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Exxon and Chevron report earnings on Friday before the bell as energy companies continue to struggle, pressured by falling oil prices, waning demand and squeezed margins. The Street is expecting Exxon’s earnings to plummet by more than 50% from a year ago. For Chevron, it’s a more modest 29% decline. Exxon Exxon is expected to

New Apple Watches Source: Apple Apple turned in stronger than expected fourth-quarter results but a second consecutive quarter of strong growth for wearables impressed analysts, who are looking for the tech giant to innovate beyond the iPhone. “Wearables continue to lead growth. Many investors attributed 50% wearables growth in the June quarter to shorter lead

The Federal Reserve just cut interest rates for the third time this year and said it will likely pause from here. That scenario is usually very good for stocks. CNBC used Kensho, a hedge fund analytics tool, to track what happened to the market after the Fed cut interest rates at least three times. In

Former Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson said the company tried to understand the impact of climate change, and tried to accurately communicate the impact to shareholders, as he testified on Wednesday in New York during the second week of a trial against the oil giant. The case, brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, alleges

US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell attends a “Fed Listens” event in Washington, DC, on October 4, 2019. Eric Baradat | AFP | Getty Images On the eve of the Federal Reserve’s announcement, some on Wall Street started to get flashbacks to Chair Jerome Powell’s communication miscues in the past. “We would not be surprised

More people could be in danger from rising sea levels than previously thought, a new study says. The report, published on Tuesday by Nature Communications, found that by the end of the century as many as 630 million people could live on land below projected flood levels. This is three times greater than prior estimates.

Traders work the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Getty Images This stock market rally to records is starting to look shaky. The S&P 500 refreshed its record again on Tuesday ahead of an expected rate cut from the Federal Reserve, but looking under the hood, investors are increasingly flocking to one of the

The S&P 500 surged to a new all-time high on Monday, and Goldman Sachs says the bull market will keep on rolling into 2020 on the back of three big buyers: corporations, foreign investors and US households. Companies will spend $470 billion on stocks next year, with foreign investors and US households contributing $50 billion

Dara Khosrowshahi Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Ride-hailing giant Uber is making a deeper push into financial services. The company announced on Monday the formation of a new division called Uber Money to house its efforts, which include a digital wallet and upgraded debit and credit cards. The emphasis, at first, will

Virgin Galactic‘s leadership expects millions of space tourists will want to fly in the next decade, more demand than can be fulfilled by both Richard Branson’s company or Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, its closest competitor. “Ultimately we think this is going to be a capacity constrained market – more people are going to want to

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos laughs as he talks to the media while touring the new Amazon Spheres during the grand opening at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters in Seattle, Washington, January 29, 2018. Lindsey Wasson | Reuters A disappointing third quarter earnings report is not enough to deter Wall Street analysts from Amazon. The company

Barclays told clients it’s “still early” to buy the dip on Amazon, as the e-commerce giant’s period of heavy investment could hurt financials and the stock further before things get better. “Historically it’s a good idea to buy AMZN shares in the 7th-8th inning of its investment cycles, closer to where we are coming out,

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) greets an overflow crowd outside of a town hall event on August 17, 2019 in Aiken, South Carolina. Sean Rayford/Getty Images (This story is part of the Weekend Brief edition of the Evening Brief newsletter. To sign up for CNBC’s Evening Brief, click here.) It’s been a tough

Tim Cook presents at the Apple launch event in Cupertino, Calif on Sept. 10th, 2019. Source: Apple (This story is part of the Weekend Brief edition of the Evening Brief newsletter. To sign up for CNBC’s Evening Brief, .) Here are the best analyst calls on Wall Street this week: Morgan Stanley- Apple, Overweight rating

Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber Technologies, speaks during an Economic Club of Washington event in Washington, DC, June 11, 2019. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Friday: Guggenheim initiated Uber as ‘buy’ Guggenheim said Uber has an underappreciated pricing leverage, among other factors. “1) We

Grim as it may be, backup-generator maker Generac Holdings is soaring as power cuts in California become the norm. The stock opened at a new all-time high on Friday, and is up 85% for the year. This week PG&E announced another large-scale preemptive power cut for hundreds of thousands of customers in California. PG&E is

CNBC’s Jim Cramer said on Friday that Amazon is not in trouble, despite missing on earnings and warning about holiday sales. “It’s a brilliant company,” Cramer said on “Squawk on the Street.” “This stock is a buy by next week, mid-week,” advising investors to wait until the selling clears out before getting in. Shares of

The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule next to the company’s Falcon 9 rocket in a hangar at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. SpaceX In about a week SpaceX expects to conduct a key test of the capsule it is developing to launch astronauts, as the company looks to show it fixed an issue that caused an empty

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey speaks during a press event at CES 2019 on January 9, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. David Becker | Getty Images News | Getty Images Payments giant Square is getting into stock trading. The San Francisco-based company will offer users the ability to trade individual stock on its Cash App, for

Ark Investment Management founder and CEO Catherine Wood told CNBC that Thursday’s surge in Tesla stock is just the beginning of an eventual rise to $4,000 per share and possibly beyond. “Some of the shorts are covering” as Tesla shares see their best single-session gain in six years, said Wood, whose firm owns a considerable