Asian stocks had their worst session in a month and a half on Monday as fears grew that Beijing was on the verge of joining Shanghai in lockdowns, while the dollar rose to a two-year high on the prospect of slower growth and higher interest rates.
Taiwan's financial regulator has cleared foreign brokers of behaving inappropriately with analyst reports on chip maker TSMC after lawmakers questioned whether they were making buy recommendations but actually selling the stock.
Operations at a unit of Taiwan-based Apple Inc supplier Foxconn in China's Kunshan city remain suspended because of COVID-19 controls but there is limited impact as it has shifted production elsewhere, it said on Monday.
Apple Inc's prime supplier Foxconn Technology Group halted operations at two of its factories in eastern China's Kunshan after new COVID-19 cases were reported on site, the South China Morning Post reported on Monday.
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Investors are hoping a flood of U.S. quarterly reports next week, including those from megacap growth titans, will confirm a solid profit outlook for corporate America and bolster the case for stocks after a rocky start to the year.
Snap (NYSE: SNAP) posted its first-quarter earnings report on April 21. The social media company's revenue rose 38% year over year to $1.06 billion but narrowly missed analysts' expectations by $10 million.On a generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) basis, Snap's net los
Battered U.S. stocks are facing a potentially painful stretch in the weeks ahead, as hawkish Federal Reserve policy, rising bond yields, geopolitical uncertainty and the corporate earnings season fuel investor unease.
"A dream doesn't become reality through magic;it takes sweat, determination, and hard work."-- Colin Powell It's hard to argue with Secretary Powell. Most of our dreams and daydreams will remain just that -- wishful thinking -- unless we take action. And for big dreams, it gener
Stocks dropped last week, as both the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) and the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) fell more than 1.5%. Investors didn't like what they saw at the start of earnings season, but the main flood of reports is still to come.
There are 30 components in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It may surprise investors to learn that the bottom-two performers so far this year are Nike (NYSE: NKE) and Home Depot (NYSE: HD), which have been two of the better performers over the last decade. At the time of this w
Amidst the continuing tech stock sell-off, e-commerce leader Shopify (NYSE: SHOP) made headlines last week as the latest tech giant to announce a stock split. Apple and Tesla both completed stock splits in 2020, while semiconductor giant NVIDIA completed its own split last year.
We're not even four months into the year. Yet already, Chevron (NYSE: CVX) stock is up 46% year to date (YTD) -- much higher than any of the other 29 components in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSEMKT: DJIA).High oil and gas prices tell only part of the story behind Chevron'
Investors seem to love stock splits even though there is no direct effect on the stock's value. After all, what's not to love? Splits are fun, exciting and offer a distraction from the daily rush of financial news. There is often tremendous movement in the stock price around the
Basketball playoffs are here. And whether your team made the playoffs or went home early, there's always a lot of excitement as to who will win the championship, as well as which teams will draft the best new prospects.
Earnings season is the period of a few weeks during which most companies report quarterly earnings, give updates on the state of the business, and field questions from analysts. Investors love it. It's one of the few times you get both quantitative and qualitative information abo
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) recently submitted a patent in Europe that showed it's at work on gaming controllers for the iPhone and iPad. In this Motley Fool Live segment from "Ask Us Anything," recorded on April 12, Fool.com contributor Jose Najarro considers Apple's potential future i
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