No wonder Powell didn’t commit to extra hikes. Here are five reasons the January jobs report may be too good to be true.
Traders took heart that Fed Chair Jerome Powell, when he wasn’t being questioned by David Rubinstein on how he gets by on $190,000 per year, didn’t commit on Tuesday to having to be even more aggressive on interest rates given the huge 517,000 surge in nonfarm payrolls. Powell said rates would have to go even […]
TotalEnergies reveals $3.1 billion exposure to Adani
TotalEnergies, the French-headquartered energy giant, has told investors it has a “limited” $3.1 billion exposure to Indian conglomerate Adani Group, becoming the first western company to outline its exposure to the company which has shed billions of dollars in market capitalization. In a statement posted on its website Friday, the multinational oil giant outlined the […]
Adani selloff worsens after cancellation of $2.5 billion share sale
Shares of Adani Group companies continued their multi-day plunge Thursday, hours after the Indian conglomerate cancelled an up-to-$2.5 billion share sale amid a record dive in the stock price of its flagship company. Shares of Adani Enterprises 512599, -7.78% were last down 8.8%, a day after the stock fell more than 28% in its biggest […]
Gautam Adani falls to world’s eighth richest man as short seller report wipes $72 billion off Adani market value
Indian billionaire Gautam Adani’s wealth is evaporating, as Adani Group companies have lost a combined $72 billion in market value since U.S. short seller Hindenburg Research published a report on the Indian conglomerate last week. Once Forbes’ third richest billionaire, Adani has fallen back from his quick rise up the ranks, now falling to eighth […]
Adani shares mixed after 413-page response to Hindenburg
Shares of Adani Group companies were mixed in early trading Monday after the Indian conglomerate hit back at criticisms by U.S. short seller firm Hindenburg Research in a 413-page rebuttal. Flagship company Adani Enterprises 512599, +3.47% and Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd. 532921, -0.74% were up 6.8% and 4.8%, respectively, reversing course from […]
Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google face earnings test amid Big Tech layoffs
In the biggest week of the holiday-earnings season, Big Tech results will receive the spotlight amid thousands of layoffs that could only be the beginning.After tech stocks were decimated in 2022, investors will be looking for signs of a turnaround in holiday reports and potential forecasts for the year ahead from three of 2022’s top […]
Shares of Adani-linked companies slump as Indian conglomerate issues defense to short-seller claims
Stocks of affiliated companies founded by Asia’s richest man Gautam Adani continued to fall in Mumbai markets on Friday, extending a slide after a U.S. short seller published its two-year investigation into the group’s business practices. The shares of flagship firm Adani Enterprises 512599, -18.52% sank as much as 20% and other linked companies saw […]
Drug companies plan to raise prices on vital medicines to fund R&D, but they already spend more on shareholder returns
Drug companies planning to raise prices on cancer drugs and other life-saving treatments are justifying the move by claiming it’s necessary to fund research and development, but the claim rings hollow given that they spend more on shareholder rewards than on R&D, according to a new study. Accountable.US, a liberal-leaning consumer-advocacy group, found that in […]
Powell’s in Sweden. Rates Will Likely Go Higher Still Despite Companies’ Pain.
Investors looking at Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s speech at a conference at Sweden’s Riksbank Tuesday will be tempted to carefully parse his words for any hint as to when the interest-rate increases will stop. There will probably be less nuance to his remarks than first appears. Powell will certainly utter a few on-the-one-hand, and […]