce plenty of cash in 2023
When the stock market has jumped two days in a row, as it has now, it is easy to become complacent. But the Federal Reserve isn’t finished raising interest rates, and recession talk abounds. Stock inv...