Opinion: Microsoft gave Wall Street hope, but then the cloud forecast turned dark

Microsoft Corp. sparked a relief rally for the cloud Tuesday, then rained on that parade after less than two hours of joy. Microsoft MSFT reported slightly disappointing holiday-quarter results, but t...

If the stock market crashes in 2023 it will be the fault of the Fed and U.S. banks. Here’s what could go wrong.

Wall Street is in the red after a slew of early earnings and as Microsoft results await. That’s a day after soft-economic landing hopes fueled fresh 2023 highs for the S&P 500 SPX, -0.07% and Nasd...

Microsoft stock dives into the red after forecast misses, CFO warns about deceleration

Microsoft Corp.’s profit declined more than 12% in the holiday season, and executives said Tuesday that a revenue deceleration at the end of 2022 is expected to continue into the new year as the compa...

Microsoft Posts Earnings Beat On Solid Cloud Results, But Guidance Disappoints

Microsoft posted better-than-expected results for the December quarter, driven by strength in cloud computing. But the strong results were tempered by disappointing guidance for the March quarter. Whi...

‘It is an employer’s market’: Tech layoffs may have turned the Great Resignation into the Great Recommitment

The flood of Big tech layoffs has again upended the dynamic between employers and employees, workers and executives say, leading to prolonged job searches and widespread fear and anxiety among many in...

Don’t let the ‘bear market house of mirrors’ fool you, Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson warns of the stock market

An important week for earnings is straight ahead, with the spotlight on updates from the tech space, which has been laying off thousands of workers. Among those not expecting good news in the earnings...

Tesla, AT&T, Visa, Chevron, Microsoft, and More Stocks to Watch This Week

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Earnings Watch: Microsoft, Tesla and Intel are about to face the doubters

After one of the worst years in Wall Street’s history, investors have some serious questions for companies. As holiday returns roll in — and with them, forecasts for the months or year ahead — many ha...

Tesla, AT&T, Visa, Chevron, Microsoft, and More Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

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Toyota, Warner Bros., and 24 More Stocks Barron’s Roundtable Pros Love This Year

Roundtable Companies Shares of companies with strong fundamentals are poised to shine this year, no matter the economic backdrop. Toyota and Warner Bros. fit the bill. Updated Jan. 20, 2023 8:35 pm ET...

Capital One Job Cuts Signal Trouble for IT Labor Market

IT positions have largely been seen as insulated from the job cuts that have hit workers at major technology firms like Alphabet Inc. and Microsoft Corp., but the Capital One layoffs affecting 1,100 e...

‘Overbought and overpriced’: This investor sees a bubble popping for one popular group of stocks

Investors wouldn’t be blamed for sizing up the first losing week in three for the S&P 500 and decide to start the weekend early. Stocks are on the rise in early action, but that won’t sway five-da...

The 1980s was the blueprint for the upcoming disinflation cycle and these are the stocks for it, strategists say

Stocks logged a third-straight losing session on Thursday as investors continue to deal with a mixed bag of economic data. That followed Wednesday’s session and extremely weak industrial production th...

Apple Will Struggle to Post Growth Amid Waning iPhone Demand, Warns J.P. Morgan

Apple faces a tough task to meet Wall Street expectations for the first two quarters of its current fiscal year as supply problems feed into lower demand, according to analysts at J.P. Morgan   Apple ...

Super Micro stock rises on hiked outlook

Super Micro Computer Inc. SMCI, -11.60% shares rose in the extended session Wednesday after the server and data-storage company raised its outlook for the quarter. Super Micro shares rose 3% after hou...

Nvidia and 2 Other Stocks That Could Be Helped or Hurt by ChatGPT

ChatGPT, a bot that answers questions like a person does, presents a solid opportunity for Nvidia investors, but it is bad news for Chegg and Google, according to Wall Street analysts. ChatGPT, releas...

Apple CEO Tim Cook asked for — and got — a major pay cut this year. Is there ever a time when some of us should accept one too? The answer is ‘yes.’

In an SEC filing, Apple announced that CEO Tim Cook will receive a big pay cut in 2023, and the filing noted that he requested the cut. mandel ngan/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images The new year is ba...

SmileDirectClub stock rallies on cost cuts, workforce ‘realignment’

Shares of SmileDirectClub Inc. rallied after hours on Tuesday after the oral-care company said it planned a round of cost cuts and a “realignment” of its workforce — even as its sales forecasts came u...

Sell Microsoft Stock. The Software Giant Is Facing a Bad Economy, Says Analyst.

Guggenheim is getting more pessimistic about Microsoft stock on the risk of a slowing global economy. On Tuesday, analyst John DiFucci lowered his rating on software giant Microsoft (ticker: MSFT ) to...

Buy Apple and IBM Stock Ahead of Earnings, Says Analyst

With tech earnings season now dead ahead, investors are tweaking their portfolios ahead of what could be a tumultuous period for the group, with the Street anticipating generally weak guidance for 202...

Samsung Knocks Longtime Patent Leader IBM Off Its Perch

In a year when the U.S. issued the smallest number of patents since 2018, Korean electronics giant Samsung Electronics nosed past IBM with the most new patents, the first time in 29 years that IBM fai...

Bed Bath & Beyond, Virgin Galactic, Ford, and More Stock Market Movers Friday

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Virgin Galactic Shakes Up Management. The Stock Soars.

Space tourism startup Virgin Galactic has made changes at the top as it prepares to launch commercial space flight service later this year. The stock is taking off, but the management move probably is...

Ignoring digital assets would be like sticking with paper over computers, BNY Mellon CEO says

BNY Mellon is committed to continue exploring the digital asset space, albeit cautiously. CEO Robin Vince said on an earnings call today that digital assets are the bank’s “longest-t...

Are high car prices the new normal? If you’re waiting to buy a car, stand firm, experts say—it may pay off.

The roller coaster economic ride that began with the emergence of COVID-19 in early 2020 has reshaped how car buying works. Will it ever get back to what we might call “normal?” Brian Finkelmeyer, sen...

IRS says ‘Tax Day’ will be different this year — put these important tax dates on your calendar

It’s not too early to start thinking about your 2022 income-tax return, if you can bear the thought. That’s because the tax-filing season is scheduled to start on Monday, Jan. 23, the Internal Revenue...

Taiwan Semiconductor Braces for Downturn Despite Record Profit

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing has reported a record net profit and beat analysts’ expectations for its fourth quarter but warned of waning demand in 2023.  Taiwan Semiconductor (ticker: TSM), the...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing reports record net profit and revenue on chip demand

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. said Thursday that fourth-quarter net profit rose to a new record thanks to growing demand for high-speed computing and better margins. The world’s largest contr...

AMD poaches Marvell’s Jean Hu for CFO slot as Devinder Kumar retires

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said late Wednesday that financial chief Devinder Kumar was retiring and that Marvell Technology Inc.’s Jean Hu would take his place. Marvell MRVL, +3.81% announced that Hu...

Could Apple WiFi chips just be a ploy to get a better deal from Broadcom?

Broadcom Inc. shares fell Tuesday following reports that Apple Inc. was working on its own radiofrequency (RF) chips, but one analyst wondered whether those plans would get shelved if the chip maker o...

The ‘best job in America’ pays over $120,000 a year — and offers a low-stress, healthy work-life balance

We’ve had the great resignation, quiet quitting, resistance to going back to the office — and now? It turns out people are looking for happiness, stability, flexibility and a good salary. In 2023, in ...