Microsoft (MSFT) stock has lost about 20% year to date, at the time of writing, Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 24, according to Yahoo Finance. Meanwhile, the SPDR S&P 500 index (SPY) is up about 0.7% in the same period. The stock crashed following its Q2 fiscal year 2026 earnings report on January 28. It closed at
I want to speak to prospective homebuyers and homeowners considering refinancing their mortgages about an intriguing new development regarding mortgage rates, newly reported by Mortgage News Daily. From what I’ve observed through my years of reporting on real estate and other finance topics, it’s a relatively rare occurrence when Mortgage News Daily’s Chief Operating Officer
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Target, which has almost 2,000 stores nationwide, has faced weak retail sales amid economic pressures, and recent controversies have further strained its reputation. To tackle these hurdles, the company is betting big on a key in-store expansion to re-engage shoppers. In the third quarter of 2025, Target’s comparable store sales dropped by 3.8% year over
Warren Buffett‘sBerkshire Hathaway owns nearly 10% of Domino’s Pizza, a stake worth roughly $1.34 billion. In fact, Berkshire raised its stake in the pizza company by 12% in Q4 of 2025. When one of the most closely watched investors in the world has that kind of skin in the game, a quarterly earnings report tends
IBM just got hit with one of its worst single-day drops in years. Shares fell over 13.2% on Feb. 23, 2026, closing at $223.35. The culprit? Anthropicannounced its Claude Code tool could automate much of the tedious, expensive work involved in COBOL modernization — a key IBM (IBM) business. That panic-driven sell-off pushed IBM stock
The Chicago-based biopharmaceutical company AbbVie made a significant move on Feb. 23, as part of its broader commitment to invest heavily in U.S. research and development over the next 10 years. AbbVie said it will invest$380 million to expand active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturing at its hometown campus in North Chicago, Illinois. The move is
Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller said he’ll vote to cut interest rates at the central bank’s meeting next month, depending on upcoming data reflecting the labor market. It may be appropriate to keep rates steady when the Federal Open Market Committee meets March 17-18 — if the February labor market data show, as they did
Investors are eagerly waiting for Nvidia‘s (NVDA) Q4 earnings, scheduled for February 25. The last earnings report was an absolute smasher, yet the stock market reacted negatively. The stock closed at $186.52 on the day of earnings and closed at $180.64 on the next day. I covered analysts’ reactions to those earnings in my article
The Supreme Court’s invalidation of tariffs on Feb 20 tossed a hand grenade into a year of trade deals, rekindling worry that the President’s daily tariff missives on social media may spark another bout of Wall Streetvolatility similar to 2025, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 tumbled 19% after President Trump initially