The Companies Cutting Staff, Freezing Hiring or Slashing Costs: See the List

Companies which saw substantial growth during the Covid-19 pandemic are starting to take a more cautious approach toward hiring and spending. From Peloton Interactive Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. to T...

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 ...

Coinbase Stock Keeps Sliding After Earnings Report

The biggest cryptocurrency exchange in the U.S. said it was bleeding users, reflecting continued destruction in the crypto market and investors’ unease about risky assets. Coinbase Global Inc. COIN -1...

2 Stocks to Buy Amid Tech’s Wreckage

Text size Tens of billions of investors’ capital has been vaporized inside some top tech hedge funds. It could be the quickest collapse of dollar value in hedge fund history. Dreamstime Warren Buffett...

Market’s 2022 Slide Has Already Changed Investor Behavior

The 2022 pullback in U.S. stocks intensified last week, with stocks on Thursday staging their largest single-day decline since the onset of the pandemic. The plunge came just a day after Federal Reser...

Consider These Signs When Deciding Whether to Wade Into the Market

Text size Some strategists see more pain ahead for global stocks even as they plan for better days. Dreamstime The hesitancy to buy this dip in global stocks is real. Whether it’s concern that the Fed...

The Future of Transportation Is a Lot More Than Tesla. How to Invest.

We once thought the future of transportation meant George Jetson’s flying car. Instead, we got Elon Musk’s Tesla—the company and the electric car—whose twin successes jolted the global automotive indu...

Netflix Sent Warner Bros. Discovery Stock for a Dive. Execs Bought Up Shares.

Text size David Zaslav, president and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery. Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg Warner Bros. Discovery stock has tumbled in the short time the company was formed from the merger of AT...

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 ...

These 21 large-cap stocks have now crashed at least 50%

Stocks soured on April 26, with major declines for broad indexes that underlined what a difficult year it has been, so far, for technology stocks. Below is a list of 21 large-cap stocks that have drop...

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...

Netflix and Disney Stocks Hit a Rough Patch. Don’t Count on a Quick Bounceback.

Netflix hasn’t done much wrong, despite a 35% plunge on quarterly results this past week, and a 22% one back in January. The company has convinced 222 million customers worldwide to hand it an average...

Cathie Wood’s Flagship Fund Is Down 45% This Year. Money Is Still Flowing In.

Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation exchange-traded fund keeps falling, but investors aren’t jumping ship. Shares of the popular ETF, which is known by its ticker ARKK, have declined 45% so far in 2022—inclu...

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...

Netflix is the S&P 500’s worst performer this week — here are the next 14

Investors remained sour for a second consecutive session on Friday as they continued to digest comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell about the prospect for rapidly rising interest rates...

Weekend reads: How to position your investments before the Federal Reserve causes a bear market

Do you remember all the times Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell was quoted as saying inflation in the U.S. was “transitory”? With the Fed now ready to fight inflation, the bond market has quickly...

For Ackman’s Pershing Square, a Record of Big Hits and Misses

Pershing Square Capital’s William Ackman has had some successes in recent years, but also some big flops, with Netflix being the latest example. Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for The New York Times ...

Netflix (NFLX) Loses 35% in One Day and Cancels 4 Years of Growth

Shares of Netflix (NFLX), the US streaming service and producer, fell more than 30% yesterday. The giant’s share valuation is now 69% below the all-time high set in November 2021. What caused the cras...

Walt Disney stock heads for 17-month low as Florida, streaming troubles weigh

Shares of Walt Disney Co. DIS, -2.34% slumped 2.3% in afternoon trading, putting them on track for the lowest close in 17 months, after Florida lawmakers reportedly approved a bill to end a special ta...

Netflix Is Going to Start Cracking Down on Password Sharing. It May Be Too Late.

Text size Netflix’s popular Squid Game TV series. Courtesy Netflix Netflix free-loaders, beware. The streaming giant is preparing to crack down on password sharing in a bid to boost revenue as s...

Why Bill Ackman gave up on Netflix just three months after buying the stock

Pershing Square Holdings Ltd. Chief Executive William Ackman, in a letter to shareholders, said Wednesday he sold the hedge fund’s investment in Netflix Inc. Ackman said he had high regard for Netflix...

IBM Stock Soared. Why the 111-Year-Old Tech Company Outperformed Today.

Text size IBM’s results lifted other low-multiple, legacy-tech stocks including Oracle and HP. Miguel Medina/AFP via Getty Images Score one for the old timers. On a day when Netflix stock plunge...

Opinion: Are you sharing a Netflix password? Not for long …

After an unprecedented downturn in subscriber growth in the first quarter, Netflix executives are eyeing the millions of people using other subscribers’ accounts as a way to reverse the streaming serv...

Netflix Loses Subscribers For The First Time In Ten Years, Shares Plunge 20%

Topline Shares of Netflix cratered over 20% in after-hours trading on Tuesday after the streaming giant reported lackluster quarterly earnings that showed its first subscriber loss in more than a deca...

Netflix (NFLX) earnings Q1 2022

Reed Hastings, co-CEO of Netflix, participates in the Milken Institute Global Conference on October 18, 2021 in Beverly Hills, California. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images Shares of Netflix crat...

Peloton Is Raising Its Subscription Price. What It Means for the Stock.

Text size Peloton XXX Ezra Shaw/Getty Images For years, Peloton Interactive executives characterized the company’s $39 a month subscription price point as “sacred,” “sacrosanct,” and “our golden goose...

Tesla, AT&T, Netflix, Bank of America, IBM, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week

Text size First-quarter earnings season picks up next week, with 67 S&P 500 companies scheduled to report.  Bank of America will be Monday’s highlight, followed by Netflix , Johnson & Johnson ...

AT&T and WBD Stocks Both Look Attractive. Here’s Why.

Text size Barron’s praised AT&T’s Warner Bros. spinoff in a May 2021 cover story. Both stocks are attractive now. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images AT&T has officially closed the book on a tumultuo...

Netflix and Other Tech Stocks Report Earnings Soon. What to Expect.

Text size Exposure to Russia is a concern for some tech companies this earnings season. Dreamstime The first-quarter tech earnings season is just around the corner, and Wall Street is getting just a w...

Ackman’s Closed-End Fund Trades at a Steep Discount. Maybe It’s the High Fees.

Investor Bill Ackman recently highlighted market-beating 17% annualized returns generated by his Pershing Square Capital Management since 2004. But many investors in Ackman’s largest investment vehicl...

Bill Ackman Is Chilling After Netflix

Text size Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital Management Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg Shareholder activism has come roaring back in 2022 but it’s missing one of its most prominent voices. There were...

Investors are fed up with Netflix and Facebook’s parent. Why this portfolio manager is digging in and buying more.

It has been a quarter to forget for two of the megacap tech giants, Netflix and Facebook parent Meta Platforms. The 34% decline for Meta FB was its worst on record — the 30% drop in the third quarter ...