A record-setting August for stocks has set the bar high, and September looks off to a promising start, at least for technology stocks, with electric-car maker Tesla TSLA, +12.56% poised for more big gains. That brings us to our call of the day from Schwab Center for Financial Research’sRead More →
Zoom Video Communications Inc. has become a household name during the coronavirus pandemic, with millions of people using its online-video service for free — but it still needs companies to pay for it in order to survive. On Monday, it proved that is happening — and then some. ZoomRead More →
Musicians have not taken kindly to comments made last week by Spotify Technology SA Chief Executive Daniel Ek that they need to work harder in the streaming age. The dramatic consumer shift in recent years from buying albums to listening to streaming music has crushed a major revenue streamRead More →
Microsoft Corp. has paused negotiations to buy the U.S. operations of the video-sharing app TikTok after President Trump said late Friday he opposes the deal, according to people familiar with the matter. The president’s statements spurred TikTok to make additional concessions, including agreeing to add as many as 10,000Read More →
Netflix Inc. logged another blockbuster quarter Thursday with the addition of 10.1 million new paid subscribers and a significant jump in revenue, and rewarded one of its most important executives with a promotion, but shares declined in after-hours trading on fears of slowing growth and a miss on profit.Read More →
Less than a week after the Government Accountability Office said the Internal Revenue Service had reduced stimulus checks to 1.1 million dead, a report released Monday by Erin Collins, the National Taxpayer Advocate, said the federal tax collector also sent about 74,000 checks to people who were locked upRead More →
Hundreds of companies around the world have joined a temporary boycott of advertising against Facebook Inc. but its chief executive officer, Mark Zuckerberg, says he is not worried and has no intention of changing his policies, according to a new report. “ “I think all these advertisers will beRead More →
Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg reportedly wanted to remove an incendiary post by then-candidate Donald Trump as far back as 2015, but was convinced instead to change Facebook’s rules to allow such posts in the name of political discourse. The Washington Post reported Sunday that Trump’s 2015 video postRead More →
Sustainability-minded younger shoppers and bargain-hunting consumers of all ages who are feeling the economic pinch of the COVID-19 pandemic are increasingly giving up new clothes for resale items that sometimes still have their tags. In fact, according to thredUP, a major online secondhand shopping site, a surge in demand forRead More →
European stocks pushed higher on Friday and headed for a weekly gain after days of worries over rising coronavirus cases in parts of the world. Potential good news on the U.S.-China trade front was driving some momentum. The Stoxx Europe 600 index SXXP, +0.45% rose 0.6%, after closing down 0.7%Read More →
Apple Inc. is facing fresh complaints about the 30% cut it takes from App Store purchases, as European regulators launch two antitrust investigations into the tech giant. Axios reported late Tuesday that Match Group Inc. MTCH, +4.39% , parent company of Tinder, OK Cupid and other popular dating services, criticizedRead More →
I am in a tough moral situation and I don’t know what to do. My older sister and brother-in-law have been fighting about money for the past year or so. He is a big spender, not just for himself, but for the whole family, friends, and community. While they makeRead More →
With the country entering its third week of protests over social and racial justice, the spotlight has been cast again on the state of blacks in the workforce — in particular, the glacial progress of diversity in tech. It’s a topic that has flickered for decades, with fitful attempts atRead More →
The U.S. stock market has made a remarkable comeback from its late-March bottom. We have just seen the best 50-day rally ever, according to LPL Financial Research. But investors always need to be careful. Jeff Reeves lists five stocks with momentum and upside potential to buy now, contrasting them withRead More →
Dear Moneyist, I have an estranged husband, and we have been living separately for years. He has been filing taxes jointly without my knowledge AND now he has received my stimulus money AND my kids’ stimulus money. I can’t hire an attorney because I’m poor, and I live in aRead More →
The New York Times was facing a sharp backlash from staffers Wednesday after publishing a hawkish op-ed column by Sen. Tom Cotton calling for the military to quell protests across the nation. In a column titled “Send in the troops,” the Arkansas Republican called for “an overwhelming show of forceRead More →
Dear Moneyist, I received three direct deposits yesterday for $1,200 each for my kids, all of whom are under 17. They are aged 10, 10 and 15. We already received our $2,400 stimulus check. My wife is on permanent disability and she receives a Social Security payment monthly for them.Read More →
If you’re an investor who doesn’t want to miss out on the next big trend, you had better pay attention to what’s going on in space. When people think about the space business, they may be excited that on Saturday the U.S. finally regained the ability to send people intoRead More →
Mark Zuckerberg called out his social-media rival on Wednesday, saying Twitter Inc. should not be fact-checking President Donald Trump — or anybody. During a clip from an interview on Fox News’s “The Daily Briefing,” which will be aired in full Thursday, the Facebook Inc. FB, -1.31% co-founder and chief executiveRead More →
Twitter Inc. marked tweets by President Donald Trump with a fact-check warning label for the first time Tuesday, after the president falsely claimed mail-in ballots are “substantially fraudulent.” “These tweets contain potentially misleading information about voting processes and have been labeled to provide additional context around mail-in ballots,” a TwitterRead More →
Elliott Management Corp. has nominated four directors to the board at Twitter Inc., according to a person familiar with the matter, setting the stage for a potential showdown between one of the most prolific and pugnacious activist hedge funds and the influential social-media company. Elliott has taken a roughly $1Read More →
Dear Moneyist, My parents, who are now deceased, had a living trust with a provision for creation of a new trust that would allow my brother and I to share the income from that trust during our lifetimes. When we both die, the principal from that trust is to beRead More →
March will see the full integration of FX into Hulu, as well as a handful of high-profile new series. Following last year’s acquisition of Fox Entertainment assets by Walt Disney Co. DIS, -4.29% , Hulu will now be the exclusive streaming home to most FX shows, past and present. WhileRead More →
Former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg vowed Friday to release female former employees from nondisclosure agreements, days after Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts hammered him on hush agreements at the Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas. The billionaire said in a statement that his namesake company had identified three NDAsRead More →
While investors may be tired of hearing how virus-complacent they are, as stocks keep busting records, our call of the day from Goldman Sachs is saying exactly that. “In the nearer term…we believe the greater risk is that the impact of the coronavirus on earnings may well be underestimated inRead More →
