Bulls in the stock market are giddy. What is there no to be happy: the stock market mostly goes up, and making money seems easy. While newly minted investors focus on accumulating small, speculative stocks, institutions hide in large-cap tech stocks. For prudent investors, now is the time to understand …
Read More »Stock futures rise after Big Tech offers windfall profits
Stock index futures were aiming for a higher start for Wall Street on the last day of July on Friday after Apple and Amazon made windfall profits and Facebook and Alphabet, Google’s parent, beat expectations. However, the lack of progress in Congress on another financial aid bill, the continued increase …
Read More »Las Vegas Sands President Says Las Vegas Will See “More Pain”
Las Vegas Sands President Robert Goldstein told CNBC on Thursday that the city of Las Vegas will continue to struggle financially as the coronavirus pandemic persists. “Clearly it is a difficult time for us … and from my point of view, we have more pain around here,” Goldstein said in …
Read More »Electric vehicles are still hot. Li Auto Jumps on the first day of trading.
Text size LI Auto via Weibo Chinese electric vehicle startup Li Auto set the price for its initial public offering on Wednesday night. The shares opened for trading on Thursday, and were up a lot. Confirm at least one thing: electric vehicle stocks are still hot. Li Auto (ticker: LI) …
Read More »Stocks drop sharply, drop nearly 500 points after grim jobless claims, worst GDP reading ever recorded
US stocks traded lower on Thursday, chased by economic reports that showed the sharpest decline in GDP recorded in the second quarter and a weekly report of jobless claims suggesting that the rebound of the pandemic is losing steam. amid a further increase in COVID-19 cases. Lack of progress in …
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