The Federal Reserve has shown that it knows how to maintain the flow of credit during a crisis. But bond investors now also expect the Fed’s unprecedented stimulus in financial markets to change the course of the credit cycle – that is, preventing more companies from falling than expected just …
Read More »Honeywell Beat Earnings. What their numbers mean for the industrial economy.
Text size Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images Honeywell’s earnings, reported Friday morning, beat Wall Street estimates for the pandemic-hit second quarter. That’s good news for Honeywell, but the company is a huge and distant industrial conglomerate. Your earnings are a useful read for many companies in many industries. …
Read More »Shares of Amazon.com Inc. outperform the competition despite the day’s losses
Shares of Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, -3.65% fell 3.66% to $ 2,986.55 on Thursday, in what turned out to be a poor trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX, -1.23% falling 1.23% to 3,235.66 and Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -1.30% falling 1.31% to 26,652.33. This …
Read More »Coca-Cola profits are out of the way. Why an Analyst Says Buy Now
Text size Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Coca-Cola shares are rising early Wednesday morning, a day after launching better-than-expected earnings. The reason: An update from Morgan Stanley, which argues that stocks have become too cheap. Analyst Dara Mohsenian raised its rating on Coca-Cola (ticker: KO) shares to Equal Weight’s Overweight, …
Read More »Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has lost more market value in 2020 than all but 4 US listed companies
Clearly, it’s good to be in tech this year. Banks, not so much. The proof is in this tweet from the CEO and co-founder of Roundhill Investments, Will Hershey, who presented the most important winners and losers in the stock market so far this year. As you can see JPMorgan …
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