Ari Emmanuel Dan Steinberg | Invision | AP In a surprising move, Endeavor pulled its IPO just before it was set to price, signaling a possibly softer market for other initial offerings, after a disappointing debut by Peloton Interactive earlier Thursday. The difficult market environment for such high profile IPOs was seen as a negative
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Let’s face it. Everything is about technology these days. Want to watch a movie? Turn on your smart TV, open Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX), and pick a show. Want to figure out how to make a sandwich? Take out your smartphone, open Alphabet’s (NASDAQ:GOOG, NASDAQ:GOOGL) YouTube, and watch a short instructional video. Want to listen to a song?
ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM) stock continues to decline. Despite its massive $301 billion market cap and growing dividend yield, XOM has failed to move higher since the oil price slump that began in 2014. It now trades below its level in early 2016 when oil prices bottomed. Source: Jonathan Weiss / Shutterstock.com However, XOM stock has now
Here’s a bit of sobering news for Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) bulls. Ten years ago, Exxon Mobil was a $70 stock. Today, XOM stock trades hands around $70. In other words, XOM stock hasn’t gone anywhere over the past decade. During that stretch, the S&P 500 has risen nearly 200%, Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) stock has jumped nearly
U.S. stock futures are trading higher this morning. Ahead of the bell, futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average are up 0.18%, and S&P 500 futures are higher by 0.23%. Nasdaq-100 futures have added 0.19%. Source: Shutterstock In the options pits, put volume made a comeback, rising to match call demand. Overall volume levels remained
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Randal Quarles, vice chairman of supervision at the Federal Reserve, at the NABE Economic Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., U.S. on Feb. 26, 2018. Joshua Roberts Washington, D.C. — The U.S. economy is chugging along nicely even as worries over the country’s trade policy are hurting business investment, a top Federal Reserve official said Friday.
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Wells Fargo – Wells Fargo named Bank of New York Mellon CEO Charles Scharf as CEO, effective October 21. Wells Fargo has been without a permanent CEO since Tim Sloan left the bank earlier this year. BNY Mellon named CFO Thomas Gibbons as its interim CEO.
It’s been easy to criticize Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) and its brash CEO, Elon Musk. For years, Musk has specialized in overpromising and underdelivering, hurting TSLA stock in the process. Source: Sheila Fitzgerald / Shutterstock.com He’s developed something of a habit of suggesting he doesn’t think his company will need to raise more cash, only to issue
[Editor’s note: This story was published in July 2018. It has since been updated and republished.] Utility stocks were supposed to be yesterday’s favorite investment. The theory regarding utility stocks was simple: Robust economic growth coupled with a full labor market was supposed to spark rising inflation. The Fed was supposed to fight rising inflation
Lyft (NASDAQ:LYFT) stock continues its slide. Its short-term fortunes have worsened as new laws in California will now force the company to treat drivers as employees rather than contract workers. Source: Tero Vesalainen / Shutterstock.com This bill may actually make little difference to Lyft’s future. Longer term, LYFT could still become not only profitable but
The Street woke up this morning to news that the White House is considering limiting U.S. investors’ portfolio flows into China. Though President Donald Trump has recently flirted with the idea of a trade truce, teasing Wednesday that a trade deal “could happen sooner than you think,” this kind of tension-increasing move indicates otherwise. Source:
Charles Scharf Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Three decades before Charlie Scharf was named CEO of Wells Fargo, he got his start by mailing his resume to an up-and-coming banker named Jamie Dimon. Scharf was a senior at Johns Hopkins University when Dimon hired him at Baltimore lender Commercial Credit. That move proved
The Federal Reserve has used open market operations to soothe the short-term funding market, and now its temporary fix faces a test as the third quarter ends. The Fed has used overnight and 14-day market operations to stabilize the repo market, used by financial institutions to fund themselves on a short term basis. The Fed
When you think about Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) stock, you probably consider it a relatively safe investment in an established, gigantic bank. Maybe it’s the type of stock your father and grandfather would buy and hold; after all, in 2008 the U.S. government showed its willingness to bail out big banks when they’re struggling. Source:
Editor’s note: This story was previously published in July 2019. It has since been updated and republished. Real estate stocks have become a popular income investment vehicle. Most operate as real estate investment trusts (REITs). These REITs are supposed to pay at least 90% of their income in the form of dividends. In exchange, REIT
If you follow the cannabis industry, you are probably familiar with Canopy Growth Corporation (NYSE:CGC). In August 2018, CGC was considered to be one of the pioneers and leaders of the industry. Analysts and the financial media were very bullish on its prospects. In the months leading up to Canadian legalization of cannabis in October
Stocks opened higher on the day, but took it on the chin as reports surfaced of President Trump taking action against Chinese equities. Let’s look at some of these names as part of our top stock trades. Top Stock Trades for Tomorrow #1: Alibaba It wasn’t all that long ago we were looking for a