Companies & Markets

Double-WTF Chart of the Year Update: Tesla Becomes Most Valuable Automaker, Blows by Toyota

by Wolf Richter • Jul 1, 2020 • 167 Comments

To mark this moment in the history of insane stock prices where a tiny automaker with a global market share of 0.5% and a big loss in 2019 became the most valuable automaker in the world.

Who Will Get Hit When Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs) Blow Up? Banks or Unsuspecting “Market Participants”?

by Wolf Richter • Jun 29, 2020 • 55 Comments

Answers emerge from the murky business of CLOs.

Fed Discloses it Bought Tiny Amounts of Corporate Bonds, Including a Whopping $15.5 Million (with an M) in Junk Bonds

by Wolf Richter • Jun 28, 2020 • 83 Comments

Here are the 84 companies whose bonds the Fed bought, and the 16 bond ETFs it now holds.

Mall Giant Intu Collapses Into Bankruptcy

by Nick Corbishley • Jun 26, 2020 • 65 Comments

A zombie well before the pandemic, the UK company had racked up huge debts to finance rapid growth in a sector that had started shrinking some time ago.

Business Uncertainty About Sales Goes Haywire

by Wolf Richter • Jun 24, 2020 • 90 Comments

These Charts Show What Mess Businesses Face Going Forward.

Wild Ride to Nowhere Since Jan 2018: What the US Stock Market Looks Like Minus APPL, MSFT, AMZN, GOOG, FB

by Wolf Richter • Jun 23, 2020 • 144 Comments

Entire market of 3,451 stocks minus “Giant 5” is down 1% from Jan 2018. But wow, the volatility! You would have been better off with a despicable freaking savings account.

Latin-America’s Airlines Are Crashing, But There May Be No Bailouts. Aeromexico Denies Filing for US Bankruptcy

by Nick Corbishley • Jun 21, 2020 • 27 Comments

The AMLO government, which has refused to bail out shareholders and bondholders of large companies, could be on to something: A form of capitalism where investors, not taxpayers, carry the risks.

Alitalia, Lufthansa, Condor, Norwegian, Other European Airlines Try to Survive, But it Gets Complicated

by MC01 • Jun 21, 2020 • 75 Comments

It’s all about money, but whose money?

I, Who Hates Shorting, Just Shorted the Entire Stock Market. Here’s Why

by Wolf Richter • Jun 19, 2020 • 429 Comments

I’m sharing this trade for your future entertainment so you can hail me as the obliterating moron that infamously shorted the greatest rally floating weightlessly ever higher above the worst economic and corporate crisis imaginable.

Asset Class of Classic Cars Sinks, High-End Hits 5-Year Low, Priciest Ferraris Drop the Most. American Muscle Cars Fall to 2007 Level

by Wolf Richter • Jun 15, 2020 • 113 Comments

1958 Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder LWB down 29%. But “Affordable Classics” sizzle. Here are the cars and indices.

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