Securities In This Article The fact that stocks have been more volatile in recent years should not be surprising. After all, the trailing five-year period through October 2024 included the pandemic drop and rebound, two presidential elections, and the fastest interest-rate-hiking period in the US history. Over the period, the five-year standard deviation of US stocks (as measured by the Morningstar US Market Index) rose to 18.6% from 15.8% three years before (which still includes the pandemic) and 12.2% for the five years before the pandemic. Volatility isn’t necessarily bad for investors, but too much of it can make it…
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(Reuters) -Spirit Airlines is in constructive discussion with its creditors and continues to explore strategic alternatives to improve liquidity, the ultra-low-cost carrier said on Tuesday. The negotiations, with a supermajority of the noteholders, have remained productive, advanced materially and are resuming in the near term, it added. If the agreement fails, it will lead to the cancellation of existing equity and it will consider all alternatives, the statement said. The company said its adjusted operating margin in the third quarter would be down 12% from last year. Earlier in the day, the Wall Street Journal reported that the company is…
A red-hot stock market still has “room to run,” but that doesn’t make it the best place to put your money right now, according to the co-chief investment officer of the world’s largest hedge fund. “I see very few people who need to buy more” stocks, Bridgewater Associates’ Karen Karniol-Tambour said at Yahoo Finance’s Invest conference Tuesday. The stock market surged to record highs following last week’s presidential election, and Wall Street strategists pushed higher their outlooks for where stocks could be by the end of the year. Investors reacted by raising their exposure to US stocks to an 11-year…
With Elastic (NYSE:) Distributions of OpenTelemetry, SREs can now streamline collector deployment, application auto-instrumentation and lifecycle management without data translation SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), the Search AI Company, announced Kubernetes observability support in the Elastic Distributions of OpenTelemetry (EDOT) portfolio, using OpenTelemetry Operator. SREs can now access out-of-the-box configurations designed to streamline collector deployment, application auto-instrumentation and lifecycle management with Elastic Observability, providing complete visibility for Kubernetes environments. As a 100% OpenTelemetry-native solution, Elastic Observability removes the need for SREs to manage tedious schema conversions, enabling instant, real-time visibility across K8s clusters through application metrics, logs and traces, said…
By Greta Rosen Fondahn and Alessandro Parodi (Reuters) – Global sales of fully electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles rose 35% in October from the same month last year, with growth across all regions led by a 54% jump in sales in China, market research firm Rho Motion said on Wednesday. European sales rose just 0.8%, but were up in annual terms for the second straight month and the research firm expects a good end to the year in the region, data manager Charles Lester told Reuters. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT The European auto sector is facing challenges including high production costs,…
What’s going on here?According to Bank of America’s latest survey, investors haven’t been this into US stocks since 2013.What does this mean?Last week, the bank asked a group of professional investors – who, together, are sitting on half-a-trillion dollars worth of assets – what they’re doing with their money. Roughly a fifth answered after the US election results. And in short, they said they’re feeling confident: a net (what you get when you subtract the naysayers from the yeasayers) 23% said they expect stronger global economic growth in the next year – a wide swing from the net 10% who…
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Accra, Ghana and Singapore, Nov. 13, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ghana has announced a major step forward under its agreement with Singapore on carbon markets by operationalising the digital trading and settlement of Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes (ITMOs) under Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement. This development follows the May 2024 Implementation Agreement between the two countries, and marks a pivotal milestone, as Ghana strengthens its leadership in African carbon markets, while Singapore continues to establish itself as a global hub for carbon credit trading. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Ghana has signed up with ZERO13 to connect its…
A stock trader at work at the New York Stock Exchange on February 24, 2020.Johannes Eiselle/Getty Images Indexes edged up on Tuesday as markets eyed incoming inflation data this week. The rally slowed, but stocks added to records notched in Monday’s session. Bitcoin approached $90,000 as crypto markets continue to bask in Trump’s win. US stocks added to records on Tuesday, with the blistering rally since last week slowing slightly as traders prepared to take in new inflation data this week. A five-day rally helped the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 notch fresh closing highs on Monday, with…
By Blake Brittain A U.S. judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the Port of Oakland from using “San Francisco” in the Oakland airport’s name, finding the name change would likely cause consumer confusion and harm the city of San Francisco. U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Hixson said in the decision that changing the name of Metropolitan Oakland International Airport in nearby Oakland to “San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport” would likely mislead consumers into thinking it is connected with San Francisco. A spokesperson for the Port of Oakland said the port is “continuing to review the recent ruling and considering all available…