J.P. Morgan stock is up more than 37 percent this year, but analysts at Keefe Bruyette & Woods don’t expect a repeat of that performance in 2020. The firm downgraded the stock to “market perform” from “outperform,” and placed a target price of $135 on the shares, which were trading for $134.41 at the close
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Shares of Agilent Technologies gained more than 3% in after-hours trading on Monday after hedge fund investor Bill Ackman revealed he has taken a stake in the lab testing equipment maker. A regulatory filing showed Ackman’s hedge fund, Pershing Square Capital, owns more than 2.9 million Agilent shares, bringing his stake to around $246 million.
Man shopping at Walmart in Toronto, Canada. Roberto Machado Noa | LightRocket | Getty Images Wall Street is getting defensive. Stocks have had a great run this year — hitting all-time record highs — but uncertainty around the U.S.-China trade war and the 2020 election paint a tepid picture for markets in the new year.
Source: Qorvo Bank of America is betting on two little-known chip stocks that are positioned to win big from the rise of 5G. The firm double upgraded shares of Qorvo and Skyworks Solutions to buy from underperform. Bank of America raised Qorvo’s price target to $130 per share from $80 per share and hiked Skyworks
CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Friday no matter your view on President Donald Trump there’s no denying we’re living in the best labor market in more than a generation. “You can’t contradict that these are the best numbers of our lives. You can’t,” said Cramer, 64, following the government report showing the U.S. economy created a
A WeWork office in San Francisco Kate Munsch | Reuters WeWork’s dramatic fall has led to SoftBank CEO Masa Son’s questioning his own judgement, but one analyst still believes the bank will come out on top eventually with the massive investment in the reeling space-sharing company. “Despite the huge embarrassment WeWork has been for SoftBank this
A pedestrian walks past a stock indicator displaying numbers of the Tokyo Stock Exchange and the world’s major markets in Tokyo. Kazuhiro Nogi | AFP | Getty Images (This story is part of the Weekend Brief edition of the Evening Brief newsletter. To sign up for CNBC’s Evening Brief, click here.) U.S. equities have been
(This story is part of the Weekend Brief edition of the Evening Brief newsletter. To sign up for CNBC’s Evening Brief, click here.) Astronomical auction prices may have defined the art market in recent years, but new research shows that over the long-term the value of art has steadily climbed, delivering returns relatively in-line with
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Smith Collection | Gado | Getty Images RBC Capital thinks that there is a quickly growing but overlooked part of Amazon’s business – namely, Amazon Business – with revenue that will exceed more than $30 billion in just a few years. “We believe Amazon Business has largely been ignored by investors,” RBC Capital Markets analyst