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06/07/2024

Hertz Global Holdings stock has had a tough year so far, and one analyst sees more challenges for the car rental company ahead.

Oppenheimer analyst Ian Zaffino says Hertz is continuing to deal with elevated costs while taking on more debt.

05/07/2024

Exxon Mobil stock is about even with the market this year, and its newest director just bought a large block of shares of the energy firm.

Director Maria Jelescu Dreyfus bought $2 million of shares of the energy firm within weeks of joining Exxon Mobil’s board.

05/07/2024

A year ago, public health officials were pushing New Yorkers to stay indoors after Canadian wildfires caused air pollution in the city to reach dangerous levels. Now, it's fireworks.

New York City officials said Friday morning that air quality in parts of the city was “unhealthy” due to fireworks.

05/07/2024

The semiconductor sector is having an incredible year—thank you, Nvidia—but certain software stocks are also having a moment.

05/07/2024

Salesforce stock took a hit after an earnings report, and one director picked up half a million dollars’ worth of shares of the cloud-software firm.

Director Oscar Munoz bought $500,000 of shares of the cloud software firm after a disappointing quarterly report.

05/07/2024

The Magnificent 7 names have taken on such outsize importance in the cap-weighted equity benchmark that Piper Sandler strategists on Wednesday wrote in a report that they were “Dropping Coverage of the S&P 500.”

Every decade brings new dominant champions of the stock market, usually associated with a new technology: railroads, cars, chemicals, the internet, AI In time, these giants are felled as creative destruction takes its toll.

05/07/2024

Popular meme-stock trader Roaring Kitty doesn’t even need to officially post about a stock to impact its moves—mere speculation he’s buying is enough to send shares soaring.

Koss stock has risen 253% this week and is on pace to have its best weekly performance since the week ending Jan. 29, 2021.

05/07/2024

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has been at the helm of the tech giant for three years. While the stock has risen with him as chief, the shares haven’t been immune to some rough patches.

Andy Jassy began his role as CEO of Amazon on July 5, 2021, and shares have gained 13% through Wednesday’s close, compared with a 27% increase for the S&P 500.

05/07/2024

The Silicon Valley Community Foundation has become a game-changing philanthropic organization, with donations from the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and Reed Hastings.

05/07/2024

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were diving early Friday as the market took fright at the pending refund of assets from the collapsed Mt. Gox crypto exchange.

The Bitcoin price is diving after collapsed cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox prepares to refund digital assets to its users. Ether, Solana, Cardano, and Dogecoin are also falling.

05/07/2024

June’s payroll gains may have been stronger than anticipated, but there were plenty of signals that the U.S. labor market is indeed cooling. That could push Federal Reserve officials to finally cut interest rates as early as September.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the jobs report today. The U.S. added 206,000 nonfarm jobs in June, according to the BLS. That surpassed the consensus forecast among economists surveyed by FactSet, which called for a gain of 189,500 jobs.

05/07/2024

If the stock market is a race, Ford Motor is losing. But it may be ready to start closing the gap with General Motors.

Ford plans on returning more capital to shareholders, which should help boost the stock.

04/07/2024

Chipotle stock has been falling since it went through a 50-for-1 split last Wednesday, showing cracks in its unremitting rally over the past year. High-flying valuations might have scared away some investors, but it’s too early to turn sour on the stock.

Chipotle is one of the most expensive stocks in the market today. Shares are trading at 46 times expected earnings for the next fiscal year.

04/07/2024

Ford’s hybrid and all-electric vehicle sales continue to be the standouts in 2024. Investors are warming to the stock.

Ford Motor’s hybrid and all-electric vehicle sales continue to be the standouts in 2024. Investors are warming to the stock.

04/07/2024

Amazon.com stock has been on a tear, and Jeff Bezos signaled he plans to sell more shares.

03/07/2024

One of Wall Street’s most well-known bears, Marko Kolanovic, is leaving JPMorgan Chase.

Marko Kolanovic, who has warned of a significant stock market drop, is departing after 19 years at JPMorgan Chase.

03/07/2024

Summer is a time of repose for everyone but investors. Especially this year.

If key ETFs wilt toward 20-day moving averages, traders, or the algorithms that traders babysit, might suddenly spark big wagers on a decline. Of course, good news could push benchmarks higher.

03/07/2024

Federal Reserve officials were in wait-and-see mode at their June meeting, minutes from the central bank’s last confab showed. Policymakers noted a range of plausible outcomes for the U.S. economy and inflation, with differing interest-rate implications for each.

Federal Reserve officials were in wait-and-see mode at their June meeting, minutes from the central bank’s last confab showed. Policymakers noted a wide range of plausible outcomes for the U.S. economy and inflation, with differing interest-rate implications for each.

03/07/2024

Investors have driven Nvidia higher, but they may still be under appreciating the opportunity.

Nvidia stock is up 148% this year, behind just Super Micro. Deciding when to sell could be the hardest decision in investing.

03/07/2024

Nvidia has been on top of the world in recent years, riding high on the wave of artificial intelligence. Yet in terms of profitability, it isn’t the best performer in the S&P 500.

Net income margin, which is calculated by dividing net income by revenue, shows how much money a company is making from its sales

03/07/2024

OPINION: If you think Congress is dysfunctional now, just wait. When the 119th Congress is gaveled in come January 2025, dozens of new faces will be sworn into office. In this cycle alone, 45 representatives and eight senators have announced their retirements, several of whom have already resigned before their term was up.

The institutional stalwarts are abandoning ship, Casey Burgat writes in a guest commentary.

03/07/2024

Value stocks have struggled to bear fruit for investors recently. Several factors should give them a boost in the near term.

The S&P 500 has left the Vanguard S&P 500 Value Index Fund in the dust so far this year.

03/07/2024

Tesla's delivery announcement sent the shares skyrocketing and unleashed a lot of opinions on Wall Street about the result. Investors want to know where shares will go next now that they have essentially recovered from all of their 2024 losses.

Wall Street has many opinions on Tesla’s second-quarter delivery number. Most are positive.

03/07/2024

They say that there are no guarantees in life other than death and taxes. Let us add a third: The next move by the Federal Reserve will be an interest-rate cut as opposed to a hike.

The Fed is likely to cut rates, which would benefit the stocks of dividend payers. home builders, and auto makers.

03/07/2024

Investors looking to start their Fourth of July festivities a little early this week are in luck.

The New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq Stock Market, and over-the-counter markets will be open from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday. The bond market will be open from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. All U.S. markets will be shuttered on Thursday in observance of the Fourth of July, before resuming their...

03/07/2024

AMC has been making headlines again thanks to the return of meme-stock fever, which has helped shares gain 80% since the end of April. That gain, though, doesn’t capture the precarious position the company is in.

Recent box-office successes and rising market share are reviving interest in the movie theater chain. Here’s what investors need to watch for next.

03/07/2024

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell described recent inflation readings as promising steps in the right direction, but said that policymakers need to be more sure of the sustainability of that trend before lowering interest rates.

03/07/2024

Drug stocks were falling Tuesday after President Joe Biden called on the Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk to “substantially reduce” the U.S. list prices of Wegovy and Ozempic, the company’s blockbuster obesity and Type 2 diabetes medicines, in an op-ed co-written with Sen. Bernie Sanders.

President Joe Biden called on Novo Nordisk to cut what it charges for Wegovy and Ozempic in an op-edit co-authored with Sen. Bernie Sanders.

03/07/2024

The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved Eli Lilly’s Alzheimer’s drug donanemab, which the company says slowed decline among Alzheimer’s patients by 22% compared with a placebo in a large trial.

The company says the drug slowed decline in Alzheimer’s patients by 22% compared with a placebo in a large trial.

02/07/2024

Four more years! That could be the chant at GE Aerospace after CEO Larry Culp agreed to an employment contract that can run through the end of 2028.

GE Aerospace CEO Larry Culp agreed to a contract that could keep him at the company through 2028.