America’s largest public pension fund by assets increased positions in some of its largest stock investments in the third quarter. California Public Employees’ Retirement System bought more shares of ...
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3Q Earnings Weren’t Bad. But 2023 Estimates Could Be Ugly.
Wall Street expected 2023 earnings forecasts to drop after third-quarter results came in. That time has come. With companies that account for some 90% of the S&P 500’s market capitalization having...
What the Stock Market and the Midterm Elections Have Common.
Investing and politics go together about as well as mango chutney and burned hair, and we prefer to focus on the stocks and leave the pontificating about the state of the nation to the Beltway pundits...
Preferred Dividends Are Part Stock, Part Bond. How They Can Provide Income.
We won’t know for a while if the recent rally in bonds has legs. Yields tumbled Thursday, pushing up prices, after a relatively tame inflation reading, as investors bet that the Federal Reserve will e...
FTX’s stunning collapse nothing like Theranos, says venture investor and crypto bull Tim Draper
Tim Draper, founder and managing partner of Draper Associates and Draper University, balked at comparing the stunning implosion of crypto trading platform FTX to the notorious biotech startup Theranos...
Stocks Rallied Dramatically. It’s Still a Bear Market
This commentary was issued recently by money managers, research firms, and market newsletter writers and has been edited by Barron’s. Bear-Market Rallies Technical Strategy BTIGNov. 11: Thursday...
‘A lot of people have compared this to Lehman. I would compare it to Enron’: Larry Summers comments on FTX bankruptcy
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers is likening the collapse of troubled cryptocurrency exchange FTX to the meltdown that engulfed Houston-based energy company Enron two decades ago. In an in...
U.S. stocks could rally another 25% now that Fed no longer has ‘back against the wall’ in inflation fight
One of Wall Street’s most implacable bulls has laid out his argument for why he thinks U.S. stocks can continue to rally into the year’s end after Thursday’s game-changing October inflation data. Tom ...
Big Pharma Stocks Are Breaking Out. Here Are Some Winners.
Big pharma stocks are trying to break out to new heights. They have reported more-than-satisfactory earnings and are expecting further progress on new pipelines of drugs. These stocks had been outpe...
Crypto and tech are the first dominoes to fall as stimulus liquidity dries up, says this money manager. Here’s what could happen next.
Read: Sequoia on its FTX investment: Some surprise to the upside, and some surprise to the downside JPMorgan is predicting a “cascade of margin calls, deleveraging and crypto company/platform failures...
Bonds Look Attractive Now. Why Warren Buffett Doesn’t Like Them.
Text size Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett. Alex Wong/Getty Images Bonds don’t excite Warren Buffett even after the sharp rise in yields this year. The Berkshire Hathaway (ticker: BRK/A, BRK/B) C...
‘We’ve seen this before,” warns BofA. Why inflation could take until 2024 to fall to 3% and weigh on stocks.
U.S. stocks roared higher Thursday after October’s consumer-price index showed inflation rising at a less aggressive annual pace than expected, spurring hopes that the Federal Reserve’s inflation flig...
ASML stock soars toward biggest gain in 20 years
The U.S.-listed shares of ASML Holding N.V. ASML, +14.57% ASML, +9.74% shot up 12.8% toward the biggest one-day gain in 20 years in midday trading Thursday, after the Netherlands-based semiconductor e...
Binance CEO in internal memo: ‘I had very little knowledge of the internal state of things at FTX’
“‘It was less than 24 hours ago that SBF called me. And before that, I had very little knowledge of the internal state of things at FTX.’” — Changpeng Zhao, CEO of Binance Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao o...
Amazon Has Lost $1 Trillion in Market Cap. Ouch.
Amazon.com has now lost more than $1 trillion in market capitalization, the most ever by a U.S. company and the first time one company has shed that much market value. It’s a painful reminder to inves...
Tesla Stock Keeps Falling as Elon Musk Sells
Elon Musk sold Tesla stock on Friday, Monday, and Tuesday. Investors were following his lead on Wednesday. Although the stock (ticker: TSLA) traded higher at points early in the day, the gains didn’t ...
Telos stock plunges 69% as soft revenue guidance prompts downgrade from D.A. Davidson
Shares of cybersecurity company Telos Corp. TLS, -68.84% plummeted 69% Wednesday, after the Ashburn, Va.-based company beat third-quarter earnings estimates but cut revenue guidance for the year as it...
Plug Power Missed Sales Estimates By a Mile. Wall Street Isn’t Worried.
Hydrogen fuel-cell technology company Plug Power reported third-quarter results that fell way short of Wall Street expectations, but analysts still believe the company’s future is very bright. Tuesday...
Lucid Stock Plunges as Reservations for Cars Drop
Electric-vehicle maker Lucid turned in respectable third-quarter earnings and stuck with its forecast for vehicle shipments this year, but the stock was dropping. Reservations were the issue. Lucid (t...
R1 RCM stock suffers record selloff of more than 51% after rare profit miss, physician customer missed payment
Shares of R1 RCM Inc. RCM, -49.76% plummeted a record 51.7% toward a 4 1/2-year low in afternoon trading Tuesday, after provider of revenue cycle management services to health care providers missed qu...
Norwegian Cruise stock jumps toward 6-month high after results beat expectation, key earnings metric turns positive
Shares of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. NCLH, +3.18% jumped 2.4% toward a six-month high in premarket trading Tuesday, after the cruise operator reported a narrower-than-expected third-quarter l...
Sell Intel Stock, Analyst Says. Market Share Losses Are the Concern.
An analyst at J.P. Morgan says sell Intel stock, citing concerns about the company’s loss of market share amid ongoing competition and softening PC demand. Following a period of restriction, J.P Morga...