Finance
Activist investors are hunting targets in the SPAC market, but battles won’t be easy to win
Daniel Loeb, founder and chief executive officer of Third Point LLC Jacob Kepler | Bloomberg | Getty Images (Click here to subscribe to the Delivering Alpha newsletter.) The once red-hot SPAC market is becoming a fertile ground for activist investors who push for changes at problematic companies and profit from them. A record number of companies went […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: JPMorgan, Delta Air Lines, PayPal
The JP Morgan Chase & Co. headquarters, The JP Morgan Chase Tower in Park Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan, New York. Tim Clayton – Corbis | Corbis Sport | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. JPMorgan Chase – Shares fell 3.5% as JPMorgan Chase reported a $524 million hit from market dislocations […]
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JPMorgan Chase reports $524 million hit from market dislocations caused by Russia sanctions
Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of JP Morgan Chase. Adam Jeffery | CNBC JPMorgan Chase said Wednesday that first-quarter profit fell sharply from a year earlier, driven by increased costs for bad loans and market upheaval caused by the Ukraine war. Here are the numbers: Earnings: $2.63 a share (unclear if comparable to $2.69 estimate). […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Delta, JPMorgan, BlackRock and more
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Delta Air Lines (DAL) – Delta rallied 6.6% in the premarket after reporting a smaller-than-expected quarterly loss and predicting a current-quarter profit. The airline also said monthly revenue exceeded pre-pandemic levels for the first time in March. JPMorgan Chase (JPM) – The bank reported quarterly earnings […]
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Stock futures inch higher following highest inflation data in decades
A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, April 4, 2022. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Stocks futures inched higher in overnight trading as investors weighed the latest inflation data for March. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 20 points or 0.06%, while S&P 500 futures […]
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Concerned about inflation? Here’s why stock investors should stay the course, says Ritholtz COO
For stock investors pondering how to ride out the worst bout of inflation in four decades, don’t worry and stay the course, according to Nick Maggiulli, chief operating officer at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Prices that consumers pay for everyday items surged a whopping 8.5% in March, the highest levels since the early days of the […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves in the premarket: PG&E, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, CarMax and more
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: PG&E (PCG) – The California utility’s shares jumped 2.3% in the premarket after it reached legal settlements over two fires in Northern California. PG&E will pay $55 million and will not face any criminal prosecution over those fires. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) – […]
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In the U.S., consumers are paying more for everything. In China, the inflation problem is very different
Transportation fuel prices rose by 24.1% in China in March 2022 from a year ago, the largest increase within the country’s consumer price index. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING — Persistent inflation in China narrows the window for when the People’s Bank of China can cut interest rates and support growth, […]
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Russia’s war in Ukraine means there’ll be no return to normality for Europe’s economy
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron and Polish President Andrzej Duda attend a news conference ahead of a Weimar Triangle meeting to discuss the ongoing Ukraine crisis, in Berlin, Germany, February 8, 2022. Hannibal Hanschke | Reuters The war in Ukraine and the ensuing economic sanctions imposed on Russia will cause far bigger […]
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‘The war for talent’ continues. 40% of recent job switchers are again looking for a new position, survey finds
Cecilie_arcurs | E+ | Getty Images Two of every 5 workers who switched jobs over the past year are looking for work again, according to a new survey published by Grant Thornton, a consulting firm. These workers will likely account for a good deal of churn in the labor market as the so-called Great Resignation […]
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