IPOs increased last quarter to their best pace since the financial crisis began, and the pipeline is filled with highly anticipated new offerings. It's a sign that markets are more willing to finance long-term growth, and that investors are again willing to take risks for higher returns.
GM has finally put a sticker price on its much anticipated plug-in electric hybrid. Granted, a hefty federal tax credit will defray the cost, but the Volt carries a premium price. GM's challenge now is convincing consumers the Volt is worth it.
With Honda's president saying the company had "no future" if it didn't make vehicles that emitted less carbon dioxide, the Japanese carmaker is now gearing up to join Toyota, GM and Nissan in the electric-car and plug-in hybrid derby.
The hard-hit U.S. auto industry is making a comeback, partly due to advances in green technologies. From electric cars to engines that operate on natural gas, greentech should be good news not only for the industry, but also for investors. Hilary Kramer explains how to profit.
Toyota Motor's recent $50 million investment in electric-car upstart Tesla Motors is already paying dividends. Tesla reportedly will ship two prototypes, based on Toyota's RAV4 sport utility vehicle and Lexus RX crossover, to the Japanese automaker later this month.
Toyota, maker of the popular Prius hybrid, is preparing to move into other alternative-fuel technologies such as hydrogen fuel-cells and biofuels. Its recent large investment in Tesla Motors is just the first such partnership the world's largest automaker is pursuing.
It was a tough second quarter for investors, as the S&P 500 fell 12.5%. The driving factors include major debt problems in Europe and a fear of a double-dip recession in the U.S. Despite all this, the IPO market recorded decent performance.
Tesla's electric cars have amazing acceleration, but the company's stock has been moving even faster since its IPO last week. It shot up 79% in its first two days, but has since fallen below the IPO price. Venture capitalists and cleantech startups are watching carefully.
Some of the best reads for investors from around the Web, including posts about the Standard & Poor's 500 reaching its lowest price-per-earnings ratio ever, a biotech stock with the potential to quintuple in value and the market price of Marilyn Monroe's chest and pelvis X-rays.
A federal bankruptcy judge approved the $20 million sale of a 3.2 million-square-foot former GM plant in Wilmington, Del., to Fisker Automotive, a California-based plug-in electric vehicle start-up.
Tesla Motors' stock surged as much as 12% to $19 in its trading debut Tuesday, a day after the IPO priced at $17 a share. The luxury electric car manufacturer is the first U.S. automaker to go public in more than 50 years.
IPOs have been pretty tame so far this year, but here comes a much-buzzed-about offering from Tesla, featuring supersexy electric vehicles, like the Model S, and Elon Musk -- a CEO who's so far making far more headlines than cars.
The global economy is awash in venture capital seeking the next big thing. But if America is to create start-ups again like it did in the 1990s, Harvard Business School professor William Sahlman thinks two specific things need to happen.
California electric-car company Tesla Motors has filed for a $178 million IPO, which will make it the first U.S. car company to go public since Ford. Will the startup be able to compete with more established automakers and turn a profit?