U.S. stocks ended lower Friday, booking their worst annual losses since 2008, as tax-loss harvesting along with anxieties about the outlook for corporate profits and the U.S. consumer took their toll....
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Is the U.S. stock market open the day after New Year’s?
Many investors likely can’t wait for a brutal 2022 to end. Stocks are facing their worst annual performance since 2008, while bond returns are the worst in decades or, in some cases, in history. The c...
Dow ends over 350 points lower as investors weigh housing data, 2023 recession concerns
U.S. stocks finished sharply lower on Wednesday, as investors assessed economic data on the housing market amid concerns over rising interest rates and economic growth in 2023. How stock indexes trade...
Carnival stock is suffering its worst year on record, but looks ‘overly compelling’ to this analyst
Shares of Carnival Corp. have had a really bad year, even worse than the pandemic year of 2020. And that’s what makes Stifel Nicolaus analyst Steven Wieczynski believe the stock is now “overly compell...
Royal Caribbean Stock Could Rise 35%. How It Beat Other Cruise Lines With its Recovery.
These reports, excerpted and edited by Barron’s, were issued recently by investment and research firms. The reports are a sampling of analysts’ thinking; they should not be considered the views or rec...
Opinion: Opinion: The Fed should pause rate hikes since inflation has slowed — it won’t
The Federal Reserve should declare an immediate cease fire in its war against inflation and hold its benchmark interest rate steady instead of raising the federal funds by a half percentage point to a...
Vanguard sees a recession in 2023 — and one ‘silver lining’ for investors
The last 12 months was a year of fast-rising inflation, fast-rising interest rates and fast-rising questions about a future recession. Prices went up while stock markets and savings account balances w...
Dow on verge of a ‘golden cross,’ even as BlackRock predicts historic recession
Despite worries about inflation and an impending recession, there is at least one sign that some bullish market technical analysts might latch onto. An upbeat golden cross appears to be forming in the...
Norwegian Stock Is a Buy, Royal Caribbean Is a Sell, Says Analyst. Here’s Why.
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings has strong growth opportunities, while Royal Caribbean Group will be dealing with near-term funding requirements, according to a J.P. Morgan analyst. Daniel Adam assumed...
Apple, AMD confirm they’re among TSMC’s first Arizona customers, while Intel preps for return to cutting edge in 2023
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook confirmed at an event Tuesday that the tech giant will be one of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s first Arizona fab customers, while Intel Corp. hopes to jo...
Why this cruise stock remains JPMorgan’s favorite as leisure travel keeps roaring
The outlook for cruise stocks is still “more positive than not,” according to JPMorgan analyst Daniel Adam, but given macroeconomic and financial concerns in the sector, not all names are worth buying...
Why Monday’s selloff in the stock market could be the start of the next leg lower
Monday’s punishing selloff could be the beginning of the next leg lower for stocks as a sense of complacency has taken hold in markets following a stellar October and November, several strategists tol...
S&P 500, Nasdaq post worst day in month after strong data fuels worry about Fed rate hikes
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite indexes recorded their worst day in almost a month on Monday, after a hotter-than-expected U.S. services-sector reading fueled concerns that the Federal Reserve ma...
Buy Zillow stock now to profit from ‘brighter environment’ next year, UBS says
Investors should buy Zillow Group Inc. now, UBS says, even if they have to wait a year before the U.S. housing market starts improving. Analyst Lloyd Walmsley initiated research coverage of the online...
20 EV stocks that could rebound the most in 2023
Even as electric-vehicle sales have been gaining traction, associated stocks have been crushed during 2022, led by Tesla. Below is a screen of stocks of companies involved in the development, producti...