These 19 large-cap stocks have now dropped at least 60% from their 52-week highs

The latest inflation figures on June 10 were worse than expected and the effect on stock prices was brutal. A list of stocks in the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq-100 Index that have fallen at least 60% f...

Exxon May Be Making ‘More Than God.’ But Apple and Alphabet Are More Profitable.

Text size President Biden, who his hurting politically due to high inflation, took a swipe at industry leader Exxon Mobil on Friday. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Exxon Mobil may be making “more than God ...

Alibaba shares decline in Hong Kong, extending Wall Street’s selloff

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. fell in Hong Kong morning trading, extending a selloff overnight on Wall Street after its fintech arm Ant Group Co. denied reports about a revival of its initial public offe...

DocuSign Stock Tumbles on Cut to Outlook

Text size DocuSign reported fiscal first-quarter earnings well below Wall Street’s estimate. Tiffany Hagler-Geard/Bloomberg DocuSign (ticker: DOCU) shares are sharply lower in late trading Thurs...

Consider a portfolio of 100% stocks if you’re at least 10 years from retirement

This year’s stock market isn’t what it seems. “It wasn’t supposed to be this way!” That’s the refrain from many investors who are looking at a U.S. stock market SPX, -1.08% decline so far this year of...

Alibaba Stock Headed for Highest Close Since February. Thank Videogames.

Text size Alibaba and other Chinese tech stocks have been beaten down amid regulatory pressures. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images Alibaba and other Chinese tech stocks roared higher on Wednesday as a w...

Facebook Changed Name, Now Changing Ticker. What It Means for the Stock.

Text size Meta Platforms follows a number of high-profile companies that changed their ticker symbols. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images Meta Platforms , formerly known as Facebook , is taking the...

AMD, Pfizer, NIO, DocuSign, Campbell Soup, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

It’s a relatively quiet week on the earnings calendar. Highlights will include J.M. Smucker on Tuesday, Campbell Soup on Wednesday, and DocuSign, NIO, and Vail Resorts on Thursday. Pfizer also hosts a...

Weekend reads: If you agree that inflation has peaked, buy stocks in this sector

If everyone agreed about the direction of the economy, investing would be easy. But there are mixed signals about whether the rate of inflation has peaked, at least in the U.S. If you are among those ...

Okta stock rally shifts into overdrive following hiked outlook as other software companies trim theirs

Okta Inc. shares rallied in the extended session Thursday, adding to gains in the regular session after the identity-management services company reported better-than-expected results and, unlike some ...

Google’s Owner Paid $296,000 to a Typical Worker. Here’s What Other Firms Pay

With a booming economy and a tight job market, median pay rose last year for most S&P 500 companies, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. Google parent Alphabet and Facebook Meta Platforms...

Meta’s Sheryl Sandberg Is Stepping Down

Text size Meta Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg joined Facebook in 2008. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images Meta ’s Sheryl Sandberg is stepping down as chief operating officer of Facebook’s paren...

Elon Musk says workers should return to the office or quit. It’s a big gamble: ‘Tesla is kick-starting its own local Great Resignation’

Elon Musk is giving his employees an ultimatum. Tesla’s  TSLA, -2.36% chief executive officer and founder responded Thursday to an apparent leaked email that called on employees to return to the offic...

Google investors shoot down racial-equity audit while approving stock split

Alphabet Inc. investors rejected 17 shareholder proposals at the Google parent company’s annual meeting Wednesday, including a racial-equity audit, but approved a company proposal to increase the shar...

Amazon’s Stock Split Is Coming. Watch Tesla and Google for More.

Text size Amazon stock was at $2,423.06, or a little over $121 on a post-split basis, on Wednesday. Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images It could be a stock-split summer on Wall Street. Some of a flu...

GameStop, Salesforce, Netflix, Alphabet, Nvidia, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed Monday for Memorial Day. A handful of major companies report later this week, with the economic-data highlight being jobs Friday. HP and...

Looking for $100,000 Salary? See How Much the Biggest U.S. Companies Pay Workers

By John Stensholt and Nate Rattner May 31, 2022 7:00 am ET Wages for the median workers at the majority of big American companies are higher than they were before the pandemic, with the tight job mark...

Microsoft Joins the Tech Sector Hiring Slowdown

Text size The news comes after the tech giant said it would nearly double its worldwide budget for staff.  Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images Microsoft said it is going to slow hiring in select division...

Al Gore’s Firm Bought Alibaba Stock and Salesforce. It Sold Cisco, Microsoft.

Text size Former Vice President Al Gore in 2019. Scott Heins/Getty Images The investment firm co-founded and chaired by former Vice President Al Gore has made big changes in its U.S.-traded investment...

Alibaba Stock Is Rallying After China Moves to Ease Lockdown Measures

Text size Alibaba stock had a terrible 2021, and 2022 isn’t shaping up very well, either. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg Shares in Alibaba , JD.com , NIO , and other Chinese companies surged on Monday fol...

Tesla Investors Are Getting Fed Up With Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover

Text size Musk has said “Tesla is on my mind 24/7.” Win McNamee/Getty Images Tesla shareholders are growing more vocal about their frustrations with Elon Musk’s $44 billion bid to take Twi...

GameStop, Salesforce, Netflix, Alphabet, Nvidia, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed Monday for Memorial Day. A handful of major companies report later this week, with the economic-data highlight being jobs Friday. HP and...

Netflix Has a Big Problem. Here’s the Math That Might Fix It

Illustration by Elias Stein Text size Netflix shares are off 70% this year, due in large part to the streaming-video company’s disastrous first-quarter earnings. Among other things, Netflix lost 200,0...

Summer Vacationers Want to Kick It Old School

The new and the high tech are suddenly out of fashion, with the Nasdaq down around 23% this year. That sentiment change seems to have bled into the online travel sector, where the uncool is making a c...

DiDi Stock Rises on Report Chinese Auto Giant FAW Is Considering Buying Stake

Text size DiDi’s value has plummeted since it listed in the U.S. last year. Yan Cong/Bloomberg Shares of Chinese ride-hailing company DiDi Global gained after it was reported that carmaker China...

Snowflake Stock Looks Like a Buy

Text size Snowflake went public on the New York Stock Exchange in September 2020. The stock more than doubled on its first day of trading. Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock It’s been more than 600 days since...

Stocks to Buy Now: Alphabet, Facebook, and 4 More Bargains

When the stock market gets pounded, bargains abound—or so it seems. But in a bear market, the key to investing success is separating the thoughtlessly discarded from the overpriced junk. With about tw...

Twitter Stock Jumps. Tesla CEO Elon Musk Is Fine-Tuning His Potential Purchase.

Text size Tesla CEO Elon Musk filed an amended regulatory form for his potential buy of Twitter. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk said in a regulatory filing Wednesday that he no longer pla...

Twitter’s stock falls below where Elon Musk bought it, turning a $1.1 billion profit into a $40 million loss

Easy come, easy go, as shares of Twitter Inc. fell below where Elon Musk bought it, wiping out more than $1.1 billion in gains in four weeks. The social-media company’s stock TWTR, -5.55% sank 6.0% in...

Tesla Stock Falls to an 11-Month Low. Why Snap Is to Blame.

Text size Cars at the Tesla factory in Fremont, Calif. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Tesla stock is falling again in early Tuesday trading. The likeliest reason isn’t related to the electric-vehicle ma...

Snowflake May Have Upside After a Big Drop in the Bear Market

Text size Snowflake, the cloud-based data warehouse company, has been pummeled in the bear market. Gabby Jones/Bloomberg Snowflake publishes results on Wednesday, giving investors a fresh look after a...