Shell Posts Annual Profit Record of $40 Billion and Launches $4 Billion Buyback

Shell the oil and gas giant, posted a record annual profit of $40 billion and announced a new $4 billion share buyback program Thursday, sending the stock higher. British energy giant Shell (ticker: S...

Opinion: Zuckerberg and Intel are shipping the proceeds from their layoffs straight to Wall Street

For years, Wall Street groused about Silicon Valley’s refusal to pay dividends and buy back stock as tech companies grew into cash-generating machines. That is no longer a problem, even though those t...

Meta stock spikes nearly 20% as cost cuts and $40 billion for investors overshadow earnings miss

Meta Platforms Inc. shares soared in after-hours trading Wednesday despite an earnings miss, as the Facebook parent company guided for potentially more revenue than Wall Street expected in the new yea...

Altria Unveils $1 Billion Stock Buyback as Earnings Top Estimates

Marlboro maker Altria Group beat earnings and revenue estimates in the fourth quarter and announced a new $1 billion share buyback plan. The cigarettes company reported adjusted earnings per share (EP...

SoFi’s banking moves are proving a ‘unique advantage,’ analyst says

SoFi Technologies Inc. continues to win praise for its banking efforts after the digital financial-services company gave an upbeat earnings forecast and touted the benefits of its banking charter for ...

Amazon expected to post first unprofitable year since 2014 and worst loss since the dot-com bust

Amazon.com Inc. is expected to reveal this week its first unprofitable year since 2014 and the worst year for its bottom line since 2000 — and expectations for this year aren’t headed in a positive di...

S&P downgrades Bed Bath & Beyond, says beleaguered retailer has ‘insufficient funds’ to repay its financial obligations

S&P Global Ratings downgraded Bed Bath & Beyond Inc.’s credit Friday, a day after the beleaguered retailer said it was in default on loans that have been called in. The default filing sent Bed...

Exxon’s Q4 comes hot on the heels of Chevron’s giant profit, here’s what to expect

Exxon Mobil Corp. is slated to report earnings before the bell on Tuesday, hot on the heels of results showing a mixed quarter for Chevron Corp., and amid renewed scrutiny over oil giants’ share buyba...

Bed Bath & Beyond Says Banks Have Cut Off Its Credit Lines

Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. said it doesn’t have the funds to repay its banks after they determined the retailer has defaulted on its credit lines. The home-goods chain said Thursday it received a noti...

Bed Bath & Beyond Says It Triggered ‘Events of Default,’ Can’t Pay What It Owes

Trading in Bed Bath & Beyond stock was halted on Thursday after the company said it had triggered “certain events of default” earlier this month. Bed Bath (ticker: BBBY ) said that happened around...

Chevron’s Higher Dividend Yield Now Tops Exxon’s

Chevron  raised its dividend, and announced a new round of buybacks valued at up to $75 billion late on Wednesday, sending shares 2.6% higher in after-hours trading. The energy giant boosted the quart...

Tesla Is Expanding Its Footprint in Nevada. The Stock Is Dropping.

Tesla had to cut prices recently to increase demand, but that isn’t stopping it from expanding its manufacturing capacity at its Gigafactory in Nevada. Investors should be pleased, although they might...

Here’s why Citigroup’s stock stands out among the biggest U.S. banks

The “big six” U.S. banks have all reported their fourth-quarter results, wrapping up a difficult 2022, when soaring interest rates forced a decline in several areas of business. Citigroup Inc. C, -1.7...

Carvana Adopts a ‘Poison Pill’ to Ward Off a Hostile Takeover. Stock Bounces.

Carvana stock rose Tuesday after the used-car retailer announced it is adopting a net-operating-loss poison pill. Net operating losses, or NOLs carryforwards, are a tax provision allowing businesses t...

Alibaba a Target of GameStop’s Ryan Cohen. Why the Stock Market Shrugged.

Investor Ryan Cohen, who has found fame with activist campaigns at meme stocks such as GameStop and Bed Bath & Beyond is now targeting Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba   The billionaire co-founder...

JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo earnings show the good, the bad and the ugly of people’s finances. So how are they holding up?

Friday’s wave of big-bank earnings gives an important glimpse into Americans’ finances amid high prices, rising interest rates and recession worries. At first glance, most consumers appear to be keepi...

JPMorgan Reports Earnings Friday. Here’s What to Expect.

JPMorgan Chase will be one of the first big banks to report fourth-quarter 2022 financial results on Friday, and Wall Street expects a mixed bag. Revenue at the bank is forecast to swell to $34.5 bill...

Tech’s Bill Is Coming Due. Investors Aren’t the Only Ones Who Will Pay.

For two years now, tech companies have spent massive amounts of money building the capacity to serve what they believed would be a higher level of postpandemic demand. If you build it, they will come....

Alibaba shares rise in Hong Kong after Jack Ma cedes control of Ant Group

Shares of Alibaba Group Holdings are higher following news that co-founder Jack Ma is ceding control of affiliate company Ant Group Co., potentially paving the way to revive plans for an initial publi...

The House Speaker Tussle Is Just a Warm-Up for the Main Event: The Debt Ceiling Battle

The battle over the speaker of the House of Representatives is something not seen for a century or more. But the more relevant precedent for investors might be 2011, when the drawn-out struggle to rai...

Startups End a Bruising 2022, Stare Down Another Challenging Year

Startups had a dismal year by nearly every measurement in 2022, from plummeting investment to scarce public listings, and data point to a 2023 that could be even more difficult. As markets tanked in e...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk Could Have Had His First Margin Call for Twitter Loan

Tesla CEO Elon Musk might regret his purchase of Twitter—or at least the way he financed it. Based on the agreement Musk signed with bankers to help fund his Twitter purchase, he would have experience...

Lucid Stock Fell to New Low Despite $1 Billion Saudi Investment

Lucid Group stock continued to slide this week, despite a recent additional investment in the embattled electric-vehicle maker by Public Investment Fund, Saudi Arabia’s sovereign-wealth fund, of nearl...

The 2022 IPO Market: A Dearth of Volumes and Names

Investment bankers had a brutal year. One big reason: a dearth of initial public offerings. Thirty-seven companies went public in 2022 and raised a mere $7 billion, the lowest amount of IPO proceeds s...

AT&T Stung Investors by Spinning Off Warner Bros. Discovery

AT&T ‘s April decision to parcel out its big interest in Warner Bros. Discovery to all shareholders, rather than giving them the option of receiving an equivalent amount of the phone company’s sto...

11 high-yield dividend stocks that are Wall Street’s favorites for 2023

Investors love dividend stocks but there are different ways to look at them, including various “quality” approaches. Today we are focusing on high yields. A high dividend yield can be a warning that i...

Coinbase Stock Hits an All-Time Low. Where the Company Goes From Here.

In December of 2021, crypto exchange Coinbase Global (COIN) was about to cap a banner year: it had gone public with a valuation north of $85 billion and a $328 share price, raised over $3 billion thro...

Cosmos Health stock nearly triples after reverse stock split, then gives it all back in late trading

Cosmos Health Inc.’s stock price nearly tripled Friday as investors responded to the company’s reverse stock split, but those gains disappeared in after-hours trading. The Chicago-based company announ...

Broadcom refuses to provide full-year outlook, cites limited visibility as it ‘scrubs’ backlog

Broadcom Inc. late Thursday gave Wall Street analysts quarterly earnings and an outlook that topped consensus estimates, hiked its dividend and recommitted to share buybacks, yet analysts kept asking ...

I’m 53, just got laid off, and wondering what to do now. I have $425K saved for retirement, $10K in an HSA, and a property I could sell for an extra $200K in cash. Is getting professional help wise? 

Getty Images/iStockphoto Question: I was laid off from my job of 12 years. I have a few questions about how to rearrange my future financial plan. I am 53 years old and I plan to go back to work once ...

How to Steer Clear of Holiday Financial Scams This Year

Scammers are taking advantage of the holiday hubbub to defraud consumers in increasingly sophisticated schemes. While prevalent year-round, financial scams are expected to pick up during the holiday s...