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Lithium Americas Soars After GM Invests $650 Million. EV War Is Escalating.
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Exxon Earnings Are Coming Tuesday. Why a Record Year May Not Be Enough.
Exxon Mobil is on track to close out its most profitable year ever, with analysts projecting that the company earned $58 billion in 2022. But when the oil giant reports fourth quarter earnings on Tues...
The U.S. Consumer Is Starting to Freak Out
Listen to article (2 minutes) The engine of the U.S. economy—consumer spending—is starting to sputter. Retail purchases have fallen in three of the past four months. Spending on services, including re...
BP Cuts Long-Term Oil and Gas Demand Outlook. It’s Good News for Renewables.
BP lowered its long-term oil and gas demand outlook as it said Russia’s war in Ukraine will accelerate the global shift toward renewable energy in a report Monday. In its 2023 energy outlook, the Brit...
China E-Commerce Giant Alibaba Falls After Reports of Move to Singapore
Stock in Alibaba the Chinese e-commerce site, fell 7% in Hong Kong trading on Monday after reports the company is moving its headquarters out of the country. Alibaba (ticker: HK:9988) to be building a...
Toyota Rethinks EV Strategy With New CEO
Jan. 29, 2023 11:33 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) Toyota’s chief executive always said he wasn’t a skeptic about electric vehicles—he was a realist. Longtime CEO Akio Toyoda called himself a spo...
The Fed’s Interest-Rate Hikes Seem to Be Working. Here’s How You Can Tell.
The Federal Reserve faces another big decision this coming week. Markets expect it to hike rates by a quarter of a percentage point, a marked slowdown as inflation cools. But another metric also sugge...
Gas Prices Are Rising. Refiner Stocks Are Riding the Wave—for Now.
Gasoline prices have risen 41 cents a gallon in the past month to an average national price of $3.51. Summer driving could be pricier than many expect, though it’s unlikely to be as bad as last year, ...
Blackstone Stock Is a Good Investment, Even in a Downbeat Economy
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Where Are Stocks, Bonds and Crypto Headed Next? Five Investors Look Into Crystal Ball
A new trading year kicked off just weeks ago. Already it bears little resemblance to the carnage of 2022. After languishing throughout last year, growth stocks have zoomed higher. Tesla Inc. and Nvidi...
2 Natural-Gas Stocks to Play the Coming Rebound
The collapse in natural-gas prices in recent months has generated a fraction of the attention of the run-up of the first half of 2022. But it could dent 2023 profits industrywide—and dampen inflation ...
Intel’s Data Warning Hits AMD and Nvidia Stock. A Chip Sector Upheaval Is Near.
Intel ‘s disappointing results and warning of a contracting data-center market knocked the stock in some of its key rivals on Friday. Intel (ticker: INTC) shares were down 10% in premarket trading af...
An Unstoppable Stock Market Is About to Meet the Immovable Fed
The stock market has acted as if the Federal Reserve doesn’t exist as it jumps out to a quick start to the year. Expect Fed Chairman Jerome Powell to remind it when the central bank hikes interest rat...
Lucid Stock Soars. Here’s What Is Happening.
Lucid stock was soaring Friday, a move that is being attributed to unconfirmed rumors that the company could be acquired. Lucid (LCID) stock started moving just after noon Friday, and had nearly doubl...
Plug Power Stock Took a Dive. Here’s What Wall Street Thinks.
Shares of hydrogen and fuel cell technology company Plug Power took a hit after the company gave a disappointing update about how 2022 finished off. But Wall Street is still bullish about 2023. Wednes...
China’s Big Comeback Is Just Getting Started. How to Play It.
Talk about a comeback. As China abandons policies that stifled economic growth for the past three years, investors have sent the country’s stocks soaring—up more than 50% since October. The rally migh...
Energy Earnings Could Drop 11%
After two years of skyrocketing growth, oil and gas earnings are now past their peak. The good thing for the stocks is that the peak was remarkably high, and the decline is likely to be very gradual. ...
Shipping Platform Freightos Goes Public in SPAC Deal
Online freight booking platform Freightos Ltd. started trading shares publicly on Thursday through a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company, just as the booming shipping demand that helped ...
The Next PCE Report Lands Today. What It Will Say About Inflation.
The Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of rising prices is set to show that inflation continues to trend downward, supporting the narrative that the central bank could soon ease up in its battle agai...
Natural Gas Prices Are Dropping. What Comes Next.
The price of natural gas fell below $3 per million British Thermal Units for the first time since May 2021 on Wednesday, and it kept dropping on Thursday. It’s a stunning decline for a commodity that ...
Boeing’s Terrible Earnings Have Left Wall Street More Bullish. Here’s Why.
Free cash flow at commercial aerospace giant Boeing has stabilized. Earnings, however, are all over the place. That isn’t bothering Wall Street, though—the stock remains attractive and target prices a...