Opinion: Don’t forget that the big money in stocks is usually made during down markets

The VanEck Semiconductors ETF SMH, -0.90% is down 12%. The Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, -0.29% is down 9%, and the S&P 500 SPX, -0.47%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.58% and the Russel...

Apple, Alphabet, and Other Big Tech Stocks Poised for Further Losses

Text size Apple shares were poised to extend losses on Monday. Dreamstime Major technology stocks such as Apple and Alphabet were poised for further losses Monday after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome...

When Is Tesla’s Stock Split, and What Does It Mean for Investors?

Tesla will split its stock this week, the latest megacap company to divide its highly priced shares this year in a bid to make them more accessible to investors. Stock splits have declined in populari...

Alphabet and 7 More Stocks Wall Street Loves That Aren’t Too Pricey

Ninety-four percent of the analysts who follow Alphabet, Google’s parent company, rate it at Buy. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Text size Investors usually have to pay up to get high-quality stock...

Opinion: Step aside, FAANMGs. This new crop of tech companies are the ones to watch for the next decade.

Investors have had a change of heart after selling technology stocks for the better part of eight months.   There has been a trend reversal after bellwether tech companies reported earnings for the mo...

Opinion: The FAANMGs have been whittled down to the fantastic four

The anticipation of second-quarter Big Tech earnings was palpable. With a broad set of indicators pointing to a slowdown in the global economy, the highest inflation in four decades and a big jump in ...

Individual Investors Ramp Up Bets on Tech Stocks

Listen to article (2 minutes) Technology stocks have taken a beating this year. Many individual investors have used it as an opportunity to double down. The Nasdaq Composite Index—home to the big tech...

Opinion: Big Tech shows its good to be big, as growth slowdown leads to stock gains while smaller rivals find only pain

After super charged, double-digital growth during the pandemic, the results from the five biggest U.S. tech giants this week showed a slowdown as they grapple with inflation, looming recession and an ...

Hedge Funds Aren’t Buying Big Tech. Secular Growth Stocks Are Hot Now.

Text size Hedge funds have a net short position in Apple stock, according to Jefferies. Nicholas Kamm / AFP via Getty Images Some of the big-money investment funds on Wall Street have been moving out ...

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...

The Fed will cut rates next year, says BofA. Here’s what will happen to Treasurys.

All eyes will be on the Federal Reserve on Wednesday. The central bank is widely expected to continue the fast pace of monetary tightening with another 75 basis-point hike in borrowing costs. But even...

Opinion: Google and Microsoft earnings show the bar has been lowered for Big Tech

Alphabet Inc. and Microsoft Corp. both reported results that missed Wall Street’s expectations Tuesday, but not only did investors not melt down, both actually saw their stocks rise in after-hours tra...

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...

Big Tech earnings are about to determine the direction of the market

Just five companies control nearly a quarter of the S&P 500 index’s market cap, and they will all report earnings this week that could determine the direction of the market for weeks or months to ...

Microsoft earnings: It’s the forecast that matters, so be patient

The most important financial news Microsoft Corp. executives will provide Tuesday requires a bit of a wait. Microsoft MSFT, -0.59% is scheduled to report fiscal fourth-quarter financial results after ...

Expect Two Recessions, and a Quick End to the Fed’s Interest-Rate Hikes

Forward guidance sounds like a great idea. Central bankers should lay out their longer-term goals to influence financial markets. Just as hockey great Wayne Gretzky would skate where the puck was head...

Google Parts With Engineer Who Claimed Its AI System Is Sentient

Google fired an engineer who contended that an artificial-intelligence chatbot the company developed had become sentient, telling him that he had violated the company’s data security policies after it...

Apple, Amazon, Meta Highlight Tech-Heavy Earnings Week

Tech giants Apple Amazon.com and Microsoft headline a busy earnings week amid growing investor fears of recession, rising interest rates and surging inflation. A little more than one-third of S&P ...

Alphabet, Amazon Look Ready to Join the Dow After Stock Splits

Text size Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet. Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg The recent stock split by Alphabet could pave the way for the search giant and Amazon . com to join the Dow Jones Industrial Average . ...

It’s the end of ‘fantasyland’ for Big Tech and its workers

After Big Tech grew in unprecedented and unchecked fashion for a decade, building ostentatious palaces to house growing workforces while plying them luxuriant freebies to keep them from defecting to r...

Google’s stock split won’t matter in a recession, analyst says

Shares of Alphabet Inc. slumped Monday, with MKM Partners analyst Rohit Kulkarni saying the impact of an economic slowdown could offset the benefits from the long-waited stock split taking effect. The...

Google Parent Alphabet Starts Trading at Split-Adjusted Price

Text size Dividing up the shares of Google-parent Alphabet should make them easier for investors to buy. Dreamstime Shares of Google parent Alphabet start trading at a new price today after the stock ...

GameStop Will Split Its Stock. What Amazon and Google Suggest Happens Next.

Text size GameStop’s stock split will take effect this month. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images GameStop was flying on Thursday, but this time it was a stock split—and not a meme-driven frenzy—sendin...

These 10 stocks in the S&P 500 lost $4.2 trillion of investors’ money during the first half of 2022

The first half of 2022 is over, and good riddance for investors: The S&P 500 Index declined 20.6%. Below are two lists of the worst-performing stocks in the S&P 500 SPX, -0.88% this year. Firs...

Alphabet and Meta Have an Ad Revenue Problem. What It Means for Their Stocks.

Text size The Google logo is seen with the rainbow flag in New York. Angela Weiss /AFP via Getty Images Alphabet, Meta Platforms, and other big tech companies have seen their valuations undergo a sign...

Opinion: As tech melts down, a truth remains: Semiconductors are eating the world

Everyone’s favorite trade in the stock market, technology, has gone the way of the dodo. Oil and value stocks are all the rage. But one part of technology — semiconductors — is vital not only to the t...

‘The goal is never to seek the top’: The wild, hair-raising ride of a 30-something investor who battled against NFT hackers and dodged the crypto crash

Vinny Zane has a taste for life — and an appetite for risk. The 38-year-old teacher and father of a 2-year-old son on Brooklyn’s Coney Island got into crypto in 2017 with $4,000 worth of Bitcoin, and ...

Exxon May Be Making ‘More Than God.’ But Apple and Alphabet Are More Profitable.

Text size President Biden, who his hurting politically due to high inflation, took a swipe at industry leader Exxon Mobil on Friday. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Exxon Mobil may be making “more than God ...

Consider a portfolio of 100% stocks if you’re at least 10 years from retirement

This year’s stock market isn’t what it seems. “It wasn’t supposed to be this way!” That’s the refrain from many investors who are looking at a U.S. stock market SPX, -1.08% decline so far this year of...

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...

Elon Musk says workers should return to the office or quit. It’s a big gamble: ‘Tesla is kick-starting its own local Great Resignation’

Elon Musk is giving his employees an ultimatum. Tesla’s  TSLA, -2.36% chief executive officer and founder responded Thursday to an apparent leaked email that called on employees to return to the offic...

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...