Fed rate hikes are coming — how to tackle your savings, mortgage, car payments and credit-card debt in advance

Wall Street investors and Washington D.C. lawmakers are closely listening to what Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says Wednesday about the central bank’s next steps in its fight against decades...

Opinion: ‘Easter Bunny cartoon cash’ — how Bill Maher called the Bitcoin crash

Young people were already feeling depressed about their future retirement prospects, according to polls. Still more following the collapse of all their cryptocurrency bets, one suspects. More than $1 ...

U.S. Steel’s Earnings Fell Short. That Isn’t the Real Problem.

Text size The price of steel coils is dropping. Ina Fassbender/AFP via Getty Images United States Steel stock is doing nothing after a bad earnings miss. Investors just don’t appear to care about prof...

Apple Stock Rises on Strong iPhone Sales

Text size Once again, the Apple story will be dominated by the strength of iPhone demand. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images Apple reported better-than-expected results for its December quarter late ...

Intel stock hits lowest price in more than a year, and there is another shoe to drop

Intel Corp. weathered another tough investor reaction to its earnings report Thursday, and analysts say the chip maker faces another potential challenge in addition to falling margins: A looming overs...

Teradyne Earnings Were Great. The Stock Gets Crushed on Guidance.

Text size Dreamstime Stock in robotics and semiconductor test equipment maker Teradyne was plummeting after the company reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter numbers. The fourth quarter isn’t t...

Cash Pours Into Anti-ARK ETF as Cathie Wood Struggles

Text size Catherine Wood’s innovation-focused ETFs have been falling. PATRICK T. FALLON/ AFP / Getty Images As Cathie Wood’s innovation-focused exchange-traded funds have tumbled amid the latest...

Blackstone Profits Nearly Double as Total Assets Set Quarterly Record

Text size Signage outside the Blackstone headquarters in New York. Angus Mordant/Bloomberg Shares of Blackstone rose Thursday after total assets at the world’s biggest alternative asset manager rose t...

Tesla Earnings ‘Disappointed.’ Why Analysts Are Raising Their Price Targets.

Text size The inside of a Tesla car Model 3 is seen at a Tesla shop inside of a shopping Mall in Beijing on May 26, 2021. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images Tesla stock was falling Thursday after re...

Tesla’s Earnings Beat Was Better Than You Think. Here’s Why.

Text size Joe Raedle/Getty Images Tesla’s quarterly earnings call had everything: Robots, self-driving car claims, production updates and more. All that might have distracted investors from an importa...

LendingClub stock plummets after earnings guidance comes in light

Shares of LendingClub Corp. fell 14% in the extended session Wednesday after the company gave 2022 earnings guidance lower than analysts expected. LendingClub LC, +4.41% reported earnings of $29.1 mil...

Apple Reports Earnings Today. Here’s What to Expect.

Text size Once again, the Apple story will be dominated by the strength of iPhone demand. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images Apple will report financial results for the December quarter after the clo...

Lam Research notes fresh supply-chain issues, hurting stock and casting pall over chip-equipment sector

Lam Research Corp. shares sank 6% in late trading Wednesday after the chip-equipment supplier reported worse-than-expected fiscal second-quarter revenue and third-quarter guidance, which the chief exe...

Intel stock punished again as slimmer profit margins ding earnings forecast, but CEO sticks to his plan

Intel Corp. executives expect profit margins to remain pressured in the long term as the chip maker builds out manufacturing capacity, leading to a disappointing earnings guidance that dinged the comp...

Teradyne stock plunges nearly 20% after earnings guidance misses

Teradyne Inc.’s first-quarter financial guidance fell short of Wall Street projections, sending shares down nearly 20% in after-hours trading to $115.03. The company projected 71 cents to 93 cents a s...

Tesla Reports a Record Profit. Its Outperformance Was Below Average.

Text size Tesla earned $2.54 a share in the fourth quarter of 2021. Xiaolu Chu/Getty Images Tesla stock was bobbing around the break even line after the company reported better-than-expected earnings ...

Intel Reports Earnings Beat But Stock Slides On a Mixed Forecast

Text size Intel launched its 12th Gen Intel Core processors in January. Courtesy Intel Corporation Intel shares were down in late-trading Wednesday after the company reported better-than-expected four...

AT&T Earnings Beat Forecasts. The Stock Can’t Get Past Spinoff Uncertainty.

Text size AT&T stock rose despite a “disappointing” earnings outlook. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images AT&T ‘s reported fourth-quarter results on Wednesday that continued a streak of s...

DraftKings Is ‘Too Big an Opportunity to Ignore.’ Why the Stock Is a Buy.

Text size Signage at the DraftKings Sportsbook at The Brook ribbon-cutting in October 2020, in Seabrook, New Hampshire. Scott Eisen/Getty Images for DraftKings Online sports betting can stage a strong...

Tesla’s Earnings Day Is Here. This Is the Real Number to Watch.

Text size Wall Street expects Tesla will earn about $2.36 a share for the fourth quarter of 2021. Xiaolu Chu/Getty Images investors expect Tesla to earn more than expected when it reports its fourth-q...

AT&T stock rises after earnings beat expectations

A leaner AT&T Inc. topped earnings expectations Wednesday as the company continued to narrow its focus on its core strengths. The company generated net income of $5.0 billion, or 69 cents a share,...

Dividend Aristocrats Lose AT&T but Gain Church & Dwight and Brown & Brown

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Text size The S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Index, a benchmark for longevity of dividend increases, is welcoming two members while losing longtime member AT&T. S&am...

Apple Reports Earnings Thursday. Here’s Why at Least One Analyst Is Cautious.

Text size Strong post-Christmas sales will land in Apple’s fiscal second quarter this year, not the first. Chris McGrath/Getty Images Apple stock has stalled out, dragged down by the broader sli...

Opinion: Microsoft stock’s post-earnings roller-coaster ride won’t be the last

Microsoft Corp. reported incredibly strong holiday-season earnings Tuesday afternoon, topping $50 billion in quarterly sales for the first time and beating expectations across the board. Yet the stock...

Microsoft stock turns green after strong sales forecast, reversing a post-earnings decline

Microsoft Corp. sales topped $50 billion for the first time in the holiday quarter of 2021, and a stock decline in late trading turned around Tuesday after the software giant predicted stronger revenu...

Microsoft Stock Falls Despite Strong Earnings

Text size Microsoft earnings were up 22% in its latest quarter. Gerard Julien/AFP via Getty Images Microsoft shares were down about 5% in late-trading Tuesday, despite better-than-expected December qu...

Tesla Earnings Are Coming. They Better Be Good.

Text size A Tesla EV drives through the Las Vegas Convention Center Loop ahead of the 2022 Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas this month. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images Trading in Tes...

Opinion: Thankfully, the Fed has decided to stop digging, but it has a lot of work to do before it gets us out of hole we’re in

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (Project Syndicate)—The Federal Reserve has turned on a dime, an uncharacteristic about-face for an institution long noted for slow and deliberate shifts in monetary policy. While the...

Verizon’s Earnings Were Good Enough. What You Need to Know.

Text size Verizon offered better-than-expected guidance for 2022. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Verizon Communications delivered as-expected results for the 2021 fourth quarter on Tuesday morning, and m...

Raytheon Stock Falls as Fourth-Quarter Revenue and Outlook Miss Forecasts

Text size Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg Shares of Raytheon fell 3.5% in premarket trading Tuesday after the aerospace and defense company reported fourth-quarter profit that topped Wall Street forecasts, but...

Why the Floor for Bitcoin’s Price Is Zero

Text size What matters for Bitcoin is price momentum. Dreamstime A few thoughts early in the trading week: Recent crypto buyers who are sitting on deep losses surely don’t need me reminding them that ...

5 Energy Stocks Poised for Cash Gains

Text size Mario Tama/Getty Images Oil companies have just begun reporting fourth-quarter earnings, and analysts expect many of them to show large increases in free cash flow. Investors have been parti...