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Al Gore’s Firm Sells Alibaba Stock, TSMC, and Shopify. It Bought TI.
Generation Investment Management, chaired by former Vice President Al Gore, recently made big changes in its portfolio, reshuffling its holdings in the semiconductor business as its money managers cit...
Companies Are Getting More Confident About Profits. What It Means for Stocks.
Companies are just beginning to get more confident in their profit outlooks, although the stock market has a lot to sort through before it is likely to stage any substantial rally. Still, the signs o...
Redfin Is Upbeat About This Year. So Is Wall Street.
Text size Redfin reported a smaller earnings loss than expected for the fourth quarter and full year. Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg Redfin has reported a smaller-than-feared earnings loss. Analysts respo...
AI Becomes Silicon Valley’s Next Buzzy Bandwagon as Crypto Boom Fizzles
The new artificial-intelligence tools getting widespread attention for spitting out text, images and computer code are also generating something else: talk of the next technology bubble. Technologists...
Corteva CEO Chuck Magro Bought Up Stock
Corteva stock came through 2022 swimmingly, and shares of the seed-and-pesticide maker remain in positive territory in 2023. CEO Chuck Magro just bought a large block of the company’s stock. Corteva s...
Generous Bond Yields Prove There Is an Alternative to Stocks
Return with us to ancient times, when dinosaurs ruled, at least in technology terms. It was early 2007, when Blackberries were in everybody’s mitts and the first iPhone hadn’t yet gone on sale, let al...
As Earnings Season Ends, Stocks Get Marked Down. The Good News: It Isn’t a Recession.
With only a few big names left to report, 80% of S&P 500 companies have now delivered results, putting the index’s earnings per share on track to contract 2.2% for the fourth quarter—the first qua...
A Sideways Stock Market and the Case for Selling in March
Investors have heard the dictum “sell in May and go away.” This year they might want to consider selling in March. The May adage follows from market seasonality. Historically, investors have realized ...
Strong Economic Data Weaken the Case for Continued Stock Rally
The dash for trash has hit a speed bump. Stocks faltered again this past week as the early-year rally, led by rebounds in 2022’s speculative-grade losers, ran into resistance from higher expected inte...
Nvidia Stock Can Endure a Slowdown, Analyst Says. AI Is Key.
Nvidia should be insulated from any slowdown in the broader economy by increased spending on artificial intelligence, said analysts at Oppenheimer and KeyBanc, who lifted their price targets on shares...
Cathie Wood’s ARK Swoops In to Buy Shopify Stock After Recent Slump
High-profile fund manager Cathie Wood’s ARK Investment Management has increased holdings of e-commerce company Shopify and shed chip maker Nvidia the group said in a statement. ARK snapped up about $3...
The Way Americans Retire Has Changed Forever. Saving a Nest Egg Isn’t Enough.
About the author: Martin Neil Baily is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He was Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton. He is the co-author, with Benjamin H. ...
The S&P 500’s Rally Is in Question. It Doesn’t Mean Stocks Will Plunge.
Investors just don’t feel confident about stocks’ rally over the past few months, but the market could still hold up well this spring. The S&P 500 has risen about 15% since early October, when it ...
Deere Earnings Are Coming. The Stock Needs a Beat.
Agricultural machinery giant Deere reports its fiscal first-quarter earnings Friday morning. Investors could really use a “beat-and-raise” quarter from the company. Deere stock (ticker: DE) outperform...
DraftKings Reports Earnings Thursday. Analysts Are Worried About 2023.
DraftKings reported stronger than expected revenue and raised its outlook for 2023. Its business is getting a boost as more states legalize sports gambling. The gambling firm reported fourth quarter r...
Applied Materials Beats Earnings. Stock Rises.
Applied Materials reported better-than-expected earnings for its fiscal first quarter, sending the stock higher in after-hours trading. The chip equipment maker reported adjusted earnings of $2.03 a s...
Biden’s IRS Nominee: Agency Will Increase Audits of Wealthy Taxpayers
President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Internal Revenue Service pledged to increase scrutiny of certain wealthy taxpayers at his confirmation hearing Wednesday before the U.S. Senate Committee on F...
Bed Bath & Beyond’s $1 Billion Stock Deal: What to Know
It has been a whirlwind for Bed Bath & Beyond Inc.’s meme-stock investors, marked by a credit default, store closings and a last-gasp financing deal that saved the company from chapter 11. The tur...
Cisco Stock Rallies on Earnings and Guidance Beat
Cisco Systems shares are trading sharply higher in late trading Wednesday after the networking equipment provider posted solid results for its fiscal second quarter ended Jan. 28, while sharply increa...
The 6-Month T-Bill Breaches 5%. It Hasn’t Been This High Since 2007.
Text size The yield on six-month Treasurys reached the highest level in about 16 years. Al Drago/Bloomberg The rate on U.S. six-month Treasury bills surpassed 5% on Tuesday, reaching its highest level...
A Debt-Ceiling Fight Could Raise U.S. Borrowing Costs and Worsen Budget Deficits
Illustration by Chris Cash Text size About the authors: Arvind Krishnamurthy is the John S. Osterweis professor of finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Hanno Lustig is the school’s Miz...