Shares of Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, +4.40% charged 5.7% higher to $2,435.01 in afternoon trading, to put them on track for a fourth-straight gain. The ecommerce and cloud behemoth’s stock has soared...
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Big Lots chief merchandising officer terminated without cause in wake of disappointing quarterly results
Shares of Big Lots Inc. BIG, -9.09% dove 7.1% toward a 2-year low in morning trading Tuesday, after the discount home essentials retailer disclosed Chief Merchandising Officer Jack Pestello had been t...
Brace for another selloff if U.S. stocks reach this technical ‘danger zone’
“Top Gun: Maverick” is taking American cinemas by storm, so it’s only right that Wall Street strategists would work some references to the classic 1980s franchise into their client research which is o...
Oil stocks enjoy broad rally as crude prices jump, with Exxon Mobil at an 8-year high and Chevron at a record
The energy sector is on track to enjoy a unanimous rally Tuesday, as the European Union’s ban on Russian oil has sent crude oil futures surging. The SPDR Energy Select Sector ETF XLE, +1.00% ral...
Cruise Stocks Have Sunk. Only Two Have Seen Large Insider Buys.
Text size Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings ships sit idle. The company and Carnival saw large stock buys by insiders. Tim Rue/Bloomberg All three cruise-line operators are pretty much in the same boat t...
Here’s the asset investors want if inflation stays high, says Deutsche Bank. And crypto isn’t even ‘on the radar’
Home is where the heart is, and the money, if inflationary trends don’t cool. That’s according to the latest Deutsche Bank survey of investors, who say that property will be their most preferred buy-a...
Stock Market Today: Global Stocks, U.S. Futures Move Higher on Memorial Day
Text size Stock and bond trading will resume on Wall Street on Tuesday after Memorial Day. Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images Global stocks and U.S. futures rose on Monday amid a quiet day for markets due ...
Toyota Is Cutting Car Production Again. It’s Bad News for Inflation.
Text size A scene from a Toyoya production line in India. Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg Global car production has been hampered for months because of a plethora of supply-chain and logistics issues. Investor...
Durability of U.S. stock- market bounce in question as inflation worries linger ahead of payrolls report
Investors took a breather this week as U.S. stocks bounced back from a weeks long selloff and the latest reading on inflation offered glimmers of optimism to those hoping for a peak in price pressures...
Markets Finally Reversed Their Losing Streaks. The Fed Might Avoid Inflicting More Pain, After All.
Text size A ‘help wanted’ sign is displayed in a Manhattan store in New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Nothing lasts forever, not even a stock market decline. But just because a mar...
Why the Dow finally bounced — and what it will take to prove it’s for real
A little pre-summer cheer finally filtered its way into the stock market the week before Memorial Day, but it will likely take more than the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s first winning week since lat...
The Stock Market Finally Had a Winning Week. Why It Might Not Last.
Text size Ed Yardeni, founder of Yardeni Research: “We now are raising the odds of a recession from 30% to 40%.” Christopher Goodney/Bloomberg The stock market ended its multiweek losing streak, and l...
This Rally Could Force the Fed to Raise Rates Higher
The markets make the news, not the other way around, an insight that has been quite humbling to one who has made a living by reporting and analyzing the impact of news on financial markets. Consider t...
Stocks close sharply higher after inflation data; Dow snaps longest weekly losing streak since 1932
U.S. stocks ended sharply higher Friday, with all three major benchmarks booking weekly gains, after the Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation for April had the smallest increase in a year ...
Is It Time to Buy Stocks Again? Why Citi Says Yes.
Text size Can investors finally stop worrying about a bear market? Photo by MORRIS MAC MATZEN/AFP via Getty Images It’s been a long slog this year for the plummeting stock market. Citigroup’s model th...
LyondellBasell stock rallies after special dividend announced, regular dividend raised
Shares of LyondellBasell Industries N.V. LYB, +5.00% rose 1.1% in premarket trading Friday, after the U.K.-based chemical company said it will pay a special dividend of $5.20 a share, after setting ne...
Will the Stock Market Recover? 10 Reasons the Rally Might Be Real.
Text size Investors have been fooled before. Why this stock market rally feels like the real thing. Spencer Platt/Getty Images The stock market has been rallying this week. This one, unlike other atte...
Avadel’s stock falls 21% after disclosing new FDA request for experimental narcolepsy drug
Shares of Avadel Pharmaceuticals PLC AVDL, +133.64% tumbled 21.6% in premarket trading on Thursday after the company said in a securities filing that the Food and Drug Administration requested additio...
Dow books 4th day of gains, stocks rally after Fed minutes signal flexibility on interest rate hikes
Stocks closed higher Wednesday as investors took away a message of flexibility from the release of minutes of the early May Federal Reserve meeting about its path to higher interest rates. How did sto...
‘Markets are imploding’ because the Fed isn’t doing its job, says billionaire investor Bill Ackman
“‘How does this downward market spiral end? It ends when the Fed puts a line in the sand on inflation and says it will do “whatever it takes.”’” — Bill Ackman, founder and CEO, Pershing Square Capital...
Should You Buy or Sell Rivian Stock? What One Analyst Says To Do Now.
Text size Electric-car maker Rivian went public on the Nasdaq in November. Courtesy of Rivian Wall Street is sticking with its Buy call for Rivian stock. Mizuho analyst Vijay Rakesh says that current ...