Fraught negotiations in Washington have yielded a deal on raising the U.S.’s borrowing capacity without sending the stock market into a tailspin, as some on Wall Street had feared they might. But more risks may lie ahead. Investors who spent the better part of the past month fixated on the welter of debt-ceiling related headlines…
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With shares more than doubling this year, Meta Platforms META, +0.18% seems to be a stock that just won’t quit. But given the choice, investors may want to consider digital-advertising competitor Alphabet GOOGL, -0.75% GOOG, -0.63% instead. Sure, Facebook parent Meta Platforms topped earnings expectations and posted bullish guidance. Yet just after celebrating those results, investors…
Wall Street clearly hasn’t seen anything yet. Nvidia Corp., the chip manufacturer that investors can’t seem to get enough of, announced a flurry of dazzling AI-related products over the weekend, including a new supercomputer, alongside plans to make online gaming figures come alive. “We’re now at the tipping point of a new computing era with…
Entry-level hiring is slowing. Hiring for entry-level positions in the U.S is down 32% on the year in April for jobs that require a college degree and down 22% in April for jobs that do not require a college degree, according to a LinkedIn report released Monday. Hiring slowed across all industries in April. It…
Social-media platforms pose “a profound risk of harm to the mental health and well-being of children,” and there is not enough evidence “to determine if social media is sufficiently safe for children and adolescents,” according to an advisory note from the U.S. surgeon general. Tuesday’s 25-page advisory comes as the possible effects of social media…
Americans are job hopping, although not always by choice. More than 199,000 global technology-sector employees have been laid off since the start of 2023, according to data compiled by the website Layoffs.fyi. The number of global tech layoffs has risen almost eightfold since mid-January. Facebook owner Meta META, +2.61% is one of a number of…
Meta Platforms Inc. has started to execute on its latest round of layoffs, according to reports. The third round of cuts is part of a plan that Meta META, +0.96% Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg announced in March in an effort to further slash costs at the social-media company. He said at the time that Meta…
Here are some of the more prominent movers on Tuesday: Stock gainers: Lowe’s Companies Inc.’s stock LOW, +2.18% jumped 1.7% in afternoon trading, after the home improvement retailer beat fiscal first-quarter profit expectations. While same-store sales fell more than forecast, they outperformed rival Home Depot Inc. HD, +1.75%, and the lowered full-year profit guidance range…
U.S. stocks saw a mixed start to the week ahead of more government debt-ceiling talks later on Monday, though the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite managed to remain near 2023 highs. Meanwhile, investors were weighing remarks by Federal Reserve officials about whether it would be appropriate to hold interest rates steady at the central bank’s…
The last full week of trading for May is set to kick off on a subdued note, as markets wait for progress on the debt ceiling and more Fed clarity on interest rate direction. But the S&P 500’s SPX, -0.14% surprising bust out of a range last week has opened up a debate on Wall…
Megacap technology stocks have dominated the U.S. stock market performance this year, powering the Nasdaq Composite to a new nine-month high this week as investors have loaded up on them in a “safe-haven play” on concerns over a potential recession, a federal debt-ceiling breach and more stress in regional banks. The tech-focused Nasdaq-100 index NDX,…
Here’s a summary of how the 11 sectors of the S&P 500 SPX, -0.14% have performed his year and how forward price-to-earnings ratios compare to valuation levels at the end of 2021: Sector or index 2023 return 2022 return Return since end of 2021 3-year return 5 year return Forward P/E Forward P/E at end…
Things move quickly in the world of artificial intelligence. It is easy to sit back and complain about developments that could be disruptive, but sometimes investors are best served by putting emotions aside and observing new developments and how they affect markets. Could AI developments and related trends make you a lot of money? Below…
U.S. regulators said late Wednesday that Easy Healthcare Corp.’s ovulation tracker app Premom shared users “sensitive” personal information with third parties, and users’ health data with Google and a mobile marketing-analytics company. The app also failed to notify consumers of those unauthorized disclosures, the Federal Trade Commission said. The FTC has proposed that Easy Healthcare,…
A new week is pointing to a perky start for Wall Street, with stock futures in the green. But one might wonder “What gives?” as old worries — banking sector concerns and a debt-ceiling standoff — lurk, and some market observers assure the S&P 500 SPX, -0.16% is going nowhere until those are resolved. But…
Personal assistants such as Alexa and Siri are being offered by the biggest names in technology, and Morgan Stanley analysts said Wednesday that one company should be favored to take a big chunk of that market as artificial intelligence adds to their capabilities. Morgan Stanley analysts think Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG, +0.87% GOOGL, +0.81% Google is…
Meta Platforms Inc. jumped into the “AI Sandbox” on Thursday, its set of new artificial intelligence-powered tools and services it calls a “testing playground” for advertisers. Facebook’s parent company META, +1.16% said it’s working with a small batch of advertisers on three tools: text variation that generates several versions of an advertiser’s copy; background generation,…
The stock market, as measured by the S&P 500 Index SPX, -0.72%, has failed to overcome resistance at 4200. That is bearish, and SPX has backed off sharply since the most recent attempt to challenge 4200 occurred late last week. That attempt was spurred by positive earnings from Meta Platforms META, -1.48% and others. Now…
Amid an escalating bipartisan outcry about the need to protect kids’ safety online, punctuated by President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, a sequel to one of the last major pieces of tech legislation was reintroduced in the Senate on Wednesday. Sen. Ed Markey’s Children and Teens’ Only Privacy and Protection Act, or COPPA 2.0,…