Rising interest rates have rattled the stock market in the opening months of 2018, but bank investors aren’t too concerned. Many banks will get an earnings boost from higher rates, but analysts say JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) could be one of the biggest long-term winners.
Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) investors may not have gotten the supercycle they had hoped from the iPhone X, but at least one segment of the company’s hardware business if still growing at an impressive pace.
One of the most common criticisms Amazon.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) shareholders have heard throughout the stock’s meteoric rise is that the company’s lackluster profits don’t justify its $720 billion market capitalization.
Tesla Inc (Nasdaq: TSLA) is the latest victim of a cyberattack after hackers accessed its cloud computing system and used it to mine cryptocurrency. Tesla says no customer data was exposed during the breach, but the incident does little to ease drivers’ fears about hackers gaining access to increasingly computerized vehicles.
Just a month after it purged more than 1 million fake accounts from its platform, Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) appears to be making another round of lockouts in an effort to clean up its service and remove so-called “bot” accounts. On Wednesday morning, #TwitterLockOut was a top trend on Twitter’s platform, and some users are claiming Twitter is…
Semiconductor stocks have been on fire in recent years, but Intel Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC) has mostly lagged behind smaller, high-growth competitors. However, now that negative headlines about Intel’s security issues have passed, analysts are warming up to the idea of Intel taking a turn leading the industry higher.
Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP) stock surged more than 40 percent in the opening weeks of 2018, lifted by huge revenue and user beats in the fourth quarter. But the stock is already down more than 7 percent this week on concerns about the company’s recent app overhaul.
Home Depot Inc (NYSE: HD) stock moved slightly higher on Tuesday after the company reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings and revenue numbers and says it expects more of the same in 2018.
Walmart Inc (NYSE: WMT) was a clear leader among brick-and-mortar U.S. retailers through most of 2017, but the stock dropped more than 7 percent in pre-market trading Tuesday after the company’s latest earnings report showed Walmart dropped the ball in the critical holiday shopping season.
For months, all Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) analysts have talked about is the iPhone X and the potential for massive buybacks following the tax repatriation holiday. But even though investors still don’t have a crystal clear picture of the current iPhone cycle or Apple’s capital return plan, analysts are now saying it’s time for investors to start looking…