Berkshire Hathaway Stock Sets a Record. Buffett Can Thank Occidental, Not Apple.

Text size Shares of Berkshire Hathaway, led by Warren Buffett, hit an all-time high. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc The Sage of Omaha just can’t keep his hands off Occidental Petroleum ...

Bank of America stock price forecast: Mike Mayo sees a 56% upside

Bank of America Corp (NYSE: BAC) is the best positioned to benefit from the rising rate environment, says Wells Fargo’s Mike Mayo. The U.S. Fed is expected to lift interest rate in each of its r...

A Food Crisis Is Looming. This Fertilizer Stock Stands to Gain.

Text size The invasion of Ukraine could be one of the most disruptive events in the food and agricultural supply chain in decades. Louai Beshara/AFP via Getty Images Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, its ...

The Fed, stock exchanges and interest rates

As the Fed prepared to announce a 0.25% interest rate hike to compensate for inflation, the stock markets were giving very good signals.  Fed Day and the stock market On Tuesday, as well as yesterday,...

ASIC Mining Rig Manufacturer Canaan Reveals $100 Million Stock Buyback Program – Mining Bitcoin News

The application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) manufacturer Canaan has revealed the firm is offering a stock buyback for up to $100 million. Canaan’s chairman and CEO Nangeng Zhang highlighted in ...

ACN Stock Rises As Earnings Top Estimates, Outlook Raised

Accenture (ACN) on Thursday reported fiscal second-quarter earnings and revenue that topped estimates. Company guidance for the current quarter came in above expectations amid its acquisition spree, s...

Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel has sold more than $400 million of company stock during the pandemic

Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel Steven Ferdman | Getty Images Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel has sold $408 million in company stock since the beginning of the pandemic — averaging roughly $3.6 million a week...

Stock markets are supposed to drop when the Fed hikes interest rates. So why are they rallying now?

Stock markets aren’t behaving the way they’re supposed to. U.S. markets surged after the U.S. Federal Reserve announced its long-awaited interest rate hike on Wednesday, increasing interes...

ZIM stock has doubled its value between mid-October 2021 and now: here’s where to buy it

The price of ZIM stock has consistently risen since it was listed in January 2021. Its value has increased by 635.44% since January 2021. Interestingly, the price of ZIM stock kept rising even amid th...

China Vows Support And Gives Markets Reasons To Rejoice – For Now

Liu He, China’s vice premier. (Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg) © 2019 Bloomberg Finance LP Chinese regulators are expected to incrementally ease their crackdown on sectors ranging from te...

Samsung to Use Metaverse to Solve Its Recent Issues with Apps and Stock Price Plunge: Report

Yuri Molchan South Korean electronics behemoth plans to enter Metaverse, AI and robots to help it grow business Contents Active fostering of robots and Metaverse business Samsung to release a Metavers...

Stock market news live updates: March 17, 2022

U.S. stock futures opened slightly higher in extended trading Wednesday following a pivotal session on Wall Street marked by the Federal Reserve’s long-anticipated move to hike short-term interest rat...

Tesla, EV Stock Valuations Make No Sense. Time to Recalibrate.

Text size A man plugs in his electric vehicle for charging Jacques Demarthon/AFP via Getty Images Wild trading, due to a plethora of issues, has made it nearly impossible to track valuation of electri...

Nvidia Stock Shows Leadership With RS Rating Bump

On Wednesday, Nvidia (NVDA) earned a positive adjustment to its Relative Strength (RS) Rating, from 86 to 91. Nvidia stock also made moves gaining 5.4% in trading just before noon ET. X When you’...

Remember the stock market before the war in Ukraine? JP Morgan says negativity is overblown, offers 4 hedges

“Markets appear to have been trafficking in an odd mix of hope, fear and uncertainty.” That was Mizuho Bank, summing up the state of play for markets since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine nearly three we...

Affirm ‘in control’ despite stock price plunge: Affirm CFO

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) company Affirm (AFRM) has seen its share price plunge around 80% from a pandemic high of nearly $170 over the past several months amid “cyclical risks” and the broader stock ...

Marvell Technology Is Struggling to Bottom on the Charts

For his final “Executive Decision” segment of Monday’s Mad Money program, Jim Cramer checked in with Matt Murphy, CEO of chipmaker Marvell Technology (MRVL) . Murphy said Marvell is ...

EBay Stock Has a New Bull Who Sees a Strong Second Half

eBay’s German headquarters Sean Gallup/Getty Images Text size The market seems to be underestimating e-commerce giant eBay , according to one analyst. Deutsche Bank analyst Lee Horowitz initiate...

American Airlines stock surges toward biggest gain in more than a year after carrier raises revenue outlook

Shares of airline operators enjoyed a broad rally Tuesday, after a number of major carriers raised their revenue guidance, and as a further pullback in crude oil prices helped soothe concerns over ris...

Drone Maker’s Stock Jumps On U.S. Assistance to Ukraine

Text size An AeroVironment drone. Most of the company’s business is in defense. Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg Stock in the defense supplier AeroVironment is jumping Wednesday as President Joe Bide...

BAT is a great stock to hold in economic downturns. Here is why

British American Tobacco Industries PLC (LON:BATS) is a consumer defensive stock fit for investment during the declining phase of the economic cycle. Being a consumer defensive stock means that the pr...

NFTs are coming to Instagram: ‘the stock is very attractive’

Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: FB) shares are up roughly 5.0% on Wednesday after CEO Mark Zuckerberg said NFTs (non-fungible tokens) were set to debut on Instagram. Instagram to launch NFTs in the near t...

Amazon Stock Looks Primed for Takeoff

Shares of e-commerce and cloud-computing behemoth Amazon (AMZN) have been volatile as of late, following news that the stock is getting a 20-for-1 split. That’s a huge deal that will open the do...

Retail Investors Are Dropping Out of the Stock Market

Text size Robinhood’s app is a popular tool for retail traders. Dreamstime There was a time—during the pandemic era—when retail investors were participating in the stock market, even driving its...

Which Stock Has the Best Competitive Prospects?

Intel (INTC) used to be the dominant CPU force by a long distance but that is no longer the case. Under Lisa Su’s astute leadership, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has made huge strides over the past se...

Starbucks getting rid of disposable cups is not why this analyst upgraded the stock

Starbucks (SBUX) may save a few bucks over time amid its decision to phase out the majority of its disposable cups by 2025, but that’s not why one top Wall Street analyst thinks the stock is now...

Bitcoin mining hardware maker Canaan announces up to $100 million in new stock buybacks

advertisement Canaan, one of the largest bitcoin mining hardware makers, announced a stock buyback program of up to $100 million. The company said in a statement that stock performance had been impact...

Xi Spurs Frantic Stock Buying With Lifeline for China Market

(Bloomberg) — After a brutal 12 months for Chinese equities, Wednesday’s session was looking like a tepid bounce off multi-year lows until the headlines started rolling from Beijing. Then greed ...

French Stock Market Added 150K Retail Traders in Early Pandemic Months

The French financial market supervisor, locally known as Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), revealed that retail investors traded more than €67 billion in French equities between December 2019 and...

Invest in AbbVie? I’ve Made My Decision

Kind of like that bunny that keeps on going… pharmaceutical firm AbbVie (ABBV) , long a Sarge fave, and now one of the oldest continuous long positions on my book, keeps on going… higher. ...

Lockheed Martin Stock Dips After Report U.S. Is Buying Fewer F-35s Jets

Text size The U.S. military has ordered some 2,400 F-35 jets. Above, F-35C Lightning II planes based in California fly in formation. Shannon E. Renfroe/ Navy Public Affairs Support Element West / Lock...

Tesla Plant Halted by Covid. The Stock Rises Because There Also Is Good News.

Text size An aerial view of Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory. Xiaolu Chu/Getty Images Tesla is halting production at its Shanghai plant for a couple of days. It isn’t because of parts shortages. Tes...