Category: Capital

October 12, 2018

J. P. Morgan Chase topped analysts’ expectations for third quarter earnings as better-than-expected retail banking results offset weakness in bond trading. The bank beat expectations for earnings and revenue: J.P. Morgan reported revenue of $27.8 billion, versus the $27.5 billion […]

August 23, 2018

Alibaba reported strong first-quarter revenue growth on Thursday morning as its core e-commerce and fast-growing cloud-computing segments provided a boost. The Chinese e-ecommerce giant said revenue soared 61% year-over-year to 80.9 billion yuan, or about $11.8 billion, edging out the […]

June 14, 2018

The economy has shifted into high gear, with corporate profits surging, bankruptcies and foreclosures tumbling and the national unemployment rate easing to 3.8%, an 18-year low. Americans have become more optimistic, but their personal finances don’t necessarily mirror the economy’s […]

March 26, 2018

Investors have been watching Amazon and Apple in the race to $1 trillion in market capitalization, but Morgan Stanley is betting on Microsoft to reach that milestone in the next 12 months thanks to cloud adoption. “Strong positioning for ramping […]

March 13, 2018

Amazon’s exposure to consumers gives the company the ability to not only interact on many levels with customers, but to also get to know their spending habits and their interests. This data gives the ecommerce behemoth significant clout, and represents […]

February 15, 2018

Shares of Amazon rose 2.57% Wednesday, sending its market value higher than Microsoft for the first time. The e-commerce behemoth is now the third-largest company in the US, behind only Apple ($849.24 billion) and Google parent Alphabet ($744.73 billion), according […]

February 9, 2018

Wall Street’s roller coaster ride of the past week has made even veteran investors a bit queasy. After months of calm, the market’s volatility, while not unusual in the historical sense, has resulted in some big short-term losses. No one […]

February 5, 2018

Google isn’t just a search engine anymore. In fact, the company is now so diversified and eclectic that it renamed itself Alphabet, and almost has too many divisions to keep track of. If Google, and its parent Alphabet, would provide […]

November 3, 2017

Apple reported a solid quarter Thursday. I’ll tell the story with a few numbers. 12%. That’s Apple’s year-over-year quarterly revenue growth, a staggering growth rate for a company Apple’s size. Sales totaled $52.6 billion. 19%. Apple’s earnings growth outpaced its […]

September 18, 2017

LONDON — The price of Bitcoin is surging on Monday after a week in which it lost more than $1,000 in value and dropped below $3,000 per coin for the first time in over a month. Bitcoin collapsed spectacularly last […]