Russia-Ukraine Tensions Mount and Fed Tightening Weighs. There’s Only 1 Certainty for Markets.

U.S. stocks are being bumped around from crisis to crisis as if in a pinball machine. The uncertainty around the Federal Reserve’s policy and the future path of interest rates keeps surfacing on a reg...

Stock market faces the most ‘massive misallocation’ of ‘capital in the history of mankind,’ says ARK’s Cathie Wood

Cathie Wood, the star fund manager and chief executive of ARK Invest, took to CNBC to defend the woeful performance of the manager’s suite of disruptive innovation funds. Wood told the business networ...

Meta Stock Has Never Been Cheaper. Should I Buy the Former Facebook?

Text size Meta Platforms, the former Facebook, has a lower price-to-earnings ratio than other Big Tech companies. Noah Berger/AFP via Getty Images Meta Platforms ‘ stock is as cheap now as it has ever...

Meta Stock Has Never Been Cheaper Since Its 2012 IPO

Text size Meta Platforms, the former Facebook, has a lower price-to-earnings ratio than other Big Tech companies. Noah Berger/AFP via Getty Images Meta Platforms ‘ stock is as cheap now as it has ever...

After Alphabet’s Stock Split, Amazon and Others Look Ripe to Split Shares

Text size Amazon, Chipotle, and others could be candidates for splitting their stocks. Noah Seelam/AFP via Getty Images Alphabet recently announced it is splitting its stock. It probably won’t be the ...

A Big Tech Trade Is Losing Its Luster

The stock market’s popular FAANG trade is starting to show cracks. Investors say they are reconsidering their approach to trading big technology stocks after a week marked by giant swings in share pri...

Apple, Not Amazon, Should Buy Peloton. One Analyst Explains Why.

Text size (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images) It’s been reported that Amazon.com and Nike are weighing bids for Peloton Interactive . One analyst said he’s be surprised if Apple also wasn’t in t...

Amazon Is Weighing a Bid for Peloton: Report

Text size Amazon is exploring acquiring interactive-exercise firm Peloton, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Adam Glanzman/Bloomberg Peloton Interactive stock surged in after-hours tra...

Cryptos Could Be a ‘Speculative Mania,’ Economist Eswar Prasad Says

Discussions with central bankers at a conference a couple of years ago prompted economist Eswar Prasad to start writing what he anticipated would be a slim volume on how digital currencies could affec...

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...

Facebook Tumbled After Earnings. Now, Should You Buy or Sell Meta Stockk?

Challenges are rising for Meta Platforms—and they’re no longer just about Facebook’s legacy business. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Text size Suddenly, investors are giving Facebook a big thumbs down. ...

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,...

Peloton stock shoots more than 30% higher after report of Amazon acquisition interest

Peloton Interactive Inc. PTON, +1.44% shares jumped more than 35% in after-hours trading Friday after a report that potential acquirers including Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, +13.54% are sizing up the exerci...

Rivian Rescued Amazon Earnings—but Not Ford’s. Here’s Why.

Text size Courtesy of Rivian Amazon.com ‘s huge earnings beat was huge, but it wasn’t driven by consumer shopping or its cloud business. It was mostly driven by gains from its holdings of Rivian Autom...

Amazon holiday earnings blow away expectations (thanks to Rivian), stock spikes

Amazon.com Inc. executives thought that supply-chain and staffing concerns could wipe away their holiday profit. They were wrong. Amazon AMZN, -7.81% reported fourth-quarter profit of $14.3 billion, o...

How Rivian Rescued Amazon Earnings–But Not Ford

Text size Courtesy of Rivian Amazon.com ‘s huge earnings beat was mostly driven by gains from its holdings of Rivian Automotive stock. Ford Motor owns Rivian stock too. Like Amazon , it reported bette...

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...

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...

What to Look For From AMZN

Key Takeaways Analysts estimate EPS of $3.78 vs. $14.09 in Q4 FY 2020. Amazon Web Services revenue is expected to rise YOY. Companywide revenue is expected to rise, but at its slowest pace in years. A...

Opinion: Google is finally splitting its stock; will Amazon be next, leading to a Dow shakeup?

Alphabet Inc. is finally carving into its gargantuan stock price with a stock split, which leaves only one Big Tech company remaining with a huge per-share price despite an easy avenue to change it. A...

Amazon.com Reports After The Close On 2/3 — Options Contracts Expire The Next Day

According to NextEarningsDate.com, the Amazon.com, AMZN next earnings date is projected to be 2/3 after the close, with earnings estimates of $3.71/share on $137.66 Billion of revenue. Looking back, t...

Visa Stock Is Rising After Earnings Report. May Break Away From Mastercard.

Text size Stock in Visa was up nearly 9% on Friday morning. Roy Rochlin/Getty Images Visa stock achieved its biggest bounce in nearly two years as investors responded to surprisingly strong financial ...

Shopify’s Revenue Could Climb Sharply in the Next 5 Years

Text size Shopify went public in 2015 at $17 a share. It now trades around $853. Dreamstime Shopify , the e-commerce software company, is miles ahead of its competitors in helping merchants all over t...

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...

Warren Buffett Leapfrogs Mark Zuckerberg as Tech Slump Shakes Up Rich List

Text size Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc. Tech stock investors nursing heavy losses so far this year may want to seek solace with a quick glance a...

Tech Stocks to Buy as Interest Rates Rise

Text size Chip stocks look like good bets in th new world for tech stocks. Maika Elan/Bloomberg Tech stocks finally showed a little fight last week, aided by an impressive batch of earnings reports. B...

Where Six Meme Stock Investors Are Now

Some regret their exuberance. Others value the lessons they learned. Still others are convinced big profits lie ahead. Months after interviewing them in 2021, we checked back in with some of the inves...

Buy Now, Pay Later Comes of Age. Affirm Is the Standout in the Space.

Text size Affirm Holdings Inc. website home screen on a laptop Gabby Jones/Bloomberg Shares of Affirm Holdings were surging Friday after the online payments company received an upgrade to Buy from ana...

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...

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...