Why Marvel’s Cryptic Campaign For ‘Doctor Strange 2’ Represents A Calculated Risk

Fandango is reporting that Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness has sold more tickets in its first 24 hours than any film this year, including The Batman. Of course, there haven’t been many “ve...

Marvel’s ‘Doctor Strange 2’ Must Reassert Walt Disney’s Box Office Strength

Benedict Cumberbatch in ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ DISNEY With tickets going on sale tomorrow, we are one month out from the domestic debut (counting Thursday previews) ...

As Oil Briefly Dips Below $100, Russia and Europe Play a Game of Chicken

U.S. oil prices briefly dipped below $100 barrel Friday, as President Joe Biden’s plan to release one million barrels a day of reserves began to have the desired effect. But it’s premature to start th...

3 Dow Stocks To Buy, 3 To Avoid

A Chevron petroleum storage tank in Florida. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images Getty Images At times like these, when investors are nervous, many will flee to the safety of the biggest, best-known stoc...

Warren Buffett Puts Some of His $144 Billion to Work With Alleghany Deal

Warren Buffett Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc Text size It was only three weeks ago that Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett wrote of the unpleasantness associated with h...

Disney CEO Makes It Clear a Big Price Increase Is Coming (Here’s When)

Walt Disney (DIS) – Get Walt Disney Company Report owns a world-class lineup of intellectual property that no other company can even sort of come close to. Comcast (CMCSA) – Get Comcast Co...

Why ‘Death On The Nile’ Was A Frightening Box Office Tragedy

Death on the Nile poster 20th Century Studios and Disney Disney has announced that Kenneth Branagh’s Death on the Nile will debut on Hulu on March 29. That’s actually a “normal” 45-day theatrical wind...

13 Stocks That Have Too Much Russian Exposure—and 6 Stocks That Could Benefit

Text size Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images U.S. companies are fleeing Russia, something that could create headwinds going forward. For companies in countries that haven’t imposed sanctions, h...

Verizon Has Plans for Faster Growth. Stock Buybacks Are Coming Closer.

Text size Hans Vestberg, Verizon’s CEO. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Verizon Communications could be poised to deliver faster growth in profits and revenue, making possible continued dividend inc...

The Travel/ Reopening Play Is Still Thriving. One Fund Manager Shares His Favorite Travel Stocks

Travel stocks got hit hard at the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020, but they’ve been doing much better as investors started to embrace the reopening theme in anticipation of the end of th...

Disney and Netflix Have a Streaming Problem

Four years ago, Netflix  (NFLX) – Get Netflix, Inc. Report Chief Executive Reed Hastings said the company’s next 100 million subscribers would come from India. It hasn’t worked out t...

‘Uncharted’ Boosts ‘Spider-Man’ As ‘Death’ And ‘Marry Me’ Both Drop 64%

Death on the Nile Fox Disney and 20th Century Studios’ Death on the Nile earned another $1.768 million on Friday, dropping a brutal 65% from its weak $5.07 million opening day. Kenneth Branagh’s $90 m...

ViacomCBS Is Changing Its Name. More Subscribers Joined, but at a Cost.

Text size ViacomCBS is changing its name to Paramount Global. Dreamstime ViacomCBS reported a very solid quarter of streaming-subscriber gains on Tuesday, but that growth didn’t come cheaply. The comp...

ViacomCBS Is Changing Its Name. Subscribership Grew, but at a Cost.

Text size ViacomCBS is changing its name to Paramount Global. Dreamstime ViacomCBS reported a very solid quarter of streaming-subscriber gains on Tuesday, but that growth didn’t come cheaply. The comp...

What CEOs Are Saying: ‘We See Inflation Going Up Everywhere’

Here is what some of the world’s corporate leaders said in their quarterly earnings reports this week about inflation, pricing strategy and the pandemic. Coca-Cola Co. KO -1.78% Chief Executive James ...

Disney Reports Today. Here’s What to Expect.

The Disney+ logo. Subscribership growth will be a critical element of the results. Gabby Jones/Bloomberg Text size Walt Disney ‘s results on Wednesday will be a chance for the company to show it can d...

Apple, Not Amazon, Should Buy Peloton. One Analyst Explains Why.

Text size (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images) It’s been reported that Amazon.com and Nike are weighing bids for Peloton Interactive . One analyst said he’s be surprised if Apple also wasn’t in t...

Netflix And Disney Fall Victim To Inflated Wall Street Expectations

Jonah Hill, Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep and Jennifer Lawrence in Adam McKay’s ‘Don’t Look Up’ Netflix The likes of Disney and Netflix can’t expect subscriptions to exponent...

Netflix Stock Might Be a Buy After Earnings Selloff

Text size Netflix added 8.3 million subscribers in the fourth quarter, but the company’s first- quarter forecast came up well short of Wall Street’s estimate. Dreamstime And just like that, Netflix pr...

Best Retail And Consumer Stocks To Buy In 2022

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The Hottest ETF Sectors for Investors to Bet On in 2022

Many investors are bracing for a more-volatile stock market this year as interest rates, inflation, the pandemic, geopolitical tensions, oil and supply-chain bottlenecks continue to cause uncertainty....

Discovery Stock Soars After an Analyst Upgrade. Why the Stock Could Double.

Text size Dreamstime Discovery Communications shares are roaring higher on Friday, after an analyst upgraded the stock and issued a price target 75% above Thursday’s closing price in a 30-page report....