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Oilfield equipment and services companies like Baker Hughes (BHI) are affected by rig counts and energy prices. In the past year, West Texas Intermediate crude oil prices have dropped ~16%.

Paying $3 million per episode Facebook (FB) could spend as much as $1.0 billion on original content acquisition for its video business, according a Wall Street Journal report. While this is a huge content budget, for a company that has relied on free content generated by its users over the years, it isn’t surprising. First, ahead […]

According to Occidental Petroleum’s 3Q15 form 10Q filing, changes in energy prices affected its quarterly earnings by $30 million in crude oil.

Tesla will likely release its second-quarter results today after the market close. The company’s results could offer insights into NIO’s outlook.

Tesla and NIO stocks have risen sharply this year. Tesla reported a net profit in the second quarter, which makes it eligible for inclusion in the S&P 500.

Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) remained in Stanley Druckenmiller’s top five holdings in the first quarter.

Several analysts have said that US stock markets are ripe for a crash. They called out the disconnect between financial markets and the economy.

Bill Ackman made the correct bets when US stock markets crashed in the first quarter. He has been outperforming SPY by a wide margin this year.

Tesla raised over $2 billion through equity issuance in February. On February 13, Tesla stock closed with gains after it announced the capital raise.

Goldman Sachs expects the S&P 500 to crash to 2,400. However, the firm expects the S&P 500 to end the year at 3,000 level.

Since March, gold prices are on a tear due to uncertainty surrounding COVID-19. The SPDR Gold Shares has seen gains of 16.2% since March 18.

For the first time, WTI crude prices fell into the negative zone during trade on Monday. Warren Buffett invested in Occidental Petroleum last year.

While TSLA stock bulls see the rise as fundamental, bears and many observers are calling it a “speculative bubble.” So, where do we draw the line?

Cisco (CSCO) stock was under pressure in 2019 due to the US-China trade war. Options traders are betting on CSCO’s rise by the middle of March.

Warren Buffett underperformed the stock markets last year. Berkshire Hathaway’s returns versus the S&P 500 were the worst since 2009.

Today, China released its official December manufacturing PMI. The PMI was 50.2 for December. The analysts polled by Reuters expected the PMI to be 50.1.

Global stock markets added $17 trillion in value this year. A year back, most economists saw dismal stock market returns in 2019.

Strategists at Goldman Sachs (GS) project Netflix (NFLX), T-Mobile (TMUS), and Coca-Cola (KO) to be among the best stock picks for 2020.

Although phase one of the China trade deal won’t end the US-China trade war, it will help restore market sentiments. The trade war is almost two years old.

PepsiCo (PEP) is one of two beverage-industry behemoths. We break down everything investors should know about the stock and the business.

Hewlett Packard split into two $50 billion entities in order to provide value to shareholders, better manage the business, and drive growth.

Media networks face stiff competition for acquisition and distribution of content. Quality and exclusivity add to competition across the media value chain.

Credit is the most important part of the economy, leading to increased spending, increased income levels, higher GDP, and faster productivity growth.

Berkshire Hathaway’s huge cash pile might stay in place for a while. Warren Buffett was outbid by Apollo Global Management in his efforts to buy Tech Data.

Tesla’s (TSLA) electric pickup truck, also known as the Cybertruck, has been one of the most polarizing vehicles recently unveiled.

Tesla registered a wholly-owned subsidiary in Israel last month. Along with expanding its EV business, its foray will be important for its Solar segment.

After declining in June, consumer confidence rebounded in July to its highest level yet in 2019.

The efficient market hypothesis maintains that the market prices everything correctly and so it isn’t possible to outperform the market in the long run.

Audited and verified annual figures at the end of 2013 indicate that total assets under management of US registered investment companies equalled nearly $17.1 trillion.

UA’s product, marketing, and sales teams each play an active role in the design process. This collaboration helps control brand and product consistency.

Equities and high yield bonds perform well when the economy is improving, and both underperform when the economy is slumping.

The FOMC is made up of hawks and doves, and their balance could affect future policy. Investors who follow the Fed need be able to tell the differences.

What is a Sharpe ratio? A Sharpe ratio is a tool that measures the amount of returns for each unit of volatility that’s generated by a portfolio (higher returns and lower volatility equals more returns per unit of volatility). The measurement allows investors to analyze how much return they’re receiving from a portfolio in exchange for […]

We’ve talked about the dual mandate and factors constraining the Federal Reserve from achieving this mandate. Let’s now assess how close the Fed has come to achieving its macroeconomic objectives.

A ratings upgrade or downgrade has a direct impact on fixed income yields, and therefore directly affects bond prices.

Gold certainly can be an inflation hedge, and it has worked in the past. Obviously, one of the reasons gold has been weak of late is that people are becoming less concerned about inflation.

This week is full of indicators, with most of them being measures of national-level economic activity.

Looking for the next frontier in emerging market investing? Del Stafford dives into these underdeveloped countries to assess the investment case.

As I write in my new weekly commentary, over the past two weeks, several polls have suggested a realistic chance that the people of Scotland will vote for independence in this week’s referendum.

Leveraged ETFs seek to provide a certain multiple (generally 2x or 3x) of daily returns on the underlying index. The daily movements in the underlying index and subsequent changes in ETF exposure may mean the ETF manager needs to rebalance the portfolio daily.

We take a close look at Twitter’s chart, options activity, and institutional transactions to see if the stock could rise in the coming weeks.

Russ explains the good news behind his upgrade of the global financial sector as well as the bad news keeping his sector outlook somewhat subdued.

As I’ve been noting for some time, emerging markets (EEM) can offer compelling long-term value.

Lowe’s (LOW) operates in the home improvement industry where most products, especially building materials, are largely standardized and undifferentiated.

Before moving to inverse and leveraged ETFs in the next part of this series, we’d like to quickly discuss the differences between ETFs and mutual funds.

Bill Gross provided his view on lower rates no longer resulting in credit creation in the economy. They have also lost their efficacy in raising equity prices.

On Brexit, import restrictions and tariff quotas currently applicable to importers in the UK and foreign businesses that export to the UK are set to change.

Many are likening the current student debt situation in the United States to the mortgage debt situation that led to the 2009 financial meltdown in the US economy.

The rise in delinquencies on student loans in the United States (SPY) (IWM) (QQQ) can be partially attributed to the accelerated rise in college tuition and fees.

Jeffrey Gundlach seems quite bearish in his views about the US economy (IWM) (QQQ).