GameStop, Salesforce, Netflix, Alphabet, Nvidia, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed Monday for Memorial Day. A handful of major companies report later this week, with the economic-data highlight being jobs Friday. HP and...

GameStop, Salesforce, Netflix, Alphabet, Nvidia, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed Monday for Memorial Day. A handful of major companies report later this week, with the economic-data highlight being jobs Friday. HP and...

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...

The Great Resistance is here. Companies and employees are in a battle of wills over returning to the office.

Amy Faust Liggayu, 32, a market-research project manager based in Tinley Park, Ill., and mother of a 7-month-old son, never imagined she would have a life where she could spend five days a week with h...

Why this investor who paid $650,000 to lunch with Buffett isn’t buying or selling stocks right now

It’s 13-F season, and you’re not going to find many like Guy Spier’s Aquamarine Capital in the first quarter —- zero buys, zero sells. “Pathetic, isn’t it,” quips Spier in an interview. Spier says he ...

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...

Mark Cuban: ‘Crypto is going through the lull that the internet went through’

Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban thinks that cryptocurrency is on the same downswing that tech and internet companies hit in the early 2000s. Bitcoin hit a 10-month low as U,S. stocks continued to ...

Opinion: The Dow and the S&P 500 are likely falling into a bear market but your portfolio doesn’t have to sink with them

After talking to my nervous neighbors about the Nasdaq stocks they own, I discovered that most don’t want financial advice. So I’ll offer it here. The Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, -1.40% is in a bear ...

Will Fed rate hike be a ‘clearing event’ for battered U.S. stock market? What investors are watching for on Wednesday

A little clarity from the Federal Reserve on the likely size and scope of future rate increases on Wednesday could be a balm for a bruised U.S. stock market, according to some analysts. The meeting co...

With interest rates rising, it’s time to focus on MANG stocks instead of FAANG, according to Jefferies

Heading into the Federal Open Market Committee’s policy meeting, analysts at Jefferies on May 3 advised investors to avoid the popular FAANG + Microsoft group of stocks. They pointed instead to a grou...

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...

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...

Microsoft beats on earnings after raising prices for Office; stock jumps after strong forecast

Microsoft Corp. eclipsed profit and sales estimates and produced stronger-than-expected revenue across all of its business segments in an earnings report Tuesday, and shares jumped after executives’ f...

U.S. stock futures sink, suggesting more losses Monday

After sharp losses Friday, Wall Street is poised for more declines as stock-index futures slid Sunday night. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures YM00, -0.46% were last off more than 170 points — an i...

Apple Is the Last FAANG Standing. How Its Earnings Could Move the Market.

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...

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...

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...

Three value stocks that can provide safety as interest rates rise

Stocks have been on a rocky road this year, as investors have tried to anticipate every possible move by the Federal Reserve to combat inflation. Value strategies have held up better than growth strat...

The end of one-chip wonders: Why Nvidia, Intel and AMD’s valuations have experienced massive upheaval

It wasn’t too long ago that Intel Corp. was the unquestioned king of U.S. chip makers and the largest semiconductor company by market capitalization. It’s also not long since most computing was done w...

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...

Cathie Wood’s ARK Snaps Up Nearly $20 Million of UiPath Stock

Text size Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation ETF purchased 867,331 shares of UiPath on Monday. Courtesy of ARK Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation exchange-traded fund purchased 867,331 shares of UiPath , th...

Opinion: I’ve always pounded the table on revolutionary companies. Now I’ve found myself buying Intel’s stock

This may be a surprise for those of you who have been following me on MarketWatch, as I have focused on finding Revolutionary companies early on and holding on to them, usually forever. Intel is a com...

Baidu Stock Drops. It’s One of 5 Stocks Added to the SEC’s Delisting Watchlist.

Text size LIU JIN/AFP via Getty Images Baidu stock was dropping Thursday after U.S. regulators added the Chinese search giant to its growing list of companies that could be removed from American stock...

UiPath stock drops 20% after outlook falls short of Wall Street expectations

UiPath Inc. shares dropped in the extended session Wednesday after the “software robot” provider’s weaker-than-expected outlook overshadowed a beat of Wall Street’s quarterly results estimates. UiPath...

Tesla stock pops after stock split plans disclosed

Shares of Tesla shot up Monday after the electric vehicle giant disclosed plans to enable a stock split, which would be the second in two years. The company TSLA, +6.94% said in an 8-K filing with the...

Yandex, Russia’s Internet Giant, Struggles to Dodge Geopolitics

If you thought Silicon Valley had a problem with politics, spare a thought for Russia’s top internet company. Newsletter Sign-up Heard on the Street Agenda-setting analysis and commentary on the bigge...

How about a new FAANG? This grouping outperforms the tech giants

The FAANG grouping of stocks has been so 2021. Facebook parent Meta Platforms FB, -1.47%, Amazon.com AMZN, -0.90%, Apple AAPL, +0.82%, Netflix NFLX, -2.20% and Google parent Alphabet GOOGL, -1.14% hav...

Cash-Rich Berkshire Hathaway, Apple, and Alphabet Should Gain From Higher Rates

Text size Apple could be earning $4 billion more on its cash by 2023 Sean Gallup/Getty Images With its enormous cash reserves now earning next to nothing, Berkshire Hathaway could be one of the bigger...