The United States retail sales and jobless claims weakness, significantly below estimates, coincides with the largest fiscal and monetary stimulus in history. Something is not right when these figures come significantly below estimates in an environment of massive upgrades to gross domestic product (GDP). Why?
Sound the alarm bells: it appears that some of the most fervent Tesla cultists could be beginning to stray from the path in what could be an ominous sign for an automaker that has relied heavily on its cult status to stay afloat.
Shares of Nike surged over 15 percent to a record high Friday after the sportswear giant forecast full-year sales of more than $50 billion, riding on pent-up demand for sneakers and athletic gear from US shoppers.
As the price of the world’s top cryptocurrency, bitcoin, continues to hover around $30,000, some industry experts are voicing their bullish long-term views on the matter.
Growth in U.S. new vehicle retail sales for June is expected to be lower than the previous month, despite strong consumer demand, as supply constraints and chip shortages have led to lean inventories, consultants J.D. Power and LMC Automotive said on Friday.
Oil futures headed slightly higher on Thursday, with global benchmark Brent crude holding ground at its highest price since October 2018, as investors gauged signs of strengthening demand and kept an eye on any potential response to recent price rises by OPEC+.
Tesla is now more valuable than the combination of the world’s top seven traditional auto makers, despite only delivering half a million cars this year.
Despite the serial disappointment in hard economic data, 'soft' survey data has continued to soar in 2021 but analysts expected today's Markit PMIs to retrace some of those gains.
