Stock Market Today, Jan. 2: Tesla Falls After Q4 Delivery Decline Highlights Shift Toward Energy and Autonomy
Today, Jan. 2, 2026, investors weigh falling vehicle deliveries against record energy storage growth and rising bets on autonomy.
Tesla (TSLA 2.62%)closed Friday at $438.07, down 2.6%. Tesla IPO’d in 2010 and has grown 27,452% since going public. Trading volume reached 84.6 million shares,
Oracles of Wall Street: The top calls for 2026 from last year's most accurate market forecasters
Tariffs, delayed rate cuts, a shaky job market, more tariffs, new AI chatbots, debates over GPU depreciation timelines, dollar debasement, and even more tariffs.
It was yet another blockbuster year in markets.
Who saw things most lucidly amid all the chaos and posturing? Behold, our 2025 Oracles of Wall Street list.
Read MoreWall Street edges higher in a wobbly start to 2026
Stocks eked out small gains on Wall Street Friday in a wobbly day of trading to kick off the new year.
Markets were mostly quiet on the first trading day of 2026, with the influential technology sector driving much of the up-and-down action. The mostly minor moves also cap off a tepid and holiday-shortened week.
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Read MoreTicker: Wall Street edges higher in a wobbly start to 2026; Saks CEO steps down
U.S. stocks eked out small gains on Wall Street Friday in a wobbly day of trading to kick off the new year.
Markets were mostly quiet on the first trading day of 2026, with the influential technology sector driving much of the up-and-down action. The mostly minor moves also cap off a tepid and holiday-shortened week.
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Read MoreXRP ETFs See First Outflows since Inception as Crypto ETF Market Suffers
On Jan. 7, the spot XRP ETFs trading in the US saw their first-ever outflows at $40.7 million since launch. This ends the 6-7 weeks of continuous inflows after the first-ever ETF started trading. This came as the overall crypto ETF market is bleeding heavily, as Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs also saw major outflows during yesterday’s trading session.
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Read MoreThe Burst
Hidden Gem in China’s Fintech Market?
Yiren Digital is likely not a company you have heard of but in China it has been growing like a weed thanks to two primary fintech offerings: CreditTech and Wealth Management.
With the rapid growth of China’s fintech sector and the increasing demand for digital financial services, Yiren Digital has been putting up numbers that demand a closer look.
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Read MoreThe Ivy
Is Another NVIDIA Stock Split Imminent?
NVIDIA has split its stock six times during its 25 years as a public company. The first stock split happened in 2001, and it doubled the number of shares available. If you owned 100 Nvidia shares before the split, you had 200 shares after. The most recent stock split occurred on May 22, 2024 and was 10:1 meaning for every 100 shares owned on May 21,
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Soros Protege Tripled His Investment In This Stock
I found something interesting sniffing around the latest Duquesne Family Office 13F filings. Former Soros protege, Stanley Druckenmiller tripled his stake in Datadog, a SaaS monitoring and analytics platform.
Why would a billionaire be buying a high growth stock in a rising interest rate environment?
The first clue lies in the DDOG share price.
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