Tesla is awarding Elon Musk around $29 billion in shares as a legal battle looms over a prior multibillion dollar compensation plan for the chief executive. A special committee of the company’s board of directors said the interim pay package would motivate Musk to “stay focused” on Tesla as the electric vehicle maker pivots to…
The market sees about an 85% chance that the Federal Reserve delivers a rate cut in September — but doing so could put the stock market on track to enter bubble territory in the coming months. That’s according to strategists at Société Générale, who said they saw the possibility that the S&P 500 becomes overheated…
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway posted a 4% drop in operating earnings to $11.2 billion in its first quarterly earnings report since the legendary investor revealed he plans to step down as CEO. Berkshire also sold a net $3 billion of stocks last quarter, purchasing $3.9 billion of shares but selling $6.9 billion worth. The disposals…
President Donald Trump just showed markets that he doesn’t always chicken out. Trump’s August 1 tariff deadline has arrived, and a barrage of new and amended import duties sent the stock market tumbling in Friday’s session. The updated tariffs don’t officially kick in until August 7, meaning nations still have some time to reach a…
Key Points Rivian(NASDAQ: RIVN) and Lucid(NASDAQ: LCID) were both hot electric vehicle (EV) stocks. Rivian went public with an IPO price of $78 on Nov. 10, 2021, and its shares more than doubled to a record closing price of $172.01 just a week later. Lucid went public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company…
Société Générale’s Albert Edwards, famed for calling the dot-com bubble leading up to the 2000 crash, is again warning investors of a potentially painful plunge ahead. In his latest note to clients this week, Edwards said US stocks and home prices are in an “everything bubble” that he thinks could soon pop. Stock valuations are…
The stock market is on a record-breaking rally, but investors are approaching some big hurdles they’ll have to clear through the rest of this year if they want the gains to keep coming. Strategists at HSBC Global said on Monday that they see a handful of key risks facing stock prices through the second half…
Investors are optimistic as earnings season kicks off — a little too optimistic, according to Julian Emanuel, Evercore ISI’s chief equity strategist. The S&P 500 notched another fresh record high on Monday, and sentiment is skyrocketing as Wall Street banks raise their year-end S&P 500 targets. However, stocks don’t just go up: “Every structural bull…
Swaths of California are seeing housing prices drop, thanks largely to the combination of increased inventory and sky-high interest rates. Even markets that are typically somewhat immune to general trends and consistently robust — like Mountain View and San Diego — have softened over the past year. But there are still plenty of places in…
Bill Smead doesn’t know how long the current stock-market rally can continue, but the veteran investor does think it’s in a particularly vulnerable spot. In his Q2 letter to investors on July 15, Smead — whose Smead Value Fund (SMVLX) has beaten 96% of peers over the last 15 years, Morningstar data shows — shared…