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Stocks Poised to Fall Monday
U.S. stocks are poised for a slightly lower open on Monday ahead of another busy week of earnings and the Federal Reserve’s latest decision on interest rates on Wednesday. At 6:22 p.m. Eastern time Su...
Amazon stock sinks after holiday forecast and cloud growth, profit disappoint; $150 billion in market cap at risk
Amazon.com Inc. predicted Thursday that holiday sales and profit would come in well lower than analysts expected as cloud growth slowed and Amazon Web Services profit missed expectations by nearly $1 ...
These 11 stocks can lead your portfolio’s rebound after the S&P 500 ‘earnings recession’ and a market bottom next year
This may surprise you: Wall Street analysts expect earnings for the S&P 500 to increase 8% during 2023, despite all the buzz about a possible recession as the Federal Reserve tightens monetary pol...
Alibaba Pours $1 Billion Into Cloud Computing. The Move Is Critical for Its Growth.
Text size Alibaba stock has tumbled since early 2021 amid waves of regulatory pressures. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images Alibaba will invest $1 billion into its cloud computing division, doubling down...
Opinion: Adobe’s stock got slammed for spending $20 billion on Figma. But it now owns a rare company.
Adobe beat revenue and profit expectations, and on the same day announced it would acquire a smaller but faster-growing rival in online design-collaboration tools. The stock market rewarded the compan...
DocuSign Stock Surges on Earnings Beat, Boost to Billings Forecast
Text size Courtesy DocuSign Shares of DocuSign were surging Friday after the e-signature company posted quarterly earnings and revenue that topped analysts’ estimates and raised its forecast for fisca...
GameStop, Apple, Kroger, NIO, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week
Text size U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed on Monday for Labor Day. It’s a quiet week on the earnings calendar once investors return from the long weekend, but a few major economic-data rele...
Okta stock falls despite increased forecast, earnings beat
Okta Inc. shares fell in late trading Wednesday despite revealing an increase in the software company’s annual outlook and reporting a better quarter than Wall Street expected. Okta OKTA, +0.26%, whic...
Alibaba, Nio stocks rally along with other Chinese names as SEC reaches audit deal with China
U.S-listed shares of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Nio Inc. were among Chinese names trading higher in morning action Friday after the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it has struck ...
Unity Stock Tumbles After Board Rejects AppLovin’s $17.5 Billion Buyout Bid
Text size Unity Software doesn’t think AppLovin’s offer was in the best interests of its shareholders. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Videogaming company Unity Software on Monday rejected Ap...
Unity Board Opposes AppLovin’s $17.5 Billion Buyout Offer
Updated Aug. 15, 2022 10:48 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) Unity Software board has unanimously agreed that the $17.5 billion buyout offer from AppLovin isn’t in the best interests of shareholder...
6 Software Stocks to Buy and 4 to Sell, According to an Analyst
What’s next for enterprise software stocks? That depends which ones you pick. Guggenheim Partners analyst John DiFucci launched coverage of the group late Thursday, with some thoughts on where to plac...
Why an analyst says sell these four big software stocks
Salesforce Inc.’s stock gets a lot of love on Wall Street, with 43 of the 49 covering analysts tracked by FactSet rating the shares the equivalent of buy. But Guggenheim analyst John DiFucci bucked th...
Oracle Lays Off Hundreds of Employees
Oracle laid off hundreds of employees this week as the business software provider prioritizes its healthcare IT services and cloud businesses, according to people familiar with the company’s actions. ...
Opinion: Step aside, FAANMGs. This new crop of tech companies are the ones to watch for the next decade.
Investors have had a change of heart after selling technology stocks for the better part of eight months. There has been a trend reversal after bellwether tech companies reported earnings for the mo...
Cloudflare stock rallies 25% following earnings beat, raised revenue outlook
Cloudflare Inc. shares surged in the extended session Thursday after the cybersecurity company reported results that topped Wall Street expectations and hiked its revenue outlook for the year. Cloudfl...
Microsoft stock jumps after ‘shockingly robust’ forecast calls for continued strong cloud growth
Microsoft Corp. missed expectations for profit and revenue in a Tuesday earnings report, as deteriorating economic conditions led to an even greater shock than expected when executives revised their g...
Opinion: The cloud boom is coming back to earth, and that could be scary for tech stocks
Cloud computing is widely viewed as a recession-resistant business, but the theory has not really been tested since cloud-service providers have not experienced a major economic downturn since becomin...
The Most Valuable Business on Earth Could Be Hiding Inside Amazon
Text size Amazon has created what is arguably one of the world’s best growth businesses. Thomas Samson/AFP via Getty Images Amazon Web Services just might be the most valuable business on Earth....
Intel wins latest race in chip uses for the cloud, says KeyBanc Capital Markets
Chip giant Intel Corp. is leading growth in cloud technology, according to new research from KeyBanc Capital Markets. Intel Corp. INTC, +3.21% is the winner in KeyBanc’s latest monthly data tracking s...
Snowflake has catapulted into ‘elite territory,’ JPMorgan says in upgrade
Snowflake Inc. is winning big praise from those in charge of tech spending, and that’s cause for an upgrade of its stock at JPMorgan. The bank’s recent survey of chief information officers found stron...
Think you had a bad week? Salesforce, cloud companies had some of their worst weeks ever
Salesforce Inc. and other cloud-software stocks shed red over the week, as the lining in cloud-software stocks Friday turned blood red instead of silver, sending some cloud companies and ETFs tracking...