Text size Berkshire has scaled back its stock repurchase program this year, and that may be sending a message that CEO Warren Buffett doesn’t view the stock as being so cheap. Bill Pugliano/Getty Images Despite what CEO Warren Buffett has called its Fort Knox balance sheet with over $100 billion in cash, Berkshire Hathaway hasn’t … Read more
Text size Revlon hair products are shown at a Houston Walmart this month. Brandon Bell/Getty Images A disconnect has emerged between Revlon ’s surging stock and the depressed bonds of the bankrupt cosmetics company. Some Revlon debt trades at distressed levels of around 10 cents on the dollar, indicating pessimism among fixed-income investors about the … Read more
Businesses in several different industries are rescinding job offers they made just a few months ago, in a sign the tightest labor market in decades may be showing cracks. Companies including Twitter Inc. , real-estate brokerage Redfin Corp. , and cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global Inc. have rescinded offers in recent weeks. Employers in other pockets … Read more
The job market is still really hot. But concerns about the economy have many people wondering if their jobs are secure enough to survive. In the past week, Tesla said it would lay off 10% of its white-collar workers and there have been layoffs and hiring freezes or slowdowns at Netflix, Carvana and Robinhood, among … Read more
Electric vehicle maker NIO has been stuck in a range of roughly 10,000 monthly deliveries for almost a year. Courtesy Nio Text size Chinese electric vehicle maker NIO offers a cautionary tale for Tesla investors. What happened to its shares could happen to Tesla ’s if volume growth at Tesla follows a similar path as … Read more
JetBlue Airways Corp. JBLU 5.30% is continuing its quest to buy Spirit Airlines Inc., SAVE 2.11% increasing its offer and strengthening its commitment to divest itself of assets to get regulatory approval for the deal. JetBlue JBLU 5.30% on Monday increased its offer to $33.50 in cash per Spirit share. Previously, it had offered $31.50 … Read more
The cryptocurrency market’s latest swoon is giving investors a painful lesson about the risks of trading digital tokens through intermediaries. In a bankruptcy restructuring, crypto investors would be navigating uncharted territory. “What can safely be predicted is that there will be litigation, and there will be delay,” said Adam Levitin, a law professor at Georgetown … Read more
Cryptocurrency-focused hedge fund Three Arrows Capital Ltd. has hired legal and financial advisers to help work out a solution for its investors and lenders, after suffering heavy losses from a broad market selloff in digital assets, the firm’s founders said on Friday. “We have always been believers in crypto and we still are,” Kyle Davies, … Read more
Disney lost out on streaming rights to the Indian Premier League’s cricket matches from 2023-2027, but said it will keep the broadcast rights. Photo: Arun Sankar/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images For Disney, DIS 1.67% losing the streaming rights to India’s most popular cricket league could turn out to be a blessing in disguise—provided the company fully capitalizes … Read more
Murmurs of a “crypto winter” are intensifying and shares of crypto-exposed companies are being caught up in the carnage, particularly companies like MicroStrategy and Coinbase that made big bets on Bitcoin. The price of Bitcoin—the proxy for the cryptocurrency space—is down by more than 50% this year, exceeding the volatility that even crypto-enthusiasts have come … Read more