Joby Aviation (JOBY) continues to show measured technical progress even as capital requirements remain front and center. The electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) developer recently priced a roughly $1.2 billion mix of common stock and convertible notes to fund certification efforts and scale production.
However, the weakness has not gone unnoticed.
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange at the opening bell on March 18, 2026.
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U.S. stock futures slid Wednesday night after the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped to a fresh 2026 low,
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Oil spiking and hot inflation data shook Wednesday’s stock market, leaving investors with few places to hide. But there’s still room to nibble on select stocks, according to CNBC’s Jim Cramer.
“If I didn’t own it, I would buy the stock of Nvidia,”
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With the Strait of Hormuz currently closed and the threat of ongoing attacks on energy infrastructure in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, and the price of oil almost $100 a barrel at the time of writing, investors have inevitably started looking at which energy-related stocks might help protect a portfolio from headline risk.
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Why are US stock market indexes down today, and will S&P 500, Nasdaq and Dow Jones stay in red or turn green again? This question is being asked after a sharp fall in US markets. Wall Street closed lower as investors reacted to multiple signals from the economy and global events.
The escalating instability in the Middle East has sent shockwaves through global markets, and Australia is finding itself directly in the line of fire. As a regional energy crisis looms, concerns are mounting over the resilience of the Australian economy and its domestic equity market.
The situation has forced the Reserve Bank of Australia (“RBA”) into a hawkish corner,
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Amid geopolitical turmoil, the Federal Reserve held interest rates steady at the conclusion of its policy meeting on Wednesday.
An energy shock and higher inflation expectations due to the Iran war ruled out any possibility of an interest rate cut,
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A key question hangs over the Federal Reserve’s two-day meeting that concludes on Wednesday.
Will policymakers still cut interest rates this year,
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