Pfizer on Monday named a new chief financial officer with a resume that hints at the company’s plans to spend big with its Covid-19 vaccine windfall. David Denton is taking up the CFO role at Pfizer (...
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Costco Stock Is Challenging Amazon as the Most Richly Valued Retailer
Text size Costco Wholesale continues to grow its membership, to 61.7 million members in the latest fiscal year. Mario Tama/Getty Images Costco Wholesale is challenging Amazon . com as the most richly ...
U.S. Stocks Poised to Open Slightly Higher on Monday
It will be an abbreviated trading week, with U.S. markets closed on Friday. ANGELA WEISS/AFP/Getty Images Text size U.S. stocks are set to open Monday slightly higher. On Sunday night, Dow Jones Indus...
Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Delta, TSMC, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week
Text size Uncredited First-quarter earnings season begins this week, kicked off as always by results from several big banks. JPMorgan Chase reports on Wednesday, followed by Wells Fargo , Goldman Sach...
Here’s Another Reason to Do a Roth IRA Conversion. Your Heirs Will Thank You.
Dreamstime Text size If you’re planning to leave a tax-deferred account to your children, you may be able to save them a lot of money by doing Roth conversions while you’re alive. Suppose you have a ...
Warren Buffett Loves Cheap Stocks. The HP Purchase Is Proof.
Text size Warren Buffett. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc Warren Buffett is at heart a value investor. Berkshire Hathaway ’s recent investment activity, including the purchase of more th...
Constellation Brands and Murphy Oil Raised Their Dividends This Week
Text size This week was a slow one for dividend increase announcements. Freeze Frames/Dreamstime.com Constellation Brands and Murphy Oil were among the small number of companies that declared dividend...
FinTech Looks Like a $1.5 Trillion Growth Market
Illustration by Elias Stein Text size Wells Fargo ’s Jeff Cantwell says the time to buy fintech stocks is now—14 of them. Cantwell has started coverage of the group with Overweight ratings for all. Th...
AT&T Boss Sees Room to Raise Prices, Cut Costs After Media Exit
AT&T Inc. Chief Executive Officer John Stankey says inflation could prompt the wireless and broadband company to raise prices for some core services while it continues to cut costs after getting o...
General Dynamics Stock: Why It’s Time to Buy
Text size General Dynamics M1 Abrams battle tanks. Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg Russia’s war in Ukraine shows no sign of ending, and the news of civilian deaths in places like Kramatorsk, Bucha, and Irpi...
Buffett Gave HP Stock a Boost. Why It’s Still a Buy.
Text size Shares of HP jumped 15% this past week after Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway disclosed a large stake. Why the stock still looks cheap. Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg When Bill Hewlett and Dave ...
Why P&G Just Gained a New Fan
Text size P&G’s products were popular earlier in the Covid-19 pandemic. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Investors have been wary of consumer staples stocks lately, given worries about high inflation...
Nvidia, AMD, Intel Price Targets Are Cut. This Analyst Sees Chip Demand Slowing.
Text size Dreamstime Semiconductor stocks have soared over the last few quarters, driven higher by robust demand for chips amid a global supply shortage. But the tide may be turning for semiconductor ...
Inflation Is Here to Stay. How to Adjust Your Portfolio.
Inflation is rampant and ubiquitous today, from the gas pump to the grocery store. The U.S. consumer price index has quadrupled in the past year, from a 1.7% annual rate in February 2021 to 7.9% this ...
Alibaba Stock Hit by China Covid Outbreak. 4 Reasons to Hope for a Bounce.
Text size Alibaba stock faces headwinds from Covid-19 outbreaks in China. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images A renewed outbreak of Covid-19 in China has hurt the outlook for the e-commerce giant Alibaba ...
Online Sports Betting Is a Buzzy Industry, but Where’s the Money?
Text size Gamblers may have won big with the men’s March Madness championship game on Monday, but investing in online gambling platforms has been a losing hand as of late. Shares of DraftKings (ticker...
Why Russia Doesn’t Want to Default—Even in a Time of War
Behind the fight over whether Russia should be allowed to pay off its debts is an age-old issue: Borrowers, even in times of war, want to keep their reputations for making investors whole. The U.S. Tr...
Housing Crisis: Why 40-Year Mortgages Might Help Delinquent Borrowers
Text size Illustration by Laurent Duvoux About the author: Patrick Harker is the president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. The Covid-19 pandemic is not over. But many of the pande...