In this article .VIX An unprecedented trend appears to be underway between the booming energy sector and the turbulent stock market. Over the past ten trading days, the Bespoke Investment Group’s Paul Hickey finds energy has never performed this well while the S&P 500 is trading lower. “The energy sector is up close to 17%
As a former start-up investor and the co-founder and CEO of $1 billion autos marketplace Carro, Aaron Tan knows a thing or two about running a business. But if he had one piece of advice for other would-be entrepreneurs, it would be this: don’t go it alone. “I don’t know whether I am qualified enough
SAN JOSE, CALIF. — A former lab director at Theranos testified on Tuesday he quit the company for one simple reason: The blood-testing technology just didn’t work. Adam Rosendorff, a key witness for the government, took the stand for the fifth day in the criminal fraud trial of ex-CEO Elizabeth Holmes. “There was tremendous pressure
David McDonough, founder and CEO of Commonstock Commonstock A new social network is betting that enthusiastic retail traders are here to stay and that they want more transparency than what’s offered on Reddit. Commonstock is a social media platform for talking about trades and financial markets. It features a Twitter-like news feed, with users ranking
Workers with Patriot Environmental Services mop up oil on the surface of the water at Talbert Marsh in Huntington Beach, CA on Monday, October 4, 2021. Paul Bersebach | MediaNews Group | Getty Images A massive oil spill off the coast of southern California this past weekend has clean-up crews racing to prevent an ecological
In this article SWX NKE NFLX Seen through a store window, a Nike employee stands in the entryway of the Nike SoHo store in New York City. Drew Angerer | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Facebook, Amazon, Apple – Shares of major technology companies led Tuesday’s market rebound. Facebook shares rose
A recent Tax Foundation analysis considered how various proposals from the Biden administration, from Congress, and from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development would affect the effective tax rates (ETRs) on the foreign profits of U.S. multinationals. That analysis focused on how each policy and proposal would affect the overall ETRs. But which industries
Even in the current low interest rate environment, mortgage payments are becoming increasingly unaffordable for the median American family, according to a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. A median-income household would need to spend 32.6% of its yearly income on a median-priced home, the Atlanta Fed reported. And the median existing home
Maria Van Kerkhove, head of the World Health Organization’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, speaks during a press conference following an emergency committee meeting over the new coronavirus in Geneva on Jan. 22, 2020. Pierre Albouy | AFP | Getty Images World Health Organization officials said Tuesday that the unvaccinated are “dying unnecessarily” from Covid-19,
In this article PEP Pepsi soft drinks are displayed at a convenience store in San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images PepsiCo on Tuesday raised its full-year forecast after its quarterly earnings and revenue topped analysts’ expectations, despite higher costs and snarls in the supply chain. Shares of the company fell less than 1% in premarket
Billionaire Ray Dalio believes in an old saying: “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.“ That may explain how Dalio, a hedge fund tycoon with a net worth of $20 billion, according to Forbes, became a mentor to entrepreneur and music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs. The two met during a photoshoot for Forbes
In this article SWX Carl Icahn speaking at Delivering Alpha in New York on Sept. 13, 2016. David A. Grogan | CNBC Carl Icahn on Tuesday announced a sizeable stake in Southwest Gas, and the activist investor is pushing the Las Vegas-based utility company to drop its rumored acquisition of natural gas company Questar Pipeline.