Good morning! It’s Monday, August 26, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Even EVs Can’t Get A Break From The Heat 1st Gear: Ford’s New EV Plan Means More Hybrids … Read more
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Friday guided investors through next week’s most important happenings on Wall Street, including earnings reports from homebuilders Lennar and KB Home, adding that the housing sector can be the “linchpin” of the economy. “Last night, I bemoaned that there aren’t enough stocks that are compelling away from tech,” Cramer said. “Let’s … Read more
CNBC’s Jim Cramer admitted it’s been hard to “parse this economy,” but on Tuesday he pointed to signs that it is slowing down, looking at several recent weak earnings reports and new U.S. manufacturing and services data. Cramer referred to these factors as “brown shoots” that are disrupting U.S. economic growth. “When you combine the … Read more
Happy Thursday! It’s April 11, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. The Hype Behind Tesla Stock Success In 2023 1st Gear: European Tesla Investors Are Fed Up With Elon Musk’s … Read more
More than half of the stocks in the S & P 500 hit new 52-week highs in the first quarter, leaving us to puzzle over how this all happened. We act as if it’s all about the earnings or the actions of the Federal Reserve. But maybe it is something else. Maybe it’s the share … Read more
A Carvana sign and signature vending machine in Tempe, Ariz. Michael Wayland/CNBC PHOENIX – As layoffs and cost cuts roil Wall Street, from retail and shipping to tech and media, embattled online used car sales giant Carvana says its own restructuring is in the rear view. Carvana over the last 18 months aggressively restructured its … Read more
The total addressable market for new and used car sales in the U.S. is estimated to be somewhere between $2.5 trillion and $3 trillion, according to the National Automobile Dealers Association. And e-commerce behemoth Amazon is attempting to do what insiders say no one has been able to do yet: bring a seamless online shopping … Read more
