Stock Market Investing Action Plan: Nike Earnings, Tesla AI Day

Four days of steady selling on the stock market sent the Dow industrials below 30,000, and to their lowest level since Q3 2020. The Nasdaq and S&P 500 stopped short of key levels, setting up a cru...

Micron forecast expected to shed light on how two years of unprecedented supply problems may resolve

Micron Technology Inc. investors are hoping the memory-chip maker’s forecast will provide more color into the unprecedented supply-and-demand dynamics created by two years of COVID-19-related disrupti...

Microsoft, Accenture, and American Tower Boost Dividends

Text size Microsoft, Accenture, and American Tower REIT lifted dividends. Gerard Julien/AFP via Getty Images Microsoft , Accenture , and American Tower REIT declared dividend increases this week in a ...

Tumbling Markets Imperil Tech, the Dollar, and Private Equity

Text size Japan has had to intervene to support the sliding yen for the first time since 1998, even as it tries to keep its interest rates low. Akio Kon/Bloomberg The world has been hooked on cheap mo...

5 Dividend Stocks to Beat Inflation and Rising Interest Rates

Dividend stocks are facing stiffer competition, thanks to a big spike in bond yields. A risk-free 10-Year Treasury note was recently yielding 3.7%, up from 1.63% at the start of 2021. That’s well abov...

Ford Stock Is Still a Buy, Despite Supply Issues. Here’s Why.

Ford’s truck business is one heck of a business. Courtesy Ford Text size Ford Motor stock tumbled this past week after the company warned of continued parts shortages, but Wall Street doesn’t seem wor...

FedEx, Boeing, Domino’s and more

Visitors walk past a Boeing board during the Farnborough Airshow, in Farnborough, on July 18, 2022. Justin Tallis | AFP | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Boein...

Costco isn’t raising membership fees after earnings beat expectations

Shoppers wait in a check-out line at a Costco wholesale store in Orlando, Florida. Paul Hennessy | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Costco is still holding off on raising its membership fees a...

Economic Earnings Fall From Prior Record In 2Q22

Business accounting concept, Business man using calculator with computer laptop, budget and loan … [+] paper in office. getty Economic earnings fell quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) for eight of eleve...

Here’s what Costco is saying about inflation — and a membership fee increase

As the market obsesses about inflation and what would cause the Fed to step off the gas pedal, it’s worth considering what some companies are saying about it. The view from Costco Wholesale, the wareh...

Roger Federer’s Legendary Career By The Numbers

Roger Federer practiced on Wednesday ahead of the Laver Cup, set to be his final competitive tournament. James Manning/PA Images via Getty Images Roger Federer said on social media last week that he w...

Stocks making the biggest moves after hours: Costco, DocuSign, Scholastic

Customers carry their items after shopping at Costco in Washington D.C., May 5, 2021. Ting Shen | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images Here are the stocks making notable moves in extended trading: Costco...

These Are the 7 Worst Housing Markets, According to Lennar

Higher mortgage rates have cut into home sales at a national level—but, as the saying goes, all real estate is local.  Lennar , the nation’s second-largest builder by market capitalization, on Thursda...

Costco Sales Rise as Inflation Continues to Weigh on Consumers

Updated Sept. 22, 2022 6:09 pm ET Listen to article (2 minutes) Costco Wholesale Corp. posted higher sales in the most recent quarter, the latest indication that the warehouse retailer remains a haven...

Costco reports results that top estimates and $200 billion annual revenue for first time

Costco Wholesale Corp. shares slipped in the extended session Thursday even as the retailer reported quarterly results that beat Wall Street estimates and annual sales that topped $200 billion for the...

Costco Earning Beat Forecasts, Membership Fees Top $1.3 Billion

Updated at 5:30 pm EST Costco Wholesale  (COST)  posted better-than-expected fourth quarter earnings Thursday, with membership revenues topping $1.327 billion as new value-focused customers piled in t...

Costco Earnings Underwhelmed and the Stock Is Falling. It’s Time to Buy the Dip.

Text size Costco earnings rarely disappoint. Mario Tama/Getty Images Costco Wholesale isn’t the kind of company that delivers much in the way of bad news and Thursday’s earnings report wasn’t anything...

Buy Eli Lilly Stock. Its Obesity Drug Mounjaro Will Be a Hit, Analyst Says.

Text size Eli Lily said in August that initial demand for Mounjaro was strong. Daniel Acker/Bloomberg Eli Lilly’s novel treatment for diabetes and obesity could become one of history’s bestselling dru...

FedEx (FDX) reports Q1 earnings

A person walks by a FedEx van in New York City, May 9, 2022. Andrew Kelly | Reuters FedEx on Thursday announced rate hikes and detailed its cost-cutting efforts after the shipping giant warned last we...

More Power Outages Make Generac Stock Worth Buying Now

Text size The average U.S. electricity customer lost power for more than eight hours in 2020. That’s up more than 100% from 2013. Alamy In theory, record heat waves, Western wildfires, rolling blackou...

Novavax Stock Slides As JPMorgan Cuts Price Target, Lowers Rating

Updated at 11:29 am EST Novavax Inc.  (NVAX)  shares moved sharply lower Thursday after analysts at JPMorgan lowered their rating and price target on the drugmaker following its decision to slash near...

Stock Dividend Yields That Top What Treasuries Offer

Text size JPMorgan Chase headquarters in New York. Nina Westervelt/Bloomberg Bond yields have surged, making many dividend stocks less appealing. A quick look, however, shows that reliably high-yieldi...

Accenture, Darden Restaurants, home builders

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Accenture (ACN) – The consulting firm reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit and revenue, but gave a weaker-than-expected revenue fo...

Rising Power Outages Make Generac Stock Worth Buying Now

Text size The average U.S. electricity customer lost power for more than eight hours in 2020. That’s up more than 100% from 2013. Alamy In theory, record heat waves, Western wildfires, rolling blackou...

Darden Restaurants (DRI) Q1 2023 earnings

An order of breadsticks from a Darden Restaurants Inc. Olive Garden Getty Images Darden Restaurants on Thursday reported mixed quarterly results but still reiterated its outlook for fiscal 2023. The p...

Moshnake: Passive Earnings Without Staking Unlike Many Top Cryptos Like Cardano And Dogecoin

The future of blockchain has its base on the utilization of Decentralized Finance. The DeFi mechanism posed a lot of solutions to the financial problem through the usage of smart contracts and blockch...

FedEx Earnings Are Coming. It Shouldn’t Get Any Worse.

Text size FedEx investors will want to hear from management after a disappointing update given a week ago. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Shipping giant FedEx reports its fiscal first-quarter financial resul...

Trip.com says China hotel bookings are surpassing pre-pandemic levels

BEIJING — Hotel reservations in China have surpassed pre-pandemic levels since late June, booking site Trip.com said Thursday. Trip.com shares briefly fell by more than 7% Thursday in Hong Kong tradin...

Why Are Stocks And Bonds Both Down? Part II

Photo taken inside an elevator going down to the second floor getty Part II: Stocks In my last article, I looked at how changes in interest rates affect bond prices. It might seem that stocks are very...

Home values in August saw their largest monthly decline since 2011. Some cities see house prices drop by 3%.

Home values are edging down as buyers remain spooked by high mortgage rates, according to a new report. The typical value of a home in the U.S. fell 0.3% in August from the previous month, according t...

Ford stock suffers worst day since 2011 after cost warning

Ford F-150 Lightning at the 2022 New York Auto Show. Scott Mlyn | CNBC DETROIT – Ford Motor’s stock suffered its worst day in more than 11 years, after the automaker pre-released part of its thi...

Opinion: 4 reasons you should buy energy stocks right now if you are a long-term investor

This has been a painful year for stock market investors, as nothing seems to be working. There is an exception: Energy. It’s the best-performing sector and might still be a bargain for those who can b...