Finance
Investing in Buffett-sanctioned stocks with meaningful upside potential is generally a great move. Warren Buffett gained his reputation as the best investor of all time by beating the market over the long run. It’s not a bad idea, then, to look into his (and his team’s) stock picks for inspiration. And in Berkshire Hathaway‘s $257.52…
Some of the biggest beneficiaries of the artificial intelligence boom — such as Micron and Advanced Micro Devices — now seem to be overbought, according to one popular technical metric. Despite a volatile week on Wall Street, all three major U.S. indexes notched weekly gains as third-quarter earnings appear positive so far. The S &…
Stock splits artificially decrease a company’s share price and increase its outstanding share count without changing the market cap. Stock splits are tools that publicly traded companies can use to artificially lower their stock price and increase their outstanding share count without changing their market cap. The most common reason a company may conduct a…
Ever wondered what it’s like to have a couple of cosmos with your favorite actor, or two drams of whiskey with a Silicon Valley legend? That’s what we’re going to be doing here in this new column from The Free Press. Each week, a writer will invite a newsmaker, a trendsetter, or a power broker…
This artificial intelligence (AI) winner has seen its shares jump more than 300% this year. Nvidia (NVDA 0.86%) and Palantir Technologies (PLTR 0.11%) have been two stocks investors could count on for outsized gains over the past few years — and that continues as they both head for increases of more than 30% and about…
The Nasdaq Composite entered a new bull market earlier this year, and history says the technology-heavy index could soar in 2026 (and beyond). The Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC 0.52%) peaked in December 2024, and then dropped sharply when President Trump began imposing tariffs in early 2025. The technology-heavy index slipped into bear market territory and reached…
If you’re invested in AI, you might want to pay attention. Bill Smead, founder of Smead Capital Management, says the market frenzy around AI has all the signs of a bubble, driven by the momentum of stocks like Nvidia. “We’re in the crazy stage,” Smead told Business Insider, comparing today’s market to the eve of…
In the latest close session, Apple (AAPL) was up +1.96% at $252.29. The stock’s change was more than the S&P 500’s daily gain of 0.53%. On the other hand, the Dow registered a gain of 0.52%, and the technology-centric Nasdaq increased by 0.52%. Coming into today, shares of the maker of iPhones, iPads and other…
The stock market rebounded this week after seesawing on concerns about U.S.-China trade, the ongoing federal government shutdown, and credit. For the week, the S & P 500 and tech-heavy Nasdaq jumped 1.7% and 2.1%, respectively, after each lost more than 2% the prior week. Late in the week, trade and the shutdown took a…
How are we enjoying the “normal seasonal soft patch” so far? The stock market spent the past week chopping around the range left by the sharp drop the prior Friday, while confronting the ghosts of crises past: regional-bank balance-sheet worries , possible re-escalation of China trade hostilities, a crypto flash correction and a reversal in…