Amazon Stock Plunges in Wake of Target, Walmart Debacles. This Is Why.

Text size Things may be worsening at a rapid pace for Amazon. Cindy Ord/Getty Images Amazon . com shareholders just got another reality check from Walmart and Target . The surprising inability of two ...

J.P. Morgan Says Buy Tencent and Alibaba. Why They’re Now Positive on Chinese Tech Stocks.

Text size Regulatory change had come sooner than the analysts had anticipated. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images Tencent Holdings and Alibaba Group saw their stock jump Tuesday after catching an upgrade...

China ADSs are flying as fading regulatory headwinds send iQIYI, NIO and Alibaba stocks surging

The U.S.-listed shares of China-based companies, surged Tuesday, particularly in the internet sector, as an apparent reduction of regulatory scrutiny has emboldened Wall Street analysts and investors ...

Opinion: Amazon’s stock price has slumped almost 34% this year. This money manager says it’s a steal and could surge 76% to $3,900 in 2 years

The stock market is a funny place: When great businesses go on sale, most people don’t rejoice. Instead they freak out. This presents an excellent opportunity for long-term investors who keep their wi...

Home Depot Raises 2022 Guidance After Record First-Quarter Sales

Text size Home Depot tops first-quarter earnings expectations. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Home Depot exceeded earnings expectations as sales rose to the highest ever for the first quarter of the yea...

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway reveals new stakes in Paramount, Citigroup

OMAHA, Neb. — Warren Buffett’s company on Monday revealed all the investment moves it made in the first quarter, when it spent more than $51 billion on stocks. But Buffett had already shared the bigge...

15 stocks that have fallen at least 33% but by these measures are still standouts in their sectors

During a year in which more than half of the stocks in the S&P 500 Index have declined 10% or more, you have probably seen the term “oversold” being bandied about. But what does oversold really me...

GameStop Names New Chief Operating Officer

Text size A pedestrian walks by a GameStop store. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images GameStop , the videogame retailer, named a new chief operating officer on Monday. Nir Patel will take up the role of oper...

Gloomy Goldman offers 20 ‘safety’ stocks with valuations below the previous 2 bear markets

It’s tight quarters in Wall Street’s bear sleuth these days. Goldman Sachs just downgraded their 2022 U.S. growth forecast (to 2.4% from 2.6%) and 2023 (to 1.6% from 2.2%), as senior chairman Lloyd Bl...

Walmart Anticipates a Store Manager Shortage Despite $200,000-a-Year Pay

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Walmart, Moderna, Target, Deere, Home Depot, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

Text size It’s the tail end of first-quarter earnings season, with mostly retailers left to report this week. Government data on U.S. retail sales will also be released. Home Depot and Walmart report ...

Walmart Can’t Find Enough Store Managers, Even at $200,000 a Year

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Opinion: 12 stocks to consider for the next leg of the bull market

You may want to wait until the stock market turns up again before expending energy on trying to pick individual companies. That’s because, during bear markets, almost all stocks become correlated with...

Phillips 66, Electronic Arts, and 5 More Companies That Raised Their Dividend

Text size Phillips 66 raised its stock dividend this week. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Phillips 66 , Cardinal Health , and Electronic Arts were among the U.S. companies that declared dividend increase...

Opinion: This giant pension scandal is hiding in plain sight

Hard working Americans, many on low wages, are losing pension dollars they earned. It affects millions. And it’s legal. In a nutshell: Some of America’s biggest companies run their shop floors so that...

FAANG Stocks Are Crumbling. Why the Pain May Not Be Over.

Shares of Meta Platforms, Facebook’s parent company, are off by more than 40% so far this year. Nick Otto/Bloomberg Text size There has been no refuge for technology investors this year. And it ...

Carvana laying off 12% of workforce, execs to forego salaries for rest of year

DETROIT — Online automotive retailer Carvana Co. says it’s letting go about 2,500 workers, roughly 12% of its workforce, as it tries to bring staffing and expenses in line with sales. The Phoenix comp...

GoodRx Beat Quartely Estimates. Here’s Why the Stock Is Falling.

Text size GoodRx had a strong first quarter but effectively removed 2022 guidance. Piksel/Dreamstime News that a large grocer is no longer accepting GoodRx’s pharmacy discount cards has wrecked the st...

More Bad Times Ahead for These 6 Big Tech Stocks

Text size Amazon stock is down 35% this year. Sebastien Bozon/AFP via Getty Images Not even the high and mighty are immune from the gravitational forces of bear markets. That is the dilemma facing the...

Apple and Amazon Have Fallen for 6 Straight Weeks. There Could Be More Pain Ahead.

Text size People visit the Apple Store in Grand Central Station in New York. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Apple and Amazon.com kicked off the second week of May looking as if the stocks would exte...

GoodRx stock tanks after company says it’s unlikely to achieve 2022 outlook amid issue with grocery chain

Shares of GoodRx Holdings Inc. sank in after-hours trading Monday after the company, which offers tools that help consumers compare drug prices, exceeded expectations with its March-quarter results bu...

BioNTech Earnings Top Forecasts on Strong Sales of Covid-19 Vaccine

Text size BioNTech is continuing to work with Pfizer on follow-on Covid-19 vaccines. (Photo by THOMAS LOHNES/AFP via Getty Images) BioNTech , the German biotech company, reported first-quarter earning...

Opinion: Which jobs have come back, and which ones haven’t

Although the recovery in output, wealth and hours worked has been remarkable since February 2020, the U.S. economy remains deeply scarred by the COVID-19 pandemic. Total hours worked in the nonfarm ec...

Big Pharma Has Enough Cash to Buy All of Biotech. Why M&A Isn’t Happening.

Text size Late last year, Barron’s predicted a wave of deals, citing biotech companies’ cash holdings. Above, the plates used to print one-dollar bills. Alex Wong/Getty Images With biotech...

The Future of Transportation Is a Lot More Than Tesla. How to Invest.

We once thought the future of transportation meant George Jetson’s flying car. Instead, we got Elon Musk’s Tesla—the company and the electric car—whose twin successes jolted the global automotive indu...

This trader predicted the bond meltdown, tech selloff and oil’s surge. Here’s what she says is coming next.

Fade the Fed anyone? Stocks are headed south, following a big Wall Street rally stemming from perceptions Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and co. may be less hawkish than markets think. A short-li...

Opinion: Once richly valued, ‘unicorn’ startups are being gored and investors and funders have stopped believing

When Homer Simpson was asked, “How are we going to get out of this hole?,” he replied, “We’ll dig our way out!” Many people who find themselves in holes they can’t climb out of think that the solution...

These 10 stocks in the S&P 500 soared at least 8% after the Fed made its big move — but only 3 have gains for 2022

Wednesday turned into a big day for stocks — the S&P 500 index had its largest one-day percentage gain in nearly two years — after the Federal Reserve raised the federal funds rate by half a perce...

Shopify’s Earnings Are Coming. What to Expect.

Text size Fears about inflation and weakening e-commerce trends have weighed on Shopify shares. Dreamstime Amazon.com ’s weaker-than-expected e-commerce results dampened expectations for Shopify’s own...

With interest rates rising, it’s time to focus on MANG stocks instead of FAANG, according to Jefferies

Heading into the Federal Open Market Committee’s policy meeting, analysts at Jefferies on May 3 advised investors to avoid the popular FAANG + Microsoft group of stocks. They pointed instead to a grou...

Jeff Bezos Is Worried About Tech Valuations, and It’s Weighing on Amazon Stock

Text size Jeff Bezos has given investors new reason to worry about the valuations of tech stocks. David Ryder/Getty Images Technology investors hoping for a quick rebound to new highs may be in for a ...