Articles about Wall Street

Amazon shares rise 5% in initial surge after first stock split in more than two decades

Amazon at less than $130 a share? No, the market hasn’t completely cratered — today is the first day of… Read More

As Wall Street preps for huge IPO year, will any Seattle companies go public in 2019?

Well-funded tech giants could produce an epic 2019 for tech IPOs. But will any Washington-based companies make the leap? Possibly not,… Read More

Oh, wow, man! Elon Musk’s tweets about taking Tesla private spark a stock spike

Tesla’s stock shot up sharply today after the company’s billionaire CEO, Elon Musk, tweeted that he was considering taking Tesla… Read More

Amazon’s stock soars after blockbuster earnings report: Is it on the path to a trillion dollars?

Shares of Amazon soared nearly five percent in early morning trading Friday after the Seattle company reported a blockbuster first… Read More

Zillow Group shares dip despite beating expectations with record Q2 revenue of $267M

Zillow Group reported a record $266.9 million in revenue for the second quarter of this year, a 28 percent increase… Read More

Microsoft is worth more than Dallas: Analyst warns of destabilization as tech giants grow more valuable than cities

The world’s largest tech companies are worth more than the gross domestic product (GDP) of most U.S. cities, according to… Read More

Facebook shares climb 14 percent in pre-market trading

Facebook shares rose 14 percent, to top $107, in pre-market trading Thursday, a day after the social network reported explosive… Read More

iPhone sales power Apple earnings increase, Apple Watch sales figures still a mystery

Apple’s quarterly revenue was up again this quarter to $49.6 billion, up 33 percent year-over-year. Revenue was once again driven by… Read More

Tableau Software grows Q1 revenue by 75%, beats Wall Street expectations, shares up 8% after hours

Tableau Software had a blockbuster first quarter of 2015, growing its revenue by 75 percent year-over-year to $130.1 million. That… Read More

NanoString Technologies misses estimates as losses deepen

NanoString Technologies, a Seattle-based biotech company focused on developing cancer treatments, faced deepening losses this quarter as the company missed… Read More

Twitter faults NASDAQ for earnings leak reminiscent of Microsoft’s 2011 problem

What do Twitter and Microsoft have in common? They both have had quarterly earnings reports found and released early by Selerity,… Read More

Twitter stock plummets 18% after disappointing earnings report leaks

It’s a bad day for Twitter. Selerity, a company that tracks real-time financial data, managed to get a hold of the… Read More

Apple sells a whopping 61M iPhones, beats profit expectations

Apple continued its spree of beating Wall Street’s expectations today when it announced the results of its fiscal second quarter… Read More

Google fails to meet expectations with $17.3B in revenue, profit of $4.5B

Google’s financial results for the first quarter of 2015 didn’t quite live up to analyst expectations when the company published… Read More

Shares of Box walloped after massive quarterly loss

It’s a bad day for cloud storage company Box, which disappointed investors with a net loss of $1.65 a share… Read More

Nordstrom’s e-commerce business grows, quarterly revenue of $4B beats expectations

Nordstrom reported financial results for the fourth quarter of 2014 today, and investors were greeted with something of a mixed… Read More

Domain name services company Rightside posts Q4 revenue of $51.7M, up 14 percent

Kirkland-based domain name services company Rightside announced today that its business is growing on the back of increased interest in new top… Read More

Zillow stock jumps 15 percent in first day of trading after Trulia merger

Zillow’s stock price rose 15 percent today in the real estate search company’s first day of trading after closing its… Read More

Cray beats Wall Street expectations with $262M in revenue

Supercomputing company Cray had good news for investors today. The Seattle-based firm brought in $261.9 million in revenue during the… Read More

Twitter beats expectations with $479M in revenue, but user growth slows again

Twitter has beaten expectations for its financial results during the fourth quarter of 2014, with the company reporting today that… Read More

Amazon stock up 14 percent as investors rally around fourth quarter profits

Amazon turned an unexpected profit during its holiday quarter, and Wall Street has responded by driving the company’s stock up… Read More

Zulily confirms closure of U.K. office, plans to service customers from U.S.

Zulily will be shutting down its U.K. office and moving its across-the-pond customers to its U.S.-based website. The Seattle-based flash… Read More

Google misses Wall Street expectations with $18.1B in revenue, $4.74B profit

Google’s holiday season wasn’t as happy as Wall Street analysts expected. The company reported that it brought in $18.1 billion… Read More

Facebook beats Wall Street expectations with $3.85B in revenue, 1.4B monthly active users

Facebook’s holiday quarter beat analyst expectations with $3.85 billion in revenue, up from almost $2.6 billion during the same period… Read More

Off the charts: Apple shatters iPhone record with nearly 75M units sold

Everyone was expecting a blockbuster fourth quarter from Apple, and the Cupertino-based tech giant didn’t disappoint. The company reported today… Read More

Box finally sets IPO price range, could raise $162M

Box has taken the next step towards its eventual IPO, saying in a filing with the SEC that it plans to… Read More

Twitter stock jumps after analyst suggests CEO Dick Costolo could leave within a year

Twitter’s stock surprisingly jumped today after Sun Trust analyst Robert Peck told CNBC that CEO Dick Costolo may be on… Read More

Amazon’s stock drops after Moody’s changes outlook to ‘negative’

Amazon’s share price dropped more than three percent Monday morning, following the company’s announcement that it plans to offer an… Read More

Apple tops $700 billion market value, the equivalent of four Amazon.coms

Apple’s market capitalization hit a record high Tuesday, topping $700 billion for the first time earlier this morning as Wall… Read More

Blucora reports mixed Q3 results: Revenue below expectations, earnings beat

Blucora reported third quarter financial results today, with almost $115 million in revenue for the quarter, down from $124 million… Read More