Shares of Tesla Inc. TSLA, -5.01% dropped 3.8% in afternoon trading, adding to the 3.6% drop in the previous session, and to put them in danger of the first sub-$200 close in 17 months. Investors in t...
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Carvana, Dealers Show Risks of Deflation. Ford, GM Investors Should Watch Out.
Text size A Carvana car-vending machine in Huntington Beach, Calif., in 2019. Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images Why buy now if prices are going to be lower tomorrow? That isn’t a question U.S. consumers h...
Fed warns of ‘low’ market liquidity in $24 trillion Treasury market, in latest financial stability report
The Federal Reserve on Friday confirmed what many investors were saying for some time: the $24 trillion Treasury market has been experiencing low levels of market liquidity in recent months. The centr...
Oil Companies Lift Their Dividends as Cash Rolls In
It was a busy week for dividend increases at energy companies, a bonus for investors who have scored as the stocks have taken off this year. The sector is prospering as Russia’s war against Ukraine ha...
New stock-market lows ahead? What investors need to know as Fed signals rates will be higher for longer.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell sent a clear signal interest rates will move higher and stay there longer than previously anticipated. Investors wonder if that means new lows for the beaten-dow...
Traders are loading up on bets against the stock market — and this time, it’s not a contrarian signal, says Citi
Markets continue to absorb the reverberations from this week’s Federal Reserve policy decision. The S&P 500 SPX has given up a chunk of its latest rally after Chair Jerome Powell suggested it was ...
For Indie Comics, The Return Of Small Press Shows Is A Big Deal
Short Run Festival, an independent small press comic show held in Seattle, WA. Short Run The big entertainment-oriented pop culture conventions may be the most visible manifestation of comics fandom, ...
Nikola Stock Is Rising. The Company Is Making More Trucks.
Stock in the electric and hydrogen truck-technology firm Nikola is rising after the company reported better-than-expected third-quarter sales. The company is ramping up production—a good sign for any ...
‘Oh, my gosh, why am I not in the market?’ This forecaster says investors will be shocked by what’s about to happen next.
Slower, but higher rates and no pivot this side of Christmas. That was the message from Fed Chairman Jerome Powell after the central bank’s fourth-straight jumbo hike. Bruised investors continue to se...
Self-Driving Technology Provider Luminar Just Hit a Big Milestone
After 10-plus years of moonshot R&D, Luminar Technologies has made it into automotive production with its radarlike systems. Wednesday evening, lidar maker Luminar (ticker: LAZR) reported third-qu...
ConocoPhillips stock rallies toward a record after profit beat, raised dividend and $20 billion boost to repurchase program
Shares of ConocoPhillips COP, +7.09% ran up 1.8% into record territory in premarket trading Thursday, after the oil producer reported third-quarter profit and production that beat expectations, booste...
Hedge fund giant Elliott warns looming hyperinflation could lead to ‘global societal collapse’
“Investors should not assume they have ‘seen everything’” That was from executives at leading hedge fund Elliott Management, who warned that the world is heading towards the worst financial crisis sin...
Tupperware stock craters after company warns its debt burden may force it out of business
Tupperware Brands Corp. stock tumbled 41% Wednesday, after the maker of food storage products missed third-quarter earnings expectations, warned it may go out of business, and conceded that some of it...
Estee Lauder stock tumbles more than 11% after profit beat expectations, but outlook was well below
Shares of Estee Lauder Cos. EL, +3.13% tumbled 11.1% toward a 2 1/2-year low, after the beauty products company fiscal first-quarter profit that topped expectations while sales matched, but provided a...
DuPont Ends Rogers Acquisition. Blame China Regulators.
After a wild series of events, stock in materials giant DuPont rose while shares of DuPont’s almost-merger partner Rogers Corp. plummeted. Here’s what happened: DuPont (ticker: DD) on Tuesday complete...
The Fed Makes Its Decision Wednesday. Expect a Big Move in Stocks.
The Federal Reserve’s big announcement on interest rates is Wednesday. The stock market will likely make a large move—in one direction or the other. The Fed is widely expected to lift its target for t...
Amazon’s stock reverses lower toward a 5th-straight drop, toward a 2 1/2-year low
Shares of Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, -5.52% sank 5.2% in midday trading, reversing an earlier intraday gain of as much as 2.1%, to put them in danger of a fifth-straight loss. The stock has tumbled 19.44% ...
What Fed Chair Powell can say to keep the stock-market rally going — or kill it
Whatever Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says when he steps up to the podium on Wednesday will likely have ramifications for financial markets. But what do equity investors need to hear from th...
Actinium’s stock jumps 22% on new data for its acute myeloid leukemia therapy
Shares of Actinium Pharmaceuticals Inc. ATNM, +39.16% were up 22.8% in trading on Monday after the company met the primary endpoint in a Phase 3 clinical trial for its investigational treatment for re...
Cash key for Chevron and Exxon Mobil as Truist raises stock price targets
Chevron Corp. and Exxon Mobil Corp.’s strong cash positions have prompted Truist Securities to raise its price targets for the oil and gas giants, as the stocks of both companies rallied toward fresh ...
Opinion: How Powell pivoted away from the Fed’s dovish message and tanked the markets
Fed Chair Jerome Powell is learning on the job. He didn’t repeat the mistake he made in his July press conference, when he said some things that markets interpreted as signs that the Fed was wavering ...