Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Ford, Nordstrom, and More Stock Market Movers

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I’m 64, make $1,500 a month driving Uber and get almost $5,000 a month in pensions and Social Security – should I pay off my mortgage before I retire?

Hi, I’m 64 and getting ready to retire in one year. I owe approximately $165,000 on my house with no other debt. I have close to $850,000 in retirement savings, $2,200 a month from a pension, approxim...

What Happens to Buybuy Baby if Bed Bath & Beyond Files for Bankruptcy?

As Bed Bath & Beyond faces a growing risk of bankruptcy, the question of what will become of its strongest asset, Buybuy Baby, has loomed large. The chain, which sells strollers, car seats, and ot...

Bill.com stock drops 20% as weak revenue forecast overshadows earnings beat

Bill.com Holdings Inc. shares dropped in the extended session Thursday after the business automation software company’s revenue outlook struggled to exceed Wall Street expectations. Bill.com BILL, +8....

Qualcomm stock falls after forecast misses, CEO says inventory issues will persist

Qualcomm Inc. shares turned lower in the extended session Thursday after the chip maker forecast that inventory clearance would persist in the first half of the year, knocking the chip company’s outlo...

Eli Lilly and Novo Stock Sold Off. Don’t Blame Their Diet Drugs.

Stock in Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk outperformed last year, largely because of remarkable demand for new drugs that drive weight loss in patients afflicted with diabetes and obesity. Both stocks were ...

Ford Missed Earnings, Will Pay Special Dividend, and Sold Rivian Stake

Ford Motor’s earnings for the fourth quarter weren’t good enough even though guidance for 2023 was just about right. The stock is falling even as strong cash flow has the company paying a special divi...

Ford logs $2 billion loss in 2022, says profit was left ‘on the table’

Ford Motor Co. late Thursday reported a $2 billion loss for the year and mixed quarterly results, blaming “deeply entrenched” shortcomings around costs and systems that put the brakes on its hopes to ...

I’m 72, have a cushy amount invested and was withdrawing 4% a year. But once I pay my financial adviser’s fees and California taxes that won’t be enough. What’s my move?

How to figure out if your adviser is worth what they’re charging you. Getty Images/iStockphoto Question: I have a comfortable balance in my investment account but have a question about only taking out...

Bed Bath & Beyond Misses Interest Payments. The Stock Soars.

Bed Bath & Beyond failed to make interest payments on its bonds just weeks after the company warned it was considering filing for bankruptcy, yet the stock is surging higher. The company was due t...

Did Powell just give stocks permission to keep on climbing? Here’s what latest Fed decision means for markets

U.S. stocks and bonds rallied on Wednesday, much to the chagrin of traders who had ramped up bearish bets on the expectation that Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell would push back against the mar...

Amazon earnings: What to expect

Amazon.com Inc. is expected to deliver a profit for its holiday quarter, but not enough to offset its losses from earlier in 2022. Even with Amazon AMZN, +6.95% projected to report about $2 billion in...

There’s still too much risk in stock and bond markets. Earn this easy 4.5% return while you wait for stability, says trader who hit 2 big calls in 2022.

Ahead of major tech earnings later, Meta results are lighting up the Nasdaq Composite COMP, +2.97% for Thursday. The S&P 500 SPX, +1.40% is also up as investors take a glass-half full view of the ...

Genius Group stock soars toward 5 1/2-month high after plan to issue $10 NFT coupons to shareholders

Shares of Genius Group Ltd. GNS, +33.02% soared 28.1% toward a 5 1/2-month high in premarket trading Thursday, after the the Singapore-based education company, said it will reward its shareholders by ...

Meta, Merck, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and More Stock Market Movers

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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...

BlackRock Buys Silvergate Stock. Others Are Bullish on the Beaten-Up Crypto Bank.

The world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock disclosed a significant position in Silvergate Capital the beaten-down banker to the cryptocurrency industry whose share price has been a high-profile casu...

Qualcomm Earnings Could Disappoint. Smartphone Demand Could Be Why.

Qualcomm, the maker of mobile processors and 5G wireless chipsets, may report muted earnings results after Thursday’s market close. Wall Street’s consensus estimate calls for Qualcomm (ticker: QCOM ) ...

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...

How Gautam Adani Made (and Could Lose) a $147 Billion Fortune

Listen to article (2 minutes) AHMEDABAD, India—Gautam Adani is ubiquitous in this country. His name is plastered on roadside billboards and on the airports and shipping docks he operates. His power pl...

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...

Apple Stock Typically Gains After Earnings. That Could Change This Time.

Apple reports earnings after the markets close Thursday, and after a quarter of problems for the tech company, investors may be concerned that the stock won’t perform as well as it has in the past. On...

As Fed raises rates by a quarter point, here’s where financial advisers are telling their clients to invest — and store — their money

The Federal Reserve boosted its influential interest rate yet again Wednesday, even as more signs indicate that inflation is cooling. It hiked the benchmark’s key rate by a quarter of a basis point, b...

Intel cuts pay, bonuses and other benefits while maintaining dividend

Intel Corp. continues to cut costs for everything except payments to investors. Intel INTC, +2.87%, which is already in the process of cutting what is believed to be thousands of jobs amid steep decli...

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...

UK corporate law is too weak for crypto scammers, report shows

A recently released investigative report compiled by the Bureau and the Observer reveals that organized criminal groups use the United Kingdom as a virtual base for their scamming activities due to th...

Michael Burry says sell and Jim Cramer says buy. As the Fed meets, here’s how they both could be wrong on stocks.

Michael Burry, the hedge-fund manager at Scion Asset Management who correctly forecast the 2008 financial crisis, on Tuesday night sent out a one-word tweet: “Sell.” Burry didn’t elaborate, but it’s n...

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 ...

AMD CEO promises to keep taking data-center from Intel even as cloud demand pauses following ‘strong’ 2022

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. shares rose in the extended session Tuesday after the chip maker’s data-center sales gained and executives forecast sales of more than $5 billion to start 2023, even as clo...

Pfizer CEO: Covid Infections Will Rise. So Will Paxlovid and Vaccine Sales.

Pfizer executives say Wall Street analysts haven’t understood just how powerful a hit the company’s Covid-19 products will take this year. That’s the explanation the company’s chief financial officer,...

Apple earnings may rely on an unlikely hero amid iPhone uncertainty

Apple Inc. was saved in its last earnings report by an unlikely hero, and the same dynamic may show up in the tech giant’s holiday earnings. Macs posted record revenue of $11.5 billion that was more t...