After a weak few months of job growth, investors are banking on rate cuts from the Federal Reserve at their September meeting, and history shows cuts could be like rocket fuel for stocks in the months that follow. LPL Financial recently conducted an analysis of how stocks have performed from the first rate cut in…
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…
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The stock market has been on a hot streak lately, notching record high after record high, and some bulls on Wall Street think the party isn’t over. That marks a stunning reversal from the panic that gripped investors in April, when President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs shocked the world. Stocks, Treasury bonds, and the…
Wall Street looks to begin a jam-packed week on a high note as investors cheer the U.S.-EU trade deal that was announced on Sunday. The agreement with America’s biggest trading partner removes a key source of market uncertainty and the threat of a damaging trade war. It also adds to an increasingly bullish narrative as…
Bullish exuberance among retail traders drove a new meme stock rally this week. According to Goldman Sachs, it’s just the latest episode in “one of the sharpest short squeezes on record.” And while it’s got room to run, it also raises the risk of a downturn, the bank said. Analysts said this week’s rally in…
The U.S. stock market has just blown through Warren Buffett’s favorite economic indicator, stock market cap to GDP, setting a new all-time high. The valuation of the Wilshire 5000—which hit a record high on July 23—is now somewhere north of 212% of U.S. GDP, the “Buffett Indicator” shows. Chart via LongTermTrends.Net Perhaps that’s one reason…
Tesla just had its roughest quarter in at least a decade, but some analysts and investors are still dreaming big. Elon Musk’s carmaker said on Wednesday that revenues plunged 12% year-over-year to $22.5 billion in the second quarter. Tesla’s stock fell as much as 9% in early trading on Thursday morning on the disappointing earnings,…