Dialysis company DaVita stock suffering worst day in 22 years after big profit miss, disappointing outlook

Shares of DaVita Inc. plummeted in active trading Friday, toward their worst performance in more than two decades, after the dialysis company reported third-quarter that fell well below expectations a...

XPeng Stock Plunges After Rare Double-Downgrade

Shares for Chinese electric vehicle maker XPeng have just been hammered in 2022—and they dropped even more Friday after a once-bullish analyst said to sell the stock. Citi analyst Jeff Chung doubled-d...

Why the Dow is having a killer month as it heads for best October ever

The Dow Jones Industrial Average has been criticized by some market watchers for being a poor barometer of equity-market performance given its relatively small sample size of just 30 stocks. But this ...

‘When we dated for 5 years, he implied he was financially secure’: My husband was always hesitant about his finances. Now I know why.

Dear Quentin, My husband and I make about the same salary, and live modestly. Six months after we married, I found out my husband’s net worth is virtually zero. He owes more money than he has assets (...

AbbVie Stock Slips as Sales Miss Expectations And Bigger Challenges Await.

Stock in AbbVie slipped after the drug company reported a higher profit than expected, while sales fell short. The revenue shortfall may have reminded investors of a challenge AbbVie (ticker: ABBV) fa...

Apple Is the Winner of a Gruesome Earnings Season. Maybe Buffett Was Right.

The tech earnings season has been full of ups and downs. Sure, it’s seen more downs than ups, but the ups have been notable. Amazon was the latest stock to tank after reporting third-quarter results. ...

‘Pretty much Google 2.0’ — Amazon price targets reduced by analysts, though they say the long-term story is intact

Analysts downgraded their price targets for Amazon.com after it reported missing its third quarter sales expectations alongside a weak sales forecast for the upcoming festive season. Amazon AMZN, -10....

Medtronic Is Doing a Spinoff. What It Means for Our Stock Pick.

Medical device maker Medtronic is spinning off two business units to try to drive higher growth. The market isn’t impressed.  In theory, it should be. Spinoffs are supposed to streamline operations of...

Elon Musk on the hook to pay more than $200 million to 3 fired Twitter execs

This story was updated with a more current tally of shares from Twitter’s most recent proxy statement.  When Twitter Inc.’s top executives walked out of its San Francisco headquarters Thursday, they m...

Municipal bond yields are attractive now — here’s how to figure out if they are right for you

This has been an unusual year for financial markets, with stocks and bonds falling in tandem. For bonds, the declines mean yields have become viable again for income investors who over the previous de...

Amazon stock sinks after holiday forecast and cloud growth, profit disappoint; $150 billion in market cap at risk

Amazon.com Inc. predicted Thursday that holiday sales and profit would come in well lower than analysts expected as cloud growth slowed and Amazon Web Services profit missed expectations by nearly $1 ...

Intel stock rises on earnings beat, plans for layoffs, billions in cost cuts planned

Intel Corp. shares rose after hours Thursday after the chip maker topped Wall Street earnings estimates for the quarter and PC-chip sales came in slightly higher than expected, while the company trimm...

Intel Stock Gains as Guidance Disappoints. Layoffs Are Coming.

Intel plans significant cost cuts , including a “meaningful number” of layoffs, its CFO said as the chip maker detailed its financial results and forecast revenue that was much lower than Wall Street ...

‘We are facing a retirement crisis in our country,’ says head of TIAA, as ‘40% of Americans run the risk of running out of money’

“ ‘We are facing a retirement crisis in our country’” — Thasunda Brown Duckett, president and CEO of TIAA That’s CEO of TIAA Thasunda Brown Duckett, who oversees some $1.2 trillion of retirement asset...

Americans think they need $1.25 million to retire. Is that even enough?

Americans think they need $1.25 million to retire comfortably, new research suggests, but while that number may seem hefty — it still may not be enough. A study from Northwestern Mutual released this ...

Millions of working Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck — and running out of cash as another recession looms

Inflation is taking its toll on people’s emergency funds. The share of workers who say they are living paycheck-to-paycheck has surged among middle- to high-income earners — 63% and 49%, respectively ...

Apple Reports Earnings Today. What to Expect.

Apple shares have been remarkably resilient in the face of this year’s tech stock selloff, falling less than 15% since the end of December, and sharply outperforming rivals Microsoft Alphabet and Amaz...

Opinion: Facebook and Google grew into tech titans by ignoring Wall Street. Now it could lead to their downfall

Alphabet Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. became two of the most valuable companies in the world by largely ignoring Wall Street and its concerns about their spending and big-money acquisitions. Now, in t...

Facebook earnings cut in half, Meta stock sinks toward lowest prices in more than 6 years

Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. on Wednesday became the latest tech titan tattooed by a precipitous drop in digital advertising, reporting less than half the profit it had in the same quarter a ye...

Teladoc stock surges after earnings as losses narrow

Shares of Teladoc Health Inc. were up about 13% in after-hours trading Wednesday after the telemedicine company posted a narrower loss than analysts were anticipating for its latest quarter, while sli...

Never Mind Microsoft and Alphabet. This Is the More Ominous Sign for Tech.

In a big week for tech earnings, the most notable results may have come from a memory maker based in South Korea and another lesser known American chip company. While most of the attention is focused ...

20-year-old investor who made $110 million on a meme stock is now pushing for change at psychedelics company MindMed

The 20-year-old investor who found fame this year when he made $110 million trading shares of troubled retailer Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. BBBY, -5.48%, has turned activist shareholder and is pushing ...

AT&T’s dividend yield falls below Verizon’s. What that means for the stocks.

AT&T Inc. no longer seems the most unloved name in wireless, and that manifested in one milestone that occurred last week. While AT&T shares T, +2.54% rallied in the wake of the company’s Thur...

Exxon and Oil Giants to Post Stunning Earnings

A warning from President Biden could dampen the party atmosphere for Big Oil’s expected third-quarter earnings bonanza. Biden, who is worried about high gasoline prices, said last week that oil compan...

Ford Earnings Are Coming. What To Expect.

Third-quarter results from Ford Motor are due after the close of trading Wednesday. They should tell investors something about the state of the U.S. auto industry. Wall Street is looking for third-qua...

Mobileye Prices IPO At $21, Just Above the Expected Range

Mobileye Global priced its initial public offering at $21 a share late Tuesday, raising about $800 million. The offering values the maker of self-driving car systems at about $17 billion. The $21 deal...

Boeing’s Earnings Are Coming. This Is What to Watch.

Boeing has reported positive free cash flow in only one quarter in more than three years. Whether the company generated more than it burned through in the three months through September, and how much ...

Mobileye prices IPO above targeted range to raise nearly $1 billion, and most of it will go to Intel

Mobileye Global Inc. priced its initial public offering higher than its targeted range late Tuesday to raise nearly $1 billion, most of which will go to Intel Corp. Mobileye priced its initial public ...

Credit Suisse is about to unveil its restructuring plan. Here’s what to watch.

Besieged Swiss lender Credit Suisse has been racing to finalize asset sales to help pay for its much-anticipated strategic overhaul, set to be unveiled on Thursday. The pressure is on new CEO Ulrich K...

TSMC’s stock slumps after reported diss of U.S. chip efforts; industry downgrades also weigh on sector

Chip stocks lagged behind the broader market Monday following one report that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is pessimistic about U.S. efforts to build domestic capacity, and another that said...

Microsoft stock slammed by cloud-growth fears, taking Amazon down with it

Microsoft Corp. shares fell more than 6% in after-hours trading Tuesday as the company’s cloud-computing growth hit a sudden deceleration and executives guided for holiday-season revenue to come in mo...

Google ad sales take a hit and widely miss estimates, Alphabet stock drops 6%

Alphabet Inc. is feeling the sting of a downturn in digital-ad spending. Google’s parent company reported just 6% sales growth year-over-year Tuesday and missed widely on its advertising revenue, push...