Here are the 2 big things we’re watching in the stock market in the week ahead

Here are the 2 big things we’re watching in the stock market in the week ahead

We’re in the final stretch of 2025 and entering the second week of the historically strong market month of December. Barring a calamity, the S & P 500 should be able to turn in a third straight year of gains. The index has advanced nearly 17% year to date. Whether it goes higher from here … Read more

Week in review: Stocks rise, Meta gets real on metaverse, and Salesforce bounces

Week in review: Stocks rise, Meta gets real on metaverse, and Salesforce bounces

Stocks eked out gains Friday and closed the week higher after the Federal Reserve’s favorite inflation gauge added to the case for an interest rate cut next week. For the week, the S & P 500 rose 0.3%, while the Nasdaq added nearly 1%. Both indexes logged back-to-back weekly gains. The Dow gained roughly 0.5%. … Read more

Salesforce beats on earnings, issues better-than-expected revenue forecast

Salesforce beats on earnings, issues better-than-expected revenue forecast

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff delivers the keynote address at the start of the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco on Oct. 14, 2025. Jessica Christian | San Francisco Chronicle | Getty Images Salesforce reported better-than-expected earnings on Wednesday and topped Wall Street estimates with its revenue guidance for the fourth quarter. The stock rose 3% in … Read more

Workday stock slips on light quarterly margin guidance

Workday stock slips on light quarterly margin guidance

Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach, right, walks to the morning session during the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 11, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Workday shares slid more than 5% in extended trading Tuesday after the finance and human resources software maker issued quarterly … Read more

Abercrombie shares soar 37% on Hollister growth, strong earnings beat

Abercrombie shares soar 37% on Hollister growth, strong earnings beat

An Abercrombie & Fitch store stands in midtown Manhattan in New York City on Oct. 24, 2024. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Shares of Abercrombie & Fitch soared 37% Tuesday after the company showed investors it’s set to keep growing, even as its namesake brand slows down. During the apparel retailer’s fiscal third quarter, Abercrombie … Read more

Nvidia earnings takeaways: Bubble talk, ‘half a trillion’ forecast and China orders

Nvidia earnings takeaways: Bubble talk, ‘half a trillion’ forecast and China orders

Nvidia on Wednesday reported fiscal third-quarter earnings that beat expectations, and provided a strong forecast for the current quarter. Wall Street welcomed the report, and Nvidia stock rose after the release and during the conference call. Other stocks in the so-called artificial intelligence trade also saw a boost. A closer look at Nvidia’s report shows … Read more

Nvidia stock pops 5% in premarket trading after stronger-than-expected results

Nvidia stock pops 5% in premarket trading after stronger-than-expected results

Shares in AI darling Nvidia popped in premarket trade after the U.S. firm beat expectations in third-quarter results after the closing bell on Wednesday. Shares were last trading 5.5% higher at 4:15 a.m. ET. Nvidia topped forecasts for revenue, which jumped 62% to $57.01 billion year-on-year, and issued stronger-than-expected fourth-quarter sales guidance. “There’s been a … Read more

Klarna tops third-quarter revenue estimates in first earnings report since IPO

Klarna tops third-quarter revenue estimates in first earnings report since IPO

Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO and Co-Founder of Swedish fintech Klarna, gives a thumbs up during the company’s IPO at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, U.S., Sept. 10, 2025. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Klarna topped Wall Street third-quarter revenue expectations in its first earnings report after debuting on the New York Stock Exchange … Read more

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang surprised investors with a ‘half a trillion’ forecast. It’ll come up at earnings

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang surprised investors with a ‘half a trillion’ forecast. It’ll come up at earnings

Jensen Huang attends a reception for the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, at St James’ Palace in London, Brirain, Nov. 5, 2025. Yui Mok | Via Reuters Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revealed in October that his company has $500 billion in orders, in 2025 and 2026 combined, for its chips that are at the … Read more

Week in review: Stocks swing wildly, Disney disappoints, and we make 6 trades

Week in review: Stocks swing wildly, Disney disappoints, and we make 6 trades

It was a volatile week for the stock market, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average hitting an all-time high before pulling back. Wall Street pulled money away from Big Tech and into more defensive sectors, such as health care and financials. The end of the longest-ever U.S. government shutdown and expectations for interest rate cuts … Read more