Investors in electric vehicle battery hopeful QuantumScape (NYSE:QS) stock are not having a good year so far in 2021. QS stock now is near $22, down close to 75% year-to-date (YTD). The record high of $132.73 hit in late December 2020 seems far away in the rearview window. Source: Michael Vi / Shutterstock.com Leading automakers
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Dear Moneyist, We just lost my 60-year-old uncle to dementia. He struggled with drugs during his early years, and as a result, my mom raised his daughter. Once he became sober, we were all very close, and we did our best to provide care for him. His official cause of death was preventable — the
Meme stocks aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. One of the most interesting trends to emerge during the pandemic, this subcategory of stocks is generating a lot of interest, especially from retail investors. And that has led to a sharp increase of buying into companies with high short ratios. This is traditional investing turned upside down.
Your calendar may not yet have taken note, so let me be the first to inform you that fall has officially arrived. Not the season that begins this year on Sept. 22. Rather, the fall that begins when Starbucks SBUX, +0.70% starts peddling its autumn beverages. This year, the coffee chain kicked things off on
Earlier this year, General Electric (NYSE:GE) stock surged from a split-adjusted $50 per share to as much as $115.36 per share. The surge was mostly due to the Covid-19 “reopening” trade, along with success with its turnaround. Yet in recent months, shares in the industrial conglomerate have traded sideways. Source: Sundry Photography / Shutterstock.com Its
Cristiano Ronaldo and Manchester United MANU, +5.84% have reached an agreement that will put Ronaldo back on the Old Trafford pitch he plied from 2003 to 2009, the club announced. Ronaldo, who had been playing for Italian team Juventus FC, is set to return to the storied English Premier League club pending the completion of
Is going long Palantir (NYSE:PLTR) stock a bet on the big data dynamo continuing to knock things out of the park? Or is it a bet that the “growth at any price” environment that the market continues to be in will stay intact? The answer is a little bit of Column A, but mostly Column
Oil and natural-gas futures rose Friday, and were on track for strong weekly gains, after Tropical Storm Ida formed in the Caribbean and was on track to threaten the U.S. Gulf Coast. Tropical Storm Ida prompted a hurricane watch for New Orleans and an emergency declaration for the state of Louisiana as it pushed across
Dear MarketWatch,“Now’s the time to sell!” This is what we all keep hearing. As a homeowner in Northern Arizona, we would be looking to make a nice profit if we were to sell our home. But then what? Would that possibly make an impact if our next move is San Diego? We have dreamed of
The shining momentum for ContextLogic (NASDAQ:WISH) came and left in a hurry in June. Meme traders, where traders depicted stock buys with an image and a few words, lifted WISH stock. After ContextLogic posted results on August 12, any positive momentum all but evaporated. That is bad news for speculators, who thrive on trading volume.
One of the best things about being a hypergrowth investor is that I get to constantly study the world of tomorrow. In so doing, I’m always uncovering exciting new investment trends oozing with potential. And just last week, I uncovered a booming tech industry that I’m willing to bet you’ve never heard of before. Yet,
The number of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the U.S. has been slowly ticking up, and new data shows that 100,000 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19, a figure that is on track with hospitalizations over the winter. The rapid spread of the delta variant, combined with the rollback of mitigation measures like social distancing and mask
The Original BARK Company (NYSE:BARK) would be the ideal stock for me as a dog lover if two conditions were met unconditionally. First and foremost, if I were living in the U.S. And second, if I was an investor acting on emotions, getting carried away by the company and its fancy products instead of doing
Federal regulators are likely to approve a COVID-19 booster shot for vaccinated adults starting at least six months after the previous dose rather than the eight-month gap they previously announced, a person familiar with the plans said, as the Biden administration steps up preparations for delivering boosters to the public. Data from vaccine manufacturers and other
While Canada becoming the first G7 nation to legalize recreational marijuana represented a boon for cannabis firms like Tilray (NASDAQ:TLRY), the long-term goal has always been breaking into the U.S. Let’s face facts. With a population of under 38 million, Canada just doesn’t have the economic clout that stakeholders of TLRY stock are looking for.
Johnson & Johnson is the latest drug maker to make the case that an extra dose of its COVID-19 shot can help boost antibody levels—by at least nine times that of the levels recorded 28 days after initial vaccination. J&J JNJ, -0.60% has been quiet about booster shots, especially compared with the public comments in
Poshmark (NASDAQ:POSH), the new and second-hand clothing online store, produced excellent earnings for its second quarter ending June 30 on Aug. 10. With that in mind, here is the bottom line: POSH stock is worth at least 55% more at $41.20, compared to its price as of Aug. 21 of $26.53. Source: NYC Russ /
Washington Post writer Gene Weingarten, a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, is under fire for a column in which he decried Indian food — specifically, Indian curries — as being foul-tasting. “It is as though the French passed a law requiring a wide swath of their dishes to be slathered in smashed, pureed snails,”
InvestorPlace’s Brenden Rearick reported on Aug. 17 that Renaissance Technologies upped its stake in AMC Entertainment (NYSE:AMC) in the second quarter by 260%. The hedge fund now owns more than 1.8 million shares of AMC stock. Source: Helen89 / Shutterstock.com Jim Simons, the billionaire who runs the hedge fund, seems to be saying yes to
The good thing about equity mutual funds is they are managed by professionals. These folks should be (better be) well-qualified to judge which stocks are attractive bets. The bad thing about funds, besides the fees, is that you don’t have much control over taxes. That’s because the fund — not you — decides which of