Snap Stock Had Its Best Day Ever. It Doesn’t Have All of Facebook’s Problems.

Text size Snap said daily active users grew 20% year over year during the fourth quarter to 319 million. Dreamstime Snap stock rocketed higher Friday after the Snapchat parent reported a surprise prof...

Stocks’ Rally Looks Nice. Here’s Why You Should Put It on Ice

Text size Dreamstime For the stock market, this past week had the feel of steering out of a spin after hitting an ice patch—and driving away safely. Unfortunately, the road ahead may be even more trea...

Tech Stocks to Buy After a Crazy Week of Earnings

Amazon stock was up almost 14% on Friday after the company reported solid earnings and said it was raising the price of its Prime membership for the first time since 2018. Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images...

Amazon May Have Saved the Stock Market. But It’s Looking Even Worse for Meta.

After Meta Platforms’ disastrous earnings outlook, the mood was pretty sour. And with investors weighing up the Federal Reserve’s future path for interest rates and the potential impact on valuations,...

Amazon Stock Soars on Good Enough Earnings. The Price of Prime Is Going Up.

Amazon . com reported strong fourth-quarter results on Thursday, driven by strong growth in both its AWS cloud unit and its growing advertising business. The results could be a relief to some investor...

Snap and Pinterest Sink After Meta’s Big Miss. Both Report Earnings Thursday.

Text size nikkimeel/Dreamstime Shares of Snap and Pinterest and pretty much all social media stocks were falling sharply Thursday after Meta Platforms , the parent of Facebook, reported weaker-than-ex...

Why the Winners and Losers of Meta’s Earnings Will Become Clearer Today

Facebook ‘s parent company is definitely one of the most unfriended on Wall Street right now. Meta Platforms (ticker: FB), which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, is seeing its stock go into fre...

Should You Buy PayPal Stock After Its Big Drop? Don’t Rush In.

PayPal refrained from reiterating growth targets, trimmed its forecasts, and said it was shifting strategy away from growing its user base in its latest earnings. Dreamstime Text size PayPal Holdings ...

Alphabet Stock Is Soaring After an Impressive Earnings Beat

Text size Stock in Alphabet, Google’s parent, is up more than 40% over the past year. Sean Gallup/Getty Images Alphabet crushed expectations and announced plans for a 20-for-one stock split afte...

Giant Bank Bought Up Apple, Comcast Stock. It Dropped AT&T and Visa.

Text size German banking giant Commerzbank bought up Apple stock in the fourth quarter. Dreamstime A German banking giant made some abrupt changes in its U.S.-traded investments. Commerzbank initiated...

What CEOs Are Saying About Inflation: ‘The World Has Changed’

This is what some of the world’s corporate leaders said on their quarterly earnings calls this week about what they are seeing and doing about inflation. “We’re seeing inflation.…Logistics, as I’ve me...

Fidelity Wants a Piece of the Crowded Field of Metaverse ETFs

Text size Dreamstime Fidelity is trying to make a push into the metaverse. The fund giant filed an application with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday for an exchange-traded fund called ...

An Apple Bear Throws In the Towel, Removes Sell Rating

Text size “We abandon our Sell rating…seeing no indication that our thesis is playing out,” wrote New Street Research analyst Pierre Ferragu. Sascha Steinbach/Getty Images for Apple One of Wall Street...

When to stop investing in the stock market? Wild price swings are shaking the resolve of some: Is it time to bail out of equities and bonds?

Is it time to bail out of stocks and bonds? This isn’t the market that investors likely signed up for back in 2021 when shares in GameStop Corp. GME, +4.69% and movie chain AMC Entertainment Holdings ...

Weekend reads: Robinhood’s bad news — and a bit of good news

It’s been a year since Robinhood Markets Inc. HOOD, +9.65% briefly suspended “buy” orders for GameStop Corp. GME, +4.69%, AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. AMC, +3.72% and other meme stocks. The brokera...

Apple Is the Greatest: Here’s How to Trade It Now

“I’m not the greatest, I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ’em out, I pick the round.” – Muhammad Ali The Greatest of All-Time I can only guarantee one thi...

How Low Can Bitcoin Go? The Views Vary.

Illustration by Elias Stein Text size Tighter monetary policies are weighing on speculative assets like crypto, Bitcoin crashed from $43,000 to $33,000 in four days and lost 23% of its value. On Jan. ...

Peloton and Netflix Stocks Have Fallen. Here’s How Best to Play It.

One bank says to use the recent growth-stock selloff to buy shares of Alphabet . Another says Amazon.com and Facebook owner Meta Platforms . A third is going in a different direction and picking all t...

When Is the Next Recession Coming? Here’s How to Time It

Fake it ‘til you make it might work in Silicon Valley. It’s a less practical strategy for the Federal Reserve, which looks ready to compound one mistake with another. The central bank’s statement on W...

Opinion: After a monster quarter, Apple’s non-forecast is good enough for Wall Street

Apple Inc.’s holiday sales and profit totals were staggering once again, and CEO Tim Cook gave just enough of a forecast to satisfy Wall Street on Thursday — but not enough to feel totally comfortable...

Apple Stock Rises on Strong iPhone Sales

Text size Once again, the Apple story will be dominated by the strength of iPhone demand. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images Apple reported better-than-expected results for its December quarter late ...

Apple Reports Earnings Today. Here’s What to Expect.

Text size Once again, the Apple story will be dominated by the strength of iPhone demand. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images Apple will report financial results for the December quarter after the clo...

Apple Reports Earnings Thursday. Here’s Why at Least One Analyst Is Cautious.

Text size Strong post-Christmas sales will land in Apple’s fiscal second quarter this year, not the first. Chris McGrath/Getty Images Apple stock has stalled out, dragged down by the broader sli...

Apple and Other Large-Cap Tech Stocks Provide No Shelter From the Selloff—Except for One

Text size The Nasdaq Composite has plunged in response to expectations for higher interest rates. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg The tech megacaps that were some of the strongest stocks over the past two yea...

A Digital Dollar Would Have Winners and Losers. Here’s What’s at Stake.

Banks and stablecoins could be on the losing end while consumers would be winners if the Federal Reserve gets approval to digitize the dollar. The Fed outlined its thinking on a central bank digital c...

Netflix Stock Might Be a Buy After Earnings Selloff

Text size Netflix added 8.3 million subscribers in the fourth quarter, but the company’s first- quarter forecast came up well short of Wall Street’s estimate. Dreamstime And just like that, Netflix pr...

Tesla, AT&T, Apple, Microsoft, Visa, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited It will be a packed week of fourth-quarter earnings releases, with more than 100 S&P 500 companies scheduled to report. IBM and  Halliburton are Monday’s highlights, followed ...

The Market’s Priced in a Rate Rise. Now the Fed Has Lots of Other Issues to Decide.

Watch what they say, not what they do, at the Federal Open Market Committee meeting this coming week. The obverse of the famous advice from Richard Nixon’s attorney general, John Mitchell, is what eco...

Apple Stock Gets a Big Target Price Boost. Supply-Chain Problems Are Improving.

Text size Apple has faced tough supply-chain challenges. Things could be looking up. Chris McGrath/Getty Images Tech stocks were getting hammered again Friday, but there was good news on the radar for...

Tech Is Falling Again. Why Apple, Tesla, and Other Tech Stocks Are Still Buys.

Text size Apple and other tech stocks have had a rough start to 2022. They could still be good picks. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Tech stocks are getting slammed yet again, for familiar reasons. Inve...

Big Investor Tripled Its AMC Stake and Bought Apple, NIO, and Nikola Stock

Text size DNB Asset Management materially raised investments in some of the most volatile stocks, including AMC Entertainment, Apple, NIO, and Nikola. Ethan Miller/Getty Images A large European asset ...

Wells Fargo Rally Shows Warren Buffett’s Mistake in Selling Big Stake in Bank

Text size Warren Buffett Drew Angerer/Getty Images One of Warren Buffett’s worst investment moves in an otherwise fabulous career was Berkshire Hathaway ‘s sale in 2020 of a big stake in Wells Fargo a...