Published: Feb. 2, 2024 at 6:47 p.m. ET One of Wall Street’s biggest bears will be giving up some of his duties, stirring memories for some investors and market mavens of a previous shakeup that proved ill-timed for the market. Mike Wilson will leave his post as chair of Morgan Stanley’s Global Investment Committee but
The biggest bombshell in Apple ’s December quarter earnings report came on the company’s conference call, when CFO Luca Maestri provided a hugely disappointing forecast for the March quarter. Management’s guidance, implying overall quarterly revenue will fall 5% from a year earlier to about $90 billion, with a drop of nearly 10% in iPhone sales,
Published: Jan. 31, 2024 at 9:39 p.m. ET By Kosaku Narioka Aozora Bank shares fell sharply after it projected a fiscal-year net loss due to higher provisions for U.S. office loans as well as losses from foreign bonds. Shares were recently 21% lower at 2,557.0 yen, falling to the day’s trading limit on Thursday morning.
New York Community Bancorp reported a surprise loss as it wrote down bad real estate loans, sending its stock tumbling Wednesday and dragging down the share prices of regional banks across the country. “This was a major negative surprise,” Jon G. Arfstrom, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets, said in a Wednesday note. New York
Banks continue to navigate a bumpy landscape in loans tied to a drop in office-space value and rent prices in many markets as workers stay at home. In one high-profile example on Tuesday, New York Community Bancorp NYCB cited a need to increase its allowance for credit losses (ACL) on the heels of an office
Published: Jan. 24, 2024 at 8:20 a.m. ET Donald Trump, the Republican former president, has won the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary and is leading Nikki Haley by a substantial margin in South Carolina, where she was governor from 2011 to 2017. So it’s highly likely that Trump will be the Republican presidential
Successful small-cap growth-stock fund managers have a problem. Rapidly growing small companies tend not to stay small for long. They become midsize companies that the manager has to sell. To solve this problem, managers invented the curiously named “smid-cap” fund category that holds both small- and mid-cap stocks. One of the first and best funds
Published: Jan. 16, 2024 at 5:30 a.m. ET Bajaj Finance Ltd. 500034 shares inched down 0.05% to 7,472.70 Indian rupees Tuesday, on what proved to be an all-around poor trading session for the stock market, with the S&P BSE Sensex Index 1 falling 0.27% to 73,128.77. Bajaj Finance Ltd. closed 717.30 rupees below its 52-week
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies wavered Friday as volatile trading continued in the aftermath of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s approval of the first spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds. The price of Bitcoin has shed 1% over the past 24 hours to $45,950, having notched gains in this period as high as near $48,600—around its best levels
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