- MarketWatch•37 minutes ago
Court sides with John Deere in barring farm-equipment rival’s use of green and yellow
It took 107 pages for a Kentucky court to explain a ruling that bans any farm-machinery maker except Deere & Co. from using green in combination with yellow for their equipment. The court on Tuesday found in favor of Deere DE, +0.40% in a suit aimed at protecting the company’s trademark coloring and brand. The decision bans Fimco Inc., a South Dakota company that makes agricultural sprayers under the Ag Spray Equipment brand name, from painting them green and yellow. The ruling comes after a one-week trial that took place in June. Deere argued that Fimco’s use of the same hues confused the public about where its products came from and diluted the value of the Deere brand. “The court ruled that
Business Insider•yesterdayMORGAN STANLEY: A stock market correction is 'looking more likely'
Earnings season can be a euphoric time for stocks. A big part of that has to do with how investors approach earnings season. When investors anticipate strong results, stocks tend to rally heading into the season only to fade as results are actually reported, the firm says.
Associated Press•20 hours agoTrump's wealth, ranking fall in latest Forbes 400 list
President Donald Trump's ranking in the Forbes list of wealthiest Americans has dropped, as the magazine said the value of some of his Manhattan real estate holdings has declined recently. Forbes ranked the first billionaire president as the 248th-wealthiest person in America and put his wealth at $3.1 billion . The year before, he was ranked 156th and Forbes said he was worth $3.7 billion.
- Business Insider•yesterday
Tesla fired hundreds of workers after bad performance reviews — here's how common that really is
A former Tesla employee told Reuters "about 400 people" in a range of positions were shown the door. As Business Insider's Bryan Logan reported, Tesla declined to confirm how many people were fired. Business Insider spoke to experts who said the firings at Tesla are hardly indicative of a trend in the workplace.
Reuters•yesterdayVolvo unveils Polestar model in China, looks to rival Tesla 3
Volvo Cars and its Chinese parent have unveiled their first Polestar high performance electric car and pledged to invest 5 billion yuan ($760 million) in the brand, gearing up for intense competition to sell greener cars in the world's biggest auto market. The Swedish car maker took the wraps off the "Polestar 1", a luxury four-seater hybrid coupe in a ceremony in Shanghai - its first salvo as it positions the brand as a competitor to Tesla Inc and Mercedes's AMG division. China has said it wants electric and plug-in hybrid cars to make up at least a fifth of Chinese auto sales by 2025, spurring a raft of investment plans from global automakers in electric vehicles, particularly new joint ventures with Chinese firms.
Reuters•2 days agoAirbus to take majority stake in Bombardier C-Series jet programme
MONTREAL/PARIS (Reuters) - Airbus SE said on Monday it would acquire a majority stake in Bombardier Inc's CSeries programme in a deal that the Canadian plane-and-train-maker said would boost sales and position the company strategically against a potentially costly U.S. trade dispute with Boeing Co . The deal, which would come at no cost for Airbus, would give the European planemaker a 50.01 percent interest in CSeries Aircraft Limited Partnership (CSALP), which manufactures and sells the jets, the companies said. Airbus Chief Executive Tom Enders said the company has offered to assemble some of the narrowbody jets at its U.S. plant in Alabama for orders by American carriers.
- CNBC Videos•18 hours ago
One of Wall Street's biggest bulls says this is what you ...
Jonathan Golub, Credit Suisse chief US equity strategist, discusses what to buy at record highs as well as his S&P 500 price target.
- CNBC.com•yesterday
Goldman: Bet against GE, dividend cut is coming
General Electric may likely cut its dividend soon as it looks to simplify its businesses and streamline its accounting under a new CEO after years of "financial engineering," according to Goldman Sachs on Tuesday. "Our fresh look at GE's fundamentals leaves us incrementally bearish, as we see a significant EPS/FCF reset and a potential dividend cut to come," wrote analyst Joe Ritchie in the report. Ritchie kept his neutral rating, but dropped his 12-month price target to $23 from $26. GE closed Tuesday at $23.19, down nearly 27 percent for the year and near its lowest level in two years. New CEO John Flannery took over for Jeff Immelt in August and has been aggressively shoring up his executive
- Bloomberg•2 days ago
Sears Sinks After Key Investor Berkowitz Plans to Leave Board
Bruce Berkowitz, Sears Holdings Corp.’s largest outside shareholder, is stepping down from the board, a move that sent the stock tumbling on Monday. Berkowitz, the chief investment officer and founder of Fairholme Capital Management, will depart at the end of this month -- less than two years after he joined the board. Long a passive investor in Sears, Berkowitz became a director in February 2016 after saying he wanted to take a more active role at the company. His exit from the board follows the liquidation of a Fairholme hedge fund that included Sears shares. The firm redistributed the stock to Berkowitz and clients who previously invested in the fund. Fairholme said on Monday that Berkowitz
- CNBC.com•2 days ago
Why Medicaid is the biggest winner in Trump's Obamacare subsidy cuts
In my home state of Oregon, we have focused on improving and transforming our Medicaid benefit system over the last five years. Medicaid is government-supported health insurance for economically disadvantaged individuals. Under the Affordable Care Act, Oregon increased the number of Medicaid beneficiaries from 600,000 to nearly 1 million in just a short time. Oregon's uniquely successful Coordinated Care Organizations developed as a new transformative way to deliver Medicaid benefits to all recipients and has demonstrated both financial and clinical success in serving its population. Annual cost increases have been held to under 3.4 percent for five years in a row for Medicaid. Additionally,
- Bloomberg•4 hours ago
Pfizer's Advil May Be Just the Thing for Sickly Reckitt
Everyone has been talking about Reckitt Benckiser Plc having a problem. Now the consumer group's CEO Rakesh Kapoor is saying the same thing. The group is saddled with a terrible dilemma. The challenge is growth. Third-quarter sales fell 1 percent to 3.2 billion pounds ($4.2 billion) on a like-for-like basis, with the growth guidance for 2017 cut from 2 percent to zero. A host of one-off issues were to blame, not least June's Petya cyberattack. But even on an underlying basis, previously fast-growing Reckitt admits its sales are expanding no more quickly than its markets, at about 2 percent. That, Kapoor says, is unacceptable. The central issue seems to be that Reckitt has just got too big to
Business Insider•9 hours agoAn obscure company is ground zero for the biggest debate in the stock market (MDP)
More than 20% of Meredith Corporation's shares are owned by ETFs, with much of that being held in dividend-focused funds. This is among the highest percentages in the US market, and serves as a microcosm for the debate around the effect rapidly-growing ETF investment is having on the stock market. You may not have heard of Meredith Corporation, but its shareholder list highlights a tug-of-war in the stock market.
- Bloomberg•17 hours ago
What China's Party Congress Means for Global Markets
The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China begins Wednesday. The conclave, which happens every five years, will mark an important political transition, and discussions are expected to continue, and new officials named, through the first quarter of 2018. Several members of the top policy-making body are expected to retire, though President Xi Jinping is likely to be renominated to his position. The change in the leadership will strengthen his hold on power and elevate his supporters to national office. Yet, rather than just view the congress as a political development, investors need to examine the impending changes for their implications for global markets. These may result from
- CNBC Videos•16 hours ago
More downside for consumer goods stocks?
Jim Cramer says the market's bearishness on consumer staples stocks like Kraft Heinz suggests that Wall Street is confident about the future.
Yahoo Finance•yesterdayEarnings season kicks into high gear
The indices are looking to keep the rally alive as the Dow inches toward 23,000. Meanwhile, traders go through a number of earnings, as Goldman Sachs blows by analysts’ estimates. Yahoo Finance’s Alexis Christoforous, Andy Serwer, Justine Underhill, Sheryl
Business Insider•yesterday3 former Tesla factory workers are suing the company over claims of 'racially motivated abuse' (TSLA)
Former Tesla factory workers have filed two separate lawsuits claiming they experienced racial harassment and discrimination. Tesla said the workers didn't file official complaints of racial discrimination during their employment. Three former workers at Tesla's Fremont, California, factory have filed a lawsuit against the company over claims they experienced racial discrimination and harassment on the job.
- Yahoo Finance•17 hours ago
Beige Book, AmEx, and eBay — What you need to know on Wednesday
Boosted by a 5% post-earnings rally from UnitedHealth (UNH), the Dow led the major indexes on Tuesday as the tech-heavy Nasdaq was a laggard, finishing marginally in the red. On Wednesday, earnings will remain the market’s big focus with Abbott Labs (ABT), United Airlines (UAL), American Express (AXP), and eBay (EBAY) all set to report results. Wall Street will keep a close eye on American Express and eBay’s results for any signs about the health of the U.S. consumer.
- Bloomberg•22 hours ago
Watch These Stocks as Nafta Negotiations Teeter on U.S. Proposal
Concern the Trump administration will carry through on its threat to torpedo Nafta is showing up in U.S. equities. At least a few of them. While the president’s talk on protectionism has done nothing to slow the stock market as a whole, air pockets have developed in a smattering of transport and consumer companies that rely on the free trade agreement for large swaths of their business. The fourth round of negotiations is nearing an end amid rising tensions over U.S. proposals, with statements from the delegations expected later Tuesday. For Greenwood Capital Associates’s Walter Todd III, the tone of those will have big implications for his portfolio. Kansas City Southern, the railroad with major
Reuters•2 hours agoApple and GE team up on software to track power plants, machinery
Apple Inc and General Electric Co say they are working together to make it easier to write software that can track power plants and jet engines on Apple's iPhones and iPads. The companies have come up with a tool for app developers to connect Apple's iOS operating system more easily to Predix, the cloud-based software at the heart of GE's effort to turn itself into a "digital industrial" company. The Predix software connects sensor-laden industrial machines like wind turbines, jet engines and elevators to data centers, so that streams of information from the machines can be analyzed to help predict failures and make the machines run more cost effectively.
- Bloomberg•7 hours ago
Hours After Xi’s Speech, it Looks Like China Is Buying Stocks
A last-hour surge by some of China’s biggest companies kept the nation’s benchmark stock index in the green following President Xi Jinping’s landmark speech at a twice-a-decade party gathering. The gauge reached its session high in the final five minutes of trading as the two largest-weighted members -- Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. and PetroChina Co. -- extended gains to more than 2 percent. Late-afternoon buying in large-cap companies during events of national importance has been a hallmark of suspected government intervention in recent years. The ChiNext index of mostly small-cap technology firms closed 0.5 percent lower, while the onshore yuan added 0.1 percent against the U.S. dollar and 10-year bond yields held steady near the highest level since late 2014.
- Fox Business•yesterday
PG&E could be at fault for California wildfires
Pacific Oil and Gas (NYSE:PCG) shares were moving higher during Tuesday’s session, following a 7% drop Monday. The stock has seen a recent string of losses on the possibility that the company may be responsible for starting the California wildfires. PG&E said in an SEC filing Friday it has "$800 million in liability insurance for potential losses," while also noting in the same filing, "that the fires are being investigated by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire), including the possible role of power lines and other facilities of Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation. When we reached out for comment, PG&E told FOX Business: “We’ve received the Commission’s request and will comply with the request.
- Bloomberg•yesterday
Blackstone Goes After Morgan Stanley's Gold Pot
Big Wall Street banks have come to rely on their money-management units as pots of gold in uncertain times for trading revenues. Morgan Stanley is a perfect example; it reported earnings on Tuesday that highlighted its wealth management as a bright spot, posting its third straight quarter of record pre-tax earnings. The Blackstone Group LP, for example, is relying on wealthy individuals with up to $5 million in assets for its next phase of growth, according to a recent Wall Street Journal article. The Carlyle Group, meanwhile, is teaming up with OppenheimerFunds on a joint venture marrying Carlyle’s asset-management reach with the other firm’s distribution network, according to a press release Monday.
- The Street•yesterday
Finding the Next Amazon Has Been a Theme of This Market: Jim Cramer
What is the theme of this market? Finding the next Amazon (AMZN) . That's according to TheStreet's founder and Action Alerts PLUS Portfolio Manager Jim Cramer. "There's always an attempt to find the next," Cramer said. "When there's an attempt to find the next, you're going to get some inflated prices." Amazon shares are up over 34% since the start of the year. Watch all of Jim Cramer's latest videos, right here: Jim Cramer Reveals When to Buy Shares of Goldman Sachs Video: Jim Cramer Reacts to Netflix's Earnings It's Time for a New Broom to Sweep Clean General Electric, Jim Cramer Says Watch: Jim Cramer Reveals the Best Artificial Intelligence Companies
- The Street•4 hours ago
Black Monday was 30 years ago this week. Fast forward to 2017, and some of the same elements
On Oct. 19, 1987, known as Black Monday, the stock market took a precipitous and fierce nose dive. Even cautious investors saw their retirement savings go up in smoke. With markets at all-time highs, many are fearful we could see another massive correction ahead. As part of TheStreet's series "Crash of '87 -- TheStreet Special Report" and one of many installments to come this week, we ask you: are your assets allocated properly to weather another such catastrophic event? Black Monday still remains the biggest on-day market crash in Wall Street history, with the Dow Jones Index shedding 22.6% of its value, about $500 billion overall. By contrast, the U.S. stock market had been performing like
- Zacks•18 hours ago
Here's Why Facebook (FB) Stock Just Touched An All-Time High
Shares of Facebook FB hit a new all-time high on Tuesday after it was announced that the social network giant will partner with Intel INTC to help the firm with its new artificial intelligence chip. Facebook will provide technical input for Intel’s new Nervana Neural Network Processor chip, which the company expects to be available on a limited basis later this year. Intel’s new AI chip is part of the next big wave of artificial intelligence processors that work to help improve deep learning AI capabilities.
