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(Bloomberg) — Private equity titans Blackstone Group Inc. and Carlyle Group Inc. are sending a directive to portfolio companies: Do whatever it takes to stave off a credit crunch.The firms are asking some of the companies they control to draw down their bank credit lines to help prevent any liquidity shortfalls amid signs of mounting stress in markets, according to people with knowledge of the matter.At Blackstone, which has weathered a variety of crises in its 35 years, the discussions focus on sectors impacted by the spread of the coronavirus, such as the hospitality industry, as well as energy firms …read more […]

Bookings for flights departing the U.S. suffered another steep decline over the past week, as would-be passengers concerned about COVID-19 shied away from travel commitments. …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — Tesla Inc. passed Boeing Co. as the most valuable industrial company in the U.S., closing a gap that was almost $200 billion a year ago.Boeing’s biggest one-day plunge in almost 40 years dropped its market capitalization to $106.5 billion, more than $10 billion below Tesla’s value. The planemaker’s shares, already reeling since the grounding of its best-selling 737 Max jetliner, have been hammered by concerns about the coronavirus crimping global travel.Tesla continues to elbow aside manufacturing stalwarts and industry bellwethers even as the virus costs the carmaker some of its own gains. Topping Boeing is a particularly satisfying …read more […]

Editor’s Note: One month to go…
Time is running out for Americans to finish the dreaded yearly scourge that is tax season.
But this year, we have good news!
Chief Income Strategist Marc Lichtenfeld has assembled his top tips for maximizing your refund into the YouTube series Sticking It to the Tax Man.
This quick and easy collection of his best strategies will help you stiff-arm the taxman this year and for years to come. Click here to watch Episode 4, which focuses on how to create a tax-efficient portfolio.
– Mable Buchanan, Assistant Managing Editor

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Is the market crash making you money?
If you’re trading in The War Room it is! We have several types of trading strategies we use in there, but one in particular stands out at a time like this – trading options on reverse-moving assets.
While the market has been tanking just about every day, War Room traders who are following Bryan’s quick in-and-out trading strategy are swimming in winners. There have been so many, I think I lost count.
We have had well over a dozen wins since the beginning of last week – with plenty more to come!
Now, 90% or so of …read more […]

After New York confirmed its first case of coronavirus, shoppers flooded into a local Costco to stock up on supplies. …read more […]

It’s tough when the market drops, but for people saving for retirement — or people who are close to it — there are some things to consider. …read more […]

For better or for worse (but mostly for better), COVID-19 has taken Novavax (NVAX) on a very wild ride.Since the first report of an infection with COrona VIrus Disease 2019 in Wuhan, China on December 31, 2019, shares of vaccine specialist Novavax literally quadrupled in the space of two months, topping out at $16 a share on February 28, before giving back some of its gains in March. In a note issued yesterday, Oppenheimer analyst Kevin DeGeeter reiterated his “outperform” call on Novavax stock, stating a price target of $13 a share on the $10 stock. DeGeeter explained his continued …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — The World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, saying cases outside China have risen 13-fold. Local and state officials across the U.S. took several steps to discourage or ban large gatherings.The federal government’s top infectious-disease specialist told U.S. lawmakers the pathogen is 10 times more deadly than the seasonal flu. U.K. cases jumped 22% to 456, while Italy, the center of the outbreak in Europe, saw a 31% increase in fatalities, to 827.Key Developments:Confirmed cases top 120,000 globally; 4,378 deadGermany’s Merkel says 60%-70% of population potentially at riskAirbnb refuses guest refundsVirus at Bear Stearns moment and …read more […]

Online marketplaces have been around for a long time. Amazon and eBay headlined the first generation. Those companies began in the mid-1990s. They offered thousands of products in hundreds of markets and turned into digital behemoths.
The second generation began at the turn of the century. StubHub appeared in 2000. LinkedIn started in 2002. Zillow in 2004. YouTube in 2005. These companies were more specialized.
Today, Airbnb, DoorDash, Instacart and Postmates are the top-ranked startup/private marketplace companies according to venture capital firm a16z and data analytics firm Second Measure. Second Measure, which analyzes billions of purchases to track real-time consumer behavior, ranked …read more […]

One of my favorite quotes comes from internationally renowned author and management consultant Oren Harari: “The electric light did not come from the continuous improvement of candles.”
Harari’s quote has some parallels with the evolution of internal combustion engine (ICE) cars to electric vehicles.
EVs don’t just use battery power instead of gas. The way their engines operate is completely different.
And the manufacturers creating these next-generation vehicles are revolutionizing the semitruck market.
Dirty, Money-Sucking Engines
ICE vehicles physically ignite fuel to create repeated explosions. The explosions force pistons to turn a crankshaft. Power is then routed through a mechanical transmission that moves the vehicle.
The …read more […]

One of my favorite quotes comes from internationally renowned author and management consultant Oren Harari: “The electric light did not come from the continuous improvement of candles.”
Harari’s quote has some parallels with the evolution of internal combustion engine (ICE) cars to electric vehicles.
EVs don’t just use battery power instead of gas. The way their engines operate is completely different.
And the manufacturers creating these next-generation vehicles are revolutionizing the semitruck market.
Dirty, Money-Sucking Engines
ICE vehicles physically ignite fuel to create repeated explosions. The explosions force pistons to turn a crankshaft. Power is then routed through a mechanical transmission that moves the vehicle.
The …read more […]

Employees at the largest U.S. oil companies have lost around $5 billion in retirement savings since the end of 2018 because of outsized bets on their own slumping stock, according to a Reuters analysis of company disclosures, a trend exacerbated by the recent crash in oil prices. The losses spread across the 401(k) plans of some 66,000 workers underscore the dangers facing employees that do not diversify their retirement investments. The issue is most pronounced at big blue-chip corporations that have historically matched worker retirement contributions in shares and whose stocks have track records of stable growth. …read more […]

Many investors, especially beginning investors, are surprised to receive a letter in the mail telling them of an impending stock split. The first question is usually, what is a stock split? The second question naturally follows: is a stock split good?
If you’ve received such a letter or hear rumblings about a stock split pertaining to a security in your portfolio, it’s important to know what’s happening.
What is a stock split?
A stock split is aptly-named, because it involves a company splitting its existing shares. Usually, stock splits occur at a 1:2 ratio, where every existing share becomes two. However, stock splits …read more […]