Text size New electric cars at the official opening of the new Tesla manufacturing plant on March 22 in Germany. Christian Marquardt/Getty Images AT You’re here Model S Plaid can go from 0 to 60 in just two seconds. Tesla’s stock can gain more than 30% in less than two weeks. Tesla (ticker: TSLA) has […]
Text size New electric cars at the official opening of the new Tesla manufacturing plant on March 22 in Germany. Christian Marquardt/Getty Images AT You’re here Model S Plaid can go from 0 to 60 in just two seconds. Tesla’s stock can gain more than 30% in less than two weeks. Tesla (ticker: TSLA) has […]
US oil refiners are once again making good money, but investors aren’t quite piling into the shares. They should be, a top energy analyst tells me. The profit boom could last through the end of the decade, helped by a price mishap that won’t be easy to fix: the giant premium Europe must pay for […]
When the pandemic first hit, Celeste Lyons quit her job at a law firm in Connecticut and started to hunker down at home, living off retirement savings and an inheritance from her parents as she tried to avoid getting sick. She wanted to work again eventually, but nearly two years went by before Lyons, 63, […]
Rarely has there been such a pronounced divergence in opinion about the Federal Reserve’s strategy as there is now, after the central bank tightened its monetary policy and updated its stale economic projections from late last year. As expected, the Federal Open Market Committee raised its federal-funds rate target range this past week by one-quarter […]
Rising food prices could lead consumers to expect higher inflation, becoming a self-fulfilling prophesy. Here, a market in Brooklyn, NY, on a recent day. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Text size The latest increase in consumer prices is worse than it looks, and it may only be the start. The consumer price index jumped 7.9% in February […]
The Amazon Spheres at the company’s headquarters in Seattle, Wash. John Moore/Getty Images Text size Mathematically, stock splits create no value. Splitting your stock 20-for-1—a move Amazon announced last week—isn’t really any different than swapping a $20 bill for 20 singles. Your wallet might be a little fatter, but you aren’t any richer. The fact […]
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