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People Are Backing Out of Home Purchases
Text size D.R. Horton said its cancellation rate was 24% in the latest quarter. Above, contractors at a D.R. Horton development in Florence, Ariz. Caitlin O’Hara/Bloomberg In its most recent qua...
Apple and Microsoft Report Earnings Next Week. Can a Fed Rate Hike Top Them?
Text size Earnings from Big Tech are next week. But so is the Federal Reserve’s announcement on interest rates. Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg Big Tech earnings season will shift into fifth gear next...
Oil Doesn’t Have to Boom for These Companies to Thrive
Oil-and-gas companies aren’t anywhere close to drilling as much as they did in 2014, but some oil-field service companies are squeezing out profit as if they were. Schlumberger said on Friday that its...
Verizon Stock Falls Sharply on Cut to Earnings Guidance
Text size Verizon said wireless revenue growth for the year will be between 8.5% to 9.5%, lower than previous guidance. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Verizon Communications posted second-quarter earning...
Opinion: The cloud boom is coming back to earth, and that could be scary for tech stocks
Cloud computing is widely viewed as a recession-resistant business, but the theory has not really been tested since cloud-service providers have not experienced a major economic downturn since becomin...
AT&T earnings were ‘actually good’ despite stock selloff, says analyst
AT&T Inc.’s shares fell sharply Thursday after the telecommunications giant cut its free-cash-flow forecast for the year, but one analyst said the latest report wasn’t all bad. In fact, LightShed ...
Seagate’s Earnings Miss Estimates as Demand for Disk Drives Worsens
Text size A Seagate hard drive from an Apple laptop computer. Demand is weakening in consumer-related markets. Brent Lwein/Bloomberg The disk-drive company Seagate Technology posted sales and profits ...
AT&T stock pulls back from historic drop after earnings
AT&T shares sank Thursday despite an earnings beat in a quarter with a lot of moving parts due to recent business divestments. While the company raised its annual forecast for mobility-service rev...
AT&T’s Dividend Yield Jumps as the Stock Falls After Earnings
Text size AT&T Justin Sullivan/Getty Images AT&T stock is shedding value on Thursday, after a big miss on second-quarter free cash flow and lowered guidance for the remainder of the year. That...
AT&T Stock Drops Despite Adding Subscribers. Here’s Why.
Text size AT&T added more wireless and fiber subscribers than expected, paid down debt, and continued to invest in fiber and 5G. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images In its first three months as a telecom...
Nokia Boosts Sales as Turnaround Gains Steam
Nokia said it was on track to hit the higher end of its 2022 sales forecast, as sales of its telecommunications equipment rose in North America and its efforts to rebound from the missteps of recent y...
Ford Plans to Cut Several Thousand Salaried Jobs
Ford Motor Co. is planning to cut several thousand white-collar workers as it looks to trim costs to position the company for a long-range transition to electric vehicles, according to people familiar...
Chip stocks rally despite an ominous forecast, as U.S. semiconductor funding bill advances in Senate
Chip stocks rallied to finish higher Wednesday after the Senate moved closer to greenlighting more than $50 billion in funds for U.S.-based chip manufacturing, even as one chip-equipment maker gave an...
Apple Earnings Could Miss Estimates, Morgan Stanley Warns
Text size The new Apple retail store in Istanbul. Chris McGrath/Getty Images Apple earnings estimates and price targets continue to slip lower as the Street turns wary ahead of the company’s June-quar...
ASML Stock Drops. The Chip Supplier Slashes Sales Outlook Amid Delays.
Text size ASML’s machines are key to the global chipmaking industry. Courtesy Bart van Overbeeke/ASML ASML beat expectations for second-quarter earnings, but shares in the critical supplier of m...
AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile Earnings Are Coming. What to Expect.
AT&T is among the big telecoms reporting earnings this week. Stefani Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images Text size Telecom stocks have been a haven in 2022, with the big U.S. companies leading the mar...
Palantir stock’s ‘strength will prove unsustainable,’ analyst says in downgrade
Palantir Technologies Inc. shares are up nearly 50% from their May lows, but one analyst worries that “this strength will prove unsustainable.” Monness, Crespi, Hardt & Co. analyst Brian White dow...