That sound you heard was a sigh of relief from Google investors. Parent company Alphabet Inc. delivered a second-quarter financial report that showed both another impressive stretch of revenue growth and a moderation in the pace of spending that had been making stockholders panic. Google isn’t supernatural, but it has shown that recent investor pessimism about the company has been ...

Besides Twitter — especially of the ALL-CAPS variety — President Donald Trump has another way of influencing troublesome oil prices: Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). The question is which is more influential. In theory, those 660 million barrels stashed at four sites along the Gulf Coast should count for more than 280 characters in the ether. But if the aim is ...

Isn’t lithium meant to be a mood stabiliser? That’s certainly not what’s happening in the stocks of companies that produce the element used in rechargeable batteries and psychiatric medications. News this week that Tesla Inc sent a memo to some suppliers asking them for payment rebates to help it become profitable shook shares in lithium miners. The Solactive Global Lithium ...