Apple defied the doom and gloom that had been building for weeks. Shares rose roughly 3% Thursday evening after the tech giant reported a slightly better-than-expected quarter. More importantly, guidance for revenue growth in the March quarter was much better feared. Revenue in Apple’s fiscal 2025 first quarter, which ended … Read more
Microsoft couldn’t shake the bear thesis with its fiscal 2025 second-quarter numbers Wednesday, causing the stock to fall more than 5% in extending trading. Despite beating top-line and bottom-line estimates, the software giant’s disappointing cloud revenues and soft guidance renewed concerns its AI spending is not generating sufficient returns. Revenue … Read more
Danaher shares are under pressure Wednesday as the Club holding’s fourth-quarter earnings results came in mixed and guidance disappointed. The company long known for its operational excellence is further testing our patience. Revenue for the three months ended Dec. 31 advanced 2% year over year on a reported basis, to … Read more
My top 10 things to watch Wednesday, Jan. 29 1. Wall Street was headed for a muted open after the Nasdaq closed 2% higher Tuesday and made back a big chunk of Monday’s big DeepSeek-driven selloff. The market is still heavily overbought, so I’m more inclined to reduce stock exposure … Read more
Starbucks reported better than expected quarterly results Tuesday evening — initially sending shares higher in choppy after-hours trading. Even though the company’s same-store sales declined for the fourth straight quarter, early signs of progress on CEO Brian Niccol’s Back to Starbucks strategy had us feeling encouraged that much better times … Read more
When we talk during the 9 a.m. ET hour of CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street,” the morning show I love so much, there’s never time to flesh things out. We hit topic after topic: bang, bang, bang. Occasionally, though, Carl Quintanilla will serve it up, I’ll lob it back, and … Read more
The first trading week of President Donald Trump’s second term was positive for all three major averages, as investors cheered the incoming administration’s pro-business policies and corporate earnings largely came in stronger than expected. The S & P 500 and Nasdaq each rose about 1.7%, while the Dow climbed 2.2%. … Read more
Scuttlebutt investing, and buy and homework – two sayings coined by famous investors Philip Fisher and, of course, our own Jim Cramer. They stress the importance of knowing what you are investing in. There are many ways of going about doing the research/homework on the stocks in your portfolio. The … Read more
During the January Monthly Meeting on Thursday, I looked at catalysts in the year ahead for all 33 stocks in my Charitable Trust, the portfolio we use for the Club. These are specific long-term catalysts — say, six months to a year — that I expect to happen. If there … Read more
Burned trees from the Palisades Fire and dust blown by winds are seen from Will Rogers State Park, with the City of Los Angeles in the background, in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood on Jan. 15, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. Apu Gomes | Getty Images Insurance premiums were surging well … Read more
