Rivian Stock Falls Because of Amazon News. It Might Be an Overreaction.

Shares of Rivian Automotive fell after a report said the electric truck start-up is in talks to end an exclusivity pact with Amazon.com. That might have been an overreaction, judging by Amazon’s respo...

Silicon Valley Confronts the End of Growth. It’s a New Era for Tech Stocks.

Silicon Valley could use a reboot. The biggest players aren’t growing, and more than a few are seeing sharp revenue declines. Regulators seem opposed to every proposed merger, while legislators push f...

In Tech’s New World, Layoffs and Buybacks Are In, Mergers Are Out

Silicon Valley could use a reboot. The biggest players aren’t growing, and more than a few are seeing sharp revenue declines. Regulators seem opposed to every proposed merger, while legislators push f...

Do Layoffs Pay Off? Meta, Amazon, Other Tech Stocks Paint a Mixed Picture.

Text size Tech companies have announced more than 100,000 job cuts this year so far. Fizkes/Dreamstime Some technology companies have seen their stocks jump after announcing mass layoffs this earnings...

Tech Carried the Stock Market. Now They’re Taking It Down With Them.

The prospect of still-higher short- and long-term interest rates produced the worst week for the S&P 500 index in the relatively young year, a drop of 2.67%, and the third straight down week for t...

Tech Carried This Upturn, and Now It’s Taking the Market Down With It

The prospect of still-higher short- and long-term interest rates produced the worst week for the S&P 500 index in the relatively young year, a drop of 2.67%, and the third straight down week for t...

Amazon’s Stock Slump Is Hitting Employee Pay

It’s not just layoffs casting a cloud over Amazon Its share-price fall is also hitting employees’ pay, forcing the company to reassure its workers about the likelihood of a rebound.  Amazon ‘s (ticker...

Amazon and Other Quality Stocks Have Been Hit Hard. They Could Be Buys. 

Quality stocks have been out of favor for a while now. The category includes names that have been slammed but that have bright outlooks—and those are potential buys.  There are many ways to define a q...

Fastly Stock Jumps Ahead of Earnings. Analyst Says Shares Can Soar 62%.

A BofA Securities analyst turned bullish on Fastly, upgrading shares to Buy on optimism about the company’s recently appointed CEO. The cloud computing company’s stock surged as a result. Tal Liani, B...

Stock Market Has Worst Week of 2023. No News Is Bad News.

It’s the middle of February, and the stock market finally seems caught in the winter doldrums. There may be more gray days ahead. Even the most optimistic investors will admit that January’s blisterin...

Affirm Stock Drops. Company Slashes 19% of Jobs After Earnings Miss.

Affirm Holdings, a buy-now, pay-later fintech, is slashing 19% of its workforce after missing expectations for both its second fiscal quarter and its immediate outlook. Founder and CEO Max Levchin sai...

Tech Earnings Weren’t Great. Stocks Are Soaring Anyway.

Technology stocks have kicked off the year with a roar, staging the kind of spirited, widespread rally last seen during the market’s Covid-era surge. There are nearly two dozen tech tickers on my scre...

Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Ford, Nordstrom, and More Stock Market Movers

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Meta, Merck, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and More Stock Market Movers

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Why Layoffs at 3M, Dow Are More Concerning Than Amazon, Google and Microsoft

Layoffs are spreading beyond tech. That’s a troubling trend investors should be paying attention to. On Thursday, chemicals giant Dow Inc. (ticker: DOW) reported weaker-than-expected fourth-quarter nu...

Amazon.com Reports After The Close On 2/2 — Options Contracts Expire The Next Day

According to NextEarningsDate.com, the Amazon.com next earnings date is projected to be 2/2 after the close, with earnings estimates of $0.19/share on $145.53 Billion of revenue. Looking back, the rec...

Big Tech Stocks Could Rebound Big Time. Here’s How.

With markets off to a strong start this year, led by the Nasdaq Composite ‘s 5% gain, investors may be hoping that stocks will shrug off the gloomy scenarios that ruled 2022 like last month’s leftover...

Tech’s Bill Is Coming Due. Investors Aren’t the Only Ones Who Will Pay.

For two years now, tech companies have spent massive amounts of money building the capacity to serve what they believed would be a higher level of postpandemic demand. If you build it, they will come....

The Case for Holding—Not Selling—GE’s Healthcare Stock

A healthcare giant has been born: General Electric completed the spinoff of its healthcare business, GE HealthCare Technologies on Wednesday, with the shares trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker GEH...

Tesla’s Already Bringing Its Gloom Into 2023. Elon Musk Needs to Act Now.

Tesla terrible start to 2023 only seems to be getting worse. The stock is already down more than 10% this year after just three full trading days and Friday looks to be another tough one. The EV maker...

Microsoft Gets a Buy Rating. Artificial Intelligence Could Be a Game Changer.

Microsoft ‘s investment in artificial intelligence is underappreciated by the market, according to analysts at Davidson which has initiated coverage of the technology giant with a Buy rating. Microsof...

Amazon, Western Digital, Tesla, Walgreens, and More Stock Market Movers Thursday

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The 12 Best Income Investments for 2023, According to Barron’s

While it might not be a feast now for income-oriented investors, it’s a lot better than the famine that prevailed for much of the past decade. Yields on a range of bond and bond-related investments ro...

The Best Income Investing Ideas for 2023

While it might not be a feast now for income-oriented investors, it’s a lot better than the famine that prevailed for much of the past decade. Yields on a range of bond and bond-related investments ro...

Are Warren Buffett’s Investment Aides Beating the Stock Market?

Todd and Ted may be having a tough year in the stock market. Todd Combs and Ted Weschler each were hired by Berkshire Hathaway (ticker: BRK/A, BRK/B) CEO Warren Buffett more than a decade ago to manag...

Bill Miller Is Still Bullish on Bitcoin—and a Lot More

Professional athletes like to retire after a good run. Legendary value investor Bill Miller is taking a different route. Miller, 72, is sticking with the plan he announced in January to hang up his in...

Disney, Amazon May Join an Unenviable Club of 44 Stocks

Amazon com was trading lower on Tuesday, putting it within a hair’s breadth of closing below its pandemic low. Walt Disney waffling between small gains and losses, is in the same territory. With the S...

Barron’s 10 Top Stock Picks for 2023

The stock market is coming off its worst year since 2008, but it was finally a good year for value investing—and it was a good year for Barron’s favorite picks, as well.  Every December for the past 1...

Why Companies Do Layoffs Around Christmas

As job cuts ripple through industries such as tech and media, it is hard not to notice how the holiday season is a really unfortunate time for workers to be getting pink slips.  There is arguably no g...

Barron’s 10 Favorite Stocks for 2023

The stock market is coming off its worst year since 2008, but it was finally a good year for value investing—and it was a good year for Barron’s favorite picks, as well.  Every December for the past 1...

Oracle Stock Rises on Strong Earnings

Oracle shares were moving higher late Monday after the company posted better-than-expected financial results for its latest quarter. The enterprise software giant continued to see success in shifting ...

CVS Wants to Be a Healthcare Provider. So Why Doesn’t It Have Any Doctors?

Late last year, CVS Health CEO Karen Lynch unveiled a new strategy: Rather than remain simply a pit stop for toilet paper and flu shots, CVS stores would become a place that Americans—particularly old...