### Why earnings reports move stocksA stock earnings report is the one document where a company's story meets audited numbers, and that is why share prices jump or fall on the day it lands. On Monday, November 2, 2026, Apple and Palantir report after the close, with AMD following on Tuesday, November 3 — a crowded week that also includes the U.S. midterm elections on November 3 and the...
Friday, October 30, gave stock investors a reminder that the energy trade in 2026 is not only about the price of crude. It is about what happens to crude after it is pumped. US oil majors ExxonMobil and Chevron both beat analyst expectations for third-quarter profit on Friday, Reuters reported from Houston, as soaring refining margins lifted their fuel-making businesses — normally the...
Thursday's stock market told two stories at once, and only one of them made the headline. The Nasdaq Composite fell 1.38 percent to 26,184.72, dragged down by Alphabet's plunge of about 13 percent after its earnings disappointed. The S&P 500 slipped 0.30 percent to 7,720.39 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average eased 0.25 percent to 52,342.56. Read only those numbers and you would think it...
It is the oldest argument in investing: should you buy the whole market through an index fund, or pick individual stocks and try to beat it? Both sides have loud defenders, but for most people the honest answer is less glamorous than either camp admits — and the data behind it is unusually consistent.
What the Scorecards Keep Showing
Year after year, the SPIVA scorecards — the...
