Google could challenge for $2 trillion market cap after earnings, stock-split news

Google parent Alphabet Inc. headed toward a couple of elusive marks Tuesday evening, after disclosing earnings and plans for a stock split: A $3,000 share price and $2 trillion market cap. Alphabet sh...

PayPal stock sinks after earnings as inflation, spending pressures weigh on outlook

PayPal Holdings Inc. largely matched expectations for its holiday quarter but shares plunged late Tuesday after the company delivered an earnings forecast that came up shy of expectations. Shares were...

Cedar Fair’s stock soars toward more-than 2-year high after confirming SeaWorld’s buyout bid

Shares of Cedar Fun L.P. FUN, +11.94% rocketed 14.7% toward a more-than two-year high in afternoon trading Tuesday, after the amusement park operator confirmed that it had received an unsolicited buyo...

UPDATE: AMC offers Q4 guidance with revenue ahead of consensus but a wider-than-expected loss. stock jump 15%

AMC Entertainment Inc. AMC, +6.64% offered guidance for the fourth quarter on Tuesday, with revenue ahead of consensus but a net loss range that is wider than expected. The company expects revenue of ...

Bears beware. Past corrections for the S&P 500 are only 15% on average, outside of recessions

Even after a rough January for Wall Street, it might take the U.S. economy slipping into a recession before the S&P 500 index risks entering a bear market, according to Oxford Economics. “Equities...

Mobile shopping company Wish’s stock gains as Foot Locker exec is named as new CEO

Wish parent company Contextlogic Inc. announced Monday that it found its new chief executive at Foot Locker Inc., and shares gained in late trading. Vijay Talwar, most recently the CEO for Foot Locker...

NXP Semiconductors’ stock volatile as revenue, outlook exceed Street expectations

NXP Semiconductors NV shares were volatile in the extended session Monday after the chip maker’s quarterly revenue results and forecast exceeded Wall Street expectations. NXP NXPI, +8.44% shares, whic...

These 7 semiconductor stocks may be close to a bottom. This chart pattern shows when and how much they might rebound.

Semiconductor stocks have been hit hard since the industry group rose to a record in early January. Analysts at Jefferies see a “peaking” pattern similar to those of 2014-2015 and 2017-2018, and expec...

BlackBerry to sell legacy patents to Catapult IP Innovations for $600 million

BlackBerry Ltd. BB, +4.37% said Monday it has entered an agreement to sell legacy patents relating mostly to mobile devices, messaging and wireless networking to Catapult IP Innovations Inc. for $600 ...

Saving for college: the pros and cons of 529 savings plans, prepaid plans and how to decide

For many, college is one of the best times of a person’s life — but it can also be extremely expensive, and that bill could last a lifetime.  If you expect to be footing at least part of the cost, edu...

Caterpillar stock suffers biggest selloff in more than a year as margin, cost disappointments offset big earnings beat

Shares of Caterpillar Inc. took a dive Friday, as surging costs and a disappointing outlook on profit margins overshadowed a big quarterly earnings beat. The construction and mining equipment company ...

Is Google’s ‘phenomenal’ fiscal run about to end?

A phenomenal fiscal year for Alphabet Inc. is about to close, and there are concerns that the future isn’t as rosy. Google’s parent company should expect “tricky waters to traverse in 2022” after it r...

What’s old is new again — the Dogs of the Dow are outperforming the stock market

The Dogs of the Dow strategy has been around awhile. It’s where investors pick the 10 stocks with the highest dividend yield in the Dow Jones Industrial Average at the end of the year, and invest equa...

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 ...

‘The company is a household name’: My husband’s tech firm gave him stock. It’s now 40% of our net worth. Should we diversify or hold?

Dear Quentin, My husband and I disagree as to whether he should diversify his tech stock. He was granted this stock during his five years employed with a tech company. It wasn’t worth much at the time...

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...

Gold suffers worst week since November as prices settle at a more than 6-week low

Gold prices posted their lowest finish in more than six weeks on Friday, as the dollar climbed in a week that has helped solidify opinions among investors that the Federal Reserve is readying for an i...

‘No one is above the law’: Oil tycoon tried to stiff his ex-wife in a bitter divorce — now he’s going to prison for tax evasion

Todd Kozel made his riches in the oil fields of Kurdistan and now will have to pay the price. The once-jet-setting co-founder and chief executive of Gulf Keystone Petroleum is headed to prison for fiv...

What to expect from markets in the next six weeks, before the Federal Reserve revamps its easy-money stance

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell fired a warning shot across Wall Street last week, telling investors the time has come for financial markets to stand on their own feet, while he works to tame i...

AMD is about to wander into a minefield

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. earnings will serve as an important indicator on whether the semiconductor outlook is truly weak in early 2022, or whether it’s just weak for certain companies. AMD AMD, +2...

What ETFs are retail investors loading up amid stock market volatility? Here’s what some are doing (and aren’t).

Hello there! Got volatility? We bet you do as the Federal Reserve signaled on Wednesday that interest rate increases in 2022 are its main priority. There is nothing new there, as investors had expecte...

The IRS will stop sending out one type of taxpayer notice to try to cut down on aggravation this tax season

Trying to minimize aggravation during a tax-filing season that could have plenty of challenges, the Internal Revenue Service said it is pausing one of its notices that could ferment taxpayer frustrati...

Here are the odds you’ll outlive your money

What year was the worst possible time in U.S. history to retire, from an investment point of view? To put this question another way: What year’s U.S. retirees had the greatest difficulty sustaining th...

Jim Cramer literally drowns Cathie Wood’s ARK as flagship fund falters

Jim Cramer has never been shy to use buzzers and bells to make the occasionally esoteric world of finance more interesting. But the host of CNBC’s Mad Money got even the Twitterverse to take notice at...

Canadian pot company BC Craft files for bankruptcy protection as market shrinks

BC Craft Supply Co. shares fell sharply on Wednesday after the Vancouver-based cannabis producer filed for protection from its creditors under Canada’s Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act. BC Craft Supply C...

Fed rate hikes are coming — how to tackle your savings, mortgage, car payments and credit-card debt in advance

Wall Street investors and Washington D.C. lawmakers are closely listening to what Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says Wednesday about the central bank’s next steps in its fight against decades...

‘This feels very unfair.’ I’m 73 and worked full-time in education. Over 17 years, I made only one late payment on my student loans. I still owe $12K. Can you help?

Getty Images/iStockphoto Question: I’m 73 years old. I took out student loans in 1999 and consolidated in 2004. I have made only one late payment in the 17 years I’ve repaid. I worked full time at two...

Natural-gas futures jump by more than 46%; oil settles lower

Natural-gas prices rallied Thursday, with traders shocked by a more than 46% jump in prices at the settlement, as the front-month February futures contract expired at the end of the trading session. N...

Intel stock hits lowest price in more than a year, and there is another shoe to drop

Intel Corp. weathered another tough investor reaction to its earnings report Thursday, and analysts say the chip maker faces another potential challenge in addition to falling margins: A looming overs...

Jefferies issues bullish note on buy-rated OrganiGram, upgrades Cronos and Hexo and cuts Tilray’s price target

Jefferies upgraded two Canadian cannabis stocks on Thursday and reduced his price target on a third, while remaining most bullish on buy-rated OrganiGram Holdings Inc., which it said is “really starti...

Nucor stock rallies as profit soars and tops expectations, as steel prices per ton nearly doubles

Shares of Nucor Corp. NUE, -1.22% rallied 2.1% in premarket trading Thursday, to bounce off a six-month closing low in the previous session, after the steel maker fourth-quarter profit that rose above...