Fisker Inc. confirmed Thursday that Foxconn will build its second car, a compact EV, at a newly acquired plant in Lordstown, Ohio. The Fisker FSR, +12.55% Pear will enter production in 2024 and cost a...
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Rivian reports earnings this week with stock under more pressure than ever
Rivian Automotive Inc. is slated to report first-quarter earnings after the bell Wednesday, with the EV maker battling a steep decline of its shares and fears of continued operational snags. Rivian RI...
DraftKings Golden Nugget purchase could lead to ‘revenue uplift,’ CEO says
DraftKings DKNG, -16.43% has completed its purchase of Golden Nugget Online Gaming in the company’s latest move to boost revenue and lower costs. The acquisition was an all-stock deal worth roughly $4...
As Demand for Mental-Health Care Booms, Investors See Opportunities
Psychiatrists and psychologists once ran their own practices. Now the local therapist office could be controlled by a buyout king. Venture capitalists and private-equity firms are pouring billions of ...
Big Pharma Has Enough Cash to Buy All of Biotech. Why M&A Isn’t Happening.
Text size Late last year, Barron’s predicted a wave of deals, citing biotech companies’ cash holdings. Above, the plates used to print one-dollar bills. Alex Wong/Getty Images With biotech...
Zillow Stock Tumbles After Selling More Homes Than Expected. Here’s Why.
Text size Zillow says it has 1,300 homes left in its inventory, most of which have sold or are in agreement to be sold or disposed. Courtesy of Zillow Faster-than-expected home sales in Zillow’s iBuyi...
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Bought Up the Sliding Stock
Text size Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger. Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg Intel stock slid on the last trading day of April, after the company provided disappointing fiancial forecasts. On the first two trading ...
Opinion: AMD will finally give investors its data-center data as business soars
Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s data-center business will finally get its own spotlight. After reporting record sales Tuesday and predicting another record this quarter, AMD AMD, +6.25% Chief Financial ...
Has Dotdash Meredith Found Hidden Value In Underappreciated Brands?
Brands can be notoriously hard to value. So when brands play a major role in merger transactions, they represent something of a wildcard. On paper, the AOL/Time Warner merger looked like a canny play ...
Berkshire Hathaway May Have Sold Verizon, Bought $10 Billion of Financials
Text size Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway said it incurred $739 million of realized losses on equity sales in the first quarter. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc Berkshire Hatha...
Berkshire Hathaway May Have Sold Verizon Stock in Q1, Bought $10 Billion of Financials
Text size Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway said it incurred $739 million of realized losses on equity sales in the first quarter. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc Berkshire Hatha...
Alphabet Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat Bought Stock in Blackstone
Text size Blackstone headquarters in New York. Angus Mordant/Bloomberg Blackstone stock has slumped so far in 2022, and director Ruth Porat just bought shares of the private-equity firm on the open ma...
4 Takeaways From the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting
Text size Warren Buffett. Drew Angerer/Getty Images OMAHA, Neb.—The 2022 Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders meeting took place in person on Saturday, with tens of thousands of Warren Buffett fans ...
Buffett invests big chunk of Berkshire Hathaway’s cash
Berkshire Hathaway’s first-quarter earnings fell more than 53% on a large swing on the paper value of its investments, but Warren Buffett found ways to put some of the company’s massive cash pile to w...
Why Ethereum Mergers Love Lido
Decrypting DeFi is Decrypt’s DeFi email newsletter. (art: Grant Kempster) Ethereum core developer Tim Beiko took to Twitter on April 12 to announce that the number two crypto network had entered...
Amazon and Ford Have a Big Problem They Can’t Control
Amazon (AMZN) – Get Amazon.com, Inc. Report and Ford (F) – Get Ford Motor Company Report operate in two different sectors. The first is in online commerce, streaming, sport and, above a...
Warren Buffett Says Markets Have Become a ‘Gambling Parlor’
OMAHA, Neb.—As recently as February, Warren Buffett lamented he wasn’t finding much out there that was worth buying. That is no longer the case. After a yearslong deal drought, Mr. Buffett’s Berkshir...
Berkshire Hathaway: Live Coverage of the Annual Shareholders Meeting
OMAHA, Neb.—The Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders meeting is back in person for 2022, after a two-year pandemic hiatus moved the so-called “Woodstock for Capitalists” online. Warren Buffett addre...
‘So bad, it’s good.’ This beleaguered stock market has one big asset on its side, say strategists.
A rough month for stocks is drawing to a close, and many investors likely won’t be sad to see the back of it. And the last day of April trade is looking weak as Apple and Amazon failed to raise the ba...
Virgin Galactic Stock Is Tumbling. Here’s What’s Troubling Analysts.
Text size Truist Securities downgraded Virgin Galactic stock to Hold from Buy. Courtesy Virgin Galactic Virgin Galactic Holdings Virgin Galactic Holdings stock continues to slide on Monday after Truis...