The gap is widening between rival toy makers Hasbro and Mattel — thanks in part to a 30-year-old trading card game. The toy giants have flip-flopped dominance in the space for decades, jockeying for the most coveted master licenses to put new fan favorites — Disney princesses and “Star Wars” …
Five years after a band of online traders sent GameStop skyrocketing and upended Wall Street’s assumptions about “dumb money,” the influence of retail investors has proven more durable and long-lasting than many expected. What began as a dramatic short squeeze in early 2021 has evolved into a persistent force in …
A graph displaying the Apple stock price on a smartphone app. Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty Images Retail investors have had a gangbuster year in 2025. Mom-and-pop investors bought the dip at key points this year, providing strong returns as the market climbed to all-time highs. Once thought of …
The Xbox booth during the Gamescom video games trade fair at the Trade Fair Center in Cologne, Germany, Aug. 20, 2025. Ina Fassbender | Afp | Getty Images Microsoft’s Xbox has had a tumultuous year. A slew of layoffs, price hikes and studio closures have led many to declare — …
Government shutdowns should, theoretically, matter to the stock market. A shutdown could hurt spending power for up to 900,000 people, the highest estimate I have seen for those to be furloughed. That’s a lot of people who will spend a lot less money – especially because most Americans live paycheck …
You can’t ban froth. You can’t ban lunacy, especially when it pays off. You can’t tell the insiders or big data analytics specialist Palantir to take profits. You can’t stop the executives at Applovin from bailing up here, and you can’t tell the buyers of that mobile gaming ad software …
Technology stocks stood tall in the first week of December trading, helping the S & P 500 and Nasdaq Composite finish Friday’s session at record closing highs. The tech-heavy Nasdaq lead the way with a 3.3% gain for the week. The S & P 500 closed nearly 1% higher. Both …
People always ask me why I dislike parabolic moves. The answer is simple: When a stock rises significantly in a short period — resulting in a price chart that resembles the curve of a parabola — it goes down far faster than it can creep up, for whatever reason. Consider …
My top 10 things to watch Wednesday, June 12 Stocks jumped after the May consumer price index came in cooler than Wall Street expected. Bonds yields fell after CPI, with the yield on the Fed-sensitive 2-year Treasury reaching its lowest level since April 5. The Dow , the S & …
Whatever the ultimate diagnosis for the market’s present condition, symptoms include “mild discomfort with intermittent fever and chills.” For sure, its overall condition is healthy, in the most broadly observable respects. The S & P 500 made a new record high, its 25 th of the year. The index has …