Shopify shares plunge 18% on weak guidance

Shopify shares tumbled 18% on Wednesday, shaving almost $20 billion off the company’s value, after the company gave revenue and profit guidance for the current quarter that spooked investors. Here’s how the company did for the first quarter, compared with consensus expectations from LSEG: Earnings per share: 20 cents adjusted vs. 17 cents expected Revenue: … Read more

Carvana, Etsy, Cigna, Wayfair, Trade Desk

Jim Cramer’s daily rapid fire looks at stocks in the news outside the CNBC Investing Club portfolio. Carvana : Shares of the buying and selling online platform were soaring 35% on Thursday after a record first quarter. CEO Ernie Garcia realized, unlike Wall Street analysts had, that he was OK after getting the Apollo money, … Read more

Jim Cramer on Boeing, Etsy, Moderna, Rivian, Royal Caribbean, Southwest

Boeing : The aircraft maker changed leadership of its embattled 737 Max program. “Doesn’t matter. Boeing, the leadership from the top is the only leadership government cares about,” Jim Cramer said Thursday. Dow stock Boeing was down slightly. Etsy : Shares of the online marketplace for handmade goods dropped 8% on an earnings miss and … Read more

The way AI will be sold to a skeptical public is becoming clear

Many AI companies struggle with customers understanding how the product won’t take away their ability to think for themselves. A few took the opportunity of the Super Bowl to change the narrative. There’s no greater opportunity to reach 123 million live viewers at once and get massive press buzz, even if it cost $7 million … Read more

Activist Elliott builds roughly 13% stake in Etsy, secures board seat

The Etsy Sellers Market in Times Square celebrating Etsy’s celebration of its initial public offering at Nasdaq in New York City on April 16, 2015. Paul Zimmerman |  Getty Images Activist investor Elliott Management has a “sizable” investment in e-commerce firm Etsy, which announced on Thursday that Elliott partner Marc Steinberg would join the company’s … Read more

Amazon courts sellers at China summit as Temu and Shein gain momentum

Packages move along a conveyor at an Amazon fulfillment center on Cyber Monday in Robbinsville, New Jersey, U.S., on Monday, Nov. 29, 2021. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon is making a fresh appeal to China-based sellers as it fends off growing competition from discount online retailers Temu and Shein, which both have … Read more