Finance
Stock market news: Opening bell, November 20, 2018
Here is what you need to know.
Bitcoin plunges below $4,500. The benchmark
cryptocurrency has slumped 22% this week amid a dispute
among Bitcoin Cash (BCH)
developers that led to a hard fork of
the currency on Friday.-
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
discloses a second power-line outage. California’s
biggest utility provider said in a filing that the outage
occurred on the morning of November 8, when the deadly Camp
Fire broke out.
Carlos Ghosn is unfit to lead Renault, Bruno Le Maire, the
French finance minister, said. The Nissan chairman
was arrested Monday in Tokyo amid financial misconduct
allegations.
Andrew Left is bullish on the Tesla of China. In a
note on Monday, Left’s Citron Research said the electric-car
company’s shares have “little resistance” on their way to
rallying to $12, a jump of about 60%.
A $736 billion strategist is bracing for a 2019 stock-market
meltdown worse than anything we’ve seen this year.
Andrew Milligan, the head of global strategy at Aberdeen
Standard Investments, exclusively shared with Business Insider
three ways investors can profit from a 5%-15% correction.
Legendary investor Joel Greenblatt unpacks the Warren
Buffett-inspired “magic formula” that’s crushed the
market. Greenblatt’s Gotham Index Plus fund, has
beaten 99% of its peers over the past three years.- Target
plummets 7% after missing sales expectations ahead of the
crucial holiday season. Third-quarter sales at
stores open for at least a year rose 5.1% versus 5.2%
expected. - Best
Buy and Kohl’s beat earnings forecasts and raised
guidance. Foot Locker and Gap report after the
market close. - Housing
data is coming. The Census Bureau will release its
monthly starts and building permits numbers at 8:30 a.m. ET.
The 10-year yield is down less than 1 basis point at 3.052%. - US stock
futures indicate another red open. Nasdaq futures
are down 77 points, or 1.16%, and Dow futures are down 182
points, or 0.7%.
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