The flood of Big tech layoffs has again upended the dynamic between employers and employees, workers and executives say, leading to prolonged job searches and widespread fear and anxiety among many in...
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Salesforce, Abbott, Spotify, and More Stock Market Movers
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Martin Marietta Stock Can Thrive in Both Inflation and Deflation
Despite a solid start to 2023, the stock market could still get rocky. That’s where sand and gravel supplier Martin Marietta Materials comes in. Martin Marietta (ticker: MLM) is a producer of aggregat...
Why a stock market obsessed with the Fed’s inflation fight should focus on Main Street jobs in 2023
Fortunes on Wall Street this year could hinge less on what’s happening to high-paid workers in San Francisco’s reeling technology sector and more on a familiar part of American life: the working class...
REITs May Feel Sting from Bed Bath & Beyond’s Woes
Bed Bath & Beyond ‘s problems may cause a headache for its landlords. Earlier this week the big box retailer warned there is “substantial doubt” it can continue. That was enough to send Bed Bath &...
6 value stock picks for 2023 from successful money managers
Following a down year for the stock market, there is no shortage of recession predictions for 2023, especially as the Federal Reserve has signaled it will continue to raise interest rates to fight inf...
Cisco layoffs begin with hundreds of job cuts in California and more expected
Cisco Systems Inc. has begun previously announced layoffs, cutting nearly 700 jobs in Silicon Valley last month, according to filings with the state of California this week. Cisco executives announced...
Dow ends down nearly 350 points after jobs data, hawkish Fed comments hammer stocks
U.S. stock indexes ended another choppy session in the red on Thursday as investors digested a fresh batch of labor-market data and hawkish commentary from Federal Reserve officials, while looking ahe...
Investors who did this one thing survived the markets in 2022
Forget inflation. Forget oil prices. Forget Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Forget layoffs in the tech sector. Forget the yield curve. When I sat down to write about what worked for investors in...
This analyst who forecast a double-digit drop in stocks for 2022 now says Jeff Bezos may return to helm Amazon
If Tuesday was any indication of how the market will behave this year, then buckle up, it looks like it will be a wild one. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.21% had a 537-point trading range,...
AMD Stock Should Benefit From Next-Generation Computer Chips
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Dow up over 350 points, stocks rebound after jobless claims data deemed ‘welcome news for the Fed’
U.S. stocks advanced on Thursday afternoon, erasing losses from earlier in the week during the second-to-last trading session of the year. The main indexes built on premarket gains after U.S. weekly j...
GE Healthcare will join S&P 500 as soon as it begins trading
GE Healthcare Technologies Inc. will be an S&P 500 stock as soon as it officially exists. General Electric Co. GE, -1.05% expects to spin off its healthcare arm into a separately traded company on...
National Storage Sees Big Insider Stock Buys
Shares of self-storage firm National Storage Affiliates Trust have tumbled in 2022, and are now trading near a two-year low. Two insiders, including a company founder, purchased large amounts of stock...
REIT Preferred is Overlooked and Offers 6% to 8% Yields
Higher rates are attracting more individual investors to the preferred stock market because yields have risen nearly two percentage points this year to a range of 6% to 8%. Most investors focus on ban...
For Landlords, Rising Housing Costs Make It Harder to Earn Passive Income
Listen to article (1 minute) Many Americans dream the path to building wealth is like a trip around the Monopoly board, buying up properties that generate rental income. That can be true, but financia...
Nike, FedEx, Micron, General Mills, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week
A bevy of economic data and several notable companies reporting will keep investors busy this week, before things slow down for the holidays. On Tuesday, Nike FedEx and General Mills release quarterl...
The Valuation Game: SpaceX Soars as Elon Musk Slips to No. 2
Quiet weeks are rare in Elon Musk’s world. This past Monday, Bloomberg reported that Musk was raising funds for his space company, SpaceX. At $77 a share, the offer would lift Space X’s valuation 12%,...
These 15 Dividend Aristocrat stocks have been the best income builders
The S&P Dividend Aristocrats deserve more coverage. Those are companies that have raised their dividend payouts consistently over the years — they’re dividend royalty, as it were. As a group, they...