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Snap Inc. sounded the alarm Thursday for the long-feared internet advertising meltdown that could be coming in the normally busy fourth quarter. Long-feared because ever since Apple Inc. AAPL, +0.15% announced upcoming privacy changes to the iPhone, many companies with internet advertising businesses have been warning about its impact potential looming over their results. Apple […]

Intel Corp. shares dropped in the extended session Thursday after the chip maker’s revenue and data-center sales fell just short of Wall Street estimates amid a big earnings beat but a lower-than-expected earnings and gross margins forecast. Intel  INTC, +1.14% shares, which were down about 7% in the extended session as the conference call with […]

An earlier version of this story misstated AT&T’s GAAP earnings per share for the third quarter. It was 82 cents. AT&T Inc. posted a big quarter of subscriber gains Thursday, but its shares were slightly down as some questioned the impact of promotions on the company’s growth. The telecommunications giant saw 1.22 million net additions […]

Nvidia Corp. has come up with a way of supplying customers with high-performance gaming cards amid a global chip shortage and supply-chain issues: Sell it as a service. On Thursday, Nvidia NVDA, +2.01% announced that its GeForce Now cloud-gaming platform now delivered similar performance to its RTX 3080-series of gaming cards due to its new […]

Sometimes I wish I could edit myself as easily as a Google Doc. I would trim my own story to be clearer, more coherent, engaging, and focused — and take a big Ctrl + X to my anxieties, self-criticism and paralyzing doubt.  If only it were that simple. Science has reached a point where it’s […]

You’ve been appointed as trustee on a trust.  Please accept my congratulations; this is a great vote of confidence in your abilities and judgment. Please accept my condolences, as well; you will have responsibilities, tasks and difficulties for which you are unlikely to be sufficiently compensated or duly appreciated. A recent case that came into my […]

The price of remaining unvaccinated against COVID-19 is getting higher by the day. The cost of refusing increasingly common job vaccination requirements might mean regular testing, or no paycheck altogether. In some cities with proof-of-vaccination ordinances, it might mean a missed chance at a meal inside a restaurant or drink inside a bar. And as […]

Dear Quentin, My physically abusive ex and I separated a year ago (we were not married); we have two children together. I have a restraining order against him and I have primary custody of the children.  Seven years ago, we bought a house. Both of our names are on the title but only my name […]

At the start of this year, demand for COVID-19 vaccines outpaced supply. But when the tides turned, states dangled million-dollar lottery drawings for newly vaccinated individuals with hopes of increasing vaccination rates. Ohio pioneered vaccine-tied lotteries in mid-May with its Vax-a-Million campaign, the state’s five-week-long lottery that enabled Ohioans 18 and older to enter their […]

International Business Machines Corp. shares fell in the extended session Wednesday after the company’s revenue fell short of Wall Street expectations and the company assured investors that the spinoff of its managed infrastructure-service business would not cause a disruption. IBM IBM, -0.06% shares dropped as much as 5% after hours, following a less than 0.1% decline […]

The S&P 500 index and Dow industrials traded near records Wednesday as investors parsed the Federal Reserve’s latest Beige Book showing the U.S. economy is growing at a modest to moderate pace, but remains under pressure from inflation and labor shortages. Upbeat corporate earnings also continue to fuel bullishness in stocks, with electric-vehicle maker Tesla […]

“‘The No. 1 issue facing Main Street investors is inflation, and it’s pretty clear to me that inflation is not transitory. It’s probably the single biggest threat to, certainly, financial markets and again probably I think to society just in general.’” — Paul Tudor Jones, Tudor Investment Corp. It’s safe to say that billionaire hedge-fund […]

When lockdowns began to stop the spread of COVID-19 last year, many rideshare drivers, delivery people and other gig workers stopped working. But the ones that took on the most risk and continued to work — in some cases to transport essential workers and deliver food to people quarantined with COVID-19 —- were rewarded. “In […]

Fundstrat Global Advisors is one of the more bullish outfits around, and the investment firm is now even more optimistic about the stock market. The firm raised its year-end price target for the S&P 500 SPX, +0.74% to 4,800 from 4,700, which would be a 6% gain from Tuesday’s close of 4,519.63. Strategists led by […]

Dear Quentin, Since our marriage three years ago, my wife has not spent a single penny while earning equal to me or more. She also makes me transfer money to her account for expensive gifts. As this is my second marriage, I am trying hard to keep it. One year before we bought our house, […]

Zillow’s unexpected announcement this week that it’s putting a temporary stop to its home-buying activities raised many analysts’ eyebrows. And some argue that more concerning trends could be on the way. The service, Zillow Offers, is what’s known as an “iBuyer” — it purchases and sells homes directly to consumers, typically renovating them in between. […]

The days of astounding double-digit revenue growth and subscriber growth at Netflix Inc. are likely a thing of a past, so executives are promising to offer a different metric for investors to examine. That shift was in full view on Tuesday, when Netflix NFLX, +0.16% reported third-quarter revenue growth of 16.3% to $ 7.5 billion, […]

Activision Blizzard Inc. has fired several unnamed employees and reprimanded others connected to allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination reported earlier this year, according to a media report late Tuesday. Back in July, Activision Blizzard ATVI, +1.02% employees decried the company’s light response to a California lawsuit alleging sexual harassment and discrimination, and the issue […]

He’s here, you guys. After digging into naked shorting and failures to deliver, and mulling over what SEC chief Gary Gensler has in store [even if he may be feeling cautious about sharing it], I decided it was time for a bigger chat on market structure, financial fairness and what ‘Apes’ mean for not just […]

Dear Quentin, A relative recently passed away, leaving behind a seven-figure estate. Needless to say, things are getting messy.  When Grandma passed, it was expected by all for the trust to be executed by my aunt for many years, until she recently developed a medical condition that affected her cognitive ability.  As such, the successor […]