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Visa Stock Is Rising After Earnings Report. May Break Away From Mastercard.
Text size Stock in Visa was up nearly 9% on Friday morning. Roy Rochlin/Getty Images Visa stock achieved its biggest bounce in nearly two years as investors responded to surprisingly strong financial ...
Netflix Co-CEO Reed Hastings Bought $20 Million of Stock
Text size Netflix co-founder and co-CEO Reed Hastings just made his first purchase of the company’s shares on the open market. Henrik Jonsson/Dreamstime.com Netflix ‘s stock has slumped in 2022,...
Opinion: Warren Buffett is teaching meme-stock players and crypto traders some hard lessons about why market fundamentals still apply
In early 2021, age-old investing principles of business valuation were declared passe by meme-stock buyers, SPAC enthusiasts, and crypto-traders. A new generation of market players declared that Warre...
ChargePoint Upgraded by J.P. Morgan. Pullback Could Be a Good Entry Point.
Text size ChargePoint’s pullback could be a good entry point for investors, J.P. Morgan says. Dania Maxwell/Bloomberg ChargePoint Holdings shares were up Friday after J.P. Morgan upgraded its ra...
‘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...
These 14 Stocks Paused Dividends Early in the Pandemic. Here’s Where Their Payouts Are Now.
Ford Motor is among the dividend payers that have restored their once-suspended payouts at a lower level than before the pandemic. Courtesy of Ford Text size Although there are some large U.S. compani...
How Low Can Bitcoin Go? The Views Vary.
Illustration by Elias Stein Text size Tighter monetary policies are weighing on speculative assets like crypto, Bitcoin crashed from $43,000 to $33,000 in four days and lost 23% of its value. On Jan. ...
Comcast, Chevron, and 7 More Companies That Just Boosted Their Stock Dividends
Text size Comcast raised its dividend this week. Jeff Fusco/Getty Images for Comcast Chevron , Comcast , and Kimberly-Clark were among the many U.S. companies that declared dividend increases this wee...
Tesla Reported Record Profits. Its Stock Was Punished. It’s a Better Buy Than GM or Ford.
Text size The reaction to Tesla’s fourth-quarter earnings report was the worst to an earnings beat in its history. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg What the heck just happened to Tesla stock? Its shares go...
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...
Tech Stocks to Buy as Interest Rates Rise
Text size Chip stocks look like good bets in th new world for tech stocks. Maika Elan/Bloomberg Tech stocks finally showed a little fight last week, aided by an impressive batch of earnings reports. B...
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...
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 ...