3M Co. was busy before market open Tuesday, announcing the planned spinoff of its healthcare business, second-quarter results, and the voluntary bankruptcy of the company’s Aearo Technologies subsidia...
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Microsoft’s Activision Deal Is Likely to Win Approval, Analyst Says
Text size Microsoft has said it plans to release Activision’s Call of Duty videogames on Sony’s PlayStation. Rich Polk/Getty Images for Activision Activision Blizzard stock continues to tr...
Weekend reads: Prepare for a big week — a crucial Federal Reserve decision, tech-company earnings and a GDP report
It was mostly a week for stocks, particularly a rebound in the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index, as companies topped expectations on second-quarter earnings. The coming week brings a heavy dose of t...
The Best Tech CEOs: What Matters Most
Text size Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke spent years programming before he co-founded the e-commerce software firm. He has said he knows how long projects will take—and which initiatives to choose—because of ...
AT&T earnings were ‘actually good’ despite stock selloff, says analyst
AT&T Inc.’s shares fell sharply Thursday after the telecommunications giant cut its free-cash-flow forecast for the year, but one analyst said the latest report wasn’t all bad. In fact, LightShed ...
How Amazon’s $3.9 billion wager on primary care could change your Prime membership
Amazon’s AMZN, +1.52% $3.9 billion acquisition of One Medical ONEM, +69.45% is the e-commerce giant’s biggest bet on healthcare to date, and it hints at a future in which primary care and streaming op...
AT&T stock pulls back from historic drop after earnings
AT&T shares sank Thursday despite an earnings beat in a quarter with a lot of moving parts due to recent business divestments. While the company raised its annual forecast for mobility-service rev...
Berkshire Nears 20% Stake in Occidental Petroleum After New Buys
Text size Berkshire CEO Warren Buffett has been steadily adding to his company’s position in Occidental for months. Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg Berkshire Hathaway continues to add its stake in Occid...
Nancy Pelosi’s husband buys millions in Nvidia stock before semiconductor vote
The husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi just bought as much $5 million worth of stock in software and computer-chip company Nvidia, publicly available financial disclosures show. According to the di...
GSK Spins Off $36 Billion Consumer-Healthcare Business Haleon
GSK PLC completed the spinoff of its consumer-healthcare business, a bet that greater focus on innovative drugs and vaccines will help accelerate growth at the pharmaceuticals giant. The new stand-alo...
Toys Are Staples, Making Mattel a Buy in a Recession, Says Analyst
Shares of Mattel rose this past Monday, but fell for the week, after an upgrade from Goldman Sachs analyst Michael Ng, who argued that the toy maker had the ability to navigate economic uncertainties....
Fastly Cloud Computing Traffic Bumped Higher. That Should Boost the Stock.
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75 or 100 basis points? Lost in market debate over Fed’s next rate hike is ‘how long inflation stays at these levels’
Debate has been simmering over whether Federal Reserve policy makers will raise the fed-funds rate by three-quarters of a percentage point later this month, as they did in June, or step up their infla...
Opinion: The SPACsplosion is about to become a liquidation frenzy — and that may be for the best
As the SPAC boom was beginning to rage two years ago, this column asked why in the world any company would want to be acquired by a former chief executive best known for executing one of the worst acq...
AT&T Stock Is a Buy Ahead of Earnings, Analyst Says
Text size ATT said in June it expected higher margins in the second half of the year. Dreamstime AT&T stock remains a Buy at Citi ahead of the company’s first earnings report since separating from...
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Buys More Occidental Stock
Text size Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway purchased more Occidental Petroleum stock. AFP via Getty Images Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway disclosed the purchase of another large block of...
Unity to Buy IronSource for $4.4 Billion. IronSource Stock Surges, Unity Slumps.
Text size Wall Street seems to think the merger is a good deal for IronSource stock, which surged. Angela WeissAFP/Getty Images Unity Software will take over IronSource in an all-stock $4.4 billion me...
Palantir stock’s ‘strength will prove unsustainable,’ analyst says in downgrade
Palantir Technologies Inc. shares are up nearly 50% from their May lows, but one analyst worries that “this strength will prove unsustainable.” Monness, Crespi, Hardt & Co. analyst Brian White dow...