Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Alex Wong | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Amazon —Shares of the retailer were up 1% in after-hours trading on the back of quarterly results that beat analyst expectations. Amazon reported earnings per share of $14.09 on revenue of $125.56 billion. Analysts polled by Refinitiv
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Silver commodity futures have been the subject of enormous speculation since the beginning of February 2021 and have been incredibly volatile as a result. This means that investing in them or ETFs that hold them is substantially riskier than usual. The returns of these 3 ETFs may differ from the returns listed below due to
American Airlines (NASDAQ:AAL) is the latest stock to begin feeling the now infamous effect of retail investors from Reddit this month. Despite posting its largest annual loss ever for 2020, AAL stock popped on Jan. 27 and again the next day. Source: GagliardiPhotography / Shutterstock.com This was not due to the company’s performance. Instead, traders from the
Shares of Nio (NYSE:NIO) stock, China’s premium electric vehicle maker, blew the doors off of 2020. Beginning the year at $4, NIO stock shot up like a rocket through year-end, finishing 2020 at $50. Mark it down as one of the best years of any stock in recent memory (subscribers to The Daily 10X Stock Report
It wasn’t very long ago that shares of clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company Ocugen (NASDAQ:OCGN) were a red-hot commodity on Wall Street. Traders were grabbing shares of OCGN stock and a star was born, or so it seemed. Source: Shutterstock The problem is that hype cycles don’t last forever. It’s easy to forget that lesson in a time
A sign hangs in front of an AMC theater on January 27, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois. Shares of AMC Entertainment more than quadrupled today as investors continue their buying spree on heavily shorted stocks. Scott Olson | Getty Images Besides GameStop, other popular short squeeze targets among the Reddit crowd were taking big hits on
Peak GameStop? GameStop’s volume and volatility has been much lower this week than in the prior six days. This is also true of other heavily shorted names like Bed Bath and Beyond, Express and AMC. What’s going on? Chris Murphy, co-head of derivative strategy at Susquehanna Financial Group, ticked off the signs that the endgame
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: United Parcel Service (UPS) – UPS reported quarterly earnings of $2.66 per share, beating a consensus estimate of $2.14 a share. The revenue also came in above estimates for the holiday quarter. Among the factors boosting the bottom line: a 7.8% increase in
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Many investors are hesitant to buy individual commodities, but exchange-traded funds (ETFs) make this area accessible to a broader range of investors. Commodities can be a useful hedge against inflation, and they help diversify investment portfolios beyond more traditional stocks and bonds. Commodities such as silver and palladium also are seen as safe havens in
I’ll admit it: from a short-term perspective, I’ve been wrong so far on Electrameccanica Vehicles (NASDAQ:SOLO). I’ve been steering investors away from SOLO stock since last year. Yet, the name has been one of the bigger winners of the nice rally in electric vehicle (EV) stocks since November. Source: Luis War / Shutterstock.com I’m even
The EV Revolution arrived on Wall Street with a bang in 2020. All EV stocks — from the Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) mothership down — soared. One of the biggest winners was solid-state EV battery maker QuantumScape (NYSE:QS). QS stock, once a $10 stock in late 2020, soared as high as $130 just before Christmas 2020. Source:
Electric vehicle (EV) companies are succeeding by turning existing transportation models upside down. Moreover, the public is finally buying into the EV vision in a big way. As a result, EV stocks had a banner year in 2020. For instance, Canoo (NASDAQ:GOEV) closed it out with a massive surge in price. However, that was followed
Atlanta Federal Reserve President Raphael Bostic said Monday that he’s not worried about the U.S. economy overheating, though he does think growth could happen faster than many expect. In an estimate well ahead of most of his colleagues, Bostic, a voting member of the policymaking Federal Open Market Committee, recently drew attention for saying that
Jakub Porzycki | NurPhoto | Getty Images GameStop stock has defied gravity in the past and it could again, but there are some signs its stock may be topping out, some strategists say. GameStop was down sharply Monday, off more than 30% at $225. It has been the poster child of a group of stocks
Online brokers and robo-advisors let you open a variety of accounts, but for people taking advantage of the tax benefits of an Individual Retirement Account (IRA), a few other features come in handy. The best IRA accounts are either traditional stock brokers or robo-advisors that have excellent retirement planning tools and reporting. We looked for
This weekend, as the #silversqueeze hashtag made its way across the internet, silver prices forebodingly edged past the $30 mark – the highest it’s been since the beginning of 2013. With a physical metal shortage on the horizon, Redditors and Wall Street pros alike are starting to ask themselves: can another $SLV short squeeze happen?
I know what it’s like to be aligned with the latest phenomenon in the market: r/WallStreetBets, the subreddit on social media platform Reddit that has driven failing video game retailer GameStop (NYSE:GME) to the moon. But when it comes to WSB’s latest target Naked Brand (NASDAQ:NAKD), I’ve got to reassess whether I’m an advocate of
If you have to think about the answer, you’re not a very good investor in my opinion. That’s because Hims & Hers Health (NYSE:HIMS) plays in a segment of health care that continues to be ripe for growth, while GameStop (NYSE:GME) is a broken company with a possible second act. At current prices, you can
Nio (NYSE:NIO) stock showed record-breaking performance over the past year, returning more than 1,100%. Put another way, $1,000 invested in NIO stock in late January 2020 would now be more than $12,000. Source: xiaorui / Shutterstock.com On Wall Street, 2020 was the year of electric vehicle (EV) and alternative energy stocks. According to recent metrics,