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Biden’s Budget to Include Billionaire Tax Proposal
The proposal to tax billionaire households aims to ensure the wealthiest Americans pay at least 20% on their income and unrealized asset gains. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Getty Images Text si...
Apple Could Add $10 Billion of Revenue by Selling More Ads. Here’s How.
Text size People walk past an Apple store in Shanghai in October. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images How ironic it would be if Apple was the next great online advertising sales business. Apple (ticke...
Apple and Nvidia Are Picked by Robot Trader That Dumped Google and Meta
Text size The robot trader likes Apple and Nvidia stock. Fresco/Evening Standard/Getty Images Apple and Nvidia were two stocks singled out for gains in March by a fund with holdings picked by artifici...
Meta Is Fending Off TikTok, and Revenue Growth Will Slow, Morgan Stanley Warns
Text size A Meta Platforms sign Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Meta Platforms made clear on its latest earnings call that the company has growing concerns about competition in short-form video from TikT...
Apple, Microsoft Tumble as Russia-Ukraine Crisis Leads to Selloff of Big Tech
Text size Sascha Steinbach/Getty Images for Apple Some of the biggest U.S. tech stocks and investor favorites weren’t spared in the major stock market selloff Thursday as Wall Street reacted to the Ru...
Forget Apple and Google. Meta Has Another Existential Threat on the Horizon.
Text size Investors in Meta have been taken on a wild ride this month. There are more threats ahead. Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty Images Meta Platforms ‘ shareholders have had a lot to worry about recen...
Beware Trading Based On 13F Data, Which Reveals A Preference For Tech
There’s no denying that the market has been particularly turbulent in recent months as inflation soars. Market watchers are debating whether inflation has peaked, which will impact which stocks ...
Meta Stock Has Never Been Cheaper. Should I Buy the Former Facebook?
Text size Meta Platforms, the former Facebook, has a lower price-to-earnings ratio than other Big Tech companies. Noah Berger/AFP via Getty Images Meta Platforms ‘ stock is as cheap now as it has ever...
Meta Stock Has Never Been Cheaper Since Its 2012 IPO
Text size Meta Platforms, the former Facebook, has a lower price-to-earnings ratio than other Big Tech companies. Noah Berger/AFP via Getty Images Meta Platforms ‘ stock is as cheap now as it has ever...
Inflation Is Everywhere, Including Places You Might Not Expect
Inflation is seeping through American business, hitting companies in unexpected ways beyond higher prices for materials, shipping or wages. It is adding to legal costs for the maker of Marlboro cigare...
Asana CEO Has Bought $1 Billion of Company Stock in Historic Buying Spree
Text size Asana co-founder and CEO Dustin Moskovitz has bought more than $1 billion worth of the company’s stock since last June. Courtesy Asana In what is likely the most aggressive run of insi...
Meta Platforms, Nucor And 11 Other Stocks With High Return On Equity
. Measuring Profitability by What Shareholders Earned Return on equity is a popular measure of profitability and corporate management excellence. The measure is determined by dividing the annual earni...
Facebook Stock Is Rising. Today’s the Day It Might End Its Slide.
Text size Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms Alex Wong/Getty Images Wednesday just might be the day that shares of Meta Platforms , the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, bounce off rock bo...
Earnings Season Shows Zooming Demand For The Cloud
AWS (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images) Getty Images The demand for scalable computer processing and data storage has never been higher. So far, it is the not-so-surprising big take away from fourth quart...
A Big Tech Trade Is Losing Its Luster
The stock market’s popular FAANG trade is starting to show cracks. Investors say they are reconsidering their approach to trading big technology stocks after a week marked by giant swings in share pri...
Why Alphabet, Nvidia, and Others Belong in the Dow Jones Industrials
The Dow Jones Industrial Average, launched in 1896, has trailed the S&P 500 index of late. That could change if Alphabet , which said on Tuesday that it would split its stock 20-1 (cutting shares ...
Snap Stock Had Its Best Day Ever. It Doesn’t Have All of Facebook’s Problems.
Text size Snap said daily active users grew 20% year over year during the fourth quarter to 319 million. Dreamstime Snap stock rocketed higher Friday after the Snapchat parent reported a surprise prof...
Cryptos Could Be a ‘Speculative Mania,’ Economist Eswar Prasad Says
Discussions with central bankers at a conference a couple of years ago prompted economist Eswar Prasad to start writing what he anticipated would be a slim volume on how digital currencies could affec...
Stocks’ Rally Looks Nice. Here’s Why You Should Put It on Ice
Text size Dreamstime For the stock market, this past week had the feel of steering out of a spin after hitting an ice patch—and driving away safely. Unfortunately, the road ahead may be even more trea...
Facebook Tumbled After Earnings. Now, Should You Buy or Sell Meta Stockk?
Challenges are rising for Meta Platforms—and they’re no longer just about Facebook’s legacy business. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Text size Suddenly, investors are giving Facebook a big thumbs down. ...
Tech Stocks to Buy After a Crazy Week of Earnings
Amazon stock was up almost 14% on Friday after the company reported solid earnings and said it was raising the price of its Prime membership for the first time since 2018. Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images...
Amazon May Have Saved the Stock Market. But It’s Looking Even Worse for Meta.
After Meta Platforms’ disastrous earnings outlook, the mood was pretty sour. And with investors weighing up the Federal Reserve’s future path for interest rates and the potential impact on valuations,...
Rivian Rescued Amazon Earnings—but Not Ford’s. Here’s Why.
Text size Courtesy of Rivian Amazon.com ‘s huge earnings beat was huge, but it wasn’t driven by consumer shopping or its cloud business. It was mostly driven by gains from its holdings of Rivian Autom...
How Rivian Rescued Amazon Earnings–But Not Ford
Text size Courtesy of Rivian Amazon.com ‘s huge earnings beat was mostly driven by gains from its holdings of Rivian Automotive stock. Ford Motor owns Rivian stock too. Like Amazon , it reported bette...
Amazon Stock Soars on Good Enough Earnings. The Price of Prime Is Going Up.
Amazon . com reported strong fourth-quarter results on Thursday, driven by strong growth in both its AWS cloud unit and its growing advertising business. The results could be a relief to some investor...
Stocks Plunge After Facebook’s Massive Sell-Off, Nasdaq Falls 3.7%
Topline The stock market fell on Thursday—its first down day in five sessions—as investors once again dumped shares of tech stocks, which were under pressure after Facebook parent Meta Platforms repor...
Tech Stocks Plunge After Facebook’s Massive Earnings Miss, Nasdaq Falls 2%
Topline The stock market fell on Thursday—its first down day in five sessions—as investors once again dumped shares of tech stocks, which were under pressure after Facebook-parent Meta Platforms repor...
Snap and Pinterest Sink After Meta’s Big Miss. Both Report Earnings Thursday.
Text size nikkimeel/Dreamstime Shares of Snap and Pinterest and pretty much all social media stocks were falling sharply Thursday after Meta Platforms , the parent of Facebook, reported weaker-than-ex...
Why the Winners and Losers of Meta’s Earnings Will Become Clearer Today
Facebook ‘s parent company is definitely one of the most unfriended on Wall Street right now. Meta Platforms (ticker: FB), which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, is seeing its stock go into fre...
Facebook Parent Meta Ramped Up Stock Buybacks at a Bad Time
Text size Meta’s record $19.2 billion of share repurchases in the fourth quarter amounted to 2% of the company’s shares outstanding. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg picked...
Analysts Are Cutting Meta Targets. But They Can’t Keep Up With the Falling Stock.
Text size Investors fled shares of the social-media giant after its fourth-quarter earnings report. Noah Berger/AFP via Getty Images Another analyst slashed his price target for shares of Facebook par...