New Buyback Tax Will Force Companies to Think Twice on How to Use Cash

In the scrap over how to fund President Joe Biden’s spending plans, the Democrats’ focus has shifted from taxing private funds to public at the last minute. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D., Ariz.) backs dropp...

Musk Thinks Tesla Can Be World’s Most Valuable. Stock Split Is Part of the Plan.

Text size Spencer Platt/Getty Images Tesla ’s 2022 annual shareholder meeting has wrapped up. Investors voted on several issues, including an item that authorizes a higher number of shares outstanding...

Tesla’s Annual Meeting Is Done. Here’s What Happened.

Tesla wants to grow production by 50% a year. It soon may need another plant or major plant expansion to do so. Mario Tama/Getty Images Text size Tesla ’s huge base of retail investors always likes to...

Tesla Has an Annual Meeting Thursday. What to Watch For.

Text size Tesla convenes its 2022 annual meeting of shareholders on August 4. Mario Tama/Getty Images Tesla ’s huge base of retail investors always like to hear from management and CEO Elon Musk. They...

Tesla Stock Falls After a Blowout July as Vote on Stock Split Looms

Text size Tesla’s shareholder meeting is on Thursday. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images Tesla stock was slipping back Tuesday amid a wider dip in stock markets as a crucial shareholder meetin...

Pelosi’s Trip to Taiwan Is a Risk to More Than Just the Chip Industry

Asian stocks worked out early there is no good outcome from Nancy Pelosi’s current tour of the region. By landing in Taiwan Tuesday or Wednesday, the speaker of the House risks Chinese military retali...

Why AI Can’t Be Fooled By Tesla’s Stock Split

Getty Images Key takeaways Shareholders will vote for the proposed 3-for-1 Tesla stock split this Thursday Tesla shares gained 32% in July, bringing the stock up 49% from May’s low If the 3-for-1 meas...

NIO, XPeng, and Li Auto Deliveries Cool Off in July. The Stocks Jump Anyway.

Text size NIO delivered more cars year over year in July. But deliveries fell from June. Odin Jaeger/Bloomberg Demand for Chinese electric vehicles cooled off in July. Falling EV sales in the world’s ...

Giant Pension Bought Apple Stock. It Sold Tesla, Microsoft and AT&T.

Text size An Apple store. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Oregon’s public pension recently made big changes in some of its biggest stock investments. The Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund bought more s...

Auto Makers Expect Car Sales to Defy Economic Gloom

Listen to article (2 minutes) Even as consumer spending cools, one place buyers continue to splurge is at the car dealership. Auto executives reporting earnings earlier this week displayed confidence ...

Tesla (TSLA) is Europe’s most-Googled stock, study finds

With the current sentiment swings in the markets, investors are looking for new opportunities to invest in, often times using the internet to perform their due diligence. Meanwhile, a UK-based financi...

Coinbase’s Troubles Are Too Much for Cathie Wood as ARK Dumps the Stock

Text size Cathie Wood’s ARK sold Coinbase stock but still owns 3.5% of the company. Marco BelloGetty Images Investors in Coinbase Global have been taken on a painfully vertical ride this year, w...

These 20 stocks still have at least 48% upside, analysts say, despite the S&P 500’s 8% gain from its lows

The S&P 500 has climbed 8% since June 16, when it closed at its lowest point this year. While the benchmark index is still down 17% this year, analysts expect it to soar 21% over the next 12 month...

Tesla Wasn’t a ‘Money Furnace’ After All

Text size Tesla’s credit metrics look better than automotive peers. They look better than many large-cap stocks too. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images It turns out that money furnaces don’t have to b...

Tesla Stock Could Hit $900 in Its Latest Surge

Text size Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s Twitter saga appears to be a concern still for investors. Mario Tama/Getty Images Tesla stock is on one of its hot streaks again. Shares are climbing Friday, putt...

Tesla’s Textbook Breakout Is a Sign of Things to Come

Tesla Inc. (TSLA) ripped higher on Thursday, gaining 9% after posting strong second-quarter results. What’s next for shares of the largest U.S.-based electric vehicle manufacturer? Tesla beat an...

Tesla Is Set for Settlement Talks Over Musk Tweets About Taking Company Private

Tesla is scheduled for court-ordered settlement talks in a shareholder lawsuit over Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk’s 2018 tweets suggesting he had funding to take the company private. In a court fi...

Weekend reads: Prepare for a big week — a crucial Federal Reserve decision, tech-company earnings and a GDP report

It was mostly a week for stocks, particularly a rebound in the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index, as companies topped expectations on second-quarter earnings.  The coming week brings a heavy dose of t...

VW Board Ousts CEO Herbert Diess After Pivot to Electric Vehicles

Key shareholders in Volkswagen joined forces with labor leaders to oust Chief Executive Officer Herbert Diess, who was in the midst of a push to turn the German auto company into a top maker of electr...

Short orders against Tesla (TSLA) reach $1 billion

Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) posted its biggest single-day gain since January in yesterday’s session on July 21, as shares ended the day up 9.78%. More specifically, Tesla posted earnings with revenue of $16....

Ford Now Has Enough Batteries to Grow EV Deliveries Faster Than Tesla—Profitably

Text size The Rouge Electric Vehicle Center Ford plant. Courtesy of Ford Batteries are a critical success factor for any auto maker looking to win electric-vehicle market share. Ford Motor sad it has ...

Ford Plans to Cut Several Thousand Salaried Jobs

Ford Motor Co. is planning to cut several thousand white-collar workers as it looks to trim costs to position the company for a long-range transition to electric vehicles, according to people familiar...

Tesla Shares Rally Despite Slowdown In Profits, Impact From China Shutdown

Topline Shares of Tesla jumped late on Wednesday after the company reported second-quarter results that beat Wall Street expectations, despite analyst concerns about production taking a hit from month...

CATL Might Bring Battery Capacity to America With Mexico Plant, Report Says.

Text size Contemporary Amperex Technology is the largest and most valuable battery maker. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg The electric-vehicle battery giant Contemporary Amperex Technology might be readying its ...

Hate Tesla? Investors Can Short the EV Maker With a New Single-Stock ETF.

Text size There is a single-stock ETF that allows anyone to short Tesla stock now. Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty Images Tesla investors have a new way to play the electric vehicle maker in the U.S.—singl...

Tesla, Ford, and GM’s Plan to Unlock EV Battery Capacity

Text size Panasonic will put up an EV battery plant in Kansas. It’s the latest of a long list of planned battery plants coming to North America. David Becker/Getty Images Lithium batteries are t...

Elon Musk: ‘Lithium Batteries Are the New Oil’

Text size Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks during the official opening of a Tesla plant in Germany. Christian Marquardt/Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk defined energy independence for an electric-vehicle w...

TSLA is losing market share despite rising demand for EVs

Demand for electric vehicles (EVs) is apparently heating up; however, not all brands are fully benefitting from the increased interest. Namely, according to data released by Motor Intelligence, Tesla ...

Tesla Is Doing to Car Makers What Apple Did to Nokia. Will History Repeat?

Text size Volkswagen’s software delays underscore why Tesla will be so hard to catch, according to one analyst. Sean Gallup/Getty Images Tesla is disrupting the car business, a little like how A...

Twitter Didn’t Seek a Sale. Now Elon Musk Doesn’t Want to Buy. Cue Strange Legal Drama.

Elon Musk’s showdown with Twitter has set the stage for what could become one of the most unusual courtroom battles in corporate-takeover history—a spurned acquisition target that never sought to be b...

Elon Musk Bails on Twitter: What It Means for the Stock

Text size Tesla CEO Elon Musk filed to end his $44 billion merger agreement with Twitter on July 8. POOL/AFP via Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s move to terminate his $44 billion deal to purchase T...