Brean Capital raised its price target on Whiting Petroleum (WLL) to $102 from $96 following its proposed acquisition of Kodiak Oil & Gas (KOG), which is expected to be accretive across all metrics in 2015. Noting a forecast of higher commodity prices, Brean says Whiting represents the most attractive opportunity in its coverage universe and keeps a Buy rating on the stock.
"We are not very ambitious. I should be careful about talking about work-life balance, but the Americans just work harder.”
In his 2016 letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, legendary investor Warren Buffett wrote, “Every decade or so, dark clouds will fill the economic skies, and they will briefly rain gold. When downpours of that sort occur, it’s imperative that we ...
As US growth shows signs of sputtering and inflation keeps rising, a re-run of the tumultuous 1970s is looking more likely.
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Rooting for Donald Trump to fail has rarely been this profitable. Just ask a hardy band of mostly amateur Wall Street investors who have collectively made tens of millions of dollars over the past month by betting that the stock price of his social media business — Truth Social — will keep dropping despite massive buying by Trump loyalists and wild swings that often mirror the candidate’s latest polls, court trials and outbursts on Trump Social itself.
As U.S. inflation worries grow, some investors are preparing for the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield to breach a 16-year high of 5% hit last October. Bond yields, which move inversely to prices, have climbed in recent weeks as signs of persistent inflation erode expectations for how deeply the Federal Reserve will be able to cut interest rates without further fueling consumer prices. Many investors are betting further weakness lies ahead for bonds.
(Reuters) -Oil giant Chevron Corp beat estimates for first-quarter profit on Friday as higher production volumes in the U.S. helped offset a hit from weak natural gas prices and fuel margins. Chevron and Exxon Mobil, which posted first quarter results that missed Wall Street consensus estimates, are feeling the pinch of weak energy prices and fuels margins that have cooled in the last year. A glut of natural gas and a warmer-than-expected winter slashed natural gas prices, eating into earnings.
Microsoft reported better than anticipated Q3 earnings on Thursday, powered by growth in its cloud products.
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