Opinion: Tesla investors have been the biggest losers in Elon Musk’s Twitter deal, and those losses continue

Twitter users have complained a lot about Elon Musk’s early moves after taking control of the social network, but their complaints seem tiny compared with what Tesla Inc. investors have had to suffer....

Elon Musk Sold $4 Billion More Worth of Tesla Stock. The Timing Is Odd.

Investors were waiting for stock sales from Tesla CEO Elon Musk, guessing he needed to sell more shares to finish his Twitter purchase. He sold more stock, but it happened after the Twitter deal close...

Why Okta, Twilio and Salesforce are bucking the trend of cloud-software stocks’ slide

Cloud-software stocks continued to sell off Monday, following one of the space’s worst weeks ever, although not as fast as Friday selloff as a few beaten-up stocks received upgrades and giants like Sa...

Digital Ocean Earnings Raise More Big Questions About the Cloud

DigitalOcean posted better-than-expected third quarter results, but the provider of cloud-based computing service to small- and medium-size businesses offered guidance for the fourth quarter that fell...

Alibaba and Other Chinese Stocks Are Rallying Again. Why It Doesn’t Make Sense.

Chinese stocks rallied on Monday as investors continued to be optimistic that coronavirus rules would be eased, despite repeated messages from authorities that China would stay the course on “zero Cov...

Twitter Is Elon Musk’s Biggest Test—and Tesla’s Biggest Challenge. How They’ll Make It Work.

Elon Musk officially owns Twitter—and now the hand-wringing about his ability to oversee the rest of his empire has begun again. Of all the concerns around Tesla however, Musk’s ability to manage his ...

Think you had a bad week? Salesforce, cloud companies had some of their worst weeks ever

Salesforce Inc. and other cloud-software stocks shed red over the week, as the lining in cloud-software stocks Friday turned blood red instead of silver, sending some cloud companies and ETFs tracking...

India-Focused Payments Company Ebix Races to Raise Cash Against Debt Deadline

Payments and software company Ebix Inc. is seeking to raise cash to pay back some $600 million in debt due early next year, but time is running short as it awaits regulatory approval for a public offe...

Cloudflare stock drops more than 10% after results, outlook top Street view

Cloudflare Inc. shares fell in the extended session Thursday even after the cybersecurity company’s results and forecast topped the Wall Street consensus. Cloudflare NET, +0.86% shares dropped as much...

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...

Stocks Poised to Fall Monday

U.S. stocks are poised for a slightly lower open on Monday ahead of another busy week of earnings and the Federal Reserve’s latest decision on interest rates on Wednesday. At 6:22 p.m. Eastern time Su...

AMD lowered the bar for earnings, but there is still intrigue in one result

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has already slashed expectations for its financial performance with a warning, but there is still some intrigue with the chip-maker’s earnings report. AMD AMD, +5.82% is sc...

Technology stocks tumble — this is how you will know when to buy them again

This has been a brutal year for Big Tech, as you can see in the chart below, with Meta Platforms META, +1.29% leading the way. Shares of the Facebook holding company plunged 26% on Oct. 27, bringing t...

The Dow soars, Big Tech tumbles: What’s next for stocks as investors await Fed guidance

The past week offered a tale of two markets, with gains for the Dow Jones Industrial Average putting the blue-chip gauge on track for its best October on record while Big Tech heavyweights suffered a ...

Dogecoin Is Surging on Hopes of a New Life on Twitter

Twitter shareholders can breathe easy now that Elon Musk has taken the company private. Dogecoin owners may be even more thrilled since the cryptocurrency could get a new lease on life through the soc...

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...

Stocks usually do well after the midterms. Not this time, forecasts BlackRock

So much for the safety of the tech behemoths, those supposedly friendly giants who may be relatively richly valued but you could still count on to buttress your portfolio. Poorly received results from...

Why the Dow is having a killer month as it heads for best October ever

The Dow Jones Industrial Average has been criticized by some market watchers for being a poor barometer of equity-market performance given its relatively small sample size of just 30 stocks. But this ...

Alibaba, JD, Baidu, and NIO Sink as China Tech Stocks Follow U.S. Selloff

Chinese technology stocks fell on Friday driving the Hang Seng Index to new lows. They seemed to be following U.S. investors who have fled from the sector after a string of disappointing earnings repo...

Apple Is the Winner of a Gruesome Earnings Season. Maybe Buffett Was Right.

The tech earnings season has been full of ups and downs. Sure, it’s seen more downs than ups, but the ups have been notable. Amazon was the latest stock to tank after reporting third-quarter results. ...

Apple Reports Earnings Today. What to Expect.

Apple shares have been remarkably resilient in the face of this year’s tech stock selloff, falling less than 15% since the end of December, and sharply outperforming rivals Microsoft Alphabet and Amaz...

Never Mind Microsoft and Alphabet. This Is the More Ominous Sign for Tech.

In a big week for tech earnings, the most notable results may have come from a memory maker based in South Korea and another lesser known American chip company. While most of the attention is focused ...

U.S. stock rally set to stall after Microsoft and Alphabet earnings disappoint

U.S. stock futures fell on Wednesday after results from tech behemoths Microsoft and Alphabet disappointed investors. How are stock-index futures trading S&P 500 futures ES00, -0.72% dipped 23 poi...

Visa beats on earnings, increases dividend by 20%

Visa Inc. topped earnings expectations for its latest quarter, with the company’s chief executive calling out strong spending trends despite “short-term uncertainty.” The company reported fiscal fourt...

Opinion: This one stock stands out when looking at key data from the FAANG+ group

This has been a difficult year for tech-oriented stocks, but smart long-term investors often look for bargains. Why not buy quality merchandise when it is on sale? The FAANG group of stocks is well-kn...

Chinese Stocks Are a Screaming Bargain. Don’t Buy Them.

Another brutal selloff for China’s tech champions presents U.S. investors with a dangerous bargain. Shares like Alibaba are deeply discounted compared with their U.S. counterparts. But “shares” might ...

Alibaba, Tencent, Other Chinese Stocks Are in Free Fall. It’s About Xi Jinping.

Shares in Chinese companies were plunging Monday as markets reacted to the consolidation of power by President Xi Jinping, after he was confirmed to a historic third term as leader of the world’s seco...

Musk and Twitter Near a Deadline for Deal. What to Watch

Elon Musk has until Friday evening to close his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter or face an uphill legal battle in Delaware Chancery Court next month. Wall Street likely won’t be comfortable until c...

Stock-market investors brace for busiest week of earnings season. Here’s how it stacks up so far.

So far, so good? Stocks ended the first full week of the earnings season on a strong note Friday, pushing the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +2.47%, S&P 500 SPX, +2.37% and Nasdaq Composite CO...

Amazon earnings: ‘The good news is the consumer is still spending. The bad news is they’re not spending on e-commerce.’

Money is still flowing despite concerns about the economy, but Wall Street is wondering how much of that money is being spent on Amazon.com Inc. “The good news is the consumer is still spending,” D.A....

Big Tech Earnings Are Coming. 5 Key Things to Watch.

Brace yourself. This coming week, the world’s largest tech companies all report their September-quarter financial results. And I mean all of them— Alphabet Microsoft Meta Platforms Apple Amazon.com an...

These 27 stocks can give you a more diversified portfolio than the S&P 500 — and that’s a key advantage right now

You probably already know that because of market-capitalization weighting, a broad index such as the S&P 500 SPX, -0.80% can be concentrated in a handful of stocks. Index funds are popular for goo...