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Top Stories : 2017April28Friday

Weekend Sip: Why Martha Stewart wants you to drink more wine

Trump’s first 100 days: What to do when your job is harder than you expected

The Tell: Don’t call the credit market a bubble, says Oaktree’s Howard Marks

Netflix shares expected to underperform, but its bonds may be a buy

These are the 5 U.S. companies with the biggest overseas cash piles

MarketWatch First Take: Amazon is worth so much because its cloud business is tech’s true unicorn

Key Words: China’s leader thinks in terms of 100-year increments while U.S. yardstick is 140 characters

Philip Moeller on America’s middle class: ‘Millennials have a much harder road to go’

Fyre Festival disaster: This is what happens when you believe everything you read on Instagram

The Ratings Game: This is ‘as good as it gets,’ says Pacific Crest as it downgrades Amazon

Real-time headlines : 2017April28Friday

Qualcomm stock price target cut to $61 from $63 at Susquehanna

Gold prices up about 1.3% for the month, but lose 1.6% on week

June gold rises $2.40, or 0.2%, to settle at $1,268.30/oz

June WTI oil barely budges after rig data, trades at $49.18/bbl

U.S. total weekly active drilling-rig count up 13 at 870: Baker Hughes

U.S. weekly active oil-rig count up 9 at 697: Baker Hughes

Skyworks Solutions stock price target raised to $115 from $105 at Canaccord Genuity

Western Digital stock price target raised to $120 from $81 at Morgan Stanley

Western Digital upgraded to overweight at Morgan Stanley

Amazon stock price target raised to $1,050 from $975 at CFRA

Market Pulse : 2017April28Friday

Gold prices gain for the month, but fall for the week

Baker Hughes data show U.S. oil-rig count up a 15th week in a row

Cloudera opens above issue price gaining market cap of $2.28 billion

Kellogg announces plan for 4% dividend hike to 54 cents a share, starting with Q3

Columbia Sportswear downgraded as store closures impact sales growth outlook

Carvana shares trading 13% below issue price in market debut

Amazon still refuses to buy back its stock

S&P 500, Dow open modestly higher; Nasdaq opens in record territory

Amazon's results weren't 'meaningful' enough for Raymond James to return to bullish stance

Amazon's average stock target soars to $1,048.16

Breaking News: 2017April28Friday

Senate follows House in passing one-week funding bill

House passes one-week funding bill to avert government shutdown

Shares of car-vending-machine company Carvana trade below IPO price in debut

Amazon still refusing to buy back its stock

Nasdaq kicks off Friday session in record territory; Dow, S&P slip

House won't vote this week on revised health bill

U.S. economic growth rate slows sharply

Time Inc. board decides not to sell company, sending stock down 19% premarket

ExxonMobil shares up some 1% premarket after oil giant reports earnings beat

Qualcomm's shares down over 6% premarket on profit warning blamed on Apple

Internet Stories: 2017April28Friday

MarketWatch First Take: Amazon is worth so much because its cloud business is tech’s true unicorn

The Ratings Game: This is ‘as good as it gets,’ says Pacific Crest as it downgrades Amazon

Market Snapshot: Nasdaq sets intraday record, but broader market struggles

Earnings Outlook: Apple earnings: As users spend more, services revenue grows

The Ratings Game: Google parent Alphabet has revenue drivers ahead, but also growing costs

Amazon hasn’t bought its own stock in five years

Top Ten: Weekend roundup: How Trump’s tax plan may affect you | Stocks that can pop from tax reform | 100 days

‘The Circle’s’ dystopian future feels a lot like the present

MarketWatch First Take: Google survives YouTube ad controversy, for now

Financial Services: 2017April28Friday

Philip Moeller on America’s middle class: ‘Millennials have a much harder road to go’

Outside the Box: How to deal with the haters who don’t support your early-retirement dreams

Europe Markets: European stocks drop for second day as euro rises after inflation data

London Markets: FTSE 100 falls as Barclays drops, pound holds gains after GDP data

Top Ten: Weekend roundup: How Trump’s tax plan may affect you | Stocks that can pop from tax reform | 100 days

‘The Circle’s’ dystopian future feels a lot like the present

Why Trump should have ditched the mortgage-interest deduction

Perhaps the less a president does in the first 100 days, the better

These Americans will never get Social Security benefits — and we don’t mean millennials

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