As 2022 winds down and investors reflect on a horrendous year, they can take some comfort in the fact that the big guys had their share of misses. Among them is Harris Kupperman, the president of hedge fund Praetorian Capital, who recently blogged about his 2022 calls he nailed — a selloff of big tech … Read more
3M Co. MMM -1.08% said it would stop making so-called forever chemicals and cease using them by the end of 2025, as criticism and litigation grow over the chemicals’ alleged health and environmental impact. 3M Chief Executive Mike Roman said that the decision was influenced by increasing regulation of the chemicals known as PFAS, and … Read more
Self-driving trucking company TuSimple Holdings Inc. TSP -3.75% plans to cut potentially at least half of its workforce next week, people familiar with the matter said, as it scales back efforts to build and test autonomous truck-driving systems. A staff reduction of that size would likely affect at least 700 employees, the people said. As … Read more
PARIS—The European Union reached an agreement to impose a tax on imports based on the greenhouse gases emitted to make them, inserting climate-change regulation for the first time into the rules of global trade. The deal on Tuesday morning between European national governments and the European Parliament ends more than a year of negotiations on … Read more
By Mauro Orru Clariant AG will take a hit of roughly 225 million Swiss francs ($240.8 million) that will show in its full-year results, as the sunliquid plant in Podari, Romania, hasn’t yet delivered its targeted yields. The Swiss chemicals company said Monday that it would book the impairment this month, reflecting the charge in … Read more
U.S. stock-index futures sank Sunday night, indicating possible losses on Wall Street on Monday, as Asian markets fell following widespread public demonstrations in China and as oil prices hit a 2022 low. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures YM00, -0.47% were down more than 150 points, or 0.5%, as of 11:30 p.m. Eastern, above their session … Read more
Well, that was something. Inflation came in a bit below forecast, and then the rockets came out — the best one-day percentage rise for the S&P 500 SPX, +5.54% since April 6, 2020, and the best one-day percentage rise for the Nasdaq Composite since March 24, 2020. If inflation has truly peaked, there’s really just … Read more
Slower, but higher rates and no pivot this side of Christmas. That was the message from Fed Chairman Jerome Powell after the central bank’s fourth-straight jumbo hike. Bruised investors look ready to keep selling stocks on Thursday as yields tear higher. Not everyone agrees with Powell. “The Fed is making a huge policy error, and they will manage to break … Read more
Some investors are on edge that the Federal Reserve may be overtightening monetary policy in its bid to tame hot inflation, as markets look ahead to a reading this coming week from the Fed’s preferred gauge of the cost of living in the U.S. “Fed officials have been scrambling to scare investors almost every … Read more
So far, so good? Stocks ended the first full week of the earnings season on a strong note Friday, pushing the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +2.47%, S&P 500 SPX, +2.37% and Nasdaq Composite COMP, -0.81% to their strongest weekly gains since June. It gets more hectic in the week ahead, with 165 S&P 500 … Read more