PayPal’s ‘once beloved story’ is ‘back in vogue’ despite some noise

Headed into PayPal’s third-quarter earnings report, there’s a lot of noise. The company faced backlash in early October for a policy change stating that users could be fined up to $2,500 for spreading...

ZoomInfo Shares Tumble on Concern Over Soft Billings

Business information services provider ZoomInfo posted better-than-expected third-quarter results, but the company’s shares are nonetheless trading sharply lower in late trading Tuesday, apparently on...

Amazon closes below $1 trillion valuation for the first time since 2020

The swift recent decline in Amazon.com Inc.’s stock has brought the company’s closing market value below $1 trillion for the first time in more than two years. Amazon shares AMZN, -5.52% fell 5.5% in ...

Shopify CEO Buys $10 Million of Stock in the Open Market

Shopify CEO Tobias Lutke disclosed in a Canadian securities filing that he bought $10 million of the e-commerce software company’s shares on Monday, a week after the company reported its third-quarter...

Are older workers getting ‘quiet-fired?’

Here’s a strange paradox regarding older workers: On the one hand, they’re 14% less likely to receive the highest annual performance ratings, according to Mercer’s Workforce Sciences Institute. But, t...

XPeng stock swings to a loss after drop in monthly deliveries, while other China-based EVs surge

The U.S.-listed shares of XPeng Inc. fell Tuesday after October deliveries were reported, to buck the rally in other China-based electric vehicle makers, which was fueled by glimmers of hope that Chin...

Qualcomm Stock Is Near an All-Time Low Valuation. Look Beyond the Short-Term.

Investors should look beyond Qualcomm’s short-term financial results when the maker of mobile processors and 5G wireless chipsets reports earnings Wednesday, a Bernstein analyst says. Qualcomm (ticker...

20 dividend stocks that may be safest if the Federal Reserve causes a recession

Investors cheered when a report last week showed the economy expanded in the third quarter after back-to-back contractions. But it’s too early to get excited, because the Federal Reserve hasn’t given ...

Opinion: Oil companies can’t just ‘drill baby drill’ at will. Here’s what it really takes to ramp up energy production.

As energy prices rage, President Biden and Republicans have urged companies to increase drilling to lower oil and gasoline prices from 14-year highs. But it’s not that simple. Even after permits are a...

Twitter Has a Lot of Debt. It’s Not an Issue for Tesla—Yet.

Twitter has a new, consolidated debt of $18.5 billion. Win McNamee/Getty Images Text size Elon Musk had a bad weekend and that could pose problems for Twitter—and, by extension, Tesla stock.  Musk’s f...

SoFi stock rockets as earnings deemed ‘outstanding’

Shares of SoFi Technologies Inc. were flying higher in premarket trading Tuesday after the financial-technology company posted results that were dubbed “outstanding” by one analyst. Though the company...

Mortgage Giant Rocket Plunges Back to Earth, Hit by Rising Rates

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Move over Florida — Pennsylvania dominates ‘Best Places to Retire’ rankings

Sure, Florida still has some allure for retirees, but Lancaster, Pa. nabbed the top spot for the best retirement destination amid concerns about housing affordability. According to U.S. News & Wor...

Pfizer’s Earnings Are Tuesday. What to Watch.

Pfizer is set to report its earnings on Tuesday, a week and a half after an executive told investors that the company was considering a list price for its Covid-19 vaccine of between $110 and $130 per...

GameStop stock soared, then fell all the way back down, in biggest price reversal since May. But why?

Something strange happened to GameStop Corp. GME, +0.50% stock on Monday. Minutes after the opening bell rang out on the New York Stock Exchange, both the price of the company’s shares and trading vol...

40% of households will pay no federal income tax this year. Why that’s good news.

Millions of workers are bouncing back — and making enough money to pay Uncle Sam. Some 72.5 million households or 40% of households will pay no federal income tax this year, down from the pre-pandemic...

Opinion: Forget the $22,500 limit, some workers can supersize their tax-deferred retirement savings up to $265,000 in 2023

If you really want to rev up your retirement savings and minimize income taxes, the best thing to be is a late-career professional in private practice. When you’re making a lot of money and are close ...

When retirement is a month away, here’s what you need to do

When retirement is coming up close—and you have that exciting date in mind—make sure you have everything organized to make it a seamless, enjoyable transition.  Retirement Tip of the Week: Before you ...

Cash key for Chevron and Exxon Mobil as Truist raises stock price targets

Chevron Corp. and Exxon Mobil Corp.’s strong cash positions have prompted Truist Securities to raise its price targets for the oil and gas giants, as the stocks of both companies rallied toward fresh ...

Apple and Microsoft market caps reached their largest spread on record — at roughly Tesla’s entire valuation

The divergent performances of Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. in the wake of their latest earnings reports widened the spread between the two companies’ market values to the largest on record at more t...

TuSimple Stock Plummets as Self-Driving Start-Up’s CEO Is Removed

Shares of the self-driving truck technology company TuSimple are tumbling as investors weigh a surprise management change. Monday, TuSimple (ticker: TSP) said it has terminated CEO Dr. Xiaodi Hou beca...

Argo Blockchain shares collapse as planned fundraising falls through

Argo Blockchain PLC shares fell Monday after it said it no longer expects to carry out a share subscription with a strategic investor, and warned it would need to complete further financing to avoid c...

The S&P 500 can get to 4,150 before ‘reality sets in,’ says Morgan Stanley’s normally bearish top strategist

We’re almost through one of the most feared months of trading, which as it turns out, is set to deliver the best return for the Dow industrials since 1976, and best month since July for the S&P 50...

5 Emerging Market ETFs That Limit China Investments

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s unprecedented third term as head of the ruling Communist Party rattled investors who see his stacking of loyalists as less than friendly to markets. Some China-focused e...

Big Pension Sells Apple, Block, and Estée Lauder Stock. Here’s What It Bought.

A big Dutch pension recently disclosed material changes in some of its largest U.S.-traded investments. Pensioenfonds PNO Media sold positions in Apple (ticker: AAPL), Block ( SQ ), and Estée Lauder (...

Adidas Bails From Yeezy. Why That Packs a Punch.

Times are tough at Adidas The German company has too much inventory and falling China sales. It’s slashed guidance, and earnings ran about half what Wall Street expected. The stock is down by more tha...

Why China’s party congress left investors feeling gloomy

Financial-market investors were craving economic policy guidance from the China’s Communist Party Congress, but when the ruling party wrapped up its twice-a-decade political gathering on Saturday to t...

Republicans claim Google is sending their fundraising emails to Gmail users’ spam folders

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Republican National Committee has filed a lawsuit against tech giant Google, alleging the company has been suppressing its email solicitations ahead of November’s midterm elec...

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...

Dividend-Paying Stocks Can Help Battle Inflation

Surging bond yields have been a pleasant addition to the toolbox of income investors after years of minimal fixed-income returns. But dividend stocks can offer crucial balance and additional income to...

AMD lowered the bar for earnings, but there is still intrigue in one result

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has already slashed expectations for its financial performance with a warning, but there is still some intrigue with the chip-maker’s earnings report. AMD AMD, +5.82% is sc...

Rethinking China: Xi’s Power Play Could Bring Down Stocks Even More

Chinese stocks have lost roughly half their market value, or almost $1.5 trillion, over the past two years. But the damage may not be over as investors reassess their China allocations after President...