While most of the U.S. economy is firing on all cylinders, the auto industry appears to be spinning its wheels. Ford Motor Company (ticker: F) announced this week that it plans to cut 10 percent of its global workforce, and investors are trying to figure out what to do with Ford’s stock.
Warren Buffett followers got their quarterly glimpse into the mind of the Oracle of Omaha after the market closed Monday. Berkshire Hathaway Inc (ticker: BRK/A, BRK/B) filed its quarterly holdings report with the Securities and Exchange Commission listing all the stocks that Buffett bought and sold in the first quarter. Most of the revelations didn’t…
In the past year, Starbucks Corporation (ticker: SBUX) shares are up only 8.2 percent, well short of the 17.4 percent gain of the overall Standard & Poors 500 index. Starbucks investors are not used to lagging the market, but they may not have to wait much longer for the stock to return to its winning…
The PureFunds ISE Cyber Security exchange-traded fund (ticker: HACK) opened up by more than 2.5 percent on Monday after a new cyberattack hit more than 200,000 devices in over 150 different countries over the weekend.
Every time Apple Inc (ticker: AAPL) adds a billion dollars to its market cap, the question of what the world’s largest public company can do to keep growing becomes more and more important.
Long-time Macau gaming investors know that government policy risk is simply part of the equation. Macau casino stocks, including Melco Resorts & Entertainment Ltd(ADR) MLCO 0.45%, Wynn Resorts, Limited WYNN 0.81%, Las Vegas Sands Corp. LVS 0.29% and MGM Resorts International MGM 0.86% have experienced some volatile trading in recent days after a new wave…
With the highly-anticipated fifth season of the hit Netflix, Inc. NFLX 0.5% show “House of Cards” just a week away, the next two weeks could be a critical period for Netflix traders.
Puma Biotechnology Inc PBYI 9.89% shares skyrocketed 39.1 percent in Monday’s trading session after the FDA’s review of breast cancer drug candidate neratinib released on Monday was relatively benign. However, even after the big Monday move, JPMorgan said the options market is pricing in 60 percent implied volatility in the stock this week ahead of…
The new partnership between Alphabet Inc GOOG 0.74% GOOGL 0.67%’s Waymo autonomous vehicle technology unit and ride-hailing company Lyft may have given birth to a legitimate Tesla Inc TSLA 2.09% competitor. In fact, Google could choose to spin off Waymo down the line at a valuation of roughly $70 billion, Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas…
Americans and investors hoping for healthcare reform may have the strongest congressional motivator of all on their side: fear.