Stanley Black & Decker leads S&P 500 decliners after tool maker’s weak quarter leads it to slash guidance

Shares of Stanley Black & Decker Inc. tumbled 13.7% Thursday to lead S&P 500 decliners after the tool maker’s second-quarter earnings fell far short of estimates, it slashed its guidance and a...

Opinion: Google and Microsoft earnings show the bar has been lowered for Big Tech

Alphabet Inc. and Microsoft Corp. both reported results that missed Wall Street’s expectations Tuesday, but not only did investors not melt down, both actually saw their stocks rise in after-hours tra...

Microsoft stock jumps after ‘shockingly robust’ forecast calls for continued strong cloud growth

Microsoft Corp. missed expectations for profit and revenue in a Tuesday earnings report, as deteriorating economic conditions led to an even greater shock than expected when executives revised their g...

Opinion: We’re probably in the early stages of a new bull market. Nervous? Start with these 5 ‘moat’ stocks

The odds are good that June 16 marked the stock market’s low, and we are in the early stages of a new bull market. Inflation is rolling over. Supply chains are repairing. There is enough terror in the...

Big Tech earnings are about to determine the direction of the market

Just five companies control nearly a quarter of the S&P 500 index’s market cap, and they will all report earnings this week that could determine the direction of the market for weeks or months to ...

Microsoft earnings: It’s the forecast that matters, so be patient

The most important financial news Microsoft Corp. executives will provide Tuesday requires a bit of a wait. Microsoft MSFT, -0.59% is scheduled to report fiscal fourth-quarter financial results after ...

Microsoft’s Activision Deal Is Likely to Win Approval, Analyst Says

Text size Microsoft has said it plans to release Activision’s Call of Duty videogames on Sony’s PlayStation. Rich Polk/Getty Images for Activision Activision Blizzard stock continues to tr...

Porsches Postponed by Buggy Software Cost VW’s CEO His Job

(Bloomberg) — Most Read from Bloomberg It says a lot about the state of the auto industry and where it’s going that software problems have cost the CEO of a carmaker his job. Volkswagen ou...

Apple, Visa, Microsoft, Exxon Mobil, Chipotle, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

It will be a busy week on both the micro and macro fronts. Second-quarter earnings season ramps up, as more than 150 S&P 500 firms report, including Big Tech. The Federal Reserve’s policy committe...

Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Facebook Enter the Scene

They are the companies whose names are part of the daily lives of consumers.  It is almost impossible to escape them in many daily economic activities.  They are in the top 10 of the most valuable com...

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 ...

Apple and Microsoft Report Earnings Next Week. Can a Fed Rate Hike Top Them?

Text size Earnings from Big Tech are next week. But so is the Federal Reserve’s announcement on interest rates. Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg Big Tech earnings season will shift into fifth gear next...

Lake Mead Is Shrinking, USPS Goes Electric And Software To Make Farmers Green

This week’s Current Climate, which every Saturday brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability. Sign up to get it in your inbox every week. TImothy Archibald for Forbes Agriculture ...

The Best Tech CEOs: What Matters Most

Text size Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke spent years programming before he co-founded the e-commerce software firm. He has said he knows how long projects will take—and which initiatives to choose—because of ...

Palantir stock’s ‘strength will prove unsustainable,’ analyst says in downgrade

Palantir Technologies Inc. shares are up nearly 50% from their May lows, but one analyst worries that “this strength will prove unsustainable.” Monness, Crespi, Hardt & Co. analyst Brian White dow...

It’s the end of ‘fantasyland’ for Big Tech and its workers

After Big Tech grew in unprecedented and unchecked fashion for a decade, building ostentatious palaces to house growing workforces while plying them luxuriant freebies to keep them from defecting to r...

Microsoft and Google Bring Bad News for the Economy

The second-quarter corporate-earnings season is in full swing. And Big Tech, wanting to avoid unpleasant surprises, isn’t waiting to tell investors how a sharp economic slowdown could hurt its p...

Microsoft Stock Is a ‘Good Place to Hide.’ This Analyst CutsPrice Target Anyway.

Text size Microsoft updated its guidance to reflect higher foreign exchange headwinds ahead of its fourth-quarter earnings report. Jeenah Moon/Getty Images Microsoft won’t be immune to an economic slo...

Actant trading software connects with crypto exchange Bybit

Bybit, a popular crypto derivatives exchange, announced today it has partnered with trading solutions provider Actant to offer new professional trading tools. The full range of Actant tools for risk, ...

Opinion: The SPACsplosion is about to become a liquidation frenzy — and that may be for the best

As the SPAC boom was beginning to rage two years ago, this column asked why in the world any company would want to be acquired by a former chief executive best known for executing one of the worst acq...

Cathie Wood’s ARK Buys 1 Million Unity Software Shares After IronSource Acquisition

Text size An attendee plays a game at the Unity Technologies booth at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest purchased more than 1 millio...

Unity Stock Is Plunging. Investors Are Losing Faith in the Company’s Strategy.

Text size John Riccitiello joined Unity as CEO in 2014, after a six-year stint running Electronic Arts. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Unity Software investors are throwing up their hands in despair. Aft...

For Bitcoin Believers Musk and Saylor, a Reckoning Looms

Billionaires Elon Musk and Michael Saylor shortly are going to be in sharp focus. The first assessments of the potential losses that their big bets on bitcoin have sustained is approaching.  Through t...

Opinion: ‘Quality’ companies are getting stronger yet their shares are down in this selloff. This is how to find the bargains.

If you’re a long-term investor, this year’s selloff is good news because it offers a great chance to pick up quality companies at a discount. But wait a second. If a company is “high quality,” why wou...

Twitter, Unity Software, Delta Air Lines and more

The logo and trading symbol for Twitter is displayed on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, July 11, 2022. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Check out the companies ...

Unity to Buy IronSource for $4.4 Billion. IronSource Stock Surges, Unity Slumps.

Text size Wall Street seems to think the merger is a good deal for IronSource stock, which surged. Angela WeissAFP/Getty Images Unity Software will take over IronSource in an all-stock $4.4 billion me...

Microsoft and Gopuff Are Latest Tech Firms to Cut Jobs

Microsoft is cutting a small percentage of its staff, the latest in a string of layoffs by high-profile tech companies. The software maker said it is cutting a number of positions, affecting less than...

Broadcom loses top software exec in the middle of VMware deal to head combined Citrix-Tibco company

Broadcom Inc.’s head of software Tom Krause is leaving the company in the middle of a $61 billion software acquisition he helped bring about, which analysts called “a surprise” and “not the greatest o...

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella: Barron’s Top CEOs 2022

Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft Courtesy Microsoft Text size Under Satya Nadella, Microsoft has solidified its dominance in several key software categories, including office-productivity subscriptions...

These companies hopped on the crypto train when times were booming. Which are exposed in a downturn?

During recent cryptocurrency booms, companies have been quick to jump on the trend, whether by reorienting their entire businesses around the buzzy theme, building meaningful crypto features alongside...

Sourceforge Declared Hollaex The 2022 Market Leader In White Label Exchange Software

Advertisement &nbsp &nbsp SourceForge, the world’s biggest software and services review and comparison website has honored cryptocurrency exchange technology white-label softw...

Professional crypto software suite 1Token adds support for Deribit derivatives » CryptoNinjas

Deribit, the popular bitcoin & crypto options exchange, announced today a new partnership with 1Token, a front-to-back office financial software for crypto institutions. 1Token is the all-in-one f...