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...

Applied Materials Raises Dividend, Increases Buybacks. Stock Climbs.

Applied Materials the largest chip-equipment maker in the world, announced Monday a 23.1% lift in its quarterly cash dividend, from 26 cents to 32 cents per share. The dividend is payable on June 15 t...

Provention Bio Stock Soars on $2.9 Billion Acquisition by Sanofi

Shares of Provention Bio soared Monday after the biopharmaceutical company agreed to be acquired by France’s Sanofi (SNY) for $25 a share, or about $2.9 billion. Provention Bio (ticker: PRVB), which f...

First Republic Says Everything Is Fine. Why the Stock Market Is Worried.

First Republic Bank worked to reassure clients about the safety of its business Sunday evening after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank last week sparked fears of contagion in the banking industry. “...

This Energy Stock Is Rocketing. Its Chairman Just Bought Shares.

Transocean stock has been on a tear, to the point where many investors would think about taking some money off the table. But Chairman Chad Deaton just bought more shares of the offshore-drilling comp...

American Express and 4 More Companies That Raised Their Stock Dividends

American Express Oracle and Johnson Controls were among the large U.S. companies that declared dividend increases this week. It was a fairly light week for such announcements, with earnings season hav...

SVB Financial CEO Greg Becker Sold $3.6 Million in Stock Nearly Two Weeks Ago

Roughly two weeks before SVB Financial Group stock collapsed and its Silicon Valley Bank unit was closed by regulators, its top executive sold millions of dollars of shares. SVB (ticker: SVB) Presiden...

SVB Financial Realigns Portfolio—and Blows Up the Banking Sector

SVB Financial Group stock plummeted Thursday after it sold assets for a loss following a decline in deposits. The impact rippled through the banking sector, which many investors had assumed was largel...

JPMorgan, Wells Fargo Stocks Tumble as SVB Woes Spark Contagion Fears

Small things can lead to big reactions, and that seems to be the case with bank stocks on Thursday, as a huge loss at SVB Financial (ticker: SIVB) has caused stocks like JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Bank of ...

Asana, MongoDB, Silvergate, JD.com, GE, and More Stock Market Movers

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Tesla Stock Is Down. Steering Wheels Are Not the Reason.

Safety matters a great deal in the automotive market. Safety recalls and investigations, paradoxically, don’t matter as much. Investors might not be able to tell that by looking at stocks. Tesla (tick...

CrowdStrike’s Latest Earnings Convince Analyst It’s a Top Cybersecurity Stock

CrowdStrike’s strong fourth-quarter earnings and upbeat guidance underlines its status as one of the top performing software security names, according to one analyst.   D.A. Davidson analyst Rudy Kess...

CrowdStrike, Stitch Fix, Tesla, Occidental, SoundHound, and More Market Movers

Text size CrowdStrike’s outlook for the fiscal first quarter and year was higher than analysts’ estimates. Dreamstime Stock futures edged higher Wednesday following a session in which stocks sold off ...

CrowdStrike Earnings Show It’s a Top Cybersecurity Stock, Analyst Says

CrowdStrike’s strong fourth quarter earnings and upbeat guidance underlines its status as one of the top performing software security names, according to one analyst.   D.A. Davidson analyst Rudy Kess...

Grayscale Bitcoin Fund Soars as Judges Sound Skeptical of SEC’s Arguments on ETF

Grayscale Investments for years has fruitlessly sought to convert its flagship product—the world’s largest Bitcoin fund at $14 billion—into an exchange-traded fund, most recently suing the Securities ...

Rivian Stock Drops After the EV Start-Up Announced Plans to Raise $1.3 Billion

Electric truck start-up Rivian Automotive is getting into convertibles? Well, yes—but not the kind of convertibles car buyers think of when they hear the word. Rivian (ticker: RIVN) is raising more ca...

GE Stock Hits a New High After an Old Bear Went Into Hibernation

Shares of General Electric hit a new intraday high Monday after an analyst who had been the company’s biggest bear dropped his coverage. J.P. Morgan analyst Stephen Tusa, whose $50 price target on the...

BridgeBio Stock Surges on Dwarfism Drug Data. It’s Bad News for BioMarin.

BridgeBio Pharma stock was soaring after the biopharmaceutical company reported positive results in a Phase two clinical trial for an experimental treatment for achondroplasia, the most common type of...

Big Fund Slashes Stakes in Chip Stocks AMD, Intel, Nvidia, and Micron

Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec, Canada’s second-largest public pension, posted a negative annual return in 2022, the first time since the financial crisis. But the pension did beat the market....

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...

Stock-Based Compensation Is the Latest Risk for Tech Stocks

For years, the lavish stock grants and options handed out by tech companies went largely ignored by investors. Now, the practice is finally getting attention, and it’s likely going to bring bad news 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...

Giant Pension Sells Caterpillar and Microsoft Stock, Buys Comcast and Visa

One of the largest Canadian pensions made major changes in its U.S.-traded portfolio. Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan sold all its Caterpillar stock (ticker: CAT), slashed a Microsoft (MSFT) investment...

Capital Gains and Dividend Tax Rates for 2022-2023

Investors who have taxable accounts—as opposed to tax-favored retirement accounts such as individual retirement accounts (IRAs) or 401(k)s—are often eligible for lower tax rates on investment income a...

Buy Chip Stock Broadcom on Strong Profitability, Analyst Says

Susquehanna is getting more bullish about the prospects for Broadcom stock, citing its robust profit margins and growth potential. On Wednesday, analyst Christopher Rolland reiterated his Positive rat...

Rivian Stock Tumbles After Earnings. Why Wall Street Isn’t Worried.

Electric truck start-up Rivian Automotive expects to deliver 50,000 units in 2023, while Wall Street was looking for closer to 60,000 units. Shares were falling early on Wednesday. Rivian (ticker: RIV...

Energy Stocks ConocoPhillips and Devon See Big Insider Buys

Two energy explorers whose stocks outperformed the broader market in 2022—a monster year for the sector—are slumping this year, but insiders at both companies recently bought up shares. ConocoPhillips...

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...

The Stock Market Doesn’t Look Cheap, Any Way You Slice It

Stock indexes closed another losing week in a downbeat February, as investors continue to debate the path of the economy and monetary policy. It’s a decidedly muddled outlook for the market from a fun...

Stocks Poised for Mixed Open

U.S. stocks are poised for a mixed open on Monday, as the market enters the tail end of fourth-quarter earnings season amid several well-watched economic indicators, including the Conference Board’s C...

Any Way You Slice It, Stocks Still Don’t Look Cheap

Text size This past week’s numbers gave investors plenty to fret about. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Stock indexes closed another losing week in a downbeat February, as investors continue to debate the ...