- Zacks•6 hours ago
General Electric (GE) Up 7.4% Since Earnings Report: Can It Continue?
It has been about a month since the last earnings report for General Electric Company GE. Before we dive into how investors and analysts have reacted as of late, let's take a quick look at the most recent earnings report in order to get a better handle on the important catalysts. General Electric started 2018 on a robust note as it reported first-quarter 2018 adjusted earnings of 16 cents per share, which beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 11 cents.
- MarketWatch•1 hour ago
All the ways you can mess up your 401(k) — even if you max out your contributions
Workplace retirement plans get a lot of bad press, primarily if they are loaded with high fees. Put simply, 401(k)s work. The bad news is that otherwise-diligent savers can still leave money on the table with a 401(k), often without realizing it.
- Oilprice.com•15 hours ago
5 Marijuana Stocks To Watch In 2018
Only a few years ago, marijuana was seen as a ‘’gateway drug’’. Flash forward to today: cannabis is a huge business, one that could be worth $25 billion in the U.S. alone by 2020, and analysts expect demand to skyrocket as new laws are passed and social attitudes change. In the United States, the legal cannabis industry is worth $6.7 billion, according to Bloomberg.
The Wall Street Journal•yesterdayWant to Invest in Jack Ma? Avoid Alibaba’s Rivals
HONG KONG—Global investors looking to buy stakes in China’s most valuable private technology company are being forced to pick a side in the nation’s biggest business rivalry. Ant Financial Services Group, a financial-technology juggernaut controlled by billionaire Jack Ma, is preparing to close a $10 billion private fundraising round that would value the Hangzhou-based company at $150 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. As part of the deal, investors putting money into Ant have to agree not to invest in or raise their stakes in companies controlled by major rivals such as social-media giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. and online retailer JD.com Inc., the people said.
- TheStreet.com•2 days ago
9 Stocks Goldman Sachs Thinks Will Blow Wall Street's Performance Away in 2019
2018 is just about over, in the minds of some investors. "We expect investors will soon look past 2018 and focus on 2019 growth," says Goldman Sachs strategist David Kostin. "For many years, beginning in July investors would start to value stocks
- Bloomberg•6 hours ago
EasyJet, Ryanair Court EU Investors on Concern Over Hard Brexit
Discount rivals EasyJet Plc and Ryanair Holdings Plc are shoring up their shareholder base in continental Europe in order to safeguard their right to fly there after Brexit. EasyJet, based in Luton, England, is holding investor roadshows in France and Germany this week and last week in a bid to increase the proportion of stock held within the European Union once Britain leaves. Ryanair, Europe’s biggest discount airline, said Monday that it will remove the voting rights of non-EU holders in the event of a so-called hard Brexit.
- Oilprice.com•17 hours ago
Oil Majors Double Down On Refining
Refineries, processing, petrochemical facilities and retail gasoline stations are gaining in importance, while upstream spending stalls. The WSJ reports that BP has plans to open 1,000 retail gasoline stations in Mexico and India over the next three years while ExxonMobil has massive investments tied up in refineries along the Gulf Coast. Other oil majors have similar plans, while also stepping up bets on renewable energy.
Reuters•2 hours agoGlobal Stocks: Stocks and dollar rise as U.S.-China trade war put 'on hold'
Stocks and the dollar rose but gave up some gains on Monday after the U.S.-China trade war was declared "on hold", while in Europe Italy's borrowing costs climbed and the Milan bourse retreated as two anti-establishment parties got closer to power. "There's certainly a 'feel-good' sentiment on risky assets" due to the U.S. trade announcement, said Stephane Barbier de la Serre, a strategist at Makor Capital Markets. U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin declared the U.S. trade war with China "on hold" following an agreement to drop their tariff threats that have roiled global markets this year.
- TheStreet.com•4 hours ago
GE Shares Gain Amid Reports of $20 Billion Wabtec Deal
shares rose firmly in pre-market trading Monday amid reports the industrial is ready to merger its transportation business with rail equipment maker Wabec Corp. Reuters reported over the weekend that the deal, which would be the biggest move under new CEO John Flannery, would match the $4.7 billion in GE transport revenues with the $9.2 billion market value of locomotive, freight and marine diesel engine equipment maker Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp., also known as Wabtec. GE shares were marked 2.2% higher in pre-market trading in New York, indicating an opening bell price of $15.30, a move that would still leave it with a year-to-date decline of 12.2%.
- CNBC Videos•9 hours ago
Airlines could go bust due to higher oil prices, says Rya...
Ryanair Chief Executive Michael O'Leary speaks about how the price of oil is impacting his business.
- MarketWatch•1 hour ago
Stock futures point to higher open as China trade truce fuels fresh optimism
The Nasdaq Composite Index (^IXIC) sank 0.7%. Philadelphia Fed President Patrick Harker is lined up for a discussion at a Chief Executives Organization event in New York City at 2:15 p.m. Eastern, while Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari is slated to appear at Michigan’s Bay College at 5:30 p.m. Eastern.
- CNBC Videos•4 hours ago
Dow futures rise after US-China trade war is placed 'on h...
Kathy Jones, Schwab Center for Financial Research, and Michael Thompson, S&P Investment Advisory Services, share their outlook on the markets and interest rates.
- Bloomberg•12 hours ago
Baidu Star's Shock Exit Casts AI-First Ambitions in Doubt
The departure of Baidu Inc.’s most senior operational executive threatens to derail the Chinese search giant’s ambition of placing artificial intelligence at the heart of its business. On Friday, the company stunned investors with the revelation that Microsoft Corp. veteran Qi Lu -- hired just over a year ago to accelerate its drive into everything from autonomous cars to digital assistants -- was stepping down because he could no longer work full-time in China for personal reasons. Credit Suisse Group AG became among the first to raise a warning flag when it downgraded the stock.
- MarketWatch•3 hours ago
Chip-maker stocks notch losing week after Applied Materials outlook slams sector
Applied Materials Inc. led semiconductor-related stocks to losses Friday and to a weekly decline after the chip-maker materials supplier’s outlook indicated a possible slowing in the recently hot sector. Applied Materials (AMAT) shares fell 8.3% to close at $49.51, after hitting an intraday low of $48.53, as analysts were split on target price moves after the company’s sales outlook was lighter than Wall Street expected. For the week, shares of Applied Materials are down 9.7%, the SOX index swung to a weekly loss of 0.4%, and the S&P 500 (^GSPC) finished down 0.5%.
- Zacks•2 hours ago
BP, ConocoPhillips in Talks to Sign Asset Swap Agreement
Per Bloomberg, BP plc BP and ConocoPhillips COP are in talks over an asset swap deal. Per the agreement, BP will raise stake in the North Sea Clair field, offshore U.K., in exchange of its assets in Alaska.BP is contemplating to acquire ConocoPhillips
- MarketWatch•4 hours ago
Campbell Soup is struggling to persuade shoppers to buy fresh food — and soup
Shares of Campbell Soup Co. slid more than 12% Friday to their lowest level since January of 2013, after the company announced the immediate departure of chief executive Denise Morrison and said it would conduct a full review of its entire portfolio amid struggles with fresh food and soup. The previous guidance was for an adjusted EPS decline of 1% to 3%.
- FX Empire•yesterday
Price of Gold Fundamental Weekly Forecast – Rising Interest Rates Make Gold Less-Desirable Investment
Gold fell victim to surging U.S. Treasury yields, a stronger dollar and the easing of geopolitical tensions, falling sharply lower last week. The 10-year yield briefly hit 3.128 percent, its highest level since July 8, 2011 when the note yielded as high as 3.184 percent. The U.S. Dollar put in a stellar performance against a basket of major currencies last week, bolstered by solid U.S. economic data, rising U.S. Treasury yields and a weak performance in the Euro.
- TheStreet.com•1 hour ago
18 Top Stocks Hedge Funds Own That Goldman Sachs Thinks Will Keep Outperforming
Out of stock ideas? Might want to play the top trades of the hedgies. While the average equity hedge fund has returned a decent 2% year to date says Goldman Sachs (S&P 500 Index flat), their top positions are out-performing. Funds have made few changes
- TheStreet.com•2 days ago
Amazon Could Devastate Walgreens and Rite Aid by Getting Into Pharmacy Business
"Alexa, order me my Lipitor" are five words that could prove financially devastating to pharmacies such as Walgreens Boots Alliance , CVS Health and Rite Aid . With Wall Street waiting on pins and needles to see how Amazon will enter the healthcare
- Fox Business•3 hours ago
Wabtec, GE Transportation to merge
Wabtec Corp. and GE Transportation, a unit of General Electric, will merge, creating a global transportation leader in rail equipment, software and services. The merger agreement, which has been approved by both companies’ boards and is expected cut costs, is for GE to receive $2.9 billion in cash from Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies, also known as Wabtec, at closing. GE and its shareholders will receive a 50.1% ownership interest in the combined company, with Wabtec shareholders retaining 49.9% of the combined company. Further, the merger will result in approximately $1.1 billion of net tax benefit to the combined company.
- Bloomberg•2 days ago
Tesla Shareholders Urged to Separate Chairman's Role From Musk
The largest proxy advisory firm is recommending that investors reject two of Tesla Inc.’s board members, while also supporting a proposal to split the role of chairman and chief executive officer -- jobs now held by Elon Musk, the public face of the electric-car maker. By opposing directors Antonio Gracias and James Murdoch, and seeking to install an independent chairman, Institutional Shareholder Services is ratcheting up the pressure on Tesla to reform its nine-member board in the wake of production delays on its mass-market Model 3. "Shareholders would benefit from the strongest form of independent board oversight in the form of an independent chair," ISS wrote in a report to clients.
- TheStreet.com•16 hours ago
3 Simple Tips on Investing From TheStreet's Jim Cramer
Here are three tips for investors to keep in mind from TheStreet's founder Jim Cramer. Keep emotions out of investing, let the trading action and the company's fundamentals dictate your course of action. Says Cramer, "Always remember that once you have done the requisite research your determination of when to buy a stock needs to be strict, it needs to be unemotional.
- Fortune•2 days ago
Starbucks Announces New Policy: Treat Even Nonpaying Guests Like Customers
Starbucks today announced that it is now official policy to allow all guests in its stores to use its facilities, including restrooms, whether they buy anything or not. The coffee chain had previously lacked a clear policy on the question. That ambiguity
- U.S.News & World Report•2 hours ago
Target Corporation Earnings: What to Expect From TGT Stock
Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) will look to maintain its 2018 momentum when it reports first-quarter earnings on May 23. Recent store checks suggest changes Target made to its operations are improving customers' shopping experience, and investors will soon know whether or not those changes are boosting Target's bottom line as well. Analysts are expecting Target to report first-quarter earnings per share of $1.38, up from $1.21 in the same quarter a year ago.
- FX Empire•9 hours ago
GBP/USD Looking Towards 1.33
The pair is also slowly beginning to buckle under the pressure of the dollar strength that we have been seeing all across the markets over the last 2 weeks. The GBPUSD pair had been holding on to the 1.35 region over the last few weeks despite the weakness in the dollar and it looked as though the bulls would be able to survive after all. This has added to the dollar strength and though the bulls in the pound managed to hold out for a week or so, they couldn’t hold on towards the end of last week.
