Vehicles in Operation and Registrations in 2021 by Automaker and Segment. Where’s Tesla? by Wolf Richter • Dec 13, 2021 • 121 Comments And which states are the leaders in pickup truck sales?
Share Buybacks Surge to Record ahead of Potential 1% Tax: Companies Buy as Insiders Dump like there’s No Tomorrow by Wolf Richter • Dec 12, 2021 • 173 Comments Buy High, Don’t Buy Low. Prices are sky-high and but companies are buying them back like never before.
Mayhem Beneath the Surface of the Stock Market by Wolf Richter • Dec 5, 2021 • 282 Comments But on the surface, stocks still look hunky-dory.
DocuSign, Worth $46 billion at 4 p.m., Plunges 30% Afterhours as “the Environment Shifted More Quickly than We Anticipated” by Wolf Richter • Dec 2, 2021 • 104 Comments At the tippy top of the greatest bubble ever, all kinds of stuff can happen.
Microsoft CEO Nadella Dumped 50% of his MSFT Stock, Following in Elon Musk’s Footsteps by Wolf Richter • Nov 29, 2021 • 134 Comments Insiders dumping big portions of their stakes after historic share-price spikes is a sight to behold.
Junk Bonds, Leveraged Loans, Buyouts by PE Firms, All Blow Past Records in Massive Chase for Yield amid Fed’s Easy Money by Wolf Richter • Nov 29, 2021 • 154 Comments La-la-land finance.
Red Friday: A Little Dip and Already the Crybabies on Wall Street are Clamoring for the Fed to Soothe their Pain by Wolf Richter • Nov 26, 2021 • 215 Comments But raging inflation is a political bitch, and the White House got the Fed to acknowledge it, and that changes the equation.
Best Buy Shares Plunge on Margin Pressures, “Organized Retail Crime”: A Look at Organized Retail Crime in the US and How Ecommerce Turned it into a Big Business by Wolf Richter • Nov 23, 2021 • 209 Comments Stolen goods get sold to law-abiding Americans by third-party vendors on big ecommerce sites that profit from it. Legislation to control it struggles.
After Driving Corporate Bond & Junk-Bond Rally to Lowest Yields Ever, Fed Ends Bailout SPV with $513 Million Profit, Sends 90% to US Treasury by Wolf Richter • Nov 19, 2021 • 99 Comments By mid-September, the junk bond market started heading south.
CVS to Close 900 Stores, Convert Others from Retail to Services, as Ecommerce Competitors Gobble up Pharmacy Revenues by Wolf Richter • Nov 19, 2021 • 103 Comments Brick & Mortar Meltdown Continues.
