Restaurant Stocks Are Finally Coming Back. This One Looks Like a Good Bet.

Text size A recession, if one comes, would be particularly bad news for full-service restaurants. Saul Martinez/Bloomberg Recent market volatility can make anyone’s stomach queasy. Some restaurant sto...

Apple, Visa, Microsoft, Exxon Mobil, Chipotle, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

It will be a busy week on both the micro and macro fronts. Second-quarter earnings season ramps up, as more than 150 S&P 500 firms report, including Big Tech. The Federal Reserve’s policy committe...

Apple, Amazon, Meta Highlight Tech-Heavy Earnings Week

Tech giants Apple Amazon.com and Microsoft headline a busy earnings week amid growing investor fears of recession, rising interest rates and surging inflation. A little more than one-third of S&P ...

How Amazon’s $3.9 billion wager on primary care could change your Prime membership

Amazon’s AMZN, +1.52% $3.9 billion acquisition of One Medical ONEM, +69.45% is the e-commerce giant’s biggest bet on healthcare to date, and it hints at a future in which primary care and streaming op...

‘Squeezable’ AMC, GameStop stocks break out to multi-month highs

Shares of both AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. and GameStop Corp. surged to multi-month highs Wednesday, as they extended breakouts above previous chart resistance levels. The rallies come after Ihor ...

GameStop, AMC, EV Startups, and Others Are Among the Most Shorted Stocks

Text size Lordstown Motors is on a list of squeezable stocks. Courtesy Lordstown Motors Investors who have bet against the electric-vehicle industry should take note. Five of 25 U.S. companies that th...

What a Netflix crackdown on password sharing could look like

Netflix Inc. has vowed to clamp down on password sharing as it looks to improve its financial fortunes, and the company just shared more details about how it will do that. The company plans to make cu...

Toys Are Staples, Making Mattel a Buy in a Recession, Says Analyst

Shares of Mattel rose this past Monday, but fell for the week, after an upgrade from Goldman Sachs analyst Michael Ng, who argued that the toy maker had the ability to navigate economic uncertainties....

A psychologist’s 5 steps to stop panicking about your 401(k)

In the fall of 2008, when global stock markets were imploding, I happened to be in New York. I switched on the TV in my hotel room and saw financial commentator Suze Orman on Larry King Live. She took...

Opinion: ‘Quality’ companies are getting stronger yet their shares are down in this selloff. This is how to find the bargains.

If you’re a long-term investor, this year’s selloff is good news because it offers a great chance to pick up quality companies at a discount. But wait a second. If a company is “high quality,” why wou...

Miami’s Gold Rush: Finance Firms and Crypto Move In, Bringing Strains

From his new office in Miami Beach, real-estate investor Barry Sternlicht is only steps from the ocean. His waterfront mansion is just a short drive away. Cold winters and state income taxes are a thi...

Netflix Q2 Subscriber Losses Could Be Worse Than Forecast, Analyst Warns

Text size The Netflix logo on top of its office building in Hollywood. Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty Images It’s now been almost three months since Netflix shocked investors with a very ugly first-quarte...

Amazon and Grubhub Strike Deal to Bring Restaurant Delivery to Prime Members

Amazon.com agreed to add Grubhub to its suite of Prime services in the U.S., in a deal aimed at expanding the food-ordering company’s reach by tapping Amazon’s membership program. Grubhub’s parent, Ne...

Stocks Had a Nasty 6 Months. The Second Half Could Be Ugly Too.

Text size Bond markets are pricing in significant additional interest-rate hikes this year, but some stock analysts’ earnings forecasts remain optimistic. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg It was a first half d...

Gas prices edge down just in time for July Fourth travel — here’s why

It’s a cool breeze during a hot moment, but it’s not the summer weather. As record-breaking numbers of Americans pack their cars and travel to Fourth of July barbecues that will cost them more than la...

Las Vegas Sands Stock Could Win Big as China Eases Zero-Covid Rules

Text size The Venetian Macao resort and casino, owned by Las Vegas Sands. Billy H.C. Kwok/Bloomberg China’s decision to ease its entry requirements for international travelers is a step toward a fulle...

The Best Income Investments Now

Income-oriented investors, it’s time to celebrate. There are suddenly many more opportunities—in areas ranging from junk bonds to real estate investment trusts—after the bear markets in stocks and bon...

‘I wouldn’t be successful at my job without her’: My friend cleans, cooks and cares for my child. I pay her $50 a day. Am I taking advantage of her?

I’m a working-from-home mom and my supervisors have no intentions of bringing me back to the office at this time. In order to actually get work done, I have pieced together childcare using the help of...

This veteran money manager has seen it all. And these 19 dividend stocks pass his rigorous quality screen right now.

Lewis Altfest’s time in the finance industry spans seven decades. He has some words of advice for investors who aren’t used to stomach-churning stock-price moves. He founded Altfest Personal Wealth Ma...

Wall Street’s favorite stock sector has potential upside of 43% as we enter the second half of 2022

At the midpoint of 2022, investors are looking at a remarkable change in stock valuations. The S&P 500 SPX has declined 20%, but the benchmark index’s forward price-to-earnings valuation has falle...

Grubhub CEO Says Sale Isn’t Imminent, as Owner Seeks a Partner

CHICAGO—Grubhub Chief Executive Adam DeWitt said company parent Just Eat Takeaway.com NV hopes to find a strategic partner to invest in the U.S. online ordering company, though an outright sale isn’t ...

DraftKings Lands New Bull as Profitability Nears. This Analyst Also Likes Penn.

Text size Casinos are traditionally unaffected even in a recession scenario. Ethan Miller/Getty Images DraftKings and Penn National Gaming stocks will outperform the market by selling additional produ...

Bosses Swear by the 90-Day Rule to Keep Workers Long Term

In the quest to retain workers, companies are sharpening their focus on a very specific common goal: 90 days. Hold on to an employee for three months, executives and human-resources specialists say, a...

Buy Starbucks Stock. Shares Could Be Ready to Run.

China’s economic slowdown is among the factors pressuring Starbucks shares. Above, dispensing coffee to customers on the go in Hangzhou. Long Wei/VCG/Getty Images Text size A sequel is seldom as good ...

Stock Market Closed for Juneteenth, June Economic Data, and More to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed on Monday in observance of Juneteenth. There will be a handful of earnings reports, annual shareholders meetings, and economic-data rele...

These 16 stocks in the S&P 500 crumpled at least 9% a day after the Fed raised rates

One day after U.S. stocks got a reprieve as the Federal Reserve lifted its target range for short-term interest rates by 0.75 percentage point, inflation fears built a new wall of worry to send U.S. s...

Opinion: ‘The stock market is not going to zero’: How this individual investor with 70 years of experience is trading the bear market

Not many investors can claim a lifetime of stock-market success. Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway BRK.A, -1.94% BRK.B, -1.39% comes to mind, of course, but what about Warren Kaplan? Who? Kaplan is...

McDonald’s in Russia Reopens Under New Ownership

MOSCOW—More than a dozen former McDonald’s restaurants reopened here under a new brand and new ownership, accompanied by a marketing blitz aimed at convincing Russians that the new chain’s burgers are...

These 19 large-cap stocks have now dropped at least 60% from their 52-week highs

The latest inflation figures on June 10 were worse than expected and the effect on stock prices was brutal. A list of stocks in the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq-100 Index that have fallen at least 60% f...

‘I thought it was a sick joke’: They gave up other job offers to work for Coinbase, and are now unemployed

When Hao Jia received an email from Coinbase that his job offer had been rescinded, he was on his way to watch “Top Gun: Maverick,” the blockbuster movie starring Tom Cruise. Jia’s girlfriend had aske...

Reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley found guilty on fraud, tax-evasion charges

ATLANTA — Todd and Julie Chrisley, stars of the reality television show “Chrisley Knows Best,” were found guilty Tuesday in Atlanta on federal charges including bank fraud and tax evasion. The Chrisle...

Short sellers raise bets against GameStop and AMC to highest level in a year as Wall Street sees more pain ahead

Investors are once again working up the fortitude to bet against GameStop and AMC roughly 18 months after last January’s infamous “meme stock” short squeeze sent GameStop shares surging more than 1,00...