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How to Make Oil Stock Volatility Work for You
Text size A Diamondback Energy oil rig in Midland, Texas. Callaghan O’Hare/Bloomberg With oil prices rising and falling dramatically, it can be hard to get a handle on oil stocks. One strategy: ...
Tesla Stock, Nvidia Were Sold by Retail Traders. Here’s What They Bought.
Text size (Photo by CHRIS DELMAS/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Retail traders were taking a cautious approach by selling stocks like Tesla and Nvidia as the markets gained for a third con...
What The Fed Lifting Interest Rates Means For The Markets
Getty Images Key Takeaways Inflation hits highest levels in 40 years The Fed lifts interest rates Markets perform well despite news of rate hikes On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve announced that it wi...
Analysts Reveal Their Top Stock Picks To Beat Stagflation And Outperform Choppy Markets
Topline Stocks have had one of their worst starts to the year in history amid the looming threat of stagflation—persistently high inflation coupled with stagnant economic growth, but analysts say it’s...
Stocks making the biggest moves midday: GameStop, Tesla and more
Shoppers wait for a GameStop store to open on at the Tysons Corner Center, in Tysons, Virginia, November 27, 2020. Hannah McKay | Reuters Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading Fri...
Nvidia Stock Needs a Catalyst. It Could Get One Next Week.
Text size After rocketing higher in 2021, Nvidia shares have been under pressure in 2022. Remus Rigo/Dreamstime.com Like much of the rest of the stock market, to say nothing of the beaten-down tech se...
Tech companies fight attrition with more equity grants as stocks drop
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Lucas Jackson | Reuters Tech companies are looking to issue new stock and cash perks as slumping share prices weigh on employees’ wallet...
Fed Governor Waller says half-point rate hikes could be needed as ‘inflation is raging’
Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller told CNBC on Friday that the central bank may need to enact one or more 50-basis-point interest rate hikes this year to tame inflation. Though he voted this...
Top Asian Film Markets Wrap Up Project Funding And Sales
The Hong Kong – Asia Film Financing Forum handed out 14 prizes to new film projects. Courtesy of HAF The Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) wrapped up its 20th edition this week, alongsid...
FedEx, GameStop, Moderna and more
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: FedEx (FDX) – FedEx earned an adjusted $4.59 per share for its latest quarter, missing estimates by 5 cents, though the delivery service’...
The Market Rose on the Fed’s Rate Hikes. What It Might Be Missing.
Text size Fed Chair Jerome Powell told reporters Wednesday the central bank had the tools to bring inflation down. Photographer: Julia Nikhinson/Bloomberg It may not rank with the “whatever it takes” ...
SEC Amendment to Securities Exchange Act Could Be a Bid to Rope in Crypto Markets
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) put forward a proposed amendment to the Securities Exchange Act. Some discussion has emerged that it could have an impact on crypto and DeFi....
St. Louis Fed’s Bullard says the central bank should raise rates above 3% this year
James Bullard David Orrell | CNBC St. Louis Fed President James Bullard said Friday he thinks the central bank should raise interest rates the equivalent of 12 times this year to convince the public i...
Global Exodus From Chinese Markets Prompts Xi to Change Tack
(Bloomberg) — It took one of the biggest stock-market routs in Chinese history, but President Xi Jinping may finally be heeding the concerns of international investors. Most Read from Bloomberg ...
The Crypto Volatility Index Aims To Become A Force In DeFi Markets In 2022
COTI’s Crypto Volatility Index project is seeking greater relevance this year, with a number of big updates set to arrive that will entice more investors to bet on the ups and downs of the crypto mark...
Mike Novogratz Expects Bitcoin to Hit $500K — Says BTC Is a Great Alternative in Economies With Poor Stewardship – Markets and Prices Bitcoin News
Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz says bitcoin is a great alternative and a lifeline to people in countries with poor stewardship of the economy. He expects the price of the cryptocurrency to hit $500...
Signet expects to keep taking market share, investing in growth, says CEO
Signet Jewelers expects to further expand its market share in the coming years, CEO Gina Drosos told CNBC on Thursday, contending the company’s successful transformation has made those ambitions...
Jim Cramer says investors should buy these 11 recently-boosted dividend stocks
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday offered investors a list of dividend stocks with yields that recently increased, that he believes buyers should add to their portfolio. Dividends are a generally &#...
Ralph Lauren is a better stock than Canada Goose
Sturm Ruger & Company Inc: “I am a hunter, but I don’t usually recommend gun stocks, just because I don’t think it’s right to. … It’s a tough call for me.”...
Keep trusting money-making companies through market turbulence
Investors need to keep their eyes on the prize by choosing companies with tangible results and tuning out the outside noise, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Thursday. “Stay out of the crosshairs of...
Stock futures fall slightly as S&P 500 tries to notch its best week since November 2020
Stock futures dipped in overnight trading Thursday after a three-day rally for the S&P 500 as the equity benchmark is poised to post its biggest weekly gain in more than a year. Futures on the Dow...
Areas Of Strength In Today’s Volatile Global Markets
So far, 2022 has not been kind to US investors. The year began with a massive spike in Covid cases domestically caused by the Omicron variant. Then, something happened that many investors thought they...
Gramercy Funds CIO on emerging markets investing amid the Russia war, including Ukrainian bonds
(Click here to subscribe to the Delivering Alpha newsletter.) Emerging markets, specifically those in Eastern Europe, have been whipsawed amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict. With sanctions in pl...
A Food Crisis Is Looming. This Fertilizer Stock Stands to Gain.
Text size The invasion of Ukraine could be one of the most disruptive events in the food and agricultural supply chain in decades. Louai Beshara/AFP via Getty Images Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, its ...
Hedge funds are doubling down on commodities bets with some notching big gains
Some pumpjacks operate while others stand idle in the Belridge oil field on November 03, 2021 near McKittrick, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images (Click here to subscribe to the Delivering Alpha ne...
Dollar General, Occidental Petroleum, Guess and more
A customer enters a Dollar General Corp. store in Colona, Illinois, U.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday tradi...