Warner Bros. Discovery sues Paramount over $500 million ‘South Park’ deal

NEW YORK — Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. WBD, -1.14% is suing Paramount Global PARA, -4.86%, saying its competitor aired new episodes of the popular animated comedy series “South Park” after Warner paid...

Walmart, Alibaba, Moderna, and More Stocks to Watch This Week

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Walmart, Alibaba, Moderna, and More Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

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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...

AT&T Throws Off Cash as Earnings Top Expectations

AT&T ‘s fourth-quarter earnings beat Wall Street’s estimates. A key metric for the wireless company also came in higher than expected.  For AT&T (ticker: T), the driver this earnings season is...

These Stocks Had a Terrible 2022. The New Year Should Be Better.

Videogame maker Take-Two Interactive Software is known for two things: Grand Theft Auto, and did I already say Grand Theft Auto? The stock was down 43% in 2022, making it the group’s worst performer. ...

AT&T Stung Investors by Spinning Off Warner Bros. Discovery

AT&T ‘s April decision to parcel out its big interest in Warner Bros. Discovery to all shareholders, rather than giving them the option of receiving an equivalent amount of the phone company’s sto...

Giant Fund Dumps Carnival Stock, Buys Snap, Warner Bros., and Baker Hughes

One of the largest public funds in the world recently made major changes in its U.S.-traded equity investments. National Pension Service of South Korea exited its investment in cruise giant Carnival (...

Verizon Stock Slips on Earnings Beat. It’s Not AT&T

Verizon Communications delivered third-quarter results that largely beat expectations and maintained its financial forecast. That doesn’t seem to be enough for the market—and it looks worse compared w...

Trump files $475 million lawsuit against CNN, claiming defamation

NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump on Monday sued CNN, seeking $475 million in damages, saying the network had defamed him in an effort to short-circuit any future political campaign. The lawsui...

Netflix and Disney+ Ads Are Almost Here. What It Means for Streaming Stocks.

“We’ll be right back after these messages.” The age-old commercial lead-in takes on new meaning at a time when a bounceback for Netflix and Walt Disney shares rests on the coming launch of ad-supporte...

AT&T’s Dividend-Loving Investors Are Dialing the Wrong Number

AT&T income-hungry shareholders should have seen it coming. In April last year, a month before announcing the spinoff of its media division to shareholders in the form of shares of a 71% stake in ...

Movie Theaters Brace for a Rough Intermission

Cineworld doesn’t seem to have much faith in The Rock, though he probably shouldn’t take it personally.  The U.K.-based owner of the Regal Cinemas movie-theater chain is preparing to file for chapter ...

Uber, Boeing, Warner Bros. Discovery: Stocks That Defined the Week

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Warner Bros Discovery Had an Ugly Quarter. It’s Combining HBO Max and Discovery+.

In its first quarter as a combined company, Warner Bros. Discovery missed Wall Street’s estimates across the board, saw streaming subscriber growth slow, and watched its leverage rise. Warner Bros. Di...

Warner Bros. Discovery stock slammed after earnings debut

In its first earnings report since bringing in HBO Max and other WarnerMedia properties, Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. on Thursday missed revenue expectations by roughly $2 billion and reported a large ...

AMD, PayPal, Starbucks, Uber, Paramount, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week

It’s the peak stretch of second-quarter earnings season, with roughly 150 S&P 500 firms scheduled to report this week. The highlights on the economic calendar will be a pair of purchasing managers...

AMD, PayPal, Starbucks, Uber, Paramount, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

It’s the peak stretch of second-quarter earnings season, with roughly 150 S&P 500 firms scheduled to report this week. The highlights on the economic calendar will be a pair of purchasing managers...

Paramount stock drops after bearish call by Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs weighed in with a skeptical view of Paramount Global Inc. Tuesday, writing that the current economic backdrop could complicate the media company’s streaming objectives. “We have not chan...

Buy Warner Bros. Discovery, But Sell Paramount, Goldman Says. Here’s Why.

Text size Combining and relaunching the HBO Max and Discovery+ services as well as cutting costs can be tough for WarnerMedia. Dreamstime Investors should buy Warner Bros. Discovery stock because the ...

These 20 stocks still have at least 48% upside, analysts say, despite the S&P 500’s 8% gain from its lows

The S&P 500 has climbed 8% since June 16, when it closed at its lowest point this year. While the benchmark index is still down 17% this year, analysts expect it to soar 21% over the next 12 month...

AT&T’s Dividend Yield Jumps as the Stock Falls After Earnings

Text size AT&T Justin Sullivan/Getty Images AT&T stock is shedding value on Thursday, after a big miss on second-quarter free cash flow and lowered guidance for the remainder of the year. That...

AT&T Stock Drops Despite Adding Subscribers. Here’s Why.

Text size AT&T added more wireless and fiber subscribers than expected, paid down debt, and continued to invest in fiber and 5G. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images In its first three months as a telecom...

AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile Earnings Are Coming. What to Expect.

AT&T is among the big telecoms reporting earnings this week. Stefani Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images Text size Telecom stocks have been a haven in 2022, with the big U.S. companies leading the mar...

AT&T Stock Is a Buy Ahead of Earnings, Analyst Says

Text size ATT said in June it expected higher margins in the second half of the year. Dreamstime AT&T stock remains a Buy at Citi ahead of the company’s first earnings report since separating from...

The Best Income Investments Now

Income-oriented investors, it’s time to celebrate. There are suddenly many more opportunities—in areas ranging from junk bonds to real estate investment trusts—after the bear markets in stocks and bon...

Paramount’s Streaming Losses Mount as Subscriber Count Grows

Text size Paramount+ accounts for the bulk of the company’s streaming subscribers. Dreamstime The streaming-stock bloodbath continues: Paramount Global (ticker: PARA) is the latest company in th...

Netflix Sent Warner Bros. Discovery Stock for a Dive. Execs Bought Up Shares.

Text size David Zaslav, president and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery. Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg Warner Bros. Discovery stock has tumbled in the short time the company was formed from the merger of AT...

Apple, Microsoft, Visa, Boeing, GM, Chipotle, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

It’s the busiest week of first-quarter earnings season. A whopping 165 S&P 500 companies are scheduled to report their results for the first three months of 2022. Big Tech giants will be among the...

Netflix and Disney Stocks Hit a Rough Patch. Don’t Count on a Quick Bounceback.

Netflix hasn’t done much wrong, despite a 35% plunge on quarterly results this past week, and a 22% one back in January. The company has convinced 222 million customers worldwide to hand it an average...

Netflix is the S&P 500’s worst performer this week — here are the next 14

Investors remained sour for a second consecutive session on Friday as they continued to digest comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell about the prospect for rapidly rising interest rates...

AT&T CEO John Stankey on the Dividend, Inflation, and Why to Buy the Stock

The focus is on 5G wireless and fiberoptic broadband services. DirecTV, WarnerMedia , Vrio, and Xandr all are gone or in the process of being divested. AT&T (ticker: T) completed the spinoff of it...