Liquidity crisis fear dominates the markets as bonds sell off
Also: Trump is losing the brosphere, Musk has gone to war against Navarro.
Also: Trump is losing the brosphere, Musk has gone to war against Navarro.
Wall Street's main indexes inched higher on Wednesday as investors lapped up cheaper technology stocks in a choppy session that remained centered on tariff moves as China retaliated with more levies on U.S. goods. "The reflex to buy the dip is very strong and certainly the wipeout you've seen in tech stocks makes them cheap relative to where they were," said Chris Beauchamp, chief strategist at IG. Despite the early gains, all three benchmarks were down more than 10% from the levels seen before the reciprocal U.S. tariffwere announced last week.
Donald Trump’s tariffs have triggered a “fire sale” in bond markets in one of the clearest signs yet that US assets are losing their status as a safe haven for investors.
(Bloomberg) -- The Bank of England said hedge funds have faced “significant” margin calls from their prime brokers as they navigated extreme market volatility in the aftermath of US President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements and warned that the risk of “further sharp corrections” remains high.While the central bank’s Financial Policy Committee found that so far those firms had been able to meet margin calls, it warned that the overall global risk environment has deteriorated, according to min
Miles Schwartz recently moved to the US from Canada. He told BI he hopes the move will help him scale his company to unicorn status.
(Reuters) -Volkswagen's truck unit Traton reported a 10% drop in first-quarter deliveries on Wednesday, citing a challenging market environment. "The U.S. market is continuing to suffer from a low transportation activity," the company said in a statement, adding market uncertainties caused by the possible impact of tariffs had a negative effect on first-quarter deliveries. JP Morgan said ahead of the release that it expected weaker U.S. order intake for truck makers to persist in the second quarter, regardless of the outcome of the tariff negotiations.
As the Q4 earnings season wraps, let’s dig into this quarter’s best and worst performers in the hardware & infrastructure industry, including IonQ (NYSE:IONQ) and its peers.
Shareholders of AMC Entertainment would probably like to forget the past six months even happened. The stock dropped 34.6% and now trades at $2.66. This was partly due to its softer quarterly results and might have investors contemplating their next move.
Plexus has followed the market’s trajectory closely. The stock is down 18.5% to $110.51 per share over the past six months while the S&P 500 has lost 13.7%. This might have investors contemplating their next move.
Quarterly earnings results are a good time to check in on a company’s progress, especially compared to its peers in the same sector. Today we are looking at Sunrun (NASDAQ:RUN) and the best and worst performers in the renewable energy industry.