Robotics arms install the front seats to the Tesla Model 3 at the Tesla factory in Fremont, California, on Thursday, July 26, 2018. Mason Trinca | The Washington Post | Getty Images Tesla’s winning streak is unlikely to last much longer, Bernstein analysts found after looking through historical data for what happens after large stocks
Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM on Mad Money to discuss IBM’s acquisition of Redhat. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Check out the companies making headlines after hours on Tuesday IBM — The technology company’s stock rose over 3% in extended trading on Tuesday after it reported fourth-quarter results that topped analysts’ estimates. IBM also gave guidance
The retail sector has long been a volatile one as fickle consumers and a quickly evolving landscape keep the industry on its toes. With the market at all-time highs, it’s difficult to find bargains anywhere. But, retail stocks include a few winners that look likely to deliver in the year ahead. The holiday season is
I’m a car guy, so I know firsthand how much goes into buying one. And let me tell you, it is a much more exhausting process than say, picking a snack from a vending machine. Well, technically nowadays you can get a car from a vending machine, too, but a lot of homework goes into it before
In some ways, my predictions about Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) in 2019 were tremendously off the mark. After all, I wrote in May that the shares could tumble below $100 by the end of the year. Instead, they ended the year near $300 and have since rallied close to $320. But my warnings about Apple stock having
Oil drops as the US-Iran hostilities de-escalate The Brent premium rises while the price falls A location, quality, and political risk spread Volatility in the crude oil futures arena increased significantly over the first days of 2020. The attack that killed the leader of Iran’s revolutionary guard increased the political temperature in the Middle East.
News that a new respiratory virus has killed six and injured nearly 300 more in China weighed on global stocks, providing an adequate reason for some traders to take profits. This inevitably sent all three major U.S. indexes off their recent record highs and into the red on the first trading day of the week.
Global index and fund provider MSCI said Tuesday that investors need to more readily integrate ESG metrics, or a company’s environmental, social and governance factors, into investing philosophies. “We are sounding the alarm bells that if you are an investment institution and you’re not embracing this and taking it into account, it’s going to be
Kazakh sanitary-epidemiological service worker uses a thermal scanner to detect travellers from China who may have symptoms possibly connected with the previously unknown coronavirus, at Almaty International Airport, Kazakhstan January 21, 2020. Pavel Mikheyev | Reuters Fears that China’s latest coronavirus could disrupt travel and commerce, and slow economic growth sent a chill through global
In 2019 I pounded on the table time and time again that shares of Chinese internet giant Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) would soar above $200. In late 2019, Alibaba stock did just that. And as soon as it did, I told investors that the rally wasn’t over, and that $250 was the next stop. Source: Nopparat Khokthong
There’s a very exciting phenomenon going on right now — and no, I’m not talking about all the “UFO” sightings in California, Florida and Washington state. I’m talking about a new record that directly benefits investors in dividend-paying stocks. According to the S&P Dow Jones Indices, quarterly dividend payments increased substantially in the fourth quarter
In late 2019, shares of premium fast casual restaurant chain Shake Shack (NYSE:SHAK) plummeted on the heels of a disappointing third-quarter earnings report that included the company’s slowest comparable sales growth rate in a year, significant margin compression and a reduced full-year comparable sales and margin guide. SHAK stock, which was flying high around $105
It’s been an uneventful start to the year for silver (SLV), under-performing the majority of asset classes, despite Middle East tensions that many thought might ignite a fire under the metal. While gold (GLD) has already broken out of its multi-year base, silver continues to build out its base but will need to tack on
Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of JP Morgan Chase. Adam Jeffery | CNBC J.P. Morgan Chase announced the creation of a new business called the Development Finance Institution to boost private investment in emerging-market development projects. The lender said it can finance more than $100 billion annually from its investment bank and created a formal
With shares just below their 52-week high, is now the time to buy Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) stock? There are risks buying at the top. But even in a runaway bull market, Qualcomm stock could go higher in 2020. Source: Akshdeep Kaur Raked / Shutterstock.com Before rallying from around $70 a share in August to $91.79 at
Cloud computing and virtualization giant VMware (NYSE:VMW) has had a rough run the past few months. While the broader market has surged to all-time highs, rising roughly 10% over the past six months, VMW stock has shed more than 10% over that same stretch, as the company’s revenue growth trajectory has flattened out amid dwindling
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Jeff Bezos CEO of Amazon. Joe Klamar | AFP | Getty Images There’s an exclusive club on Wall Street and it might let Amazon back in this year. The so-called trillion-dollar club, which includes tech giants Apple, Microsoft and now Google-parent Alphabet, is the group of companies with a market value of $1 trillion or
As an investor, I’ve closely followed the semiconductor chip market over the past few years, and have learned that of the three big stocks in the CPU and GPU worlds — Intel (NASDAQ:INTC), Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA), and Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) — INTC stock is the least loved of the group. Source: Kate Krav-Rude / Shutterstock.com
Chesapeake Energy (NYSE:CHK) is the very definition of a “dead man drilling.” The only reason to keep it alive is to try and pay off some of its roughly $9 billion in debt. This is working for its bankers, but not CHK stock investors. Source: Casimiro PT / Shutterstock.com The other analogy that comes to