Beat inflation with 3 stocks that bet against oil in favor of EVs and the renewable-power grid

The likelihood that lingering inflation and other factors lead to persistently higher oil prices leaves this stock picker focused on alternative energy and electric vehicles. Ivana Delevska, founder a...

Bank of England is ‘highly unlikely’ to develop a retail wallet for CBDC

A senior manager at the Bank of England says the 327-year-old institution is “highly unlikely” to develop a retail-facing wallet that could be used to store and spend digital currency.  The question o...

Tech Stocks to Buy After a Crazy Week of Earnings

Amazon stock was up almost 14% on Friday after the company reported solid earnings and said it was raising the price of its Prime membership for the first time since 2018. Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images...

Top Crypto Exchange Coinbase Rolls Out Full Retail Support for Three Low-Cap Altcoins

Top US crypto exchange Coinbase is launching full retail support for a trio of low-cap altcoins. Aventus (AVT), Render Token (RNDR) and Quantstamp (QSP) are now live on Coinbase.com and the exchange’s...

Fidelity Opens Direct Indexing Option to Retail Investors

fidelity direct indexing Building wealth has grown more accessible than ever, thanks to declining trading costs and fractional share investing. Many brokerage firms already offer zero-commission onlin...

Costco Saw Another Strong Month of Sales. Why the Stock Didn’t Leap.

Text size A shopper in a Costco store Joe Raedle/Getty Images Costco ‘s sales rose nearly 16% in January from a year earlier, but the news failed to lift the stock even as Wall Street analysts offered...

Amazon May Have Saved the Stock Market. But It’s Looking Even Worse for Meta.

After Meta Platforms’ disastrous earnings outlook, the mood was pretty sour. And with investors weighing up the Federal Reserve’s future path for interest rates and the potential impact on valuations,...

Gaming Retail Giant GameStop Partners With NFT Marketplace in Push Towards Crypto Adoption

Video game retail giant GameStop is entering the crypto world through a partnership with an Ethereum-based digital assets marketplace. In a new press release, GameStop says they are teaming up with Et...

Sustainability Is What’s Keeping Retailers Awake At Night

ESG Executive Graphic Shutterstock.com The National Retail Federation, or NRF, held its annual Big Show live and in-person at New York City’s Javits Center a little more than a week ago. As you can im...

Rivian Rescued Amazon Earnings—but Not Ford’s. Here’s Why.

Text size Courtesy of Rivian Amazon.com ‘s huge earnings beat was huge, but it wasn’t driven by consumer shopping or its cloud business. It was mostly driven by gains from its holdings of Rivian Autom...

Social platform behind ‘retail short squeeze’ launches crypto trading

Investor-focused social media platform Stocktwits, which gained popularity during last year’s ‘retail short squeeze’ frenzy involving GameStop and AMCTheaters, rolled out its own crypto trading servic...

MOEX Adds 5 Million Retail Accounts in January, Demand Skyrockets

Moscow Exchange (MOEX) has released some of the metrics for January, showing the massive upward drag in the retail trading activities and overall demand. The platform added nearly 5 million individual...

AT&T’s Dividend Cut Puts It in an Unenviable Club

A company cutting its dividend after a spinoff is uncommon, but not unprecedented. The longer-term outcomes can vary markedly. AT&T (ticker: T) joined this club on Tuesday, when it said it expects...

Amazon holiday earnings blow away expectations (thanks to Rivian), stock spikes

Amazon.com Inc. executives thought that supply-chain and staffing concerns could wipe away their holiday profit. They were wrong. Amazon AMZN, -7.81% reported fourth-quarter profit of $14.3 billion, o...

Facebook wasn’t Thursday’s only big loser — these 16 other Nasdaq-100 stocks dropped at least 5%

Thursday was brutal for technology stock investors, as the carnage spread far beyond the parent company of Facebook. Below is a list of the worst 20 performers among the Nasdaq-100 on Feb. 3., led by ...

How Rivian Rescued Amazon Earnings–But Not Ford

Text size Courtesy of Rivian Amazon.com ‘s huge earnings beat was mostly driven by gains from its holdings of Rivian Automotive stock. Ford Motor owns Rivian stock too. Like Amazon , it reported bette...

Amazon Stock Soars on Good Enough Earnings. The Price of Prime Is Going Up.

Amazon . com reported strong fourth-quarter results on Thursday, driven by strong growth in both its AWS cloud unit and its growing advertising business. The results could be a relief to some investor...

Retail Bitcoin Investors Remain Bullish on BTC Even After Market Correction: Survey

A new survey conducted by global decision intelligence firm Morning Consult is revealing an upbeat sentiment among retail Bitcoin (BTC) investors, despite the market downturn. The new Morning Consult ...

New Owners Find Christmas Tree Shops Is The Gift That Keeps On Giving

The unwrapping of Christmas Tree Shops is in full swing, including new store branding. 2016 Ben Rose Photography Christmas may be over it’s really just getting started at Christmas Tree Shops, the spe...

The party’s over for AMC and GameStop investors — but the luckier meme-stock winners are now bracing for a massive tax bill

When Jason Gutierrez kept refreshing GameStop’s performance between work tasks during the wild, early days of 2021, he admits future tax obligations weren’t his No. 1 priority. “It was in the back of ...

Cramer cheers Alphabet stock split, expects retail investors to buy in

CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Wednesday he expects retail investors will flock to shares of Alphabet in greater numbers after the Google parent completes its planned 20-for-1 stock split. “If the...

As Physical Retail Resurges, These eCommerce Leaders Are Doubling Down On Digital

While some shoppers are flocking back to stores, the idea that the pandemic has irreversibly changed shopping behaviors still appears to have merit.  To compete with pure-play eCommerce giants like Am...

Opinion: Google is finally splitting its stock; will Amazon be next, leading to a Dow shakeup?

Alphabet Inc. is finally carving into its gargantuan stock price with a stock split, which leaves only one Big Tech company remaining with a huge per-share price despite an easy avenue to change it. A...

PayPal stock sinks after earnings as inflation, spending pressures weigh on outlook

PayPal Holdings Inc. largely matched expectations for its holiday quarter but shares plunged late Tuesday after the company delivered an earnings forecast that came up shy of expectations. Shares were...

AT&T Is Getting Closer to a Clean Slate. Here’s What Comes Next.

Text size After a saga of misguided M&A, there’s still work to be done for AT&T. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images AT&T shed some light on its pending exit from the media business on ...

AT&T CFO Defends Spinoff, Saying It Benefits Retail Investors

Text size AT&T’s chief financial officer, Pascal Desroches. Courtesy AT&T AT&T is defending its move to spin off its big stake in WarnerMedia rather than pursue a split-off, or excha...

AT&T’s Move to Spin Off WarnerMedia Disappoints Investors

Text size AT&T plans to pay a $1.11 annual dividend, down from the current $2.08 a share. Stefani Reynolds /AFP via Getty Images AT&T ‘s decision Tuesday to spin off its stake in WarnerMedia t...

Amazon Aggregator D1 Brands Acquires U.K.-Based Kitchen Ware Line With Annual Sales Of $50 Million

D1 Brands, an Amazon aggregator, navigated the Covid-19 pandemic successfully. Courtesy of D1 Brands Amazon Aggregator D1 Brands has acquired a U.K.-based home and kitchen seller, which has experience...

AT&T to Spin Off WarnerMedia, Plans Deep Cut to Its Dividend

Text size Justin Sullivan/Getty Images AT&T said Tuesday it would spin off its interest in WarnerMedia following WarnerMedia’s merger with Discovery . AT&T (ticker: T) also said its board appr...

Tesla, GM, and 3 Other Stocks That Could Be Best EV Plays

Text size Tesla stock is a pick for a play on autonomous driving. Jens Schlueter/Getty Images Electric vehicles are taking over. That spells opportunity for investors. The growth of EV sales is great,...

Daiso Is The Dollar Store With A Yen For U.S. Market

Daiso’s new Las Vegas store was only its latest excursion into the American market. Photo: Warren Shoulberg What happens when you combine a dollar store with Muji, the Japanese minimalist design...

Four Notables About Costco Ahead Of This Week’s January Numbers Release

MOUNT PROSPECT, IL – MAY 31: A worker pushes carts outside a Costco Wholesale store May 31, 2006 in … [+] Mount Prospect, Illinois. Third-quarter earnings reported today were up at Costco,...