Our series "Generation Trader" highlights the most compelling business stories that are moving the market while utilizing E*TRADE's innovative trading platform. In this episode Cheddar's Hope King and Baker Machado take a look at Tesla's performance.
The automaker reported 2017 fourth quarter earnings last week, so we felt it fitting to take a deep dive on this stock's performance and see how it compares to legacy automakers. It's been a busy time for the company's CEO Elon Musk.
Musk's other company, SpaceX, launched the original Tesla roadster into space last week with the launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket.
The day after Tesla's latest earnings report you can see a drop in investor confidence. Shares fell more than 8 percent in reaction, but the overall markets were also down big that day. While Tesla did try to smooth over concerns over Model 3 production, the automaker said it expects to spend more money this year than in 2017. The company slightly beat on analyst expectations for revenue, generating $3.3 Billion dollars for the quarter, a 36 percent increase from the year before.
Prices for airfare seem to be cooling off. The latest consumer price index showed prices dropped 8.1 percent in June from a month earlier, which is the biggest decline in a year.
While summer camp prices may be up this year, there may be options for financial aid. Cheddar's own Ashley Mastronardi has more.
Alexander Mashinsky, the former CEO of the failed cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius Network, has been arrested on federal fraud charges, including wire fraud, according to CNBC.
Delta Air Lines reported its highest earnings and revenue and raised its profit outlook.
Producer price index rose just 0.1% from a year ago, in the latest signal that inflation is slowing.
Wall Street is adding to its winning week Thursday following the latest signal that inflation is continuing to ease its chokehold on the economy.
Whenever the United Auto Workers union begins negotiating a new contract with Detroit's three automakers, threats of a strike are typically heard on the floor of the old Chrysler transmission plant in Kokomo, Indiana.
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U.S. officials have approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill, which will let American women and girls buy contraceptive medication from the same aisle as aspirin and eyedrops.
Bob Iger will remain as CEO of The Walt Disney Co. through the end of 2026, agreeing to a two-year contract extension that will give the entertainment and theme park company some breathing room to find his successor.
