Restoration Hardware, Williams-Sonoma and other U.S. furniture manufacturers that import sofas, tables and other goods from China could take a hit in the Trump administration’s latest round of tariffs released Tuesday, according to Goldman Sachs. The White House on Tuesday released a list of tariffs on $200 billion in imports that could hit U.S. manufacturers

Walgreens isn’t the only one feeling the pressure of Amazon’s PillPack acquisition, as one Wall Street analyst copped to underestimating just how aggressively the e-commerce giant would disrupt drugstores. “We are downgrading shares of Walgreen … ending one of the more painful experiences I have endured in my 15 [plus] years as a sell-side analyst,”

OPEC, Russia and several other producers recently agreed to increase output by 1 million barrels in order to ease oil prices away from 3½-year highs. But many analysts think they will struggle to add that much supply because only a handful of the countries have spare capacity. However, Barclays said the market is underestimating the

Twitter just had its worst day in more than three months on worries over rampant fake accounts. To investors worried the sky is falling, one chart watcher says these kinds of moves are nothing to sweat. “This is obviously a substantial decline. … Obviously alarming but at the same time not that rare,” Frank Cappelleri,

Financial markets believe Europe will eventually “accommodate” President Donald Trump on trade, Wall Street’s Art Cashin told CNBC on Monday. “Even if it’s only to a slight degree, the president will step back and claim victory,” said Cashin, director of floor operations for UBS at the New York Stock Exchange. Trump is threatening tariffs on

Scott McIntyre | Bloomberg | Getty Images An employee delivers cases of Coca-Cola Co. brand soda in Miami Beach, Florida. With the S&P 500 not far from the firm’s 2018 year-end target, Goldman Sachs says there is still an investment strategy that can outperform. The firm recommended companies with high and stable profit margins. That’s

Twitter is cleaning up its platform and taking down more fake accounts than ever, according to The Washington Post, but the stock is still tanking on what appears to be concern around user growth. Shares fell more than 8 percent Monday after the Friday evening report that Twitter is suspending more than 1 million accounts

Speaker company Sonos has filed to go public. The company reported a net loss of $14.2 million on revenue of $992.5 million for the last fiscal year. That’s an improvement from fiscal year 2016, when the company posted a net loss of $38.2 million on revenue of $901.3 million. For the six months ending March

Steven Cohen is having a tough time getting U.K. financial regulators to give him a second chance in that country. The billionaire recently opened his Point72 hedge fund to outside investors in the U.S., but British securities regulators won’t let Cohen open the fund to U.K. investors, according to a report in the FT, citing

Biogen shareholders are rejoicing over a clinical trial’s positive results. Shares of the biotech company were up 19.6 percent Friday, a day after Biogen and Tokyo-based Eisai announced positive results from a Phase II study with BAN2401, an anti-amyloid beta protofibril antibody, in 856 patients with early Alzheimer’s disease. The stock move added more than

June hiring is expected to be strong, but markets may find some relief if Friday’s employment report contains a softer jobs number and squishy wage growth. The reason is the so-called yield curve has been quietly worrying the market, raising concerns that the Fed is moving too fast and the economy will not be strong

For all the talk of a trade war and an eager-to-hike Fed, markets haven’t moved much this summer. The S&P 500 is now back to where it was in mid-May. Two key levels could bring about the next big swings on the S&P 500, says one market watcher. “On the resistance level it’s the 2,800

Record numbers of travelers are flying this summer, but airlines want to win over a tougher crowd: investors. Airline stocks have tanked while the broader market climbed to record highs this year as carriers’ fuel bills rose faster than demand for seats. The NYSE Arca Airline index, which tracks 15 carriers, is down more than

The German government dismissed a report that it had privately raised concerns about Deutsche Bank, while J.P. Morgan denied it was interested in a stake in Germany’s biggest lender. Shares in Deutsche had jumped by as much as 6 percent on Friday after WirtschaftsWoche (WiWo) magazine said J.P. Morgan and Industrial and Commercial Bank of

Investors should prepare for a near 1 percentage point increase on the U.S. 10-year sovereign bond yield before the end of 2018, according to one investment manager, who cited robust wage growth and tightening monetary policy. The 10-year U.S. Treasury note is a benchmark government bond that helps set prices for debt instruments all over

Even the company dubbed “the Netflix of China” can’t change CNBC’s Jim Cramer’s opinion on Chinese IPOs. “In the midst of the trade tensions with the People’s Republic, China-based companies keep coming public here and their stocks have been roaring,” the “Mad Money” host said Thursday. “Many of these names, though, [are of] dubious quality.”

The historic bull market in global equities still has room to run, according to Citigroup’s equity strategy team, which is advising clients to continue to buy. The firm’s analysts wrote that Citi’s bear market checklist that monitors symptoms of a downturn in equities suggests than only three of 18 “red flags” have been raised. The

Tom Lee, the only major Wall Street strategist to issue bitcoin price targets, told CNBC on Thursday he sees the world’s largest cryptocurrency by the end of the year at more than $20,000 per unit — 20 percent less than his previous estimate. “Bitcoin has historically traded at 2.5 times its mining costs. It’s not

Walgreens Boots Alliance is not a market innovator. As a consumer retail outlet primarily for the pharmaceutical industry, the firm’s intellectual property holdings are negligible. Where industry leaders have been focused on drug-interaction detection, drug counterfeiting, customizable dosing and the like, Walgreens is dependent on the technology of others. The majority of Walgreens’ pending patents

Patrick Kaser, managing director and portfolio manager at Brandywine Global, believes free cash flow is a key determining factor in whether or not a company will be a lucrative investment. Earnings, however, are not always indicative of a successful company. “There are many ways to manipulate earnings, earnings per share, GAAP, non-GAAP, but there’s very