The Wall Street Bull statue covered in snow on Nov. 15, 2018. Erik Mcgregor | Lightrocket | Getty Images Wall Street expected U.S. mergers and acquisitions to roar back in 2025. The reality was something closer to fits and starts. Following the election of President Donald Trump more than a year ago, executives and bankers…
Sign at the entrance to a Walmart in Venice, Florida(L), and a T.J. Maxx store in Pinole, California. Getty Images As more major retailers post earnings, one theme is clear: Value players are winning both the wealthy and the cash-strapped. Walmart and TJX, T.J. Maxx’s parent company, stood apart from the pack this week by…
Amazon Web Services Inc. signage at the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California, on March 20, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon Web Services, a leader in the cloud infrastructure market, reported a major outage on Monday, taking down numerous big-name websites. AWS cited an “operational issue” affecting “multiple…
AST SpaceMobile on Wednesday announced a deal with Verizon to provide cellular service from space beginning next year. This deal aims to bring direct-to-service connection via space to cell phone users “when needed” on Verizon plans, according to AST. It marks an expansion of a partnership between the two companies announced last year. AST shares…
Dan Schulman speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 23, 2020. Adam Galica | CNBC Verizon announced on Monday that the board of directors has appointed former PayPal CEO Dan Schulman as the company’s new CEO. Schulman replaces Hans Vestberg, who had led the company since 2018. Shares of the company…
The stock market reached records again this week, propelled by the Federal Reserve’s decision to cut interest rates for the first time since last December. The S & P 500 and Nasdaq hit a number of all-time closing highs this week, one as recently as Friday, after the Fed announced a quarter-point reduction to the…
Jim Cramer and Jeff Marks, the Club’s director of portfolio analysis, on Thursday ran through all 31 portfolio holdings during the September Monthly Meeting. The two went over the best ways to play the stock market in the last months of 2025 while considering factors like the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy decisions, President Trump’s tariff…
Plenty of kids would rather sit in front of their phone screen than play a sport, pick up an instrument or read a book. They might be modeling that behavior from their parents, bestselling author and podcast host Mel Robbins said during a panel discussion hosted by Verizon on Wednesday. She spoke from personal experience,…
A sign is posted on the exterior of a Verizon store on September 30, 2024 in Daly City, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty Images As the stock market focuses on major earnings and negotiations on the tariff front, investors seeking a regular income stream continue to look for attractive dividend stocks…
