Text size Affirm Holdings Inc. website home screen on a laptop Gabby Jones/Bloomberg Shares of Affirm Holdings were surging Friday after the online payments company received an upgrade to Buy from ana...
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AT&T Earnings Beat Forecasts. The Stock Can’t Get Past Spinoff Uncertainty.
Text size AT&T stock rose despite a “disappointing” earnings outlook. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images AT&T ‘s reported fourth-quarter results on Wednesday that continued a streak of s...
IBM Reports Its Earnings Monday. Here’s What to Expect.
Text size IBM has previously said it expects annual growth to return to the mid-single-digits range, starting this year. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg IBM will report fourth-quarter earnings after the c...
The 60/40 portfolio ‘is in danger’ as Federal Reserve gears up for a rate-hike cycle in coming months
The traditional portfolio mix of 60% stocks and 40% bonds, historically seen as the safest allocation for investors of moderate-risk tolerance, “is in danger” as the Federal Reserve gears up for its f...
Microsoft could have just kicked off a Big Tech gold rush, which helps videogame stocks but maybe not gamers
Microsoft Corp.’s agreement to buy Activision Blizzard Inc. would be the largest tech acquisition ever, and the chance it could prompt other Big Tech names to make their own acquisitions sent videogam...
Satellite TV Can’t Be Saved With a DirecTV-Dish Merger
Text size In some parts of the country where cable access is limited, Dish and DirecTV remain the only way to get pay-TV subscriptions. Daniel Acker/Bloomberg For 20 years now, Dish Network and rival ...
AMC CEO Says He’s Done Selling Stock After Unloading Another $7 Million
Text size AMC CEO Adam Aron. Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for CinemaCon AMC Entertainment Chief Executive Adam Aron sold another $7.1 million shares of the movie theater giant this week, and said...
Opinion: Citadel’s $1.15 billion cash infusion isn’t a bailout but the final test of Ken Griffin’s ‘Death Star’
When you add more than a billion dollars’ worth of liquidity to a market maker that already executed more than one of every four trades in the U.S. markets on a daily basis, while simultaneously givin...
AT&T Stock Can Close Gap With Verizon. Why Shares Might Be a Buy.
Text size A sign is posted in front of an AT&T retail store in San Rafael, California. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images AT&T could finally start catching up to its main rival, prompting analysts a...
Zynga Stock Soars on Deal to Be Acquired by Take-Two for $12.7 Billion
Text size A bicyclist rides by the Zynga headquarters. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Shares of mobile gaming services company Zynga were soaring in premarket trading following the news that it will be ...
Nvidia Stock Faces Short-Term Pressures. Why It’s Still a Buy.
Text size A sign is posted in front of the Nvidia headquarters in Santa Clara, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Getty Images Shares of Nvidia were inching lower Thursday following a...
Enphase Stock Sinks as Slower Transition Leads to Sharp Price Cut
Text size David McNew/Getty Images Shares of solar specialist Enphase Energy were tumbling Wednesday after a sharp price cut and downgrade by analysts at BofA Global Research. BofA Global Research low...
Xilinx Stock Slips as Takeover by AMD Pushed Back to First Quarter of 2022
Text size Photograph by Magnus Engo Xilinx shares were declining Friday after its acquisition by larger semiconductor rival Advanced Micro Devices was pushed into the first quarter of 2022. “While we ...
AMD is about to wander into a minefield
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. earnings will serve as an important indicator on whether the semiconductor outlook is truly weak in early 2022, or whether it’s just weak for certain companies. AMD AMD, +2...