A recent deal by Altria Group involving its stake in Juul Labs could pave the way for the sale of the cigarette maker’s $11 billion interest in Anheuser-Busch Inbev Altria (ticker: MO) last week swapp...
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Berkshire Hathaway Exec Ajit Jain’s Foundation Sells $2 Million of Stock
Berkshire Hathaway stock trounced the market last year, but so far this year, the shares are lagging behind. A foundation established by one of the conglomerate’s executives just sold a substantial am...
Apple and Meta Stock Buybacks Haven’t Been Equal. Here’s Why.
Investors love stock buybacks, but they don’t always spur the types of returns one might imagine. It takes a discerning eye to identify companies with buybacks that create significant gains for shareh...
Applied Materials’ Gloomy Memory-Chip Outlook Is Bad News for PCs
The outlook for memory chip demand keeps deteriorating. On Thursday, the largest chip-equipment maker in the world Applied Materials (ticker: AMAT ) reported slightly better-than-expected overall resu...
Natural-Gas Slump Could Last, Says Producer EQT
After soaring to 14-year highs in 2022, U.S. natural-gas prices have fallen 45% this year. The country’s largest gas producer doesn’t expect a rebound for many months. EQT (ticker: EQT), a Pittsburgh-...
Coke and 5 Other Consumer Stocks to Buy Now
Consumer staples have slipped from their highs, but some have been unfairly swept under the rug. In 2022, staples weren’t immune to market turmoil, but they were safer than many other sectors: Consume...
EV Battery Maker QuantumScape’s Stock Is Plunging After a Run-Up
QuantumScape stock saw a wild gain on Wednesday, ahead of reporting a narrower-than-expected fourth-quarter loss after the market close. Shares are plunging Thursday morning. What’s more, the plunge i...
Stocks Aren’t Falling When Bond Yields Rise. It’s a Problem.
In the post-Covid world, the stock market is supposed to go down when bond yields go up, but recently, stocks haven’t reacted much to the bond market. Something has to give. In roughly the past month...
‘Big Short’ Michael Burry Bets on Alibaba and JD.com. And Wall Street Agrees.
Michael Burry, the investor whose bearish wager on the U.S. mortgage market before the 2008-09 financial crisis made him famous in the book and movie “The Big Short,” is betting on beaten-down Chinese...
Avaya Stock Is Worthless. The Company Filed Chapter 11.
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Three Oil Stocks Exposed to Natural-Gas Plunge
Natural-gas prices have tumbled this year because of warm weather and high levels of gas in storage in Europe and elsewhere. U.S. prices are down 45% to $2.46 per million British thermal units. The dr...
Tesla Stock Is Down Again. It’s Not From EV Competition.
Tesla stock is down again, dropping for a second consecutive day. Are investors fretting about more electric-vehicle competition? Probably not. The stock chart is a better explanation for Monday’s dip...
Tesla Stock Tops $200. Here’s What Happens Next.
Tesla stock just won’t stop going up. Shareholders should feel happy, but they should keep asking themselves what comes next. Shares are up 2.3% at $201.35 in midday trading Wednesday. The S&P 500...
AI Stocks Are Soaring. It’s a Feeding Frenzy That Won’t End Well.
Investors are in a feeding frenzy over artificial-intelligence software plays, and you have to think this isn’t going to end well. You can date the start of the AI stock craze to the Nov. 30 launch of...
A Successful EV Start-Up Needs Cars, Capacity, and Cash
The company that provided the chassis for the original Tesla Roadster has reimagined itself as an electric-vehicle start-up. The market doesn’t have much love for EV start-ups in general these days, b...
C3.ai, BigBearAI, and SoundHound Stock Are Soaring in an AI Feeding Frenzy
Investors are in a feeding frenzy over artificial-intelligence software plays, and you have to think this isn’t going to end well. You can date the start of the AI stock craze to the Nov. 30 launch of...
The Stock Market Wants an Easy Fed. Powell Has Other Plans.
Traders have placed a near definite chance for the Federal Reserve to slow down its pace of interest rate hikes once again on Wednesday, when it finishes its February meeting, and then perhaps a cut l...
C3.ai Stock Is Soaring. It’s Launching AI Software Tools.
C3.ai stock is soaring Tuesday after the company announced the launch of a set of tools for generative artificial intelligence applications, jumping into the middle of what might be the hottest trend ...
Tesla Stock Was Supposed to Hit a Wall by Now. It Just Keeps Climbing.
Tesla stock is hard to figure. It always seems to surprise. Investors could always use help figuring out what comes next. Stock charts are as good a place as any to start. Tesla (ticker: TSLA) reporte...
Intel Set to Report Earnings. Here’s What to Expect.
Intel will be first major computer-chip maker to report fourth-quarter earnings after the market closes. Wall Street has low expectations. According to FactSet, the analyst consensus estimate is that ...
Chevron’s Higher Dividend Yield Now Tops Exxon’s
Chevron raised its dividend, and announced a new round of buybacks valued at up to $75 billion late on Wednesday, sending shares 2.6% higher in after-hours trading. The energy giant boosted the quart...
J&J Reports Earnings Tuesday. What to Expect.
Johnson & Johnson CEO Joaquin Duato’s warning earlier this month that the outlook for 2023 remains uncertain is tempering investor expectations ahead of the company’s earnings reports on Tuesday. ...
GM May Be Cutting a Battery Plant. What That Means for Its EV Spending.
Text size GM and Renewable Innovations are collaborating on a rapid charger that can help gas stations add fast-charging capabilities. Courtesy GM General Motors has plans to be a big seller of electr...
Big Tech Stocks Could Rebound Big Time. Here’s How.
With markets off to a strong start this year, led by the Nasdaq Composite ‘s 5% gain, investors may be hoping that stocks will shrug off the gloomy scenarios that ruled 2022 like last month’s leftover...
Tesla Has Too Many Cars to Sell. It Needs to Cut Prices.
Tesla has a new problem. U.S. inventories of its popular Model Y are ballooning because of tax-credit confusion. There is a solution to its electric-vehicle glut, though. Inventories of Model Y SUV ar...
The New EV Tax Credits Don’t Make Sense
Finally something the left and the right can agree on. The U.S. government electric-vehicle new purchase tax credits don’t make sense. At least the government is now accepting ideas on how to fix the ...
Berkshire Hathaway Could Face Big Tax Hit if Bull Market Resumes
Berkshire Hathaway could face a sizable tax bill if the bull market resumes this year. Ever since a 15% corporate minimum tax was included in the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022, there has been uncert...
Tesla Misses Delivery Estimates. Now Wall Street Is Worried About This.
Tesla ‘s fourth-quarter deliveries disappointed, and shares are dropping again. Wall Street analysts are cutting price targets, worried about not only electric-vehicle demand, but profit margins too. ...
Piedmont Lithium Stock Is Soaring After Amended Tesla Deal
Lithium-mining start up Piedmont Lithium and electric-vehicle giant Tesla have amended a deal that will give Tesla greater domestic supply of the metal that goes into EV batteries. Tuesday, Piedmont (...
Tesla 4th Quarter EV Deliveries Disappointed. What It Means for the Stock.
Text size Wall Street projects about 420,000 deliveries for the fourth quarter of 2022, which would bring Tesla’s full-year total to more than 1.3 million cars. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Tesla stoc...
Tesla Deliveries Are Coming. Here’s What to Expect.
Text size Wall Street projects about 420,000 deliveries for the fourth quarter of 2022, which would bring Tesla’s full-year total to more than 1.3 million cars. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Tesla inve...
Buy Apple and IBM Stock Ahead of Earnings, Says Analyst
With tech earnings season now dead ahead, investors are tweaking their portfolios ahead of what could be a tumultuous period for the group, with the Street anticipating generally weak guidance for 202...