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...

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...

Higher Rates Hammer Home Buyers—and Make Mortgage REITs Lucrative for Investors

It’s instructive and often amusing to see how the popular media cover economic and financial news. You can get a handle on the public’s sentiment from how they treat those topics, which usually varies...

Opendoor Vents the Roof – WSJ

Zillow’s decision last year to jump out of this burning house is suddenly looking kind of smart. Opendoor Technologies said Thursday that its automated home-flipping business sold 33% more homes than ...

20 dividend stocks that may be safest if the Federal Reserve causes a recession

Investors cheered when a report last week showed the economy expanded in the third quarter after back-to-back contractions. But it’s too early to get excited, because the Federal Reserve hasn’t given ...

Small-Cap Stocks Have Rarely Been So Depressed. 7 to Buy Now.

Longtime investor Nicholas F. Galluccio has seen his fair share of market turmoil, but one thing has remained constant over nearly four decades: a focus on finding small stocks with big prospects. Gal...

Residential housing demand ‘cratered’ as mortgage rates spiked, analyst says

Raymond James analyst Buck Horne lowered ratings on all of the home-builder stocks he covers, as he believes the recent “relentless” climb in mortgage rates has ensured a housing recession. “Interest ...

Concerns Over Blackstone’s Big Retail Real Estate Fund Weigh on Its Stock

Investor concerns about Blackstone’s big retail real estate fund have weighed on its stock in recent months and comments by management this week didn’t appear to help. Although Blackstone (ticker: BX)...

‘Mass layoffs’ of Meta bus drivers lead to pleas for Facebook to bring workers back to the office

Protesters on Thursday urged Meta Platforms Inc. to call its Silicon Valley-based engineers and other employees back to the office, after Facebook’s parent company continued to dismiss service workers...

Cano Health Stock Plumments on Report CVS Is Abandoning Purchase

Cano Health shares had their largest drop on record Monday following a report that CVS Health has walked away from a potential acquisition of the primary care provider. Dealreporter was the first to r...

SPAC Sponsors Were Winners Even on Losers

Since AEye went public by merging with a special-purpose acquisition company in August 2021, shareholders have had a rough go. The laser-technology company’s stock is down over 90% in the midst of mis...

Tesla, Goldman Sachs, Netflix, AT&T, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

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Why It’s Time to Buy This Uranium Miner’s Stock

Heading into this past week, uranium miner Cameco was that rare stock in the market: It had posted a double-digit gain in 2022. One deal made those gains disappear—and created a buying opportunity. At...

China Evergrande’s Debt-Crisis Fallout: Losses, Layoffs and More Defaults

Listen to article (2 minutes) When China Evergrande Group began struggling under a mountain of debt last year, it quietly set off a chain reaction across the country.  Chinese authorities prevented a ...

Kroger’s $24.6 Billion Purchase of Albertsons to Create a Grocery Giant

Grocery giant Kroger said it was acquiring rival Albertsons in a roughly $24.6 billion tie-up that will help drive profitability and establish a larger footprint of nearly 5,000 stores. Kroger (ticker...

Ray Dalio expects ‘negative or poor real returns’ in markets for next five years

When MarketWatch first started publishing financial news and data 25 years ago, Bridgewater Associates was a little-known hedge fund firm that was overshadowed by other macro investing trading operati...

Uranium Miner Cameco Agrees to Buy Stake in Nuclear Services Firm, Stock Drops

Cameco stock was tumbling after agreeing, along with Brookfield Renewable Partners to acquire Westinghouse Electric. The companies will be forming a strategic partnership to acquire Westinghouse, the ...

Cameco Stock Tumbles on Agreement to Buy Stake in Westinghouse Electric

Cameco was falling nearly 10% after agreeing along with Brookfield Renewable Partners to acquire Westinghouse Electric. The companies will be forming a strategic partnership to acquire Westinghouse, t...

Famed Value Investor Buys Stock in Citigroup, PulteGroup, and Oshkosh

Value investor Edgar Wachenheim III’s Greenhaven Associates recently made major changes in its investments. Greenhaven increased its stakes in Citigroup (ticker: C) and home builder PulteGroup (PHM), ...

Robert Toll, Who Headed Luxury Homebuilder Toll Brothers, Dies at 81

Robert Toll, who built Toll Brothers into the country’s largest luxury homebuilder and brought a founder’s passion to the business, died Friday at age 81 after suffering from Parkinson’s disease The e...

PVC Piping Prices Are Dropping as Housing Market Weakens

Text size PVC piping is made from ethylene, a petroleum product that Occidental Petroleum produces. Dreamstime.com As rising interest rates interest rates pummel the housing market, the ripple effects...

21 dividend stocks yielding 5% or more of companies that will produce plenty of cash in 2023

When the stock market has jumped two days in a row, as it has now, it is easy to become complacent. But the Federal Reserve isn’t finished raising interest rates, and recession talk abounds. Stock inv...

The major county in America where home prices just dropped the most is …

Buyers may be starting to see home price drops in some areas. (Getty Images) Home buyers have watched as home prices marched upwards for the past few years, but now many of you will finally get some r...

These 20 stocks in the S&P 500 tumbled between 20% and 30% in September

Stocks declined again on Friday, closing out September with large losses across the board as the rally from the June lows partway through August faded into memory. The S&P 500 SPX fell 1.5% on Fri...

Bond Yields Are Finally Looking Attractive. What to Buy Now.

It has taken a historic selloff, but the bond rout may finally be winding down. Yields are also looking plump enough to be attractive again. A two-year Treasury now gets you 4.1%, a yield not seen sin...

22 dividend stocks screened for quality and safety

Now that the S&P 500 has hit a new closing low for 2022, it is a good time to rerun a screen of low-volatility dividend stocks that may perform relatively better. An initial screen of the S&P ...

Microsoft, Accenture, and American Tower Boost Dividends

Text size Microsoft, Accenture, and American Tower REIT lifted dividends. Gerard Julien/AFP via Getty Images Microsoft , Accenture , and American Tower REIT declared dividend increases this week in a ...

These 20 stocks in the S&P skidded as much as 21.5% during another brutal week for the market

Another difficult week for U.S. stocks ended with shares of oil producers sliding and Ford Motor Co. tumbling further on concerns over supply shortages. The S&P 500 SPX, -1.72% fell 1.7% on Friday...

After Years of Low Mortgage Rates, Home Sellers Are Scarce

Homeowners with low mortgage rates are balking at the prospect of selling their homes to borrow at much higher rates for their next homes, a development that could limit the supply of houses for sale ...

These Are the 7 Worst Housing Markets, According to Lennar

Higher mortgage rates have cut into home sales at a national level—but, as the saying goes, all real estate is local.  Lennar , the nation’s second-largest builder by market capitalization, on Thursda...

Humana, CVS Circle Cano Health as Potential Buyers

Humana and CVS Health are circling Cano Health according to people familiar with the situation, as healthcare heavyweights scramble to snap up primary-care providers. The talks are serious and a deal ...

Carl Icahn to investors: ‘The worst is yet to come’

Wall Street icon Carl Icahn has a warning for his fellow investors: “The worst is yet to come.” Speaking on Wednesday at MarketWatch’s Best New Ideas in Money Festival via a remote feed, the 86-year-o...