EBay on Thursday forecast that adjusted profit this quarter could fall below analysts’ estimates, as it continues to invest in marketing and in revamping its platforms to attract more shoppers, sending shares down more than 4 percent. San Jose, California-based eBay forecast third-quarter adjusted earnings of 46 to 48 cents per share. Analysts on average […]
Read moreSome investors wonder how the FANG stocks, Jim Cramer’s acronym for Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, now Alphabet, can go higher without good news driving their runs. “Is their recent rally just the greater fool theory writ large, where you buy them today, confident that someone will pay even more for them tomorrow simply because […]
Read moreAfter KeyCorp’s second-quarter earnings beat Wall Street’s estimates, the stock declined over 3 percent on management’s somewhat tepid full-year guidance, so Chairman and CEO Beth Mooney wanted to clarify the company’s prospects and goals. “We see strength in our company, strong balance sheet, and I do believe, if there is some more clarity and some […]
Read moreJim Cramer has noticed that there are times when investors in the stock market decide that certain stocks are not worth owning regardless of their fates. “Yet, as is so often with this market, you can’t really see the losses on the surface because the money simply rotates from one place to another. It doesn’t […]
Read moreSamsung has officially sent out invitations for an Unpacked event on August 23rd in New York City, where it will presumably reveal the next Galaxy Note device. While Samsung hasn’t quite outright confirmed the Note 8 will make an appearance, the invitation pretty blatantly confirms it between the “Do bigger things” slogan and the image […]
Read moreAmazon is trying to boost its catalog by telling tens of thousands of marketplace sellers in the U.S. that it will buy their inventory at full retail price. In an email sent to sellers and obtained by CNBC, the Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) team said that a new program is being rolled out where Amazon […]
Read moreAs part of its review of Amazon‘s agreement to buy Whole Foods, the Federal Trade Commission is looking into allegations that Amazon misleads customers about its pricing discounts, according to a source close to the probe. The FTC is probing a complaint brought by the advocacy group Consumer Watchdog, which looked at some 1,000 products […]
Read moreUber has tapped a top ally and major fundraiser for President Donald Trump as the ride-hailing company tries to lobby for friendlier regulation — and a bit less scrutiny — in a Republican-dominated Washington, D.C. In an ethics disclosure quietly filed to Congress this week, Uber revealed it had hired the firm Ballard Partners and […]
Read moreJust as many on Wall Street are warming up to bitcoin, one of the lone financial analysts who forecast a surge when the digital currency was just six cents now has an extremely negative view. “A bearish trifecta — the Elliott wave pattern, optimistic psychology and even fundamentals in the form of blockchain bottlenecks — […]
Read moreSen. John McCain’s diagnosis of glioblastoma Wednesday night once again sheds light on this devastating illness and the need to find a cure. It is the same brain cancer that took the life of Joe Biden’s 46-year-old son, Beau, back in 2015, and former Sen. Ted Kennedy in 2009. In a tweet by the former […]
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