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Occidental Petroleum CEO Vicki Hollub Buys Stock After Warren Buffett Did
Text size Vicki Hollub, CEO of Occidental Petroleum. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Occidental Petroleum has had quite a year, and CEO Vicki Hollub just bought shares of the energy explorer on the open mar...
Buy Kellogg and Four Other Food Stocks for Rising Inflation. Two to Avoid.
Text size Beyond Meat patties on a shelf Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images Inflation is driving up prices at the grocery store, but rising wages and high savings rates have given consumers some abil...
Henry Ford’s Great-Grandson Buys Up Ford Stock
Text size Ford Motor has been hurt by cost inflation, rising interest rates, and persistent parts shortages. Dreamstime Ford Motor stock has slipped so far this year, and Executive Chair Bill Ford, gr...
Boeing’s 737 MAX 10 Faces Delays. It Might Not Be a Major Problem.
Text size A Boeing 737 MAX 10 airliner. Ellen Banner-Pool/Getty Images Boeing stock is lower Monday morning. The company’s regulatory woes might be creating another overhang in the shares. The new iss...
8 Stocks That Are Negative Since Pandemic Low—and 1 That Just Turned Positive
Text size Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty Images Intel stock on Friday capped off its best week in more than a year. The stock’s surge helped shares break above the $50 mark, and also propelled the company...
The 8 Stocks in the S&P 500 That Are Still Negative Since the Pandemic Lows
Text size Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty Images Intel stock on Friday capped off its best week in more than a year. The stock’s surge helped shares break above the $50 mark, and also propelled the company...
U.S.-Europe Deal on LNG Has a Few Holes. These Stocks Should Still Benefit.
Text size A cargo ship transporting liquefied natural gas. Dreamstime The U.S. and Europe have agreed to a deal in principle that would ensure a steady stream of U.S. liquefied natural gas is sent to ...
Apple, Tesla, and 98 Other Growth Stocks That Are Getting Their Groove Back
Text size Apple stock fell 18% from Jan. 3 to March 14. Dale Del La Rey/AFP via Getty Images Growth stocks like Apple and Tesla have had quite the time these past four months–retreating, then roaring....
PepsiCo and 4 Other ‘Low-Volatility’ Stocks That Can Beat the Market
Text size Pepsi products for sale Mario Tama/Getty Images Investors have been buying up low-volatility stocks to protect their portfolios against stock market declines. These stable stocks can probabl...
Warren Buffett’s Deal for Alleghany Is Great for Berkshire, So-So for Alleghany
Berkshire Hathaway ’s agreement to buy insurer Alleghany for $11.6 billion looks like an excellent deal for Berkshire, but only a so-so one for Alleghany. Berkshire Hathaway (ticker: BRK. A and BRK. B...
The Boeing 737 Crash Isn’t Worrying the Market. How We Know.
Text size A China Eastern Airlines Corp. passenger aircraft at Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg A plane crash in China has clearly shaken investor confidence in Boeing . S...
EV Stock Workhorse Has Tumbled. CEO Rich Dauch Bought Up Shares.
Text size A Workhorse vehicle Courtesy Workhorse Workhorse Group stock hit a nearly two-year low a few weeks ago, and CEO Rich Dauch and executive Stan March just bought up shares of the electric-vehi...
Honeywell Lost Its Software Leader to Medtronic. Here’s Who Will Succeed Her.
Text size Que Dallara. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for The Wall Street Journal The CEO of Honeywell International’s software division, Honeywell Connected Enterprise, Que Dallara, is leaving the industri...
Cash-Rich Berkshire Hathaway, Apple, and Alphabet Should Gain From Higher Rates
Text size Apple could be earning $4 billion more on its cash by 2023 Sean Gallup/Getty Images With its enormous cash reserves now earning next to nothing, Berkshire Hathaway could be one of the bigger...
Self Driving Stock TuSimple Jumps On a Kind Of New Buy Rating.
Text size TuSimple provides self-driving technology for heavy-duty trucks Courtesy of TuSimple Shares of TuSimple Holdings , a provider of technology for self-driving vehicles, are up in Thursday trad...
Tesla, EV Stock Valuations Make No Sense. Time to Recalibrate.
Text size A man plugs in his electric vehicle for charging Jacques Demarthon/AFP via Getty Images Wild trading, due to a plethora of issues, has made it nearly impossible to track valuation of electri...
EBay Stock Has a New Bull Who Sees a Strong Second Half
eBay’s German headquarters Sean Gallup/Getty Images Text size The market seems to be underestimating e-commerce giant eBay , according to one analyst. Deutsche Bank analyst Lee Horowitz initiate...
Amazon, Alphabet and Eight Other Beaten-Up Growth Stocks Set to Soar
Text size Amazon packages Thomas Samson/AFP via Getty Images Picking beaten-up growth stocks might not feel like a good idea these days, amid rising interest rates, inflation, and geopolitical chaos, ...
Oil Prices Tumble Below $100 and Keep Falling. Here’s Why.
Text size U.S. oil prices fell more than 6% early Tuesday, to below $97 a barrel. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Oil prices extended their slump on Tuesday as West Texas Intermediate crude futures fell be...
Peloton Stock Has Tumbled. Here’s Why Morgan Stanley Isn’t Bullish.
Text size A Peloton exercise bike Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Peloton Interactive stock has dropped more than 40% year to date. Morgan Stanley thinks investors are wise to stick to the sidelines. Analyst L...
Warren Buffett Runs Berkshire Hathaway Like It’s the 1960s.
In some important respects, CEO Warren Buffett runs Berkshire Hathaway like it’s the 1960s, when he took control of the company. CEO and board pay remain at 1960s levels. Top executives are paid entir...
The S&P 500 Just Hit a ‘Death Cross.’ Why It’s Good News for Investors.
Text size Traders working at the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE The S&P 500 has performed so poorly this year that it is now trading at a scarily low level. That usually presents an attractive oppo...
GE’s Power Business Is Its Most Complicated. It Also Holds the Most Potential.
Text size A General Electric wind turbine Sebastien Bozon/AFP via Getty Images Thursday, General Electric management took investors on a deep dive into its embattled power business at an analyst event...
Boeing Stock Is Rising. A New Buy Rating Is on the Radar.
Text size A Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner Joe Raedle/Getty Images Boeing stock is rising faster than the market after an analyst launched coverage with a Buy rating. Boeing (ticker: BA) stock is up 4.4% in ...
Palantir Stock Is Soaring. An Analyst Sees Opportunity in the Dip.
Text size Palantir stock is at “more-reasonable levels,” says an analyst. Dreamstime Palantir stock is trading sharply higher Wednesday after Piper Sandler analyst Weston Twigg launched co...
DraftKings CEO Vows to Make Stock Sellers ‘Regret’ Their Decision
Text size Jason Robins, CEO of DraftKings, vowed to make any seller of the company’s stock “regret that decision.” Marco Bello/Bloomberg DraftKings CEO Jason Robins vowed to make any...
Carvana Is More Like Tesla Than Peloton, Says Analyst
Text size Carvana, an online auto dealer, has seen volatility in its stock. Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images Trading in shares of online-auto-dealer Carvana has been volatile lately as bulls and bear...
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Buys Big Block of Occidental Petroleum Stock
Text size Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, speaks to the press as he arrives at the 2019 annual shareholders meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, May 4, 2019. Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images Berkshi...
Tesla May Have a Path to a $4 Trillion Market Value. Here’s Why.
Text size A Tesla dealership David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Tesla investor Gary Black tweeted out some interesting math Friday. He laid out his case for Tesla’s market capitalization to climb to a whoppi...
Costco Stock Is Slipping Because Investors Wanted More Than Strong Earnings
Text size Shoppers in a Costco store Joe Raedle/Getty Images Costco Wholesale stock is edging lower in late trading even as the discount retailer reported fiscal second-quarter earnings that came in a...
Nvidia Stock Is Rising. There’s a New Street-High Price Target.
Text size Nvidia headquarters Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Nvidia stock edged higher Tuesday after a Tigress Financial Partners analyst raised his price target for chip maker to a new Wall Street high...