Starbucks, Uber, CVS to Report Earnings Amid Shrinking Economy

July 30, 2022 10:00 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) CVS Health Starbucks and Uber Technologies are among the companies headlining another busy earnings week as investors look for signs of a recess...

Giant Manager Buys Up Apple, Nvidia, Corning, and Pfizer Stock

Text size MEAG bought 66,593 Nvidia shares to double its investment to 130,142 shares at the end of June. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The investment arm of one of the world’s biggest insurers just ma...

Apple, Amazon, Meta Highlight Tech-Heavy Earnings Week

Tech giants Apple Amazon.com and Microsoft headline a busy earnings week amid growing investor fears of recession, rising interest rates and surging inflation. A little more than one-third of S&P ...

Hate Tesla? Investors Can Short the EV Maker With a New Single-Stock ETF.

Text size There is a single-stock ETF that allows anyone to short Tesla stock now. Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty Images Tesla investors have a new way to play the electric vehicle maker in the U.S.—singl...

Pfizer Raises Covid-19 Vaccine Price 27%. What It Means for the Stock.

Text size Pfizer said it has signed a deal to supply the U.S. with vaccines in the fall, while Moderna has yet to announce a sale. Jacob King – WPA Pool / Getty Images Pfizer has raised the U.S....

Novartis Will Cut 8,000 Jobs Under CEO’s Shake-Up Plan

Text size Vasant Narasimhan, CEO of Novartis. ERIC PIERMONT/AFP/Getty Images Pharmaceutical giant Novartis said Tuesday it will lay off more than 7% of its workforce, just a few months after CEO Vas N...

Roivant, Pfizer unveil Priovant Therapeutics focused on autoimmune disease treatments, Roivant stock surges

Shares of Roivant Sciences Ltd. ROIV, -2.30% shot up 10.0% in premarket trading Tuesday, after the biopharmaceutical company and drug giant Pfizer Inc. PFE, +0.56% unveiled Priovant Therapeutics, a bi...

The Russian Default Is Less Worrisome Than It Appears. Keep Watching Oil.

A general view of the Kremlin, Red Square and St. Basil’s Cathedral in central Moscow. AFP via Getty Images Text size Russia’s first default on its foreign debt in more than 100 years is the lat...

The Days of Big Pharma Are Over. Big Biotech Is on Its Way.

W hen GlaxoSmithKline spins off its enormous division selling drugstore staples like Advil and Tums next month, it will represent more than just the latest shuffling of assets among corporate giants. ...

U.S. Stocks Poised to Open Lower on Monday Ahead of Fed Week

Stocks are poised to open lower on Monday. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Getty Images Text size U.S. stocks were poised for a lower opening on Monday ahead of the Federal Reserve’s decision on...

Novavax’s New Covid-19 Vaccine Might Be Late to the Party

It’s one thing to arrive fashionably late to a party, it’s another thing to waltz in when the last guests are stumbling out the door. For Novavax , which on Tuesday cleared a key step toward U.S. Food...

Apple Needs to Show Some Spark as Shoppers Favor Services Over Stuff

Customers at the Apple Store in Grand Central Terminal in New York City earlier this year. Getty Images Text size As Apple prepares to upgrade its products, there are two distinct trends hitting the e...

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...

Turning Point Stock Doubles on Bristol Deal. What It Means for Biotech M&A.

Text size Photograph by Georges Gobet/AFP/Getty Images Turning Point Therapeutics stock has more than doubled after Bristol Myers Squibb announced that it had agreed to buy the company. It’s just the ...

Relief at the Pump Could Come Soon. Thank Saudi Arabia.

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Text size Oil prices fell Thursday after the Financial Times reported that Saudi Arabia was ready to increase output as more sanctions on Russia threaten global oil supply...

‘The capitulation model for biotech is a Category 5 storm, the same as energy in 2020’ — why contrarians say the sector is a buy

If you want to know how much investors hate the biotech sector right now, consider this simple statistic: More than 25% of small biotech companies have stock-market capitalizations that are smaller th...

Stocks Are Ready for a Bounce Higher After S&P 500 Closes Above Bear Market

Text size Dreamstime The stock market came awfully close to finishing Friday in a bear market, at least 20% off its peak in early January. Many investors would like to see it get there so Wall Street ...

Novavax Gets a Sell Rating. It’s Got a Covid Vaccine Problem, Analyst Says.

Text size A healthcare worker prepares a dose of Nuvaxovid vaccine. Jeroen Jumelet/ANP/AFP via Getty Images Novavax stock was dropping Friday after receiving a Sell-equivalent rating — the first since...

BioNTech Earnings Top Forecasts on Strong Sales of Covid-19 Vaccine

Text size BioNTech is continuing to work with Pfizer on follow-on Covid-19 vaccines. (Photo by THOMAS LOHNES/AFP via Getty Images) BioNTech , the German biotech company, reported first-quarter earning...

Big Pharma Has Enough Cash to Buy All of Biotech. Why M&A Isn’t Happening.

Text size Late last year, Barron’s predicted a wave of deals, citing biotech companies’ cash holdings. Above, the plates used to print one-dollar bills. Alex Wong/Getty Images With biotech...

As Pfizer Faces a Period of Volatility, Here’s My Plan for the Shares

The numbers for Pfizer (PFE) are excellent. The guidance? Meh. Pfizer released the firm’s first quarter financial performance on Tuesday morning. Pfizer posted adjusted EPS of $1.62 (GAAP EPS of...

Pfizer revenue growth soars 77% as PFE beats earnings estimates by almost $1 billion

On May 3, Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) posted a blowout quarter, with revenue growth of 77% year-on-year (YoY) and earnings per share (EPS) growth of 70.53%. Further, the company reaffirmed its full-year 2022 f...

Covid Pfizer (PFE) earnings Q1 2022

Albert Bourla, chief executive officer of Pfizer pharmaceutical company, arrives to ring the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange. Drew Angerer | Getty Images Pfizer on Tuesday slashed its 2022...

Big Investor Sold AMC and Apple Stock. It Bought PayPal and Pfizer.

Text size An AMC theater Dreamstime A large European asset manager slashed its investment in the volatile shares of a movie-theater chain, and made other changes in its U.S.-traded stock portfolio. DN...

Sierra Oncology Stock Soars After $1.9 Billion Takeover by GSK

Text size The deal comes ahead of GlaxoSmithKline’s planned spinoff of its consumer health division in July. AFP via Getty Images GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to buy U.S. rare cancer therapy compa...

Sierra Oncology Stock Soars After $1.9 Billion Takeover by GlaxoSmithKline

Text size AFP via Getty Images GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to buy U.S. rare cancer therapy company Sierra Oncology for $1.9 billion in cash, as it looks to boost its portfolio of new specialty medicine...

Pfizer’s New CFO David Denton Negotiated One of the Biggest Healthcare Deals in History

Pfizer on Monday named a new chief financial officer with a resume that hints at the company’s plans to spend big with its Covid-19 vaccine windfall. David Denton is taking up the CFO role at Pfizer (...

Pfizer, Moderna and J&J Face Shareholder Pressure to Broaden Covid-19 Vaccine Access

Socially conscious investors and global-health activists are turning to shareholders to press Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers Pfizer Inc., Moderna Inc. and Johnson & Johnson to make more of their s...

8 Stocks That Are Negative Since Pandemic Low—and 1 That Just Turned Positive

Text size Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty Images Intel stock on Friday capped off its best week in more than a year. The stock’s surge helped shares break above the $50 mark, and also propelled the company...

Pfizer’s new ulcerative colitis drug improves clinical remission rates in Phase 3 study

Shares of Pfizer Inc. PFE, +0.71% gained 0.2% in premarket trading on Wednesday after the company said the experimental ulcerative colitis drug it bought through the recent Arena Pharmaceuticals deal ...

S&P 500 marks 1st death cross in 2 years as investors assess Russia-Ukraine ahead of Fed decision

Dow industrials barely gained on Monday, while the S&P 500 logged its first death cross in two years and the Nasdaq Composite slumped to its lowest since December 2020, as investors monitored Russ...

After an Incredible Rally, Beware a Dead Cat Bounce

An oil tanker stands at an oil terminal Thursday at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. Getty Images Text size It has been a tough year for stocks. A rally on Wednesday seemed to promise some reversal of the tren...