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Amid market volatility, should retail investors buy the dips or take their profits and run?
The recent market action may have some investors wondering if they should take their profits and run, or look to buy into any weakness. Stocks recovered some ground on Friday after a rocky morning. The Nasdaq Composite snapped a three-day losing streak, ending 0.13% higher. The S & P 500 closed near the flatline and […]
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Alibaba cross-border arm plans AI subscriptions and stablecoin-like payments with JPMorgan
Key Points Alibaba plans to use “tokenization” of payments for cross-border transactions in its business-to-business arm. Kuo Zhang, president of Alibaba.com told CNBC the company would work with JPMorgan, which has its own tokenization technology. The cross-border e-commerce unit also launched new AI features to help connect suppliers and buyers on its global platform. Alibaba […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Walt Disney, Sweetgreen, Cisco, Planet Fitness and more
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading: Planet Fitness — The gym chain jumped about 4% after it issued guidance for the fiscal years 2026 through 2028. Planet Fitness expects new club unit growth to range between 6% and 7% in that time, while adjusted EBITA expands in the “mid-teens percent” compounded annually. […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Walt Disney, Cisco Systems, Firefly Aerospace and more
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Walt Disney Company — The media giant fell more than 4% on mixed fiscal fourth-quarter results . The company earned an adjusted $1.11 per share, beating an LSEG estimate of $1.05 per share. Revenue, however, came in at $22.46 billion, below a consensus forecast of $22.75 […]
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Why private equity is stuck with ‘zombie companies’ it can’t sell
Private equity firms are facing a new reality: a growing crop of companies that can neither thrive nor die, lingering in portfolios like the undead. These so-called “zombie companies” refer to businesses that aren’t growing, barely generate enough cash to service debt and are unable to attract buyers even at a discount. They are usually trapped […]
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Luckin Coffee eyes U.S. relisting as five-year turnaround from fraud scandal takes hold
Key Points Luckin Coffee CEO Jinyi Guo said the company is preparing to relist in the U.S. The Xiamen-headquartered coffee chain was booted from the Nasdaq in 2020 after admitting to fabricating $310 million in 2019 revenue. Backed by top investor Centurium Capital, Luckin has rebounded to become China’s biggest coffee retailer, overtaking Starbucks, and […]
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Pop Mart’s Labubu dolls fueled a stock surge — now Bernstein says it’s time to sell
Pop Mart’s Labubu dolls have captured hearts — and fueled one of China’s hottest stock stories, surging more than 270% since the start of the year to hit a high of 339.8 Hong Kong dollars ($43.71) on Aug. 26. But behind the buzz, a sharp divide has emerged between believers in its emotional-branding power and […]
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Jim Chanos unwinds Strategy short as stock’s bitcoin premium collapses after 50% sell-off
Famed short seller Jim Chanos closed his closely-watched wager pitting Strategy against bitcoin , saying the valuation gap that once made the trade so compelling had largely vanished. Chanos said Saturday in a social media post on X that as of Friday’s market open he had unwound his pair trade of shorting Strategy and going […]
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Millennials are piling into alternative assets. Here’s where they’re investing
Key Points Millennials favor alternative investments — such as venture capital and private markets — as a way of capturing innovation and growth opportunities, particularly in tech. Goldman Sachs Asset Management data shows alts now make up about 20% of millennials’ portfolios, while allocations to traditional equities are lower than older age groups. As private […]
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A global wealth boom is fueling a rise in family office imposters
A global wealth boom is fueling the creation of a record number of family offices. And that has come with a peculiar problem: imposters. Fundraisers and fraudsters are presenting themselves as family office representatives, seeking to dupe gullible investors — and then there are also imposters who are in it just for an “ego boost,” […]
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