Shares of electricity generation and hydrogen production company Bloom Energy (NYSE:BE) fell 11.8% in the morning session after Jefferies downgraded the stock to ‘Underperform’ from ‘Hold,’ citing concerns about the company’s high valuation and uncertain long-term growth. The investment firm warned that investor enthusiasm had run ahead of the company’s fundamentals. Analysts at Jefferies noted…
In Q2, billionaire investor Bill Gates executed major stock trades worth over $4 billion (£2.9 billion) in two companies. According to the latest filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Bill Gates purchased 6.95 million shares of Berkshire Hathaway Class B (NYSE: BKR.B) shares for the quarter ended 30th June, increasing his stake in…
Shares of buy now, pay later company Affirm (NASDAQ:AFRM) fell 3.1% in the morning session after an SEC filing revealed that co-founder and major shareholder Maksim Levchin planned to sell a large block of shares. The Form 144 filing, dated September 22, 2025, showed a proposed sale of 651,713 shares of Class A stock, with…
Yale economist William Goetzmann has felt the fear that a stock-market crash can strike into an investor. He’s lived through at least four of them: 1987, 2000, 2008, and 2020. “I watched my entire life savings drop by 50% during the crash of 2008,” he told Business Insider earlier this month. Many Americans who had…
By Phuong Nguyen and Francesco Guarascio HANOI (Reuters) -Vietnam’s IPO market is heating up, fuelled by a share rally, regulatory changes and a credit splurge, but has failed to stir fresh interest from foreign investors despite the prospect that the market could be upgraded by index provider FTSE Russell. Last week brokerage Techcom Securities, a…
For one of the biggest disconnects between financial markets and economies in Asia, look no further than Hong Kong. The dramatic revival of the city’s stock market this year has catapulted it to the top of the global rankings for initial public offerings (IPOs). Mainland Chinese companies are lining up in droves to list in…
(Bloomberg) — Chinese households are tiptoeing back into equities, driven in part by a stark reality: Almost nothing else looks worth buying. The CSI 300 Index has surged more than 25% since its April lows, fueled by enthusiasm over artificial intelligence and easing relations with the US, which culminated in a call between Donald Trump…
(Bloomberg) — Chinese households are tiptoeing back into equities, driven in part by a stark reality: Almost nothing else looks worth buying. The CSI 300 Index has surged more than 25% since its April lows, fueled by enthusiasm over artificial intelligence and Donald Trump’s softer rhetoric on China. But other asset classes — from wealth…
Affluent Hong Kong investors – from the former CEO of the Hong Kong stock exchange to the chairman of Great Eagle Holdings – have been snapping up residential properties, despite doubts by many prospective homebuyers that prices of flats across the city have hit bottom. Francis Yuen Tin-fan and his wife Rose Lee Wai-mun spent…
Amazon founder and billionaire, Jeff Bezos, is known for frequently making donations to non-profit organisations. He himself runs non-profit funds, foundations, and preschools aimed at climate change and education. According to Form 4 filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Bezos gifted over 5.2 million shares of Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) to non-profit organisations between…