Markit Group Ltd. created the ABX index as a synthetic basket of goods designed to provide feedback on the subprime mortgage market. The ABX itself is broken into separate sub-indexes, each of which represents a “tranche” of 20 credit default swaps, also known as credit default obligations, that are secured with subprime mortgage loans. The
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David Solomon, chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs & Co., speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., on Monday, April 29, 2019. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said that China’s recent moves boosting oversight of its technology
In this article EA JPM GS CAG PEP BA Boeing employees walk by a new Boeing 737-900 at Boeing Field in Seattle Thursday, July 15, 2004. Barry Sweet | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Boeing — Shares of Boeing fell more than 3%. The plane maker cut production
Paysafe (NYSE:PYSE) is a profitable payments company and a leader in the digital wallet and integrated processing industry. But here’s the thing about PSFE stock now — it’s trading at full value. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean the stock won’t rise. In fact, I suspect that it could move about 25% higher over the next
Nio (NYSE:NIO) has had one of the most incredible turnarounds in recent memory. The company’s initial public offering (IPO) was priced at $6 per share, and NIO stock stayed in the single digits following the IPO. Source: Sundry Photography / Shutterstock.com While Nio made a decent case about being able to beat Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) in
My view of IBM (NYSE:IBM) stock is quite mixed right now. The tech giant’s cloud business has rebounded under its new CEO, Arvind Krishna, but my positive thesis on IBM stock has a second component: the strong management and sales skills of Jim Whitehurst, the former CEO of the highly successful start-up Red Hat. Source:
A visual representation of digital currencies. Yuriko Nakao | Getty Images Virtual payments can be costly and slow – which makes them ripe for disruption by digital currencies, particularly stablecoin. What makes virtual payments inefficient is that they occur in a multitude of smaller closed networks: banks facilitate transfers linked to accounts, credit card networks
Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Source: NYSE Earnings season begins with two major tailwinds: sky high prices and sky-high expectations. On paper, second quarter earnings looks like the mother of all earnings reports, with estimates having risen steadily for the past six months, from expected 45% growth in January to
In this article BA JPM PEP Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: PepsiCo (PEP) – The snack and beverage giant gained 1.3% in premarket trading, after beating estimates on the top and bottom lines and raising its full-year forecast. PepsiCo earned an adjusted $1.72 per share for the quarter, 19 cents above
Have you ever sold a home before? If yes, then you know that selling a home is probably the worst process in the world. If no, then let me tell you: it sucks. There’s really no other way to put it. While the idea of buying and selling a home is exciting, the actual process
For a few weeks, Reddit’s r/WallStreetBets kept the buying pressure strong on AMC Entertainment (NYSE:AMC) stock. But when the Nasdaq started to lose momentum late last week, AMC stock started to lose its hold on the $60 level. Source: QualityHD / Shutterstock.com Short interest, an indicator of bearishness, is at 16.6%. The more shares fall,
Two days ago, the world changed forever. Following 17 grueling years of trial-and-error with some of the most advanced technology in the world, Richard Branson finally flew into space on Sunday, in what was the first successful commercial passenger spaceflight in human history. The billionaire entrepreneur took off in Virgin Galactic’s spaceship Sunday morning, flew
There are almost as many different rewards programs are there are credit cards. Common benefits offered include: Air Travel Miles Many credit cards partner with specific airlines and offer more generous air travel miles if you fly with them. There are many airlines cards to choose from, such as the American Express Gold Delta SkyMiles card
Art at the cryptocurrency conference Bitcoin 2021 Convention at the Mana Convention Center in Miami on June 4, 2021. Marco Bello | AFP | Getty Images Cryptocurrencies are in a summer slump as they navigate a two-month correction period following a string of negative stories. Trading volumes at the largest exchanges, including Coinbase, Kraken, Binance
In this article COF TROW RCL CCL GS CAKE Pedestrians wearing protective masks wait to enter a Disney store in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Virgin Galactic — Shares of Virgin Galactic were down 14%
Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) stock looks even more undervalued than it did in April. At the time, I said this cloud software company was worth at least 30% more than its April 14 price of $76.78. That put the value of ORCL stock at about $100 per share. Today, with its Q4 free cash flow (FCF) up 19%
Since I last wrote about Churchill Capital Corp IV (NYSE:CCIV) stock, much water has passed under the bridge. Source: gg_photography / Shutterstock.com We are ten days away from the inevitable merger of the SPAC with electric vehicle manufacturer Lucid Motors. Due to the previous delays of the merger, CCIV stock lost steam during the pre-merger
The short-squeeze rally in meme stocks like GameStop (NYSE:GME) and AMC Entertainment (NYSE:AMC) is poised to go down in financial history books in terms of shareholder gains. However, a short squeeze is only a temporary phenomenon if the underlying business lacks solid fundamentals. This would be true even for GameStop and AMC if their sky-high
Before we go forward, let’s go backward. In May, Nio (NYSE:NIO) stock was being pressured lower, as growth stocks were enveloped in a painful bear market. Nio suffered a peak-to-trough decline of 54% as the stock barely undercut the low from March. Source: xiaorui / Shutterstock.com For comparison purposes, Nio didn’t hold up quite as
(Click here to subscribe to the new Delivering Alpha newsletter.) Climate change has been one of the biggest topics of 2021, but private capital specifically, is still in a very nascent stage in making progress in this space. TPG’s Executive Chairman Jim Coulter is raising one of the very few climate funds in existence. Here he is