Category: Investment

IN-DEPTH: Oil Company Profits Soar

Top oil companies continue to see massive earnings, according to published earnings reports for the first quarter of 2023 this week. Energy prices have been soaring following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and due to persistent global demand. TotalEnergies, ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, and Shell reported a combined record profit of $153.5 billion in 2022…


ANALYSIS: Oil Company Profits Soar

Top oil companies continue to see massive earnings, according to published earnings reports for the first quarter of 2023 this week. Energy prices have been soaring following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and due to persistent global demand. TotalEnergies, ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, and Shell reported a combined record profit of $153.5 billion in 2022…


Investors Warn of More Economic Pain to Come After First Republic Failure

Top investors at the annual Milken conference have warned of more economic pain to come after the collapse of First Republic Bank. Attendees at the conference said that the third seizure of a U.S. regional bank by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) since March is threatening to constrain credit and accelerate the path toward…


ANALYSIS: How the Current Banking Crisis Is Different From the Financial Crisis of 2008

News Analysis As the current banking crisis spreads, with First Republic Bank becoming the third major U.S. bank failure of 2023, many are now seeing echoes of what has come to be known as the “Great Financial Crisis” of 2008–09. First Republic’s slow-motion collapse and ultimate acquisition by JPMorgan Chase on May 1 follows the…


ANALYSIS: How the Current Banking Crisis Differs From the Financial Crisis of 2008

News Analysis As the current banking crisis spreads, with First Republic Bank becoming the third major U.S. bank failure of 2023, many are now seeing echoes of what has come to be known as the “Great Financial Crisis” of 2008–09. First Republic’s slow-motion collapse and ultimate acquisition by JPMorgan Chase on May 1 follows the…


ANALYSIS: Comparing Today’s Banking Crisis to the 2008 Meltdown

News Analysis As the current banking crisis spreads, with First Republic Bank becoming the third major U.S. bank failure of 2023, many are now seeing echoes of what has come to be known as the “Great Financial Crisis” of 2008–09. First Republic’s slow-motion collapse and ultimate acquisition by JPMorgan Chase on May 1 follows the…


UK Housing Market Sees ‘Signs of a Recovery’ After 7 Consecutive Falls

April saw a 0.5 percent rise in house prices in Britain, in the first surge since August 2022. However, financial experts have argued that Britons should expect a “fairly pedestrian” upturn in the housing market, if any, owing to the ongoing imbalance between low wages and rising inflation. Nationwide Building Society, a British mutual financial…


Regional Bank Shares Take Beating After First Republic Collapses

U.S. regional bank shares took a beating after the collapse of First Republic and its takeover by JP Morgan Chase & Co. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) seized First Republic Bank in the second-largest bank failure in American history in what is also the third regional bank to fail this year. Shares of several…


Why Future Market Returns Could Approach Zero

What if I told you that future market returns could approach zero? This seems hard to believe, considering young investors piling back into the markets since the beginning of the year. As I discussed previously, this behavior follows the clubbing many received in 2022. A recent Wall Street Journal article discussed how retail traders that…


Anheuser-Busch to Invest Heavily in Marketing After Bud Light Transgender Controversy

Anheuser-Busch is reportedly planning to invest in a major marketing campaign for Bud Light after getting involved in a transgender ad controversy. The beer company is promising beverage distributors they will avoid similar touchy subjects, The New York Post has learned. America’s largest beer giant saw its sales plummet after its Bud Light brand partnered with…