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Canada’s Largest Pension Sold Apple, Bought EV Stocks Tesla, NIO, Li Auto
Canada’s largest public pension seems to be more bullish about electric vehicles than iPhones. Canada Pension Plan sold 85% of its Apple stock (ticker: AAPL), and scooped up shares of Tesla (TSLA), an...
Tech Carried This Upturn, and Now It’s Taking the Market Down With It
The prospect of still-higher short- and long-term interest rates produced the worst week for the S&P 500 index in the relatively young year, a drop of 2.67%, and the third straight down week for t...
Intel Cut Its Dividend. Home Depot, McDonald’s, and Other Stocks Could Be Next.
Intel is cutting its dividend. In a treacherous environment for the economy and profits, more companies could do the same. On Wednesday, Intel (ticker: INTC) cut its dividend by 66% to an annual 50 ce...
Intel Cut Its Dividend. These Stocks Could Be Next.
Intel is cutting its dividend. In a treacherous environment for the economy and profits, more companies could do the same. On Wednesday, Intel (ticker: INTC) cut its dividend by 66% to an annual 50 ce...
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Could Get an Occidental Stock Payoff
One of Berkshire Hathaway’s best investments in the past five years was its purchase of $10 billion of Occidental Petroleum preferred stock paying an 8% dividend yield. Occidental Petroleum (ticker: O...
Black families’ net worth has grown since Covid, but wealth gap remains wide
Black families saw their wealth grow more than that of non-Black households during the pandemic, but the racial wealth gap is still vast, a new study showed. The average net worth among Black househol...
Jim Bianco warns stocks face serious competition
Traditional savings accounts are going up against stocks. And, the winner may be your neighborhood bank for the first time in years, according to Wall Street forecaster Jim Bianco. He contends rising ...
Al Gore’s Firm Sells Alibaba Stock, TSMC, and Shopify. It Bought TI.
Generation Investment Management, chaired by former Vice President Al Gore, recently made big changes in its portfolio, reshuffling its holdings in the semiconductor business as its money managers cit...
Companies Are Getting More Confident About Profits. What It Means for Stocks.
Companies are just beginning to get more confident in their profit outlooks, although the stock market has a lot to sort through before it is likely to stage any substantial rally. Still, the signs o...
As Earnings Season Ends, Stocks Get Marked Down. The Good News: It Isn’t a Recession.
With only a few big names left to report, 80% of S&P 500 companies have now delivered results, putting the index’s earnings per share on track to contract 2.2% for the fourth quarter—the first qua...
A Sideways Stock Market and the Case for Selling in March
Investors have heard the dictum “sell in May and go away.” This year they might want to consider selling in March. The May adage follows from market seasonality. Historically, investors have realized ...
Strong Economic Data Weaken the Case for Continued Stock Rally
The dash for trash has hit a speed bump. Stocks faltered again this past week as the early-year rally, led by rebounds in 2022’s speculative-grade losers, ran into resistance from higher expected inte...
The S&P 500’s Rally Is in Question. It Doesn’t Mean Stocks Will Plunge.
Investors just don’t feel confident about stocks’ rally over the past few months, but the market could still hold up well this spring. The S&P 500 has risen about 15% since early October, when it ...
Deere Earnings Are Coming. The Stock Needs a Beat.
Agricultural machinery giant Deere reports its fiscal first-quarter earnings Friday morning. Investors could really use a “beat-and-raise” quarter from the company. Deere stock (ticker: DE) outperform...
Fed is not your friend
As Wall Street gears up for key inflation data, Wells Fargo Securities’ Michael Schumacher believes one thing is clear: “The Fed is not your friend.” He warns Federal Reserve chair J...
Stock Market Has Worst Week of 2023. No News Is Bad News.
It’s the middle of February, and the stock market finally seems caught in the winter doldrums. There may be more gray days ahead. Even the most optimistic investors will admit that January’s blisterin...
Big Oil’s Big Paradox: Record Profits, Low Stock Valuations
Big Oil has never been more profitable, but it has hardly ever been a smaller part of the stock market. That’s enough to make industry executives feel unappreciated. “We’re grossly undervalued,” says ...
Money Markets Pay 4.5%. If You’re Getting Less on a Sweep Account, It’s Time for ‘Cash Sorting.’
“Schwab cash solutions fall under two categories,” says the company’s website. They sure do. Here are some questions that can help determine which is right for you: Do you like money? Do you prefer go...
Generous Bond Yields Prove There Is an Alternative to Stocks
Return with us to ancient times, when dinosaurs ruled, at least in technology terms. It was early 2007, when Blackberries were in everybody’s mitts and the first iPhone hadn’t yet gone on sale, let al...