Stock market bulls are giddy. What is there not to be happy about — the stock market mostly rises, and making money seems easy. While newly minted investors are focusing on running up small, speculative stocks, institutions are hiding in big-cap tech stocks. For prudent investors, the time to understand …
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[unable to retrieve full-text content] U.S. stock indexes headed higher late-morning Tuesday, with the Nasdaq Composite up for an eighth straight session, helped by improving economic data, after an overnight scare over trade relations with China. MarketWatch.com – Top Stories
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In the busiest earnings week of the season, Thursday is the biggest act. Two trillion-dollar companies — Apple Inc. AAPL, +3.28% and Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, +2.53% — will follow the successes of rivals Alphabet Inc. GOOG, +8.73% GOOGL, +8.89% and Microsoft Corp. MSFT, +4.48% and look to prove that the …
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Skyworks Solutions Inc. became the latest Apple Inc. supplier to warn of negative impacts from the novel coronavirus epidemic Wednesday, joining the smartphone giant itself and a number of other supply-chain partners. Semiconductor company Skyworks SWKS, +3.74%, based in California, lowered its revenue and earnings forecast Wednesday as the company now …
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COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus that was first identified late last year in Wuhan, China, has been a dominant theme in the earnings releases and conference calls of S&P 500 companies as investors press for answers on how it will impact their financials. A FactSet search of …
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. announced a new lineup of its popular Galaxy smartphones Tuesday, with a base price of $ 1,000 that is moving in an opposite direction of rival Apple Inc.’s iPhones. The South Korean electronics giant unveiled three Galaxy S20 phones with 5G connectivity and better cameras, ranging …
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