Text size Investors are looking for evidence that Amazon.com has made progress in its efforts to contain costs. David Ryder/Bloomberg Amazon . com fell late in trading Thursday after the company reported mixed fourth-quarter results, with better-than-expected sales growth but weaker-than-expected earnings, largely due to a loss on the the company’s stake in electric truck … Read more
The options market braced for bigger-than-usual moves in the shares of a trio of trillion-dollar companies the day after quarterly earnings were released. This is because the implied volatility, or how much a stock can be expected to move over a certain period, of shares of Apple Inc. AAPL, +3.35%, Alphabet Inc. GOOGL, +6.36% and … Read more
Ahead of major tech earnings, Meta results set to illuminate Nasdaq Composite COMP for Thursday. The S&P 500 SPX also points to gains as investors take a half-full view of the Fed meeting. LaDucTrading.com founder Samantha LaDuc worries investors are in the clutches of another Fed misreading. “The market is not expecting a higher terminal … Read more
For years, Wall Street has complained about Silicon Valley’s refusal to pay dividends and buy back shares as tech companies become cash-generating machines. That’s no longer a problem, even though these tech companies are generating less profit than they did in previous years. In fact, some tech companies are essentially paying off Wall Street even … Read more