Microsoft Shares Surge After Hours on Mixed Earnings – A Dow Recharge Tomorrow?
Microsoft (MSFT), Earnings, FAANG, Tech, Nasdaq 100 and Dow Talking Points: The Market Perspective: Nasdaq 100 Range from 11,600 to 10,600 While tech-giant Microsoft reported a better-than-expected $2.32 EPS, its revenues fell approximately $700 million short of consensus estimates Despite the mixed basic financial performance, MSFT shares rallied as much as 5.3 percent higher from […]
Trading Morgan Stanley Post Q4 Earnings
Morgan Stanley was one of the last big investment banks to report fourth-quarter earnings. While most banks beat Wall Street’s expectations, the majority also posted a fall in investment banking fees. However, some analysts have honed in on Morgan Stanley’s results due to record revenues in its wealth management division. Learn more about what […]
How a money drain in 2023 could upset the banks again and cause another market meltdown, investor warns
Wall Street is pointing to a weak open ahead of Tuesday’s earnings from Microsoft and other big names. That’s a day after soft-economic landing hopes fueled fresh 2023 highs for the S&P 500 SPX and Nasdaq Composite COMP. Diving straight in, our call of the day taps into a potential market worry that may be […]
Focus on Australian CPI, Microsoft earnings report and ChatGPT
Asia-Pacific markets traded higher on Tuesday morning, with the Nikkei 225 rising 1.46% while the Japanese Yen gained 0.42% against the US dollar. Markets in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Malaysia and Singapore are closed due to the Lunar New Year holiday. The euro hovered near a 9-month high against the US dollar, drawing […]
Nasdaq, S&P 500 Breakout with Earnings in Focus
Nasdaq, S&P 500 Talking Points: The Nasdaq and S&P 500 have both broken out to fresh monthly highs as earnings season heats up this week. Stocks broke out a couple of weeks ago after an abysmal PMI report and that bullish theme has largely continued since then. Markets are hopeful that slowing inflation and disappointing […]
S&P 500’s softening earnings backdrop is a challenge for stocks in ‘very near term,’ says RBC
The S&P 500 earnings backdrop is softening, posing a challenge for stocks in the “very near term” even as companies so far are largely beating expectations for the fourth quarter, according to RBC Capital Markets. “With 10% of S&P 500 results in as of Friday,” the pace of companies exceeding consensus forecasts for earnings has […]
Johnson & Johnson Underperforms Ahead of Q4-22 Earnings Report
#Johnson&Johnson, Daily Johnson & Johnson is a stock that naturally attracts a lot of investor interest because it is a component of the S&P 500 and one of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Index. J&J’s rebound from 159.11 erased some of the losses started in April 2022, but the rebound stalled […]
Don’t let the ‘bear market house of mirrors’ fool you, Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson warns of the stock market
Stock futures are treading water ahead of an important week for earnings, with the spotlight on updates from the tech space, which has been laying off thousands of workers.Among those not expecting good news in the earnings pipeline is Morgan Stanley’s chief U.S. equity strategist Mike Wilson, who in our call of the day says […]
Ken Griffin’s Citadel made $16 billion last year – the largest annual hedge fund return on record, investor says
Ken Griffin’s U.S. hedge fund Citadel made $16 billion in profit after fees last year – the largest annual gain ever made by a hedge fund manager, an investor has estimated. In a report published on Monday by fund of funds LCH Investments, Citadel topped the top 20 hedge fund manager’s list beating John Paulson’s […]
Earnings Watch: Microsoft, Tesla and Intel are about to face the doubters
After one of the worst years in Wall Street’s history, investors have some serious questions for companies. As holiday returns roll in — and with them, forecasts for the months or year ahead — many have the chance to answer those questions, or avoid them.In the busiest week of the holiday-earnings season so far, three […]