March 29, 2024
Investors

UPS Meets With Investors Tuesday. It Could Be Big for the Stock.

This past year was more difficult than United Parcel Service imagined when it set its three-year goals back in 2021. UPS stock closed above $200 a share on June 9, after the 2021 meeting. Shares closed this past week at $156.27. On Tuesday, UPS is set to meet with analysts and investors in Louisville, Ky.,

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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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Crypto

Stock Markets Today: Magnificent Seven, S&P 500, Bitcoin, Crypto, Inflation

Good morning. The booming US stock market is making some people nervous, but maybe the Magnificent Seven aren’t so expensive after all. Plus, there’s a big bet riding on market calm and unstoppable crypto markets may score a win in London. Here’s what people are talking about. — Sofia Horta e Costa Want to receive

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Funds

Retired Investors Can Benefit From Actively Managed Funds. It’s All in the Timing.

Many advisors are turning away from mutual funds in favor of exchange-traded funds and separately managed accounts to build client portfolios. But not Jeff Leonard, founder and managing partner of Leonard & Martens, a 25-year-old Anchorage, Alaska, practice under the Raymond James umbrella with $1.2 billion in assets under management. Leonard has tried SMAs and

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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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Investors

What investors with $6.5 trln in cash should do while waiting for Fed rate cuts

The Federal Reserve’s pushback on expectations for interest-rate cuts over the past two weeks has investors closing watching inflation data and piling more cash into money-market funds. Investors stashed a record $6.48 trillion away in U.S. money-market funds through the end of January, with the balance growing as euphoria in December over a Fed policy

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Investors

Stock-market investors fear a megacap meltdown. Here’s what history says.

Investors spent 2023 fretting about the sustainability of a stock-market rally largely driven by a handful of megacap tech stocks. Those worries remain in place as the S&P 500 has returned to record territory in the new year. “With the usual set of select megacap stocks pacing early 2024 performance, concentration-risk worries have been getting

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Investors

U.S. earnings, Hong Kong gains

42 Mins Ago Kakaobank shares jump as Q4 profit rises, customer base grows Kakaobank shares jumped 7% on Wednesday after the digital payments firm reported higher fourth-quarter profit. The company’s fourth-quarter net profit rose nearly 25% to 75.7 billion Korean won ($57.2 million) from a year earlier. Kakaobank added 2.42 million new users to its

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Investors

Stock investors fear ‘no-landing’ economy could spell trouble. What’s next?.

While the U.S. stock market has been pricing in a “soft-landing” scenario for the economy, a blowout January jobs report, relatively strong corporate earnings, and Federal Reserve Jerome Powell’s comments during the past week could point to the possibility of “no landing,” where the economy is resilient while inflation stays target.   Such a scenario

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