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Qualcomm Reports Earnings Today. What to Expect.
Text size Qualcomm is expected to report revenue of $10.86 billion for its June quarter. Josep Lago/AFP via Getty Images Investors will get an important update on Qualcomm’s business when the maker of...
PayPal Is Being Targeted by Activist Elliott. Here’s Why.
Text size PayPal shares have slid this year as people have returned to their prepandemic spending habits. Courtesy of PayPal Payments giant PayPal finally has attracted an activist. PayPal (ticker: PY...
Alibaba Plans to Move Its Stock to Hong Kong. Others Will Follow.
Text size Alibaba says it has filed to change its primary stock listing to Hong Kong rather than the U.S. AFP via Getty Images Alibaba Group Holding on Tuesday said it has filed to change its primary ...
After Fed Raises Interest Rates Wednesday, Investors to Look for Clues About What’s Next
After the Federal Reserve lifts its benchmark interest rate on Wednesday, attention will turn to what Chairman Jerome Powell says about a rate increase at the central bank’s meeting in September. The ...
Ford Bronco Engine-Failure Reports Spur Federal Safety Investigation
The top U.S. auto-safety regulator is opening an investigation into reported catastrophic engine failures with some Ford Bronco vehicles, yet another setback in the auto maker’s efforts to improve its...
Alphabet’s Earnings Are Today. Here’s What to Expect.
Text size Google’s Bay View campus in Mountain View, Calif. Noah Berger/ AFP/ Getty Images Tuesday night is a big one for Alphabet , and for the rest of the stock market. Google’s parent company...
A Fed Rate-Hike Surprise Could Be a Problem for Stocks
Text size The Federal Reserve continues to play catch-up in its fight against inflation, and there’s no doubt that interest rates are headed higher after its meeting ends on Wednesday. Chip Somo...
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...
Expect Two Recessions, and a Quick End to the Fed’s Interest-Rate Hikes
Forward guidance sounds like a great idea. Central bankers should lay out their longer-term goals to influence financial markets. Just as hockey great Wayne Gretzky would skate where the puck was head...
Intel to Help Make Chips for Taiwanese Designer MediaTek
Text size Intel will make chips for Taiwan-based MediaTek. Courtesy Intel Corporation Intel said Monday its technology would be used by Taiwan-based MediaTek to manufacture chips for smart devices....
NXP Semi Will Kick Off Earnings Season for Chip Stocks. What to Expect.
Text size Dreamstime NXP Semiconductors reports earnings on Monday, kicking off earnings season for chip stocks. But many investors and analysts are bracing themselves for muted results across the ind...
The Upper Middle Class Is Getting Squeezed
By Dion Rabouin | Photographs by Dina Litovsky for The Wall Street Journal July 25, 2022 5:30 am ET Mark Yu had a profitable pandemic. Like many Americans, he added to his savings and pulled in big ga...
More Shoppers Buy Store Brands, Eating Into Big Food Companies’ Sales
Cost-conscious consumers are buying more store brands at the supermarket, raising pressure on big food companies that are dealing with their own rising costs. Lower-cost oatmeal, pickles, granola bars...
This Stat Shows Why Analysts Are Bullish on Energy Stocks
Text size Analysts are more bullish about energy companies than are investors. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Getty Images Energy stocks make up just 4% of the S&P 500 but are expected to...
There Are Signs Inflation May Have Peaked, but Can It Come Down Fast Enough?
Growing signs that price pressures are easing suggest that June’s distressingly high 9.1% increase in consumer prices will probably be the peak. But even if inflation indeed comes down, economists see...
Bed Bath & Beyond Followed a Winning Playbook—and Lost
Mark Tritton arrived at Bed Bath & Beyond in 2019 with a plan to revive the home-goods retailer and ward off competition from Amazon.com Inc., Target Corp. and other large chains: sell what nobody...
Stocks Are Under Pressure. Add This Accounting Entry to the Risks.
Text size ADT recently valued its intangible assets at more than 200% of its market capitalization. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Weakening demand, inflation, and higher interest rates aren’t the only risks...
The Stock Market Is Entering Its Weakest Months. What to Watch Out For.
Text size Russia restarted natural-gas flows to Western Europe through Nord Stream 1, but President Vladimir Putin can shut it down again. Olga Maltseva/AFP/Getty Images Bad news on the economy was go...
Google Parts With Engineer Who Claimed Its AI System Is Sentient
Google fired an engineer who contended that an artificial-intelligence chatbot the company developed had become sentient, telling him that he had violated the company’s data security policies after it...
5 Common Questions About RMDs in Retirement
Required minimum distributions have been in the news lately as Congress works to pass the Secure Act 2.0, which would raise the age at which seniors must begin making withdrawals from employer-sponsor...
How to Invest During a Bear Market: 6 Tips
If you’re new to the stock market, you’ve probably had a rude awakening: The value of your investments has declined in the past few months. While that may be worrisome, don’t panic. A bear market—defi...