Inflation tailwind drives S&P’s top stocks for 2021

GasBuddy analyst on what to expect in 2022 GasBuddy analyst Patrick De Haan warns the highest gas prices “will be in the first half of the year.”  Energy prices had a wild ride of ups and downs in 2021, including a bear market, but the year-end result was a big win for investors with S&P energy stocks posting the best […]

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Global M&A volumes hit record high in 2021, breach $5 trillion for first time

What does the WarnerMedia-Discovery deal mean for future of M&A? Activate Consulting co-founder and CEO Michael Wolf provides insight into the WarnerMedia-Discovery merger and the ongoing streaming wars.  Global dealmaking is set to maintain its scorching pace next year, after a historic year for merger and acquisition (M&A) activity that was fueled largely by easy availability of cheap financing and […]

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China ends 2021 with worst COVID week since taming original epidemic

BEIJING (Reuters) – China ended its final week of 2021 with its biggest tally of local coronavirus cases for any seven-day period since subduing the country’s first epidemic nearly two years ago, despite an arsenal of some of the world’s toughest COVID-19 measures.FILE PHOTO: A medical worker in protective suit collects a swab sample from a man for nucleic acid […]

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Friday’s Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Ford, GM, McDonald’s, Peloton, Tesla, Ulta Beauty, Zoom Video and More

The final trading day of 2021 has arrived, after a risk-off Thursday in which all the major indexes closed lower, though the Dow Jones industrials and the S&P 500 printed fresh intraday all-time highs. With virtually no headlines to drive the market, and very light trading across the board, the focus remains on Omicron, which threw a wrench into the […]

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China's Didi is delisting from the NYSE

China’s ride-hailing firm Didi Global on Wednesday reported a 1.7% decline in third-quarter revenue, as its domestic business took a hit from a regulatory crackdown. Daniel Zhang, the chief executive officer of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding , who had served as a director on Didi’s board since 2018 has resigned, the company said. Chinese authorities have come down […]

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