Early investors in AMTD Digital Inc. have basically won the lottery, as the Hong Kong-based digital business developer’s stock has zoomed 3,165% higher over the past seven days. The stock HKD, -30.89%...
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Moderna’s Earnings Are Wednesday. Here’s What to Expect.
Text size Moderna is developing two vaccines for the fall, one for the U.S. and the other for international markets. Sean Gallup/Getty Images As the U.S. prepares for a broad Covid-19 booster campaign...
Caterpillar’s Earnings Are Good and Sales Top Estimates. But the Stock Falls.
Text size Caterpillar’s earnings and sales in the second quarter beat Wall Street expectations. Bernd Lauter / AFP via Getty Images Caterpillar reported second-quarter numbers that beat Wall Str...
Stock Market Today: Dow Futures Slip as Pelosi Goes to Taiwan, BP Stock Surges
Text size House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is set to arrive in Taiwan Tuesday. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Stocks were slipping Tuesday amid rising geopolitical tensions, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is ...
Will the stock-market rally turn into a selloff? This bond-market gauge could tip investors off
Now that the Federal Reserve appears to have abandoned its forward guidance tool in favor of being “data dependent” to help inform its future path for rates, investors should keep an eye on this gauge...
The Stock Market Had a Great July. Why August Could Be Tougher.
Text size Expectations for future rate hikes changed, hinging largely on two sentences from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s news conference. Ting Shen/Bloomberg Stocks rallied this past week ...
Opinion: Energy stocks have a sustainable future: it’s in their dividends
One of the few numbers growing faster than energy stock dividends is the size of crowds convinced they are not sustainable. I’ve never witnessed a consensus opinion as negative on an entire sector as ...
Small-Cap Stocks Have Been Big Winners. Why They Can Keep Outperforming.
Text size Yeti cooler sales are expected to grow, and the company has added drinkware products to its line. Sergio Flores/Bloomberg Good things are supposed to come in small packages, but that hasn’t ...
The Stock Market Rallied on Hopes That Rate Hikes Will Soon Wind Down
Text size While the markets and many consumers are worried about inflation, other people, like these skaters at Rockefeller Center in New York, are still spending. Richard Levine/Alamy Markets can sta...
This strategist said hold on to stocks at the June lows. Now he says it’s time to cut exposure.
July has been a sensational month for stocks — the S&P 500 SPX, +1.42%, Nasdaq Composite COMP, +1.88%, even the beleaguered small-caps in the Russell 2000 RUT, +0.65%, are each on track for their ...
Intel’s pain could be AMD’s gain
After a disastrous earnings report from Intel Corp. that acknowledged a big drop in data-center sales and internal mistakes, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is expected up to show off exactly the opposite...
Whatever you’re feeling now about stocks is normal bear-market grief — and the worst is yet to come
Stock investors have a lot more grieving to do before the bear market breathes its last. According to the five stages of bear market grief, which I addressed in mid-May, we’re currently at stage three...
U.S. inflation surges again and stays at 40-year high, key price gauge shows
The numbers: A key gauge of U.S. inflation rose a sharp 1% in June, led by higher fuel prices, in a sign that price pressures in the economy are still intense and unlikely to relent quickly. The incre...
Intel earnings slammed on Wall Street: ‘Such a disconnect between the company’s optimism and the current reality’
Intel Corp. drew sharp criticism from analysts after the company reported results that were disappointing on many fronts, indicating a storm of macroeconomic, competitive, and execution challenges. Th...
Stock market’s post-Fed bounce is a ‘trap,’ warns Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson
“‘Ultimately, this will be a trap.’” — Mike Wilson, chief U.S. equity strategist and CIO, Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson, who correctly called the stock market’s 2022 swoon, isn’t convinc...
15 quality dividend stocks that you can buy on sale right now
John Buckingham, editor of the Prudent Speculator newsletter, paraphrases Warren Buffett when he says “whether it is socks or stocks, we like to buy quality merchandise that is marked down.” And 2022 ...
Surprise? How the stock market has reacted on day of each Fed rate hike in 2022
The Federal Reserve’s strategy of supersize interest rate hikes gets much of the blame for triggering a bear market in stocks in 2022, but investors might be surprised by a look back at how equites ha...
Semiconductor stocks have been hit hard, but many are poised for rapid growth. Here are 15 expected to shine through 2024
In December, we listed analysts’ favorite semiconductor stocks for 2022. That hasn’t turned out well. But after chipmakers’ stocks have been hammered, the group is now trading at “normal-level valuati...
Here’s what Bill Ackman says Powell should tell traders about Fed rate-hike plans
“‘Tomorrow, Powell is likely to be asked: “Market pricing implies that the terminal FF rate will peak at 3.4% in 12/22 immediately declining thereafter to 2.7% by YE ‘23. What factors would cause the ...
Alphabet’s Earnings Are Today. Here’s What to Expect.
Text size Google’s Bay View campus in Mountain View, Calif. Noah Berger/ AFP/ Getty Images Tuesday night is a big one for Alphabet , and for the rest of the stock market. Google’s parent company...
FAA Boeing 787 approval could spell good news for these stocks
The companies that supply components for the 787 Dreamliner could benefit from the FAA’s reported approval of a Boeing Co. process for validating fixes to each plane before they are shipped to custome...