March 28, 2024
Investors

Investors Don’t Need to Sweat the Latest Boeing 737 Safety Incident. The Data Show Why.

Now Boeing investors, whether they like it or not, have to prepare themselves for Monday’s trading session with as much detail—and context—as possible. On Friday, a United Airlines flight was found to be missing an external panel when it landed in Oregon. The plane involved was a 25-year-old 737 NG, or Next Generation, model. Boeing’s

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Investors

GE Is Breaking Up. Here Are Numbers Investors Need To Know.

The split is due to take effect April 2. A starting point in solving the valuation problem is to look at how similar companies trade in the marketplace. Today, General Electric trades for about 14.5 times estimated 2024 earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization, or Ebitda. That is very similar to nonfinancial and manufacturing

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Investors

Should stock-market investors stop worrying about the Fed and just keep loving AI?

It might seem at times that investors care more about Jensen Huang than Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Huang is the longtime CEO of chip maker Nvidia Corp. NVDA , which stole the show last week by blowing away already lofty earnings expectations and leading stocks to new rounds of all-time highs, even as nagging

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Funds

Here’s an Inside Peek at What the Top Hedge Funds Are Buying

If you are a serious investor, your sweetheart was likely mad at you on Valentine’s Day. That’s because you were studying the 14,000 different investment positions that hedge fund giant Citadel had at year-end. Every Feb. 14, big money managers are required to file 13F forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, revealing many

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Investors

Opinion: Is Nvidia today’s Cisco? Here’s what Ed Yardeni thinks.

“Is Nvidia today’s Cisco? It’s possible. If so, then it has a lot more upside before it crashes — if it crashes.” Is it possible that the meltup phase of the bull market (which started on Oct. 12, 2022) has begun already — having started following the correction low on Oct. 27, 2023? Yes, it

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Investment

Nauticus Taps New Interim CEO, Interim CFO After Investment

Jan. 10, 2024 at 9:24 a.m. ET By Ben Glickman Nauticus Robotics named new a interim chief executive officer and interim finance chief after receiving an investment from existing investors. The Houston-based undersea autonomous robotics company said President John Gibson Jr. was promoted to interim CEO Jan. 4. He has served as president since October

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Investors

Boeing drags down Dow futures as investors fret over Fed trajectory

U.S. stock futures indicate a cautious session on Wall Street after a plunge in Boeing shares and amid uncertainty over Federal Reserve policy. How are stock-index futures trading S&P 500 futures ES00, -0.22% dipped 11 points, or 0.3% to 4724 Dow Jones Industrial Average futures YM00, -0.49% fell 183 points, or 0.5% to 37536 Nasdaq

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Investors

Europe’s Decision to Ground Boeing 737 MAX 9 Jets Tells Investors Something

The European aviation regulators have followed orders by the Federal Aviation Administration for the temporary grounding of many Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft, after a MAX 9 operated by Alaska Air lost a section of its fuselage in midair on Friday. The damaged plane was able to return to the Portland, Ore., airport, where the

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Finance

Lessons from the year’s top finance books

Warren Buffett, so the legend goes, reads some 500 pages a day. While you might not make it quite that far over the festive break, we hope you get a bit of time to catch up on your favourite titles. Here, Financial News runs through some of the best books we’ve read this year. Isn’t private

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Investors

Opinion: Chip giant Micron is becoming another AI play for investors

Published: Dec. 20, 2023 at 7:29 p.m. ET Micron Technology Inc.’s return to revenue growth last quarter as it recovers from the memory-chip downturn was in part due to the boom in AI-related chips, putting more of a spotlight on the chip maker as another potential AI investment. On Wednesday, Micron’s fiscal first-quarter results topped

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