Ad Platform Moloco Said to Pick Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan for IPO
Advertising technology company Moloco has selected banks to arrange an initial public offering of the company, according to people familiar with the matter. The California-based firm is working with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. on the...
Amazon Mired in Longest Losing Streak Since 2006 on Capex Angst
Amazon.com Inc. shares posted their longest streak of daily losses in almost 20 years, as investors continue to question how much the e-commerce and cloud-computing company spends on capital expenditures. Shares fell 0.4% on Friday, their ninth straight negative...
Waymo Tries Finding DoorDash Drivers to Shut Open Robotaxi Doors
Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo is enlisting DoorDash Inc. drivers in Atlanta to close robotaxi doors that have been left open, letting the driverless vehicles continue on their way. A driver in Atlanta recently received a DoorDash offer paying $11.25 to close an open Waymo...
Bitcoin to $50,000? Standard Chartered predicts ‘more pain’ for price
Bitcoin investors better brace for “more pain” as the price of the top cryptocurrency is set to plunge to $50,000 or even lower over the next few months, according to Standard Chartered. The British bank’s global head of digital assets research, Geoffrey Kendrick,...
US Consumer Delinquencies at the Highest Since 2017
Get caught up. Delinquency rates on loans ranging from mortgages to credit cards rose to 4.8% of all outstanding US household debt in the fourth quarter, the highest level since 2017, driven by rising defaults among low-income and young borrowers. While the overall...
NASDAQ Proposes A Hard $5 Million Market Value Floor For Continued Listing
On January 13, 2026, Nasdaq filed a proposed rule change with the SEC that would impose a new continued listing requirement requiring all Nasdaq Global Market and Nasdaq Capital Market companies to maintain a minimum Market Value of Listed Securities of at least $5...
Goldman Says Hedge Funds Add Record Shorts on US Stocks in Rout
Hedge funds piled into short positions on US stocks as concerns about disruption to business models from artificial intelligence reverberated through markets. Notional short selling across single stocks last week was the biggest on record in Goldman Sachs Group...
Get Ready for Double Whammy of US Jobs and Inflation
Investors and policymakers are gearing up for a busy week of US economic reports that includes arguably the two most consequential data snapshots — employment and inflation. The January jobs report on Wednesday and the consumer price index, due Friday, are unusually...
Big Tech companies are starting to look like IBM in the 1960s
The race to dominate the burgeoning AI market is pushing tech giants to adopt business models reminiscent of IBM's (IBM) in the 1960s. Big Tech "hyperscalers" Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL), Meta (META), Microsoft (MSFT), and Amazon (AMZN) are all in various stages of...
The 40-year Wall Street analyst explains why tech stocks are due to rally.
Technology stocks have endured a bloodbath of selling as investors have shunned last year’s winners in favor of defense stocks, catching the attention of Wall Street veteran technical analyst Helene Meisler. The bludgeoning, which has cut the market cap of the biggest...
Tech’s AI Push Risks a Bond Market Blowback: Credit Weekly
The biggest tech companies are gearing up to spend even more on artificial intelligence than investors had anticipated, and money managers increasingly fear that whatever happens, credit markets will get hit. Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp. and other “hyperscalers” are...
Op-ed: Rotation isn’t the answer to the tech uncertainty
For the past year, the markets were fueled by a "high" that felt unstoppable: the rise of AI. But as we move into 2026, this “secular tailwind” has hit heavy turbulence, leading many investors to reflexively move their money into “old school” stocks (cyclicals) and...
Private Markets Push for World’s Wealthy Runs Into AI Meltdown
The salespeople on the front line of a private-markets push to win over the world’s wealthy are quite adept at fielding questions on opacity, liquidity and valuation. Their list of tricky talking points just got a new addition — the so-called SaaSpocalypse. At...
How Likely Is a Stock Market Crash Under President Donald Trump? Several Century-Old Data Sets Offer an Answer.
From an investment standpoint, President Donald Trump's first term in the White House was a resounding success. When he left office on Jan. 20, 2021, Trump had overseen cumulative returns in the ageless Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI), benchmark S&P...