Jonathan Weil Profile
Jonathan Weil

@JonathanWeil

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Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal.

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Joined May 2011
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Not Gaetti
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What a time to be alive Victor Robles is too late to cut off this laser beam line drive off the bat of Tony Santander, presumably because he was paying closer attention to The Analytics Card — which you can clearly see him holding in his mouth, by the way — than to the batter.
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@JonathanWeil
Jonathan Weil
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Opendoor Hype Won’t Make Its Business Any More Viable - WSJ | My latest Heard on the Street column ⁦@WSJ⁩ ⁦@WSJheard⁩ $OPEN
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The loss-making house flipper has become a meme stock.
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Jonathan Weil
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Now it can be told . . . The Chainsaw Curse has claimed a new victim: Milei! | Resurfacing this fun piece from February: The Stadium Curse Is Well Known. Will the Chainsaw Curse Be Next? ⁦@WSJheard@wsj #ChainsawCurse
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Elon Musk is providing a fresh opportunity to test whether the chainsaw indicator rises to the level of a bona fide curse, on par with the stadium curse. (For examples of the latter, see Enron Field...
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@JonathanWeil
Jonathan Weil
29 days
Heard on the Street: Investors would have less access to information and more exposure to risk under President Trump’s proposal to cut the frequency of corporate financial reports | My latest @wsj@WSJheard
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President Trump’s proposed reduction in the frequency of corporate reporting would lead to less information and more risk in markets.
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The Wall Street Journal
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Lawyers for Jeffrey Epstein’s estate have given Congress a copy of the birthday book put together for the financier’s 50th birthday, which includes a letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist. On Monday, House Oversight Committee members confirmed that they
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The Wall Street Journal
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Update: Leavitt said in a social media post that President Trump’s legal team will continue to pursue its defamation case against the Journal. “As I have said all along, it’s very clear President Trump did not draw this picture, and he did not sign it,” Leavitt said in a post
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@JonathanWeil
Jonathan Weil
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Gavin Newsom Has an $18 Billion Plan to Shore Up California’s Utilities. It Isn’t Enough. - WSJ | My latest ⁦@WSJ⁩ ⁦@WSJheard⁩ $EIX $PCG
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PG&E and Edison need a durable wildfire backstop to be safe again for utility-stock investors.
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Tom
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@FolsomFrenzyPod Most social media for CU is too young to remember the old ralphie lol let’s pay some respect to Ralphie III with the 100 yard sprint!
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@JonathanWeil
Jonathan Weil
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Heard on the Street: How Ford uses a bespoke, nonstandard cash-flow metric to justify paying its outsize dividend. Ford calls it “adjusted free cash flow.” A more apt name would be cash flow before bad stuff. | My latest ⁦@WSJ⁩ ⁦@WSJheard⁩ $F
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The automaker’s payouts seem ambitious, notwithstanding a heavy adjustment of cash-flow metrics.
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Jonathan Weil
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Heard on the Street: Some fund managers are so obstructive that they might as well kick sand in investors’ faces. | My latest ⁦@WSJ⁩ ⁦@WSJheard
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Tricks of the trade gain new importance as 401(k) accounts open up to alternative investments.
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@JonathanWeil
Jonathan Weil
3 months
Heard on the Street: There are some calls that Warren Buffett can get away with that others may not so easily | Like using mark-to-Buffett accounting on Berkshire’s stakes in $KHC and $OXY. My latest @WSJ@WSJheard⁩ $BRK $BRK.A $BRK.B
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There are some calls the Oracle of Omaha can get away with that others may not so easily.
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@Spencerjakab
Spencer Jakab
3 months
First time being called out by a cabinet official!
@SecScottBessent
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
3 months
If @WSJ reporters actually covered the markets, they'd know why they're up. President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill prevented the largest tax hike in history and introduced economic drivers like full expensing, no tax on tips/overtime, and tax cuts for seniors. Pair that with
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@JonathanWeil
Jonathan Weil
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Heard on the Street: When Rep. Elise Stefanik sought an investigation into Harvard’s financial disclosures to bondholders, she might as well have fired a bazooka at the entire private-equity industry | My latest ⁦@WSJheard⁩ ⁦@WSJ
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The lawmaker’s call for an SEC investigation into the school highlights the industry’s fishy valuation practices.
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@JonathanWeil
Jonathan Weil
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Heard on the Street: For years, UnitedHealth Group’s financial reporting has been a black box. That needs to change. | My latest, with ⁦@david_wainer@WSJ@WSJheard⁩ $UNH
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Investors long trusted UnitedHealth to deliver earnings beats, despite limited transparency. Now they want answers.
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@JonathanWeil
Jonathan Weil
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Heard on the Street: NRG Energy has volatile earnings, but an accounting switcheroo has let it start acting like some of those gyrations don’t exist | My latest ⁦@WSJ⁩ ⁦@WSJheard⁩ $NRG
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The company’s interpretation of accounting rules allows it to mask swings in its derivative contracts.
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Jonathan Weil
4 months
Heard on the Street: Are steel tariffs as bulletproof as investors seem to believe? Trump’s latest tariff hike looks vulnerable to a courtroom challenge. | My latest ⁦@WSJ⁩ ⁦@WSJheard⁩ $CLF $NUE $STLD
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Increase is piggybacking on seven-year-old findings. Are they too stale?
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Jonathan Weil
5 months
NRG’s Stock Is a Top Gainer. How Does It Really Make Money? - WSJ | My latest ⁦@WSJ⁩ ⁦@WSJheard⁩ $NRG
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The company looks more like a risky energy trader than a simple power producer.
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@JonathanWeil
Jonathan Weil
5 months
Reposting from Feb. 23
@JonathanWeil
Jonathan Weil
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Heard on the Street: No matter how dead Nippon Steel’s bid to buy U.S. Steel might look, don’t rule out a victory by the Japanese suitor | My latest @wsj@WSJheard⁩ $X
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Jonathan Weil
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‘Steroid Olympics’ backed by Donald Trump Jr to debut in Las Vegas via @FT | SNL’s @kevin_nealon and Dennis Miller called this one decades ago, before the Soviet Union fell. https://t.co/dkB8STyDmC
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Jonathan Weil
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Heard on the Street: Harvard’s brawl with Trump casts doubt on its pristine credit | My latest @wsj@WSJheard⁩ The credit-rating companies say ⁦@Harvard⁩ is triple-A. Its bonds aren’t trading like it.
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Bond markets are pricing Harvard and other top schools’ debt as less than triple-A after the Trump administration’s attacks.
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