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Getty Images The majority of companies have now reported their earnings, revealing the winners and losers from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Although many companies failed to meet analyst expectations, there are some notable exceptions. And with these fresh insights, analysts are reviewing their short-term and long-term take on the stocks they cover. In this unprecedented

Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway David A. Grogan | CNBC Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway this week again added to his already-enormous stake in Bank of America at a time when the coronavirus pandemic dampens the economic outlook and interest rates hold near record lows. A Securities and Exchange Commission filing showed Buffett’s

CNBC’s Jim Cramer said President Donald Trump’s Thursday morning tweet that suggested delaying the November election could cause problems for equity investors.  “It sows chaos, and chaos is bad for the stock market,” Cramer said on “Squawk on the Street.”  Dow futures extended their fall slightly in the wake of Trump’s tweet. They then made

During its third quarter earnings results on Thursday Apple said that the company’s shareholders approved a four-for-one stock split. Stock splits are cosmetic, meaning they do not change anything about a company’s underlying fundamentals. They can lead to renewed interest from smaller investors by making the shares — which are now cheaper — more accessible.

Virgin Galactic is giving its customers a first look inside the cabin that will carry them to the edge of space and back, as the space tourism company gets closer to finishing development of its spacecraft. “Every seat is a window seat,” Virgin Galactic design director Jeremy Brown told CNBC about the interior. The cabin’s design

A smart phone with the icons for the J.P. Morgan apps. Christopher Wong | S3studio | Getty Images JPMorgan Chase is ditching plastic for some of its credit cards.  The Wall Street giant’s commercial cards team is partnering with Bay Area start-up Marqeta to launch digital-only credit cards. The new function will allow JPMorgan corporate cards

CNBC’s Jim Cramer urged investors Monday to remain cautious about the length of time it takes to develop a successful coronavirus vaccine, saying that Massachusetts-based biotech firm Moderna may be painting too rosy of a picture.  “It’s not a simple case. You don’t just say, ‘Hey, look at this. These people didn’t get Covid over a couple weeks.’

The Wall Street Bull (The Charging Bull) is seen during Covid-19 pandemic in New York, on May 26, 2020. Tayfun Coskun | Anadolu Agency via Getty Images The stock-market debate lately has taken place largely from the extremes. The believers are calling the powerful rebound from the Covid-shock lows a brand-new bull market, with a

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Thursday praised Tesla CEO Elon Musk for building a company that promises to be much more than just electric vehicles. “This man is selling technology, and he’s talking about fully assisted and then he’s talking about driverless. He’s thinking so much bigger,” Cramer said on “Squawk on the Street.” ”He’s a big thinker.

The Robinhood investment app is see on a smartphone in this photo illustration on June 24, 2020 in Washington,DC. Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images Robinhood has postponed the launch of its popular stock-trading app in the U.K. indefinitely. The Menlo Park, California-based fintech firm told people signed up to its U.K. waitlist Tuesday that

CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Tuesday the stock market could go higher if more people in the U.S. wore face masks to limit the spread of the coronavirus.  The current strength in equities is concentrated in technology-related stocks and not sectors tied to state economic reopening plans, Cramer said on “Squawk on the Street.”  “Let’s give the

Billionaire Mark Cuban told CNBC on Monday the stock market’s rally from its late March coronavirus-driven low reminds him of the 1990s dot-com bubble. “In some respects it’s different because of the Fed and the liquidity they’ve introduced and the inflation for financial assets that comes with that. But on a bigger picture, it’s so

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Monday criticized the United States’ response to the coronavirus, saying that other nations across the world have been exemplars of how to keep deaths from the disease low. “I’m trying to figure out what kind of disaster that our country has had that’s ever been as bad as this that’s been

Warren Buffett. Gerald Miller | CNBC An off-brand move to pile into Apple shares might have been Warren Buffett’s greatest trade ever.  Berkshire Hathaway‘s Apple stake — which has claimed 40% of its equity portfolio — is up a whopping $40 billion since the market bottom in March. The investment in the tech giant played a crucial role

Charles Scharf Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Wells Fargo on Tuesday posted its first quarterly loss since the financial crisis as the bank set aside $8.4 billion in loan loss reserves tied to the coronavirus pandemic. The bank had a net loss of $2.4 billion in the second quarter, or a loss of $0.66

A view of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is seen at Wall Street on June 29, 2020 in New York City. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images Warner Music Group Corp., the label for artists like Ed Sheeran and Cardi B, went public last month with 28 underwriters. More than a third of

Costco store in Teterboro, New Jersey. SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images How to pinpoint top stocks primed to outperform during this uncertain time? Here are a few of the names the best-performing Wall Street analysts are betting on right now. As we move into the second half of the year, it could make

A battle heats up between a deep-research investor with a private equity mindset and an underperforming small cap software stock. This is a textbook case of good activism — a company with poor operating history, horrible corporate governance, underperforming stock, overpaid CEO and a large, long-term shareholder with a very friendly and reasonable request with impressive

Wells Fargo is raising the bar for new customers to get a popular mortgage product, CNBC has learned exclusively. The bank is now requiring new clients to bring at least $1 million in balances if they want to refinance a jumbo mortgage, up from a previous level of $250,000, according to people with knowledge of

You’ve heard about the trade war with China. There may be a separate, potential “financial war” brewing. The Securities and Exchange Commission wants you to know more about what is happening with Chinese companies that list in the United States. The regulators also want you to know that they are having a really hard time