Meta Stock Rises After Report of More Layoffs

Shares of Facebook-parent Meta Platforms were rising Tuesday after a report said the company will cut more jobs than previously announced. Meta (ticker: META) is planning another round of layoffs as s...

Silicon Valley Confronts the End of Growth. It’s a New Era for Tech Stocks.

Silicon Valley could use a reboot. The biggest players aren’t growing, and more than a few are seeing sharp revenue declines. Regulators seem opposed to every proposed merger, while legislators push f...

In Tech’s New World, Layoffs and Buybacks Are In, Mergers Are Out

Silicon Valley could use a reboot. The biggest players aren’t growing, and more than a few are seeing sharp revenue declines. Regulators seem opposed to every proposed merger, while legislators push f...

Apple and Meta Stock Buybacks Haven’t Been Equal. Here’s Why.

Investors love stock buybacks, but they don’t always spur the types of returns one might imagine. It takes a discerning eye to identify companies with buybacks that create significant gains for shareh...

Do Layoffs Pay Off? Meta, Amazon, Other Tech Stocks Paint a Mixed Picture.

Text size Tech companies have announced more than 100,000 job cuts this year so far. Fizkes/Dreamstime Some technology companies have seen their stocks jump after announcing mass layoffs this earnings...

Companies Lay Off Workers to Save Money. What 27 Said on Earnings Calls.

What do PayPal,  AT&T and Tinder owner Match Group all have in common? They are among the several S&P500 companies saying that trimming their workforces should provide a boost to their financi...

Tech Earnings Weren’t Great. Stocks Are Soaring Anyway.

Technology stocks have kicked off the year with a roar, staging the kind of spirited, widespread rally last seen during the market’s Covid-era surge. There are nearly two dozen tech tickers on my scre...

Meta, Merck, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and More Stock Market Movers

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Crypto Lender Genesis Files for Bankruptcy. It Could Be Far Worse for Bitcoin.

The lending businesses of Genesis have filed for bankruptcy, making the institutional digital asset powerhouse the latest casualty in a yearlong crash in cryptocurrencies. Genesis Holdco and two subsi...

Peter Thiel Revealed as an Investor in FTX. Even the Best Get Burned.

Peter Thiel has made some fantastic bets in his career, from PayPal to Facebook to Palantir FTX cannot be counted as one of them. Thiel, one of Silicon Valley’s most high-profile investors, was reveal...

Tech’s Bill Is Coming Due. Investors Aren’t the Only Ones Who Will Pay.

For two years now, tech companies have spent massive amounts of money building the capacity to serve what they believed would be a higher level of postpandemic demand. If you build it, they will come....

The Dow Handily Beat the Nasdaq in 2022. Here’s What History Says Happens Next.

Y2K is back in a big way in the fashion world, but history isn’t just repeating itself on the runway. The stock market appears to be nostalgic for the early 2000s, as it is once again turning its back...

Buy Berkshire Hathaway Stock. Warren Buffett’s Company Remains the Ultimate Defensive Megacap.

This article is an excerpt from “Here Are Barron’s 10 Top Stocks for the New Year,” published on Dec. 16, 2022. To see the full list, click here. Warren Buffett’s company Berkshire Hathaway remains th...

Disney, Amazon May Join an Unenviable Club of 44 Stocks

Amazon com was trading lower on Tuesday, putting it within a hair’s breadth of closing below its pandemic low. Walt Disney waffling between small gains and losses, is in the same territory. With the S...

Barron’s 10 Top Stock Picks for 2023

The stock market is coming off its worst year since 2008, but it was finally a good year for value investing—and it was a good year for Barron’s favorite picks, as well.  Every December for the past 1...

Roblox Has 57 Million Daily Users, Half Under 12. What Could Go Wrong?

My kids sat me down for slide presentations on their school-issued Chromebooks detailing what they want for Christmas. Appalling, sure, but I figure they’re building IPO roadshow skills that could pay...

Why Companies Do Layoffs Around Christmas

As job cuts ripple through industries such as tech and media, it is hard not to notice how the holiday season is a really unfortunate time for workers to be getting pink slips.  There is arguably no g...

Barron’s 10 Favorite Stocks for 2023

The stock market is coming off its worst year since 2008, but it was finally a good year for value investing—and it was a good year for Barron’s favorite picks, as well.  Every December for the past 1...

Google Moves to Cut Costs. The Tech Gravy Train Has Hit the Brakes.

After years of rapid growth amid bumper profits, the tech sector is now firmly in cost-cutting mode. Alphabet Google was the latest company to highlight this Thursday, confirming plans to merge the te...

It’s Rough Out There. Stick With Dividend Stocks to Stay Afloat.

Dividend stocks are poised to notch an impressive victory this year. The Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend index is ahead 5.5%, cruising past the S&P 500 index, down 14.4% in total returns. Even more...

Mega-Companies Messed Up America’s Job Market. They’re Doing it Again.

Part of what has made America’s job market so tight is that big, publicly traded companies hired like crazy after the pandemic struck. Now that many are slamming into reverse, it seems like there is a...

Amazon Stock Looks Like a Buy With E-Commerce Set to Rebound

Back in July, I wrote a Barron’s cover story that made a bullish case for Amazon.com tied to the enormous long-term value of the company’s cloud-computing arm, Amazon Web Services. Mea culpa. Amazon s...

Apple Isn’t Recession Proof. The Stock Could Have a Tough 2023.

To be clear, I’m an Apple fanboy, and have been for years. I have a pair of Mac laptops, an iPhone 13 Pro Max, and an Apple Watch. I subscribe to Apple Music, Apple Photos, Apple News, and Apple TV+. ...

The Myth of the Tech God Is Crumbling

Tech is full of smart people who build, run and invest in successful companies that have produced a tremendous amount of innovation. But the industry’s recent spate of failures and reversals has made ...

Zuckerberg Says This Will Be a Sales Driver Before His Big Bet on the Metaverse

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook’s parent company Meta Platforms told employees the company’s WhatsApp messaging service will drive sales sooner than its massive investments in the metaverse. The What...

Stocks Surged on an Inflation Reading. But the Bear Market Isn’t Over.

Investors finally got the inflation reading they were looking for, and are likely to get a split government for the next two years. That combination propelled stocks to their best weekly showing since...

Nvidia Can Outperform Its Peers, Analyst Says. Earnings Are Coming.

Restrictions on chip sales to China and falling demand for PCs are problems for Nvidia right now, but Piper Sandler wants investors to focus on growth in its key data center business in 2023. The chip...

Apple Issues iPhone Supply Warning. But the Real Issue Is Demand.

Big Tech just can’t catch a break. After a dismal earnings season, in which Apple was one of the only bright sparks, the tech giant offered up its own bad news Sunday. Apple said Covid restrictions in...

Twitter Has a Lot of Debt. It’s Not an Issue for Tesla—Yet.

Twitter has a new, consolidated debt of $18.5 billion. Win McNamee/Getty Images Text size Elon Musk had a bad weekend and that could pose problems for Twitter—and, by extension, Tesla stock.  Musk’s f...

THe Dow Rarely Beats the Nasdaq Like This. What History Says Happens Next.

There’s nothing worse than kicking someone when they’re down—but sometimes it needs to be done. That’s the case with the Nasdaq Composite which is on pace to lag behind the Dow Jones Industrial Averag...

4 Unsung Tech Stocks That Should Outshine The Big Boys

Network connections and data exchanges will blaze the path for the future. getty How things have changed. Last year, the Big Five tech companies were riding high. You couldn’t go wrong with Alphabet (...

Meta’s Problems Could Be Fixed but First Mark Zuckerberg Needs a Reality Check

One thing that became clear in this past week’s terrible tech earnings is that Mark Zuckerberg already lives in the metaverse. At the very least, it seems that the Meta Platforms CEO has established r...