Carvana stock rose Tuesday after the used-car retailer announced it is adopting a net-operating-loss poison pill. Net operating losses, or NOLs carryforwards, are a tax provision allowing businesses t...
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Carvana stock jumps after ‘poison pill’ adopted, exercisable if an investor acquires at least 4.9% stake
Shares of Carvana Co. CVNA, +5.48% jumped 2.4% in premarket trading Tuesday, after the online used-car retailer said it adopted a shareholder rights plan, in an effort to block investors from buying u...
What JPMorgan and Other Banking Giants Are Saying About a Possible Recession
America’s banking giants are looking into their economic crystal balls, and not all of them like what they see. JPMorgan , Bank of America , and other top U.S. banks recently offered economic outlooks...
Tesla’s Profits Are at Risk From Price Cuts. It Could Get Bad.
Tesla is cutting its prices, so Wall Street is lowering its forecasts for earnings, fearing profit margins will be decimated. That makes 2023 a scary time for investors in the electric-vehicle company...
Martin Marietta Stock Can Thrive in Both Inflation and Deflation
Despite a solid start to 2023, the stock market could still get rocky. That’s where sand and gravel supplier Martin Marietta Materials comes in. Martin Marietta (ticker: MLM) is a producer of aggregat...
MYGAs and Fixed Index Annuities Are Popular. What to Consider.
Rising rates have made annuities of all stripes more interesting investments, but two in particular are worth a hard look right now. Multi-year guaranteed annuities—MYGAs, for short—are the insurance ...
Why Utilities and Energy Are the Stock Market Sectors to Play Right Now
If 2022’s stock market could be described as brutal, 2023’s might best be described as befuddling. Thankfully, there is a portfolio for that. What’s so befuddling? It’s not just that there is uncertai...
Citigroup, Target, Lennar, and 2 More Companies Keeping Their Dividends Steady
PPL, a utility based in Allentown, Pa., said this week that it plans to raise its next quarterly dividend by 7%. It was an otherwise light stretch for such announcements among large U.S. companies. PP...
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...
Bank of America’s Subramanian says S&P 500 earnings risk a 10% drop in 2023
“ ‘We are likely to see some downward revisions [to earnings] and our forecast for profits growth for 2023 is $200 for the S&P 500. That would mean about a 10% decline in earnings peak to trough.’...
JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, Bank of America and Citi beat earnings expectations, but worries about headwinds remain
JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc. and Wells Fargo & Co. managed to beat Wall Street’s reduced expectations for their fourth-quarter profits as higher interest rates b...
Inflation Isn’t the Stock Market’s Biggest Problem Now. Deflation Is.
Generationally high inflation was the story of 2022. That’s not going to be the story of 2023. The boogeyman of disinflation—and even some deflation—is about to become the biggest risk to stocks, and ...
U.S. stocks could fall 10% as ‘pain trade’ takes hold before bouncing back later in the year
The year ahead is promising not to be an easy one for investors as a recession threat looms, but Bank of America is offering some advice on when things might get easier. The bad news is things might g...
The Stock Market Is on a Tear. Don’t Ignore the Debt Ceiling.
It’s always fun until the bill comes due—and the bill always comes due. In fact, it’s coming due right about now. On Friday, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Congress that the U.S. would hit its...
Opinion: Opinion: The debt ceiling is a farce, not a crisis
AUSTIN, Texas (Project Syndicate)—In his bid to become speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy apparently agreed to a demand, voiced by Republican Congressman Ralph Norman of Sout...
Virgin Galactic Shakes Up Management. The Stock Soars.
Space tourism startup Virgin Galactic has made changes at the top as it prepares to launch commercial space flight service later this year. The stock is taking off, but the management move probably is...
Why the stock market isn’t impressed with the first monthly decline in consumer prices in more than 2 years
Inflation data may no longer be the big catalyst for stocks that it once was. U.S. stocks bounced around to a higher close on Thursday, even though investors received some encouraging inflation news a...
Oramed’s oral insulin pill fails; stock is down 72%
Shares of Oramed Pharmaceuticals Inc. ORMP, -76.56% plunged 72% in premarket trading on Thursday, the day after the company told investors its oral insulin medication did not meet the primary or secon...
Algonquin Power to cut dividend by 40%, provides downbeat profit outlook
Shares of Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. AQN, -4.26% AQN, -4.67% turned lower to fall 2.2% in premarket trading Thursday, after the utility company said it was taking “decisive actions” to stre...
PPL plans dividend hike, to boost yield to 3.2%
PPL Corp. PPL, +2.09% said Wednesday that it plans to raised it quarterly dividend by 6.7%, to 24 cents a share. Based on Tuesday’s closing price of the electricity generation and transmission company...
Home prices to tumble over 25% from peak levels in ‘overheated’ markets, says Goldman
Credit researchers at Goldman Sachs now expect home prices in several “overheated” metro areas to fall over 25% from peak levels. Metro areas included in their forecast were San Jose, Austin, Phoenix ...
Carvana stock soars to lead NYSE gainers on heavy volume
Shares of Carvana Co. CVNA, +24.43% soared 24.7%, enough to pace the New York Stock Exchange’s gainers, even though the online used-car retailer hasn’t released any news. Trading volume swelled to 33....
Why Thursday’s U.S. CPI report might kill stock market’s hope of inflation melting away
A mild stock market rally to kick off the new year will be put to the test Thursday when investors face a highly-awaited U.S. inflation reading which could well help determine the size of the Federal ...
Mercedes and Other European Car Markers Are Aiming for Tesla
Mercedes-Benz Group more than doubled sales of battery electric vehicles this past year. That’s just a start. The company, and its European peers, want to sell a lot more. Tesla had better pay attenti...
10 simple investments that can turn your portfolio into an income dynamo
Many people are good at saving up money for retirement. They manage expenses and build up their nest eggs steadily. But when it comes time to begin drawing income from an investment portfolio, they mi...