Meta Platforms Inc. shares soared in after-hours trading Wednesday despite an earnings miss, as the Facebook parent company guided for potentially more revenue than Wall Street expected in the new yea...
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SoFi’s banking moves are proving a ‘unique advantage,’ analyst says
SoFi Technologies Inc. continues to win praise for its banking efforts after the digital financial-services company gave an upbeat earnings forecast and touted the benefits of its banking charter for ...
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...
Exxon Earnings Are Coming Tuesday. Why a Record Year May Not Be Enough.
Exxon Mobil is on track to close out its most profitable year ever, with analysts projecting that the company earned $58 billion in 2022. But when the oil giant reports fourth quarter earnings on Tues...
Lucid Stock Soars. Here’s What Is Happening.
Lucid stock was soaring Friday, a move that is being attributed to unconfirmed rumors that the company could be acquired. Lucid (LCID) stock started moving just after noon Friday, and had nearly doubl...
Shipping Platform Freightos Goes Public in SPAC Deal
Online freight booking platform Freightos Ltd. started trading shares publicly on Thursday through a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company, just as the booming shipping demand that helped ...
Why naked short selling has suddenly become a hot topic
Short selling can be controversial, especially among management teams of companies whose stocks traders are betting that their prices will fall. And a new spike in alleged “naked short selling” among ...
Small-cap companies are going after naked short sellers in growing numbers: ‘It’s the biggest risk to the health of today’s public markets’
A growing number of small-cap companies are announcing plans to go after naked short sellers, claiming their stocks are being artificially depressed by illegal trading activity. Verb Technology Co. In...
EOG Resources Director Mike Kerr Buys Up Stock
Energy exploration and production company EOG Resources had a boffo 2022, and one of its directors made his second purchase of shares in three months. EOG stock (ticker: EOG) surged 46% last year, lif...
Genius Group CEO on why his company is fighting back against naked short sellers — and it’s not alone
“It’s like being robbed in a library, but you can’t shout ‘Thief!’ because there are ‘Silence, please’ signs everywhere.” That’s how Roger Hamilton, chief executive of Genius Group Ltd. GNS, +55.02%, ...
CureVac Stock Just Got Upgraded. It’s Now a Competitor in mRNA Vaccines.
CureVac is ready to compete in the big leagues with its vaccines, according to a UBS analyst who says the soaring stock has more room to rise. UBS analyst Eliana Merle upgraded the shares (ticker: CVA...
Coinbase Stock Is Soaring. It Might Be a Haven in a Wild Crypto Market.
Coinbase Global stock continued its winning streak on Tuesday, rising alongside the price of Bitcoin and on the back of a strong analyst endorsement. Coinbase (ticker: COIN) has already had a busy sta...
For All His Criticisms of Disney, Peltz and Iger Probably Agree: Streaming Has to Be Fixed
“Great news: Nelson Peltz made a slide deck about me,” said no CEO ever. But maybe Walt Disney Bob Iger had mixed feelings about the 35-pager that dropped this past week. One one hand, it says that he...
Bed Bath & Beyond Ponders Bankruptcy, Exciting the Meme Crowd
What were shareholders thinking? Shares of retailer Bed Bath & Beyond zoomed 179%, to $3.49 this past week, despite the retailer warning of a possible bankruptcy. One explanation: Meme stock mania...
Opinion: Zuckerberg and Intel are shipping the proceeds from their layoffs straight to Wall Street
For years, Wall Street groused about Silicon Valley’s refusal to pay dividends and buy back stock as tech companies grew into cash-generating machines. That is no longer a problem, even though those t...