The man who predicted the 2008 housing crash is making another contrarian call, and this time his sights are set on China. Hedge fund manager Michael Burry, who became famous after the film “The Big Short” chronicled his bet against subprime mortgages, revealed on Thursday, June 25, that he added to his JD.com position at
Verizon joined the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 2004, when AT&T was removed and the index needed a new telecommunications name. It held that seat for 22 years. S&P Dow Jones Indices revealed on June 23 that the seat now belongs to someone else. Alphabet (GOOGL) will replace Verizon Communications (VZ) in the 30-stock index
Few congressional portfolios attract as much scrutiny as Nancy Pelosi’s. Her husband, Paul Pelosi, who executes the family’s trades, has previously disclosed bets on Microsoft and Alphabet that outpaced the S&P 500. His latest moves may draw even more attention. Investing.com reports that Pelosi purchased call options on both Intel (INTC) and Uber (UBER) on
Cathie Wood, chief of Ark Investment Management, likes to double down on her favorite tech stocks when the prices are falling, hoping for a bargain. That’s what Wood just did, adding shares of Coinbase after weeks of tumbling. In 2025, Wood’s flagship Ark Innovation ETF gained 35.49%, far outpacing the S&P 500’s return of 17.88%
Amazon (AMZN) is telling investors that the artificial intelligence boom comes with a very real price tag. And Wall Street needs to take note. Amazon Web Services quietly posted an update to the pricing for Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML, a reservation product that allows customers to lock in accelerator capacity for machine learning
Michael Burry is not a name the market ignores. The investor behind the “Big Short” trade that predicted the 2008 financial crisis has made his bearish stance on Palantir Technologies one of the more talked-about positions on Wall Street. Now, something has shifted. According to GuruFocus: Burry’s latest disclosures show that he has halved his
GameStop (GME) tried to buy eBay once already, and the answer was no. That rejection would have ended most takeover attempts. Cohen is not backing down. Instead, GameStop spent the following weeks building a bigger position and a stronger balance sheet, the opposite of what a retreat looks like. GameStop’s first eBay offer crashed into
A week before Apple raised prices on its most popular computers and tablets, Tim Cook sat down with the Wall Street Journal and used a phrase that stopped people mid-scroll. He called the memory chip shortage hitting Apple’s supply chain “a hundred-year flood.” He said he had never seen anything like it in 40 years
Travel is not the easiest industry in which to run a business in 2026. Along with the high price of jet fuel hitting many smaller airlines, various travel agencies and other companies selling trips or organized tours are particularly affected by an economy in which many customers are either booking trips themselves or putting them
Amazon’s Prime Day is off to a solid start, but the main news may not be how much shoppers are shelling out. It may be what they’re buying. U.S. online spending on the first day of Amazon’s four-day Prime Day event jumped 5.3% to $8.3 billion across merchants from a year ago, Adobe Analytics said.