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Google parent company Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG)(NASDAQ: GOOGL) reported first-quarter earnings Tuesday afternoon. First Quarter Earnings: Alphabet reported revenue of $55.3 billion in the first quarter, beating estimates of $51.7 billion. The total was up 32% year-over-year. Earnings...

Ready or not, it’s time for all of us to put our Fed hats on. Again.  It’s only been six weeks since the last Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, but they’re gathering again today. The usual press conference featuring Fed Chairman Jerome Powell comes right after the...

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) and Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT) are overextended heading into earnings, Katie Stockton of Fairlead Strategies said Monday on CNBC's "Squawk Box." Related Link: For Alphabet, Cloud Moves Slowly As The Ad Arena Heats Up Ahead Of Q1...

Without much doubt, Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL) shares have come a long way. They’re up 4,371% since the first public offering in 2004, so it’s easy to think that GOOGL shows every sign of being a “mature” company. But GOOGL’s also shown an ability to reinvent...

Benzinga has examined the prospects for many investor favorite stocks over the past week. The past week's bullish calls included the electric vehicle leader and a prominent IPO. Short sellers were behind some of the bearish calls seen during the week. The Dow Jones industrial average crossed...

Every Friday, at 3 p.m. ET, Ritholtz Wealth Management CEO Josh Brown and Benzinga CEO Jason Raznick host "The Boiler Room," a Clubhouse audio chat where listeners can pitch their favorite stock. Here are this week's pitches. Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Alphabet Inc-owned Google...

Benzinga has examined the prospects for many investor favorite stocks over the past week. The past week's bullish calls included the iPhone maker, Google's parent and an automotive leader. Financial and energy giants and COVID-19 vaccine makers were among the bearish calls seen during the...

“Wall Street — it’s a fallacy to think it’s hard.” That's according to Saad Hussain, founder, and CEO at Vesica Technologies, the company behind SHIFT, a search engine for the options market. As part of Vesica’s launch of SHIFT and the closure of a $2.1...

With an incredible four-day winning streak and a fresh record high under its belt, can the S&P 500 Index (SPX) go five for five? If that’s going to happen, the market will have to overcome what looks at first glance like a slightly disappointing January jobs report. This week...

It seems that a holding pattern may be developing in the stock market ahead of Friday’s closely-watched employment report. On the one hand, earnings season continues to be better than expected, the vaccine rollout is engendering more optimism, the number of new COVID-19  cases in the...

On Tuesday, Google's parent Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG)(NASDAQ: GOOGL) literally crushed it with its last reported quarter. Despite Alphabet announcing that its cloud business remained unprofitable, Google's core advertising business overperformed estimates, leading its stock price to rise...

The end of January is reserved for learning how tech and e-commerce companies did during the holiday season. More precisely, all FAAMG stock, namely Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG)(NASDAQ: GOOGL), Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL), Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB), Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), and Microsoft...

Ahead of Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) and Amazon.com, Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) quarterly numbers, which will release after the bell Tuesday, analysts have lofty expectations. In the S&P 500, currently the 10 largest stocks compose roughly 30% of the index’s market value, meaning that...

Last week’s volatility and market disruption can take a long time to settle down, so strap in. The new month starts with Wall Street in an unfamiliar position: Down for the year. Friday’s selloff accelerated a turnaround that began earlier in the week, putting a red mark on...