The Most Valuable Business on Earth Could Be Hiding Inside Amazon

Text size Amazon has created what is arguably one of the world’s best growth businesses. Thomas Samson/AFP via Getty Images Amazon Web Services just might be the most valuable business on Earth....

Who Wins When Netflix Finally Shows Ads

Ads on Netflix are the next big thing. (Photo by Phil Barker/Future Publishing via Getty Images) Future Publishing via Getty Images Digital advertisements are coming to the world’s only global media c...

High-Yield Bonds Are Looking Like Bargains After an Awful First Half

There are no bad bonds, only bad prices. So Dan Fuss, Loomis Sayles’ vice chairman, has often observed—a lesson gleaned from more than six decades of experience managing corporate bond portfolios. Aft...

Alphabet and Meta Have an Ad Revenue Problem. What It Means for Their Stocks.

Text size The Google logo is seen with the rainbow flag in New York. Angela Weiss /AFP via Getty Images Alphabet, Meta Platforms, and other big tech companies have seen their valuations undergo a sign...

Alphabet Inc Co-Founder Sergey Brin Files for Second Divorce

Sergey Brin, the iconic co-founder of the American multinational technology conglomerate holding company Alphabet, has filed for divorce as court documents show. As reported by Republic World, Sergey ...

Exxon Mobil, Alphabet, Kellogg, Charles Schwab and more

Gas pumps sit empty at an Exxon gas station in Charlotte, North Carolina on May 12, 2021. LOGAN CYRUS | AFP | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading Tuesday. Exxon Mob...

Oracle Stock Looks Like a Buy Even in a Recession

Text size Oracle expects its cloud business to grow at least 30% in its next fiscal year. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Amid a devilish brew of rising rates, high inflation, and recession fears, the tec...

Skin In The Game: My Model Portfolio

Traders on the New York Stock Exchange floor. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images Getty Images I recommend about 250 stocks a year in this column, but in a typical client portfolio, I own only 20 to 3...

Companies Are Still Buying Back Stock. Ones to Favor, and Ones to Avoid.

Text size Las Vegas Sands is sitting on a pile of cash after selling its Vegas properties, including the Venetian Resort. Roger Kisby/Bloomberg With the stock market tumbling again, it’s bargain-hunti...

Exxon May Be Making ‘More Than God.’ But Apple and Alphabet Are More Profitable.

Text size President Biden, who his hurting politically due to high inflation, took a swipe at industry leader Exxon Mobil on Friday. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Exxon Mobil may be making “more than God ...

Tech Stocks Tumble; Which Ones are Buying Opportunities?

Technology stocks have stumbled in 2022, after years of strength, amid raging inflation and soaring interest rates. The S&P 500 information and technology sector lost 20% year to date through June...

Shopify Shareholders Approve 10-for-1 Stock Split

Text size Shopify is the latest tech company to split its stock. Dreamstime The stock split trend continues. Shopify (ticker: SHOP ) shareholders on Tuesday approved a 10-for-1 split, along with the i...

After stock splits for Alphabet and Amazon, here’s who might be next

Whether you cut a pie into 10 pieces or 100 pieces, it shouldn’t affect how much the pie is worth. But in the stock market, a stock split — which is essentially cutting shares into smaller pieces — ca...

Google’s Owner Paid $296,000 to a Typical Worker. Here’s What Other Firms Pay

With a booming economy and a tight job market, median pay rose last year for most S&P 500 companies, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. Google parent Alphabet and Facebook Meta Platforms...

Why Are Amazon, Alphabet And Tesla All Splitting Their Stocks?

Getty Images It’s a stock split frenzy, and Amazon is getting in on the action. They’re the latest in a string of big names to implement or announce a stock split, drastically increasing the number of...

Amazon’s Stock Split Is Coming. Watch Tesla and Google for More.

Text size Amazon stock was at $2,423.06, or a little over $121 on a post-split basis, on Wednesday. Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images It could be a stock-split summer on Wall Street. Some of a flu...

GameStop, Salesforce, Netflix, Alphabet, Nvidia, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed Monday for Memorial Day. A handful of major companies report later this week, with the economic-data highlight being jobs Friday. HP and...

Looking for $100,000 Salary? See How Much the Biggest U.S. Companies Pay Workers

By John Stensholt and Nate Rattner May 31, 2022 7:00 am ET Wages for the median workers at the majority of big American companies are higher than they were before the pandemic, with the tight job mark...

GameStop, Salesforce, Netflix, Alphabet, Nvidia, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed Monday for Memorial Day. A handful of major companies report later this week, with the economic-data highlight being jobs Friday. HP and...

Stocks to Buy Now: Alphabet, Facebook, and 4 More Bargains

When the stock market gets pounded, bargains abound—or so it seems. But in a bear market, the key to investing success is separating the thoughtlessly discarded from the overpriced junk. With about tw...

What’s Wrong with Facebook, Amazon and Google?

It’s a black spring for tech giants.  For several weeks now, billions of dollars of market capitalization have been disappearing on a daily basis as investors’ nervousness grows.  One unwe...

The S&P 500 Is Almost in a Bear Market. This Is the Level to Watch.

Text size The Nasdaq MarketSite in New York’s Times Square. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Another day, another sea of red on investors’ screens. The S&P 500 has shed more than $7 trillion in marke...

Is Twitter Really Worth $46.5 Billion Dollars?

(Photo by Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP) (Photo by LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP via Getty Images.) AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk appears to have gotten cold feet about buying Twitter TWTR , and is now serving u...

Apple Loses A Major Title

Apple  (AAPL) – Get Apple Inc. Report just lost a coveted title.  The iPhone maker snagged that crown in 2020 on financial performance that made investors dizzy on strong sales of its hardware &...

The Stock Market Has Tumbled. The Best Stocks to Buy Now.

Investors are on pace for their worst year in history, declared strategists at one U.S. bank this past week. Their reasoning? Stocks and bonds are off to terrible starts, while consumer prices have ro...

2 Tech Stocks That Now Look Impossibly Cheap

Text size Memory chips from Micron Technology are increasingly vital in the cloud, as well as in the automotive, industrial, and networking markets. Jeremy Erickson/Bloomberg Historically, companies l...

FAANG Stocks Are Crumbling. Why the Pain May Not Be Over.

Shares of Meta Platforms, Facebook’s parent company, are off by more than 40% so far this year. Nick Otto/Bloomberg Text size There has been no refuge for technology investors this year. And it ...

More Bad Times Ahead for These 6 Big Tech Stocks

Text size Amazon stock is down 35% this year. Sebastien Bozon/AFP via Getty Images Not even the high and mighty are immune from the gravitational forces of bear markets. That is the dilemma facing the...

Apple and Amazon Have Fallen for 6 Straight Weeks. There Could Be More Pain Ahead.

Text size People visit the Apple Store in Grand Central Station in New York. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Apple and Amazon.com kicked off the second week of May looking as if the stocks would exte...

‘No Chips, No Music’ Says GM And BMW As Semiconductor Shortage Silences Apple CarPlay And Android Auto

GigaFactory (Photo by Patrick Pleul / POOL / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK PLEUL/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) POOL/AFP via Getty Images To learn how to improve your results in the market dramatically by buying...

Musk Criticizes Twitter’s Executive Compensation. Here’s How It Compares To Rivals Meta, Snap And Alphabet.

Topline Tesla billionaire Elon Musk has pledged to slash costs at Twitter—starting with executive and board salaries, though Forbes found they don’t seem unusually high compared to rival social media ...

Alphabet Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat Bought Stock in Blackstone

Text size Blackstone headquarters in New York. Angus Mordant/Bloomberg Blackstone stock has slumped so far in 2022, and director Ruth Porat just bought shares of the private-equity firm on the open ma...