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Tesla Investors Are Getting Fed Up With Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover
Text size Musk has said “Tesla is on my mind 24/7.” Win McNamee/Getty Images Tesla shareholders are growing more vocal about their frustrations with Elon Musk’s $44 billion bid to take Twi...
Stocks to Buy Now: Alphabet, Facebook, and 4 More Bargains
When the stock market gets pounded, bargains abound—or so it seems. But in a bear market, the key to investing success is separating the thoughtlessly discarded from the overpriced junk. With about tw...
Twitter Stock Jumps. Tesla CEO Elon Musk Is Fine-Tuning His Potential Purchase.
Text size Tesla CEO Elon Musk filed an amended regulatory form for his potential buy of Twitter. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk said in a regulatory filing Wednesday that he no longer pla...
Twitter’s stock falls below where Elon Musk bought it, turning a $1.1 billion profit into a $40 million loss
Easy come, easy go, as shares of Twitter Inc. fell below where Elon Musk bought it, wiping out more than $1.1 billion in gains in four weeks. The social-media company’s stock TWTR, -5.55% sank 6.0% in...
Tesla Stock Falls to an 11-Month Low. Why Snap Is to Blame.
Text size Cars at the Tesla factory in Fremont, Calif. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Tesla stock is falling again in early Tuesday trading. The likeliest reason isn’t related to the electric-vehicle ma...
Snap stock falls 30% after Snapchat parent says it will miss estimates due to deteriorating economy
Snap Inc. stock fell more than 30% in the extended session Monday after the Snapchat parent said it likely will miss quarterly estimates as the economy has “deteriorated further and faster than antici...
Broadcom in Talks to Pay About $60 Billion for VMware
Broadcom is in talks to pay around $60 billion for VMware people familiar with the matter said, in what would be one of the biggest takeover deals of the year. The two technology companies are aiming ...
Stock futures gain as Wall Street looks to snap 8-week losing streak
U.S. stock-index futures gained late Sunday, after Wall Street last week sank to is longest losing streak since 1932. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures YM00, +0.71% were recently up about 200 point...
Twitter Strikes Back, Says It Will Enforce Agreement With Elon Musk
Text size Elon Musk says the $44 billion deal to buy Twitter is on hold. Twitter disagrees. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Twitter will hold Elon Musk to his offer to buy the company at the $44 billi...
Opinion: Elon Musk doesn’t want to buy Twitter anymore, but Twitter should make him pay for it
It’s becoming quite clear that Elon Musk no longer wants to buy Twitter Inc., at least not at the price he negotiated. But Twitter should not walk away without at least $1 billion — and potentially mu...
15 stocks that have fallen at least 33% but by these measures are still standouts in their sectors
During a year in which more than half of the stocks in the S&P 500 Index have declined 10% or more, you have probably seen the term “oversold” being bandied about. But what does oversold really me...
The Companies Cutting Staff, Freezing Hiring or Slashing Costs: See the List
Companies which saw substantial growth during the Covid-19 pandemic are starting to take a more cautious approach toward hiring and spending. From Peloton Interactive Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. to T...
Opinion: Elon Musk is likely trying to get a lower price for Twitter
Is Elon Musk’s $44 billion bid for Twitter actually a $1 billion joke by the world’s richest man? That’s a possibility that cannot be ignored, as investors scramble to make sense of Musk’s latest shen...
FAANG Stocks Are Crumbling. Why the Pain May Not Be Over.
Shares of Meta Platforms, Facebook’s parent company, are off by more than 40% so far this year. Nick Otto/Bloomberg Text size There has been no refuge for technology investors this year. And it ...
More Bad Times Ahead for These 6 Big Tech Stocks
Text size Amazon stock is down 35% this year. Sebastien Bozon/AFP via Getty Images Not even the high and mighty are immune from the gravitational forces of bear markets. That is the dilemma facing the...
The Future of Transportation Is a Lot More Than Tesla. How to Invest.
We once thought the future of transportation meant George Jetson’s flying car. Instead, we got Elon Musk’s Tesla—the company and the electric car—whose twin successes jolted the global automotive indu...
Elon Musk pitch deck for Twitter promises to nearly triple ad revenue, create $10 billion subscription business: report
Elon Musk is telling potential investors in his deal for Twitter Inc. that he will seek to triple the company’s ad revenue and create a $10 billion-a-year subscription business within six years, accor...
Gates on Musk’s Tesla: ‘There’s a difference between electric cars being adopted and companies becoming infinitely valuable’
“‘The popularity of electric cars will lead to more competition for selling those cars. So there’s a difference between electric cars being adopted, and companies becoming infinitely valuable.’” That’...
Social-Media Platforms Lay It On Thick
The tech industry hasn’t been shy about coining its own dubious metrics over the years. But lately, even the basic ones aren’t to be trusted. Social-media investors have historically focused on two ke...
Many tech stocks that have crashed are still too expensive to buy
I came across this list of crashed big cap tech stocks on Twitter on April 23: I’ve analyzed every one of those stocks over the last year. When thousands of stocks are down 70%-80% or even 90%, there ...
Opinion: Big Tech is no longer winning as big, but these two stocks still seem safe
The Big Tech earnings boom is officially over, but some of the world’s most powerful and valuable companies are breaking off from the pack. As this column told you months ago, profit increases are no ...
Stock of SPAC buying Truth Social jumps after Trump posts for first time in months
Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp., the special purpose acquisition company that is buying the company behind Donald Trump’s Truth Social, soared in after-hours trading Thursday after Trump pos...
Tesla Stock Is Pricing in $37 of Twitter Fear. Here’s How We Know.
Text size CEO of Tesla Motors Elon Musk Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP via Getty Images Tesla and Twitter stocks are linked, for at least a little while, as investors wonder how Tesla CEO Elon Musk will fund th...
Twitter Stock Falls on Fears Musk Might Abandon Deal
Text size One merger arbitrager says the Twitter deal’s conditions are “seller-friendly.” Scott Olson/Getty Images Twitter shares are falling Wednesday as investors worry that Elon M...
Twitter Stock Offers 9% Return to Musk’s Takeover Price After Tuesday’s Selloff
Text size Shares of Twitter fell about $2, meaning investors stand to make about 9% if Musk’s offer goes through. Scott Olson/Getty Images Twitter stock now offers a 9% return to Elon Musk’s tak...
Facebook Parent Meta Reports Earnings Today. Here’s What to Expect.
Text size For the March quarter, Meta projected revenue of between $27 billion and $29 billion. Noah Berger/AFP via Getty Images Facebook ’s parent Meta Platforms will release its first-quarter financ...
Opinion: Google’s earnings should be a warning to investors in Facebook and other online-ad companies
Google’s earnings shortfall is an indication of trouble across the online-advertising industry, and should scare investors in Facebook and other competitors. Google parent company Alphabet Inc. GOOGL,...
Tesla Stock Dropped After Elon Musk’s Deal for Twitter. Blame Margin Borrowing.
Text size Elon Musk is taking Twitter private. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Twitter shares are rising and Tesla stock is down in response to news that the Twitter board of directors accepted Tesla CEO...
Twitter Sale to Musk Is Another Sign the Stock Market Is in Trouble
Twitter accepted an offer from Elon Musk to go private. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Text size Twitter is getting bought out by Elon Musk—and for a price that looks too low. It could be a sign that the...
Apple Is the Last FAANG Standing. How Its Earnings Could Move the Market.
Apple is the last FAANG standing—and its earnings report this coming week could go a long way toward determining if the stock market bounces back or slides even further. As bad as this year has been f...
Opinion: Snap’s warning of a weaker outlook sends ripples through tech stocks
An unexpected warning about the deteriorating economy by Snap Inc. Chief Executive Evan Spiegel rippled through internet and social-media stocks late Monday, potentially ruining the market’s comeback ...