American Express and 4 More Companies That Raised Their Stock Dividends

American Express Oracle and Johnson Controls were among the large U.S. companies that declared dividend increases this week. It was a fairly light week for such announcements, with earnings season hav...

Warren Buffett Muses on Berkshire Hathaway’s Future in Annual Letter

Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett is looking to shape the company for when he’s gone. At a time when other famous conglomerates like General Electric (ticker: GE) are splitting up into multiple mo...

Dow Stocks To Trade In February

AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Here is how the month of February breaks down in terms of the odds of a higher market from 4 views: All Februarys: 5...

No Sign Of ‘Recessionary Signals’ As Credit Card Spending Soars

Topline American Express shares surged Friday after the U.S.’ second-largest credit card company posted strong quarterly earnings, with American Express brass boasting about its wealthier consumer bas...

American Express stock climbs after dividend boost, upbeat earnings forecast

American Express Co. exceeded $50 billion in annual revenue last year for the first time, buoyed by continued strong spending levels among its customer base. While the card giant came up short of prof...

Tesla, AT&T, Visa, Chevron, Microsoft, and More Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

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Berkshire Hathaway Cuts Stake in U.S. Bancorp By More Than Half

A new filing indicates that Berkshire Hathaway cut its stake in U.S. Bancorp by 56% to 52.5 million shares that are now worth $2.4 billion. In a form 13-G filing dated Thursday, Berkshire Hathaway (BR...

Market Volatility Spells Opportunity for Options-Savvy Investors

Text size American Express stock offers a way to monetize the view that the wealthy won’t be terribly affected by an economic downturn. Nora Tarvus/Dreamstime.com Once again, the stock market is confr...

Berkshire Hathaway Could Owe Billions on Stock Gains Under the New Tax Law

Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, likes holding favorite stocks forever. Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images Text size Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett has long said that his favorite i...

China’s Retaliation to Pelosi’s Trip Keeps Chips Off the Menu for Now

China’s fresh blockade of food imports from Taiwan wasn’t enough to further destabilize markets nervous about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s historic visit to the island. Beijing’s four days of military...

Berkshire Hathaway Seems Headed for a 20% Stake in Occidental

Text size Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett likes energy companies. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc Berkshire Hathaway has rapidly increased its stake in Occidental Petroleum to 17.4...

Berkshire Hathaway’s Equity Portfolio Is Down An Estimated $65 Billion So Far in This Quarter

Text size Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway wasn’t a buyer of its own stock in April, but that might have changed with the market’s recent drop. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortun...

Bank of America and 4 More Financial Stocks for a Tough Market

Text size Bank of America is Wells Fargo’s top pick among the large U.S. banks. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images One couldn’t blame investors in the financial sector for feeling discouraged this year. Goi...

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Is Taking a $30 Billion Hit on Apple

Text size Apple makes up 40% of Berkshire Hathaway’s equity portfolio. Dreamstime Warren Buffett loves Apple , but Berkshire Hathaway’s big holding in the iPhone maker is hurting: Apple shares a...

Dow makes 612-point turnaround as Nasdaq leads rebound in final hour of trading

U.S. stocks rallied in the final hour of trading on Monday as some investors interpreted the 10-year Treasury yield’s breach of 3% as a sign that the bond-market’s selloff may have exhausted itself fo...

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Spent Billions on Chevron. This Might Be Why.

Text size Photograph by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images There is a cottage industry on Wall Street predicting what would Warren would buy. That, of course, refers to Berkshire Hathawa y (ticker: BRK.B) C...

Warren Buffett Says Markets Have Become a ‘Gambling Parlor’

OMAHA, Neb.—As recently as February, Warren Buffett lamented he wasn’t finding much out there that was worth buying.  That is no longer the case. After a yearslong deal drought, Mr. Buffett’s Berkshir...

Berkshire Hathaway: Live Coverage of the Annual Shareholders Meeting

OMAHA, Neb.—The Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders meeting is back in person for 2022, after a two-year pandemic hiatus moved the so-called “Woodstock for Capitalists” online. Warren Buffett addre...

Why did the stock market fall? Dow finishes nearly 1,000 points lower in worst day since October 2020

U.S. stocks fell sharply on Friday to suffer their biggest one-day drop since 2020, as investors continued to weigh hawkish comments on interest rates a day earlier by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome ...

8 Companies That Raised Their Stock Dividends This Week

Text size Colgate-Palmolive raised its stock dividend this week. Rene Van Den Berg/Dreamstime.com Colgate-Palmolive , Dick’s Sporting Goods , and Applied Materials were among the large U.S. companies ...

American Express stock a rare Dow gainer, after dividend raised by 21%

Shares of American Express Co. AXP, -1.00% rose 0.3% in morning trading Thursday, to buck the selloff in its financial peers and the broader stock market, after the credit card and travel-related serv...

Yale professor is keeping tabs on companies still operating in Russia despite Ukraine invasion — and the list includes some household names

A Yale professor and his research team are keeping tabs on companies that are still operating in Russia in the wake of its invasion of neighboring Ukraine — and the list includes many household names....

Berkshire Hathaway’s Stake in American Express Is Poised to Hit 20%

Text size Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc Berkshire Hathaway ‘s longstanding stake in American Express is set to hit the 20% threshold in the coming...

Should You Buy PayPal Stock After Its Big Drop? Don’t Rush In.

PayPal refrained from reiterating growth targets, trimmed its forecasts, and said it was shifting strategy away from growing its user base in its latest earnings. Dreamstime Text size PayPal Holdings ...