As Oil Briefly Dips Below $100, Russia and Europe Play a Game of Chicken

U.S. oil prices briefly dipped below $100 barrel Friday, as President Joe Biden’s plan to release one million barrels a day of reserves began to have the desired effect. But it’s premature to start th...

The 8 worst-performing S&P 500 stocks with the highest ratings are expected to rebound by more than 50% over the next year

Investors don’t need to be told that stocks have been volatile. There’s a market of extremes as Russia’s war in Ukraine continues and investors wait to see what the Federal Open Market Committee does ...

Yale professor is keeping tabs on companies still operating in Russia despite Ukraine invasion — and the list includes some household names

A Yale professor and his research team are keeping tabs on companies that are still operating in Russia in the wake of its invasion of neighboring Ukraine — and the list includes many household names....

Verizon Has Plans for Faster Growth. Stock Buybacks Are Coming Closer.

Text size Hans Vestberg, Verizon’s CEO. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Verizon Communications could be poised to deliver faster growth in profits and revenue, making possible continued dividend inc...

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...

Stock market faces the most ‘massive misallocation’ of ‘capital in the history of mankind,’ says ARK’s Cathie Wood

Cathie Wood, the star fund manager and chief executive of ARK Invest, took to CNBC to defend the woeful performance of the manager’s suite of disruptive innovation funds. Wood told the business networ...

ViacomCBS Is Changing Its Name. More Subscribers Joined, but at a Cost.

Text size ViacomCBS is changing its name to Paramount Global. Dreamstime ViacomCBS reported a very solid quarter of streaming-subscriber gains on Tuesday, but that growth didn’t come cheaply. The comp...

ViacomCBS Is Changing Its Name. Subscribership Grew, but at a Cost.

Text size ViacomCBS is changing its name to Paramount Global. Dreamstime ViacomCBS reported a very solid quarter of streaming-subscriber gains on Tuesday, but that growth didn’t come cheaply. The comp...

Peloton’s New CEO Pours Cold Water on Sale Speculation. The Stock Drops.

Text size A Peloton logo on a dumbbell at the company’s showroom in Dedham, Massachusetts. Adam Glanzman/Bloomberg Peloton Interactive stock fell Monday after the exercise company’s new chief ex...

Disney Reports Today. Here’s What to Expect.

The Disney+ logo. Subscribership growth will be a critical element of the results. Gabby Jones/Bloomberg Text size Walt Disney ‘s results on Wednesday will be a chance for the company to show it can d...

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...

Facebook wasn’t Thursday’s only big loser — these 16 other Nasdaq-100 stocks dropped at least 5%

Thursday was brutal for technology stock investors, as the carnage spread far beyond the parent company of Facebook. Below is a list of the worst 20 performers among the Nasdaq-100 on Feb. 3., led by ...

Netflix Co-CEO Reed Hastings Bought $20 Million of Stock

Text size Netflix co-founder and co-CEO Reed Hastings just made his first purchase of the company’s shares on the open market. Henrik Jonsson/Dreamstime.com Netflix ‘s stock has slumped in 2022,...

Peloton and Netflix Stocks Have Fallen. Here’s How Best to Play It.

One bank says to use the recent growth-stock selloff to buy shares of Alphabet . Another says Amazon.com and Facebook owner Meta Platforms . A third is going in a different direction and picking all t...

Why Bill Ackman Sees More Play in Netflix Stock

Text size Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square took a large stake in Netflix with an eye to a recovery in the streaming giant’s shares. Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg One pandemic play that has been laid low co...

Netflix Stock Might Be a Buy After Earnings Selloff

Text size Netflix added 8.3 million subscribers in the fourth quarter, but the company’s first- quarter forecast came up well short of Wall Street’s estimate. Dreamstime And just like that, Netflix pr...

Weekend reads: Is this the end of the bull market for stocks?

The Federal Reserve is reversing course to fight inflation, but interest rates remain low, which means bond prices remain high. Meanwhile, stock valuations are high relative to earnings, in part becau...

Where to buy the current Netflix stock (NFLX) dip

Netflix stock (NFLX) has dropped since the end of October 2021 because of slowing subscriber growth. The streaming service and production company had enjoyed a hike in subscription growth through the ...

Giant Stock Swings Kick Off 2022

U.S. stocks are off to a rocky start in 2022. Under the surface, things are even more volatile. More than 220 U.S.-listed companies with market capitalizations above $10 billion are down at least 20% ...

Is the Stock Market Open Today? These Are the Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2022 Hours.

Text size Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Investors looking for a brief respite from two weeks of volatile trading on Wall Street may get one on Mo...

Get ready for the climb. Here’s what history says about stock-market returns during Fed rate-hike cycles.

Bond yields are rising again so far in 2022. The U.S. stock market seems vulnerable to a bona fide correction. But what can you really tell from a mere two weeks into a new year? Not much and quite a ...

Tesla and Nvidia Picked for Big Gains by Robot Trader. It’s Been Right Before.

Text size Photograph by Spencer Platt/Getty Images An exchange-traded fund with holdings picked by artificial intelligence is betting on big gains from Tesla and Nvidia in January. It has been right a...

Netflix and 10 Other Stocks That Expanded Profit Margins—Despite Inflation Pressure

Text size Henrik Jonsson/Dreamstime.com Americans are paying higher prices for almost everything—which could spell bad news for many companies. The producer price index, which measures the costs domes...

Nearly 8% of the S&P 500 has taken a bath this week — 39 stocks fell at least 10%

This stock market is very sensitive to any hint of an increase in interest rates, so it may be no surprise that many tech high-flyers have been falling to earth. But there are others whose shareholder...

The Hottest ETF Sectors for Investors to Bet On in 2022

Many investors are bracing for a more-volatile stock market this year as interest rates, inflation, the pandemic, geopolitical tensions, oil and supply-chain bottlenecks continue to cause uncertainty....

Discovery Stock Soars After an Analyst Upgrade. Why the Stock Could Double.

Text size Dreamstime Discovery Communications shares are roaring higher on Friday, after an analyst upgraded the stock and issued a price target 75% above Thursday’s closing price in a 30-page report....