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SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images While streaming platform Disney+ is off to a strong start, Wall Street analysts are not shying away from Netflix’s stock. In the week following Disney+’s launch, Netflix app downloads grew 4% year-over-year, Nomura Instinet noted, showing that Disney+ is not having a negative impact on Netflix’s growth potential.

Traders and financial professionals work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at the opening bell on October 3, 2019 in New York City. Drew Angerer | Getty Images An unusual trend in the stock market emerged recently as the latest sign that perhaps greed is the driving force behind the rally

Howard Stern Kevin Mazur | Getty Images Liberty Media CEO Greg Maffei believes the company is well positioned to capitalize on the growing popularity of podcasts and other audio content. Maffei, who joined CNBC’s David Faber from Liberty’s investor day in New York, said that while there is competition for audio content, exclusive agreements should

Chinese deities statue ready for export to China are waiting in Sagyin (“marble”) village located near the white marble Sagyin quarries. White marble is extracted from Sagyin quarries for centuries. Thierry Falise | LightRocket | Getty Images The best-performing stock in the world just lost nearly all its value in the blink of an eye.

Target CEO Brian Cornell appears on CNBC after ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on the morning of November 28, 2014 in New York City. Getty Images Target is far and away the best performing retail stock of 2019. After reporting third-quarter results on Wednesday that crushed Wall Street’s expectation, Target

The new movie “Dark Waters” may be about an attorney’s battle against chemical company DuPont, but the film could shine a sharper spotlight on the industry in general, hurting companies like 3M, Bank of America Merrill Lynch said on Wednesday. The film, which hits theaters on Friday and stars Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway and Tim

Traders and financial professionals work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Drew Angerer | Getty Images News | Getty Images Investors may be just too comfortable picking individual stocks, and ignoring the macro risks that could derail the rally and broadly hit all of the market’s stocks. Citigroup strategists, in a note,

FILE – In this Sept. 4, 2011 file photo shows the main plant facility at the Navajo Generating Station, from Lake Powell, in Page, Ariz. Two environmental groups are asking a federal court to set a deadline for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to issue mandates for pollution controls at two power plants, including Four

The world is getting windier, which means a surge in wind-generated power could be coming. A new study led by Princeton University researchers found that from 1978 to 2010 wind speeds decreased by about 2.3% per decade, but that things began to shift in 2010. Between 2010 and 2017 speeds increased roughly 7%, which means

A Kohl’s store in Mount Kisco, New York. Scott Mlyn | CNBC Goldman Sachs believes the U.S. economy is poised to snap back and certain stocks could have the most upside from the economic recovery. Cyclical stocks, those typically tied to economic growth, have led the record-setting rally in the past three months. While the

Nick Schommer, Janus Henderson Source: Janus Henderson (This story is part of the Weekend Brief edition of the Evening Brief newsletter. To sign up for CNBC’s Evening Brief, .) Being a contrarian can make someone seem like a genius or idiotic. For Nick Schommer, it has been the former this year. Schommer manages the Janus

Google employees at the tech giant’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, walk off the job to protest the company’s handling of sexual misconduct claims. Mason Trinca | Getty Images News | Getty Images When it comes to investing, the notion that you can make money in the market and feel good about your investments at

A trader works next to a Grubhub Inc. paper bag on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York. Jin Lee | Bloomberg | Getty Images (This story is part of the Weekend Brief edition of the Evening Brief newsletter. To sign up for CNBC’s Evening Brief, .) Here are some

(This story is part of the Weekend Brief edition of the Evening Brief newsletter. To sign up for CNBC’s Evening Brief, click here.) The addictive nature of video games, designed to keep players in the game for as long as possible, may make investors happy, but some are now warning that a regulatory crackdown could

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Securities and Exchange Commission is moving closer to approve a new flavor of exchange-traded funds that allow stock pickers to keep their holdings secret. Asset managers T. Rowe Price, Natixis, Fidelity and Blue Tractor have won

An assembly line worker works on the production line at Midwest Automotive Designs in Bristol, Indiana, April 16, 2019. Tim Aeppel | Reuters The U.S. economy will barely grow at all in the fourth quarter, if two Federal Reserve gauges that track gross domestic product are correct. With some recent data coming in below expectations,

A pedestrian passes in front of a Charles Schwab Corp. bank branch in downtown Chicago, Illinois. Christopher Dilts | Bloomberg | Getty Images Free trading is paying off for brokerage firm Charles Schwab. In the same month the firm dropped trading commissions, Schwab added 142,000 new brokerage accounts, 31% more than the number of new

Jensen Huang, president and CEO of Nvidia, speaks during the company’s event at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Jan. 6, 2019. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Wall Street analysts are expecting big things from Nvidia when the chip maker reports its third-quarter earnings on Thursday after the bell.

In this photo illustration, the Disney + logo is displayed on the screen of an Apple MacBook Pro computer on November 08, 2019 in Paris, France. Chesnot | Getty Images This is a developing story. Check back for updates. Credit Suisse raised its outlook for Disney shares after the company released the first-day numbers for

Tim Cook at the Apple launch event in Cupertino Calif. on Sept. 10th, 2019. Source: Apple Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Wednesday: RBC initiated Apple as ‘outperform’ RBC said in its initiation of Apple that the company has strength in its balance sheet to deliver significant cash flow back to shareholders.

Netflix has a dominant position in the streaming wars but, while analysts believe the steadily increasing number of well-funded competing services will take a bite out of the company’s advantage, most do not expect Netflix will lose many subscribers. “Netflix is likely to see some incremental churn from new competition – but it should be

An employee pushes grocery carts outside a Kroger Co. grocery store in Louisville, Kentucky. Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty Images Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Tuesday: Evercore ISI upgraded Live Nation to ‘outperform’ from ‘in line’ Evercore said it sees another “strong, double-digit growth” year in 2020 for the events

With the decade drawing to a close Bank of America has identified 10 important investing themes to watch over the next 10 years. Underpinning the list is the tectonic societal shifts that the firm anticipates will play out over the next decade. The firm said that the coming decade will be “unlike any before it”

Traders work after the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on August 15, 2019 at Wall Street in New York City. JOHANNES EISELE | AFP | Getty Images Earnings in 2019 are setting a low bar to clear in 2020, paving the way for stocks to continue their record-setting rally, according to

SpaceX founder Elon Musk reacts at a post-launch news conference after the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Crew Dragon spacecraft, lifted off on an uncrewed test flight to the International Space Station from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, March 2, 2019. Mike Blake | Reuters Tesla founder Elon Musk has fired

World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. Chairman Vince McMahon (L) and wrestler Triple H appear in the ring during the WWE Monday Night Raw show at the Thomas & Mack Center August 24, 2009 Ethan Miller | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Friday: Nomura Instinet initiated Walmart

Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Value stocks, those with stable fundamentals and subpar valuations, haven’t been this cheap since the financial crisis, according to Bank of America. Cheap equities enjoyed a resurgence in September from a decade of underperformance as investors bet on economically sensitive,

Nike Lunar Flyknit HTM Milano Source: Farfetch (This story is part of the Weekend Brief edition of the Evening Brief newsletter. To sign up for CNBC’s Evening Brief, .) Here are some of the best analyst calls on Wall Street this week: Morgan Stanley- Nike, Overweight rating Morgan Stanley said it is “cautious” about the

Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange. Brendan McDermid | Reuters The massive rotation into value stocks that rocked investors two months ago is going to extend into 2020, according to J.P. Morgan’s quant guru Marko Kolanovic. The quant, whose reports have moved markets in the past, predicted rotation, going so

Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg testifies during a US House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing about Facebook on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, April 11, 2018. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images While Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google-parent Alphabet face significant antitrust risk before and after the 2020 election, the latter two