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Elon Ditches Twitter Deal; High-Stakes Litigation Expected

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Billionaires these days . . . . We’re away for a week, and Elon goes and blows everything to hell. After announcing that, actually, he would not be buying Twitter for the $44 billion he promised back in April, Musk presided...more

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Meta Reaches Settlement With Feds Over Allegedly Discriminatory Housing Ads

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Meta has reached a deal with federal authorities in which the Facebook parent will “adopt new online advertising practices” aimed at resolving allegations that its online ads “discriminated against users by race, gender and...more

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Inflation Fears Drive Wall Street Into Bear Market Territory

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Hardly the start to mid-June that we wanted, with markets around the world taking a beating on Monday. The Nasdaq was down more than 4.5%, the Dow nearly 2.8%, and the S&P 500 dipped into official bear market territory. Last...more

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Google Allows Some Apps to Use Their Own Payment Systems in Effort to Quell Antitrust Furor

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Under growing antitrust scrutiny, Google announced on Wednesday that it would let some apps “offer their own billing system within the Google Play store as part of a pilot program.” That move, affecting Spotify, among others,...more

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Fed Chair Primes Wall Street for Aggressive Rate Hikes in 2022

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Back at it. Let’s dive right in. Fed Chair Powell Jay Powell went on the record to start the week with an attempt to prepare markets for the central bank’s big moves ahead “in its quest to cool off demand and temper...more

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February CPI Shows Persistent U.S. Inflation at Highest Levels Since 1980s

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New CPI numbers out this week showed inflation in the U.S. rising unabated in the “month leading up to the war in Ukraine,” and the conflict is now upending hopes that 2022 would see an easing in rising prices. Certainly, the...more

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Markets Tank & Oil Skyrockets as U.S. Mulls Ending Russian Crude Imports

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A weekend of skyrocketing oil prices prompted by talk of the U.S. cutting off all Russian crude imports pushed markets to their worst performance in over a year to start the week. The Nasdaq is now down more than 20% from its...more

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Looming Ukraine Incursion Sends Stocks Plummeting

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Recent news of misinformation out of Russia about alleged troop withdrawals (when, in fact, troops and shelling near the border are up) sent skittish markets down on Thursday. Tech companies were again among “some of the...more

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DOJ Probes Short Sellers Over Possible Market Manipulation Efforts

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DOJ officials are investigating whether some activist investors—including “prominent short sellers . . . Carson Block and Andrew Left”—crossed lines in their efforts to expose “companies with shoddy or even fraudulent...more

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Meta Shares Plummet After Facebook Earnings Disappoint

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We know Zuck’s all in on the metaverse. And a decrease in Q4 profits and full-year accounting help us understand the monetary size of that commitment: some $10 billion in 2021, as Meta poured cash into its Reality Labs...more

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Alphabet Impresses with Massive Q4 Earnings, Plans Stock Split

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Alphabet posted Q4 revenue of $75 billion that resulted in more than $20 billion of profit for Google’s parent company—a 32% increase from a year earlier. The figures topped analyst expectations across the board and sent...more

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Choppy Markets Await Fed Policy Guidance

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Tuesday saw another Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde day on Wall Street, with markets diving to start the day before a late rally that petered out and left the Nasdaq down more than 2% and  the S&P 500 down about half that...more

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Markets Rebound on Wild Monday, Confirming Volatility’s Hold

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Markets pulled themselves back from the brink of a truly devastating Monday of trading to end the day, but their one-day fall of 3-4% yesterday suggests that the volatility that’s marked the first three weeks of 2022 may be...more

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December Jobs Report Expected to Cap Year of Record Growth

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Jobs Report Friday! Here’s what we’re looking for in the numbers, including a possible rebound from November’s lower-than-expected figures. Note that the report also likely doesn’t account for the recent Omicron surge, which...more

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Financial Daily Dose 12.3.2021 - Markets Bounce Back and Look for Strong November Jobs Report

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Jobs Report Friday, again. Here’s what we’re looking for in the numbers and why economists are generally optimistic about these pre-Omicron figures - NYTimes and WSJ and Bloomberg and MarketWatch Count Thursday as a...more

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Financial Daily Dose 11.17.2021 | Top Story: U.S. Consumers Spending Their Way Through Inflation So Far

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The bad news (in case you’ve missed it, a feat in itself given the amount of ink spilled on the topic): inflation’s not nearly as transitory as first promised. The good news: consumers are so far managing to spend their way...more

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Financial Daily Dose 11.10.2021 | Top Story: Google Loses Appeal of EU’s $2.8B Antitrust Fine

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In a blow to Google and the rest of Big Tech, an EU appeals court has refused to “overturn a landmark antitrust ruling by European regulators” from 2017 over Google’s alleged “preferential treatment to its own...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.27.2021 | Top Story: U.S. and Huawei Resolve Long-Simmering Dispute Over Meng Wanzhou

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Friday’s sudden end to the years-long Meng Wanzhou drama (she, the Huawei scion and exec who had been under house arrest in Canada and the subject of possible extradition to the U.S. who was released and returned to China)...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.22.2021 | Top Story: DOJ Files Antitrust Suit Against American Airlines and Jet Blue Over Growing Alliance

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Justice Department officials have filed a federal antitrust action against American Airlines and JetBlue, asserting that the “growing alliance between the two carriers had created a ‘de facto merger’ in the New York and...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.01.2021 | Top Story: Jury Selection Begins in Long-Awaited Elizabeth Holmes Fraud Trial

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Dispatch #1 from the Elizabeth Holmes Theranos criminal fraud trial, which opened yesterday with jury selection and saw the excusing of 9 of the initial batch of about 50 potential jurors for lack of vaccination...more

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Financial Daily Dose 8.16.21 | Top Story: Hyatt Hotels to Buy Resort Giant Apple Leisure for $2.7 Billion

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Hyatt Hotels revealed plans this weekend to buy resort company Apple Leisure Group from PE owners KKR and KSL Capital Partners for a reported $2.7 billion. The move is “the latest sign of optimism about a return to vacation...more

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Financial Daily Dose 6.22.2021 | Top Story: EU Opens Antitrust Probe into Google’s Ad Services

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EU antitrust officials are targeting Google for “potentially abusing its dominance in the online advertising market to box out competition”—all part of a “broader push by the European authorities to clamp down on the world’s...more

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Financial Daily Dose 4.6.2021 | Top Story: Treasury Sec. Yellen Proposes Global Minimum Tax Rate for Multinational Businesses

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Back at it. Let’s get caught up . . . Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is calling for a global minimum tax rate on multinational corporations, a move aimed at helping “prevent companies based in other countries from having a...more

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Financial Daily Dose 3.16.2021 | Top Story: Purdue Pharma Unveils Post-Bankruptcy Plans, Including $4.7B Payment by Sacklers

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Purdue Pharma has outlined its own plan to remove Sackler family control and restructure the pharmaceutical giant on the other side of bankruptcy—a 300-page effort that amounts to the company’s “formal bid to end thousands of...more

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Financial Daily Dose 3.4.2021 | Top Story: Google Shakes Up Digital Ad Industry by Phasing Out Web Tracking

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Digging deeper into Google’s announcement that “its ad tools would no longer support individual tracking of users across websites starting in 2022,” a move that—with the site’s previously unveiled plans  to stop supporting...more

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