Apple Inc. stock AAPL, -0.49% was downgraded to sell from neutral by Lightshed analysts on Friday, based on a more conservative outlook for iPhone sales and moderating growth expectations for services...
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Occidental Petroleum’s stock rises after Buffett boosts stake, CrowdStrike after earnings beat
These were some of the biggest movers and shakers in premarket trading Wednesday: Stock gainers: Occidental Petroleum Corp.’s stock OXY, -1.35% rose almost 3% premarket after filings disclosed that Wa...
Nutanix stock drops as results trigger fear of ‘the cockroach theory’
Nutanix Inc. shares fell Tuesday after incomplete results and the disclosure of an investigation into reported costs led one analyst to voice concern about “the cockroach theory.” Nutanix NTNX, -7.89%...
As chip sales dry up, Nvidia CFO says spending on AI will save companies money
Nvidia Corp.’s financial chief reasons that the efficiencies businesses need are not from spending less money, but from spending more on technologies like artificial intelligence, even as chip sales d...
Opinion: Powell will have to push rates even higher for the Fed to get inflation to 2%
Inflation is proving tougher to curb than Federal Reserve Chairman Powell anticipated, and despite indicators that a recession could be coming, consumers and businesses apparently haven’t gotten the m...
Silvergate downgraded to underperform at Wedbush on prospects for liquidation after its shuts down its exchange network
Silvergate Capital Corp. SI, +0.87% stock fell 9.7% in premarket trades Monday after the company announced it’s shutting down its crypto currency payments network called the Silvergate Exchange Networ...
AMC stock soars more than 13% a day before quarterly results
Shares of AMC Entertainment Inc. AMC, +22.74% surged 13.6% toward a 12-week high in afternoon trading Monday, a day before the movie theater operator is scheduled to report fourth-quarter results. Wed...
Autodesk stock is biggest loser on S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 as Wall Street focuses on cash flow
Autodesk Inc. shares suffered their worst drop in more than a year after Wall Street focused on how the computer-assisted design software company’s shift in billing customers became a major drag on it...
Nearing retirement? Here’s how to shift your portfolio from growth to income.
Over the decades, perhaps you’ve been very good at saving your money and investing it for long-term growth. But when the time comes for you to stop working or to step back to a part-time job, you migh...
Tempted to chase fat yields in money market accounts? Why it might not pay to switch.
The yield chase is on. After more than two years of historically low interest rates, savers are rediscovering that they can earn money on their money by letting it sit. During the pandemic, many saver...
Shopify’s stock upgraded as analyst cheers ‘nearly boundless’ opportunity
Shares of Shopify Inc. nabbed an upgrade Tuesday as a D.A. Davidson analyst sees an “attractive entry point” into a name that’s been crunched in the wake of earnings. Shopify’s stock SHOP, -5.02% has ...
Nvidia earnings overshadowed by Microsoft, ChatGPT, OpenAI, gaming partnership
Nvidia Corp. earnings received a warmup Tuesday as Microsoft Corp. and the graphics-processing-unit giant announced a 10-year partnership to bring Activision Blizzard Inc.’s catalog as well as Xbox ga...
The end of easy money is bad news for these stock sectors, says Evercore ISI
The utility and real estate sectors are most at risk from the end of easy money, but healthier household balance sheets should support consumer-facing stocks, say strategists at Evercore ISI. The worl...
Deere’s stock is having its best day in 2 years
Shares of John Deere parent Deere & Co. powered up to their best one-day performance in two years after the maker of agricultural, construction and forestry equipment reported a big fiscal first-q...
These money and investing tips can hold up your portfolio if the market melts down
Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Sign up here to get MarketWatch’s best mutual funds and ETF stories emailed to you weekly! INVESTING NEWS & TRENDS Why the stock market’s pullbac...
Cisco stock adds more than $10 billion in a day, but is supply or demand driving strong performance?
Cisco Systems Inc. shares added more than $10 billion in market capitalization Thursday, but Wall Street analysts were still debating whether promises of strong sales growth in the coming months were ...
The hunt for stocks with rising dividends: These fund managers have a strategy to keep your payouts growing
The broad stock-market rally so far in 2023 might make it easy to forget what a rough ride investors faced last year. It was a time when some active strategies focused on dividends, good cash-flow tre...
These money and investing tips can build your portfolio’s offense and defense
Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Sign up here to get MarketWatch’s best mutual funds and ETF stories emailed to you weekly! INVESTING NEWS & TRENDS 10 value stocks for today’s ma...
AI is dominating the action in the stock market right now
OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, is receiving billions of dollars in funding from Microsoft Corp. MSFT, -0.20%. The rollout of this new technology has been followed by similar efforts by Alphabet Inc...
15 dividend stocks whose 5% to 10% yields appear safe in 2023 and 2024 by this analysis
Corrected dividend stock screen table, because Hanesbrands had eliminated its dividend on Feb. 2. See note above table. If you are investing in dividend stocks, the last thing you want to see is a com...
Opinion: The only market forecast that should matter to stock investors: When does the Fed decide that higher inflation is OK?
By this time last year, every stock market forecast made for 2022 was wrong. The U.S. stock market peaked on the first trading day of 2022 and went downhill from there. This year, every forecast made ...