My top 10 things to watch Thursday, March 27 1. President Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs on automobiles made outside the U.S. are rippling through markets. General Motors is among the biggest losers, and shares are down 6% this morning. Crosstown rival Ford Motor “relatively benefits” since it imports fewer models, Bank of America wrote. 2….
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: GameStop — The meme stock soared about 15%. On Tuesday, GameStop’s board announced it had unanimously approved a plan to buy bitcoin with a portion of its corporate cash, following a similar move by MicroStrategy. Dollar Tree — The discount retail chain popped more than 4%…
Dollar Tree is selling the Family Dollar brand to two private capital firms for just over $1 billion, the company announced on Wednesday after years of struggling with Family Dollar’s operation. The private equity firms Brigade Capital Management and Macellum Capital Management are buying Family Dollar together, according to the statement. In the announcement, Dollar…
My top 10 things to watch Wednesday, March 26 1. The long knives are still out for Nvidia . Today’s example is a story in the Financial Times about environmental rules in China that, if tightly enforced, could ban sales of Nvidia’s H20 chips. The rules were put in place last year, but suspiciously are…
Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. GameStop — The meme stock surged 16% a day after the company’s board announced it had approved a plan to buy bitcoin and stablecoins with a portion of its corporate cash, in a move similar to that of MicroStrategy. Dollar Tree — The discount retailer gained…
A trader works on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange on March 24, 2025. Jeenah Moon | Reuters U.S. stock futures were little changed Tuesday night after the S&P 500 posted a marginal gain, marking its third positive session in a row. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average were unchanged. S&P…
Any rally in the stock market next week is unlikely to be sustainable until there’s clarity on the tariff front, something investors won’t get until April 2nd when a number of levies are expected to take effect. Stocks have bounced somewhat from their oversold condition this week, after a surprisingly dovish tone out of the…
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My top 10 things to watch Thursday, Dec. 5 1. Shares of companies holding cryptocurrency and enabling trading surged as bitcoin topped $100,000 for the first time ever. MicroStrategy shares jumped 9%. Robinhood and Coinbase rose 7.5% and 5%, respectively. The rally in bitcoin, which has skyrocketed around 140% year to date, accelerated after crypto…