Text size And so it begins. The Nasdaq Composite has been going up for so long now, it’s hard to remember if it feels like it’s going down. Now we know. Yes, that’s an exaggeration, but not much. He had been active for seven of the past nine trading days …
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Text size Bill ackman Bryan Bedder / Getty Images for the New York Times Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management made a splash in late June, when he asked to raise a $ 3 billion blank check company with some unconventional terms. Voluntary initial public offering investors are clearly plentiful: …
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Text size The Tesla showroom and service center in Amsterdam. (Photo by JOHN THYS / AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images This conversation with Baillie Gifford’s partner and global equity chief James Anderson about Tesla’s shares is excerpted from Barron’s recent mid-year Roundtable, released on July 10. To …
Read More »Airlines face continuing uncertainty about Covid-19. Wall Street is of two minds.
Text size Two analysts covering Southwest Airlines took two different tacks on the action, with one analyst raising the target price and the other lowering the equivalent of Hold. However, in the era of the coronavirus pandemic, Southwest has been one of the toughest airline stocks. Ethan Miller / Getty …
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Text size Joe Klamar / AFP via Getty Images OPEC + and its allies may be ready to start pumping more crude, and that prospect is sending shivers through the oil markets. Oil prices fell on Monday. Brent crude futures, the global benchmark, fell 1% to $ 42.80 a barrel …
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