Apple stock to suffer first ‘death cross’ chart pattern since the pandemic

Apple Inc.’s stock has fallen far enough and for long enough to produce a certain ominous-sounding bearish chart pattern should didn’t appear during the short COVID-19-induced bear-market selloff of e...

Google’s Owner Paid $296,000 to a Typical Worker. Here’s What Other Firms Pay

With a booming economy and a tight job market, median pay rose last year for most S&P 500 companies, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. Google parent Alphabet and Facebook Meta Platforms...

Google investors shoot down racial-equity audit while approving stock split

Alphabet Inc. investors rejected 17 shareholder proposals at the Google parent company’s annual meeting Wednesday, including a racial-equity audit, but approved a company proposal to increase the shar...

Amazon’s Stock Split Is Coming. Watch Tesla and Google for More.

Text size Amazon stock was at $2,423.06, or a little over $121 on a post-split basis, on Wednesday. Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images It could be a stock-split summer on Wall Street. Some of a flu...

Looking for $100,000 Salary? See How Much the Biggest U.S. Companies Pay Workers

By John Stensholt and Nate Rattner May 31, 2022 7:00 am ET Wages for the median workers at the majority of big American companies are higher than they were before the pandemic, with the tight job mark...

Stocks to Buy Now: Alphabet, Facebook, and 4 More Bargains

When the stock market gets pounded, bargains abound—or so it seems. But in a bear market, the key to investing success is separating the thoughtlessly discarded from the overpriced junk. With about tw...

Snowflake May Have Upside After a Big Drop in the Bear Market

Text size Snowflake, the cloud-based data warehouse company, has been pummeled in the bear market. Gabby Jones/Bloomberg Snowflake publishes results on Wednesday, giving investors a fresh look after a...

The S&P 500 Is Almost in a Bear Market. This Is the Level to Watch.

Text size The Nasdaq MarketSite in New York’s Times Square. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Another day, another sea of red on investors’ screens. The S&P 500 has shed more than $7 trillion in marke...

The Stock Market Has Tumbled. The Best Stocks to Buy Now.

Investors are on pace for their worst year in history, declared strategists at one U.S. bank this past week. Their reasoning? Stocks and bonds are off to terrible starts, while consumer prices have ro...

FAANG Stocks Are Crumbling. Why the Pain May Not Be Over.

Shares of Meta Platforms, Facebook’s parent company, are off by more than 40% so far this year. Nick Otto/Bloomberg Text size There has been no refuge for technology investors this year. And it ...

More Bad Times Ahead for These 6 Big Tech Stocks

Text size Amazon stock is down 35% this year. Sebastien Bozon/AFP via Getty Images Not even the high and mighty are immune from the gravitational forces of bear markets. That is the dilemma facing the...

Apple and Amazon Have Fallen for 6 Straight Weeks. There Could Be More Pain Ahead.

Text size People visit the Apple Store in Grand Central Station in New York. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Apple and Amazon.com kicked off the second week of May looking as if the stocks would exte...

Wall Street Is So Terrified, Stocks Might Be Ready to Rise

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell Tom Williams-Pool/Getty Images Text size To paraphrase Monty Python, the stock market isn’t dead quite yet. Sure, it feels like the S&P 500 has nowhere to go bu...

Alphabet Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat Bought Stock in Blackstone

Text size Blackstone headquarters in New York. Angus Mordant/Bloomberg Blackstone stock has slumped so far in 2022, and director Ruth Porat just bought shares of the private-equity firm on the open ma...

Earnings Season Has Been Just One More Reason to Sell Stocks

Text size Apple dropped 3.7% on Friday after its outlook disappointed. Gabby Jones/Bloomberg The only takeaway to be drawn from a volatile week of earnings reports was that we shouldn’t get our hopes ...

Opinion: Big Tech is no longer winning as big, but these two stocks still seem safe

The Big Tech earnings boom is officially over, but some of the world’s most powerful and valuable companies are breaking off from the pack. As this column told you months ago, profit increases are no ...

Opinion: Google’s earnings should be a warning to investors in Facebook and other online-ad companies

Google’s earnings shortfall is an indication of trouble across the online-advertising industry, and should scare investors in Facebook and other competitors. Google parent company Alphabet Inc. GOOGL,...

Alphabet Earnings Disappoint. The Stock Is Dropping.

Text size Alphabet’s latest quarterly earnings came in below Wall Street’s expectations. Dreamstime Alphabet shares dipped late Tuesday after the company missed first-quarter earnings expe...

GOOGL Stock Falls On Q1 Earnings Miss As YouTube Growth Disappoints

Google-parent Alphabet (GOOGL) on Tuesday reported March-quarter earnings and revenue that missed Wall Street targets. GOOGL stock fell as YouTube advertising growth fell short of expectations amid ri...

Apple and the Rest of Big Tech Look More Like ‘Value Stocks’

Text size The shadow of a man is cast on the wall of an Apple store as he uses his mobile phone in Beijing Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images Big Tech stocks aren’t so highflying anymore. In fact, they’r...

What to Look For From GOOGL

Key Takeaways Analysts estimate EPS of $25.65 vs. $26.29 in Q1 FY 2021. Google Cloud revenue is expected to rise YOY. Revenue is expected to rise but at a slower pace compared to recent quarters. Goog...

Bitcoin Prices Fall as Crypto Market Slammed by Hawkish Fed Expectations

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies dropped Monday as expectations that the Federal Reserve will move aggressively to tighten monetary policy continued to rock the digital asset space. Bitcoin fell mor...

Buying the Dip Can Be a Retiree’s Best Friend. Here’s How Seniors Can Safely Shop.

Photo illustration by Barron’s Staff; (reference) Dreamstime (4) Text size It’s hard at any age to buy stocks when prices are falling, but for retirees it can be especially nerve-racking because...

Amid a storm in tech sector, Google is staying relatively dry and happy

While other tech companies have faced the fury of Wall Street because of a host of issues, Google parent Alphabet Inc. has largely withstood the storm, and analysts believe it will continue to do so w...

Facebook Is Broken. Execs Say a Fix Won’t Come Fast.

Meta Platforms, the former Facebook, has come under heavy fire from Congress, regulators, and even its own users, but there has been nothing like the crisis it now faces. Its core business is decelera...

Apple Is the Last FAANG Standing

Apple is the last FAANG standing—and its earnings report this coming week could go a long way toward determining if the stock market bounces back or slides even further. As bad as this year has been f...

Alphabet Gets New Street-Low Price Target. This Analyst Still Likes the Stock.

Text size The Google corporate logo and Google Cloud logo stand outside Google offices in Germany. Sean Gallup/Getty Images Alphabet shares were ticking higher Wednesday, even after Google’s parent co...

Microsoft Stock Slips on Concern About Growth for Office 365

Text size Microsoft Office is one of the company’s biggest businesses. Dreamstime Microsoft shares are under pressure from concerns about how the company might be affected by slowing growth in t...

Stock Splits Are Popular Again. 5 Companies That Could Split Their Stocks Next

Stock splits are back in vogue, and the market is quickly rewarding companies that divide their shares. Google parent Alphabet , Amazon.com , Tesla , and GameStop are among the latest companies to see...

Tesla Beat All the Trillion-Dollar Stocks. Berkshire Hathaway Did Even Better.

Text size The new Tesla factory in Germany. Sean Gallup/Getty Images What do Elon Musk and Warren Buffett have in common? Shares of both of their megacapitalization companies posted gains for the firs...

Investors are fed up with Netflix and Facebook’s parent. Why this portfolio manager is digging in and buying more.

It has been a quarter to forget for two of the megacap tech giants, Netflix and Facebook parent Meta Platforms. The 34% decline for Meta FB was its worst on record — the 30% drop in the third quarter ...

Apple Stock Is on Its Hottest Winning Streak Since 2003. What Happens Next.

Text size Apple stock is on a historical tear. Sascha Steinbach/Getty Images for Apple Apple stock hasn’t had a winning streak this hot since spring 2003. Shares in Apple (ticker: AAPL) have climbed i...