The Problem and Opportunity with Wall Street Downgrades of Apple and Amazon

Reframe Your Toughest Problems With This 9-Minute Exercise

Teams at Nike, Facebook, and Capital One have found new ways to tackle challenges using Mona Patel’s Reframe method. Now you can too.

Inc. - Dec. 10

Best Buy Apple Shopping Event deals

Now until December 12th, Best Buy is offering discounts on popular Apple products like MacBooks, iPads and more.

NBC News - Dec. 10

Wall Street’s Most Optimistic Firm Just Shared Where It Thinks Stocks Will Go in 2025

What Oppenheimer, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and other banks expect for stocks next year.

Inc. - Dec. 10

Fetch’s Rachel Ehrlich on the Problem With Old-School Ads

The rewards app’s general manager wants to find news ways to engage consumers.

Inc. - Dec. 10

Wall Street’s complex debt bonanza hits fastest pace since 2007

Banks sell bonds backed by revenues from chicken wings, music catalogues and oil wells

Financial Times - Dec. 10

As Israel advances on a Syrian buffer zone, it sees peril and opportunity

The dramatic downfall of Syrian President Bashar Assad presents possible danger, and an opening, for neighboring Israel

ABC News - Dec. 9

The last major Wall Street S&P 500 forecast has arrived. Here’s what Citi expects.

Citigroup is predicting the S&P 500 will reach 6,500 for 2025, but that comes with a warning that investors face more volatility.

MarketWatch - Dec. 9

Cramer calls analyst downgrade of AMD 'cogent.' But he's not giving up on the stock

Bank of America is worried that competitive dynamics in the AI chip market could be an overhang on AMD.

CNBC - Dec. 9

Wall Street has a new high bar for the S&P 500 in 2025. Here’s what’s driving that.

Oppenheimer Asset Management’s chief investment strategist, John Stoltzfus, predicts the S&P 500 will reach 7,100 in 2025, thanks in part to a resilient economy.

MarketWatch - Dec. 9

Apple Tops the List of Best-Managed Companies of 2024

Tech companies hold six of the top 10 spots, while Mastercard jumped to fifth place from 24th last year.

The Wall Street Journal - Dec. 8

Returns are an $890 billion problem for retailers

Holiday shopping is expected to reach record levels this year.

NBC News - Dec. 8

Biden calls Assad's fall "moment of historic opportunity"

"At long last, the Assad regime has fallen," President Biden said Sunday, hours after opposition forces entered Damascus and seized control of Syria.

CBS News - Dec. 8

Netanyahu says al-Assad's fall opens 'opportunity' for Israel

Yahoo News - Dec. 8

Top Wall Street analysts tout these energy stocks for attractive dividends

TipRanks' analyst ranking service spotlights three dividend-paying stocks, including Chevron and Energy Transfer.

CNBC - Dec. 8

NFL Week 14 injury tracker: Kenneth Walker III, Breece Hall downgraded to out; Ja'Marr Chase good to go

Here's a look at the notable injuries heading into Week 14

CBS Sports - Dec. 7

Retail returns: An $890 billion problem

As shopping reaches a peak in the weeks ahead, retailers expect their return rate for the holidays to be 17% higher, on average, than the annual rate.

CNBC - Dec. 7

10 of Wall Street’s favorite dividend stocks for 2025 with yields of at least 4%

Short-term interest rates are still high enough for you to get a yield of more than 4% on a savings account. But stocks with attractive dividend yields might also be appropriate for you, depending ...

MarketWatch - Dec. 7

Wall Street isn’t worried about a stock-market crash. That’s why you should be.

Stock traders have become even more bullish and complacent — and that’s a bearish sign.

MarketWatch - Dec. 7

India Could Be Apple and Samsung’s Solution to the Future of Phones

A quarter of all iPhones could be made outside China by 2025, most likely in India—a rapidly growing market with hundreds of millions of potential customers. And the race is on, as Samsung and ...

Wired - Dec. 7

The Inside Story of Apple Intelligence

Apple’s leaders claim the company wasn’t late to generative AI, but instead following what has become its familiar playbook: try to be the best, not the first.

Wired - Dec. 6

Doctor, Doctor, there’s a problem with my planet | Fiona Katauskas

It’s in a world of hurt. See more of Fiona Katauskas’s cartoons here Continue reading...

The Guardian - Dec. 6

NBA's Diplomatic Playbook Opens an Opportunity in China

Five years ago, a single internet post led to a ban on the league in basketball-crazy China—but there are steps toward a reconciliation.

The Wall Street Journal - Dec. 6

Wall Street veteran David Rosenberg offers up apology for his stock-market pessimism

The bears are capitulating — first Morgan Stanley, then JPMorgan, and now David Rosenberg, the former Merrill Lynch strategist who runs his own firm, Rosenberg Research.

MarketWatch - Dec. 6