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Signage is displayed at the FirstEnergy Corp. Bruce Mansfield coal-fired power plant in Shippingport, Pennsylvania. Justin Merriman | Bloomberg | Getty Images The best two sectors so far this year are the fast-growing tech sector and stodgy old utilities, continuing an odd race that has been going on for more than 18 months. The utilities

Despite Tesla’s meteoric rise, which has seen the shares more than double this year, some investors argue that the company’s fundamentals and future growth justify its current valuation and stock price. Underlying the bull thesis is that Tesla and its founder Elon Musk are at the forefront of a push towards a greener future, and

Tesla CEO Elon Musk presented the first batch of made-in-China cars to ordinary buyers on January 7, 2020 in a milestone for the company’s new Shanghai “giga-factory”, but which comes as sales decelerate in the world’s largest electric-vehicle market. STR The Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund dumped 39,000 shares of Tesla in the fourth quarter

Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Motors David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Investors betting against Tesla‘s stock have lost more than $8 billion since the beginning of the year, according to data from S3 Partners, including nearly $2.5 billion in losses on Monday’s surge alone. Tesla has more short sellers than

David Solomon, Goldman Sachs, at Marcus event Goldman Sachs is in talks to offer small business loans to merchants on Amazon‘s sprawling e-commerce platform, according to a person with knowledge of the plan. The bank has been working on software that would allow it to plug into Amazon’s existing loan platform, said the person, who

Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Shanghai’s Mayor Ying Yong attend the Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory groundbreaking ceremony in Shanghai, China January 7, 2019. Aly Song | Reuters Investors betting against Elon Musk’s electric-auto maker Tesla collectively lost more than $1 billion-plus on Thursday as the company’s stock rocketed higher after its better-than-expected earnings report. Tesla popped

CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Friday he’s done with fossil fuel stocks because young investor’s concerns about climate change are holding them down. On “Squawk Box,” Cramer compared oil and other fossil fuel stocks to the sigma attached to investing in tobacco companies, saying they are in the “death knell phase.” He added, ”They’re tobacco. I think

Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. (ADM) signage displayed on the side of a grain storage bin at an ADM grain elevator in Niantic, Illinois. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Oxford Industries This week Needham raised its rating on the stock to buy from hold. The company is best known as the maker of apparel brands like

A nurse holds up a one dose bottle and a prepared syringe of measles, mumps and rubella virus vaccine made by Merck at the Utah County Health Department on April 29, 2019 in Provo, Utah. George Frey | Getty Images The deadly coronavirus worsened quickly this month, roiling the financial markets as investors fled risk

Four technology giants now sit on top of the list of most valuable U.S. companies, each worth more than $1 trillion — and there’s a familiar theme to each of their stories. Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google-parent Alphabet have all looked to services and cloud businesses for growth in the past couple of years. In

Kobe Bryant, the investor, could have one day found more success than Kobe Bryant, the basketball player, billionaire entrepreneur and Philadelphia 76ers partner Michael Rubin told CNBC on Friday. “What made him successful on the court, that absolutely working harder than anybody else, is the same thing I saw from him in business,” said Rubin, executive chairman of

Michael Corbat, CEO, Citigroup, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2020. Adam Galica | CNBC Citigroup is making a push for investors’ dollars with a new digital robo-advisor that’s free for customers with at least $50,000 in deposits or investments at the bank. That’s the threshold needed to qualify for

Elon Musk Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk doesn’t have a lot of love for Wall Street – a fact he often mentions, including on Wednesday night’s earnings conference call. To begin with, Musk’s company hosts an nontraditional quarterly call with shareholders: After making a short statement about Tesla’s results,

Daniel Zuchnik | WireImage | Getty Images Warren Buffett, a life-long newspaper fan and booster, is giving up on his bet that local news would help protect papers in small to medium-sized cities. Berkshire Hathaway is selling its 31 newspapers to Lee Enterprises for $140 million in cash. The deal includes Buffett’s home-town daily, The

Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk gestures while introducing the newly unveiled all-electric battery-powered Tesla Cybertruck at Tesla Design Center in Hawthorne, California on November 21, 2019. FREDERIC J. BROWN | AFP | Getty Images Tesla bear Bank of America was forced to hike its forecast on the electric carmaker’s stock, after its massive rally

A battery start-up that’s backed by iPod inventor and Nest founder Tony Fadell, and which claims to have found a green and scalable way to make lithium-ion batteries more efficient, on Tuesday announced that it raised $18.5 million in its Series A funding round. New Orleans-based Advano is focused on increasing batteries’ energy density by

A customer holds boxes of 3M Co. 8247 R95 particulate respirators at a pharmacy in the Central district of Hong Kong, China, on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020. Justin Chin | Bloomberg | Getty Images The CEO of industrial giant 3M said Tuesday that the company is increasing production of its respiratory protection products, such as

A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Getty Images Traders and hedge funds who use high-speed methods to gain an advantage in the stock market impose a “tax” on other investors, according to a study released Monday, costing as much as $5 billion per year across global exchanges. The Financial

Investors who were waiting for the market to sink so they could buy stocks at cheaper prices should stay on the sidelines a little longer, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Monday. “This is the panic people have been waiting for,” Cramer said on “Squawk on the Street,” referring the worst selloff on Wall Street in months

An Airbus narrow body plane Nicolas Economou | NurPhoto | Getty Images European planemaker Airbus is working with Nasdaq to develop a derivatives-based trading platform that will allow airlines to protect against swings in ticket prices. Just like airline companies use oil futures to hedge against the volatility in fuel costs, they will soon be able

Mike Rasnic sits on the front porch of his home which is surrounded by floodwater on March 22, 2019 in Craig, Missouri. Scott Olson | Getty Images The risks of climate change are already impacting investors, with increasingly frequent climate disasters like wildfires, drought, flooding and heatwaves threatening business operations and properties across the world.

Shannon Stapleton | Reuters Peloton Wedbush recently initiated coverage of the exercise equipment maker with an outperform rating and believes the sky’s the limit for the company. The firm called Peloton’s business an “enduring force” and is bullish on the company’s ability to hold and retain customers in its subscription business. “Today, this business is

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon told CNBC on Thursday that starting this year, his investment bank wouldn’t help companies go public without at least one “diverse” board member. “Starting on July 1st in the U.S. and Europe, we’re not going to take a company public unless there’s at least one diverse board candidate, with a

Bill Miller Dan Mescon | CNBC Investor Bill Miller came back with a bang in 2019, riding the stock market’s relentless rally to record highs. He also thinks there may be more gains in 2020. Miller’s firm, Miller Value Partners, posted a return of 119.5% last year net of fees, he told investors in a

Seth Klarman Getty Images Billionaire hedge fund manager Seth Klarman defended value investing, saying in a letter to clients that several factors, including the proliferation of passive investing, have created market mispricings that will soon lead to a payoff for the long underperforming strategy. Klarman, the CEO of the Baupost Group, said his fund posted

Virgin Galactic shares have been on a blistering run and analysts see a variety of factors driving the space tourism company’s stock momentum, from investor excitement about space to speculation about the company’s valuation. “Lately, we are having more conversations on SPCE than any other US stock in our coverage with the possible exception of

Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk dances onstage during a delivery event for Tesla China-made Model 3 cars in Shanghai, China January 7, 2020. Aly Song | Reuters The very short-sellers that Elon Musk skewers frequently for betting against Tesla could ironically help the eccentric chief executive score a big payday. Nearly a fifth of Tesla

Billionaire investor Paul Tudor Jones said the stock market today is reminiscent of the latter stages of the bull market in 1999 that saw a giant surge that ultimately ended with the popping of the dot-com bubble. “We are just again in this craziest monetary and fiscal mix in history. It’s so explosive. It defies

Global index and fund provider MSCI said Tuesday that investors need to more readily integrate ESG metrics, or a company’s environmental, social and governance factors, into investing philosophies. “We are sounding the alarm bells that if you are an investment institution and you’re not embracing this and taking it into account, it’s going to be

Ray Dalio, founder of investment firm Bridgewater Associates, said on Tuesday that he thinks investors shouldn’t miss out on the strength of the current market and they should dump cash for a diversified portfolio. “Everybody is missing out, so everybody wants to get in,” Dalio said, speaking to CNBC’s “Squawk Box” at the World Economic