U.S. stocks fall on last trading day of 2022, booking monthly losses and worst year since 2008

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....

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...

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...

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...

This asset will crush all others in 2023, says hedge-fund manager who nailed one big call of 2022

As 2022 winds down and investors reflect on a horrendous year, they can take some comfort in the fact that the big guys also had their share of misses. Among them is Harris Kupperman, the president of...

Gold prices near highest levels since June as U.S. dollar weakens

Gold and silver prices were trading slightly higher on Tuesday as the U.S. dollar slipped, while industrial metals like copper suffered even as news of China lifting Covid restrictions to reopen its e...

U.S. stocks end higher, but S&P 500 logs 3rd straight weekly decline ahead of Christmas

U.S. stocks ended higher in a choppy, preholiday session Friday as an inflation report and a raft of other data did little to change expectations that the Federal Reserve would likely continue hiking ...

Big institutional investors ​are buying ​while retail investors are dumping stock funds and ETFs. That’s bullish for the market.

The stock market’s longer-term prospects are looking up, according to flow data for U.S. equity mutual funds and ETFs. That’s because institutional investors over the past 12 months have poured signif...

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...

Micron earnings: Memory-chip slowdown appears to be far from over

Micron Technology Inc. shares have fallen more than 45% this year, but the memory-chip specialist is not out of the woods yet, as demand for its core product continues to be weak. Micron MU, -2.01% is...

Markets for Critical Minerals Are Too Prone to Failure

Text size Workers inspect an open cast at Arcadia Lithium mine on January 11, 2022 in Goromonzi, Zimbabwe. Tafadzwa Ufumeli/Getty Images About the authors: Cullen Hendrix is senior fellow at the Peter...

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...

Nucor, CVS, and 11 More Companies That Raised Their Stock Dividends This Week

Eli Lilly Amgen Nucor and Franklin Resources were among the many companies that declared dividend increases this week. Eli Lilly (ticker: LLY) declared a quarterly payout of $1.13 a share, an increase...

Gold prices end higher, pare their loss for the week

Gold futures ended higher on Friday after a volatile week that saw prices climb to a nearly six-month high but post a weekly decline, pressured by expectations for higher U.S. interest rates. Price ac...

SEC alleges $100 million stock manipulation scheme via social media

The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a lawsuit against eight individuals who allegedly earned $100 million via stock manipulation. Charges were filed against social-media users including E...

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...

Buy Regal Rexnord Stock. The Industrial Company’s Shares Could Gain 40%.

Zigging when everyone is zagging can be a good strategy, even if it means some short-term pain. That appears to be the case with Regal Rexnord whose stock looks like a buy following a recent selloff. ...

Netflix, Workday, Costco, Caterpillar and more: These stocks are Cowen’s favorites for 2023

Across the market, Cowen & Co. analysts see undervalued stocks. They rolled out their individual best picks late in the week, highlighting their takes on compelling plays in healthcare, technology...

Gold prices log highest finish in just over a week after U.S. inflation data

Gold prices on Friday marked their highest finish in just over a week, after the U.S. November producer-price inflation came in slightly higher than expected. Price action February gold GC00, -0.07%  ...

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...

Broadcom refuses to provide full-year outlook, cites limited visibility as it ‘scrubs’ backlog

Broadcom Inc. late Thursday gave Wall Street analysts quarterly earnings and an outlook that topped consensus estimates, hiked its dividend and recommitted to share buybacks, yet analysts kept asking ...

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...

Intel begins layoffs and offers unpaid leave to manufacturing workers

The layoffs and cost-cutting that Intel Corp. executives recently warned about have begun in California, with a couple of hundred employees set to lose their jobs next month, and manufacturing employe...

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...

10 Dividend Aristocrat stocks expected by analysts to rise up to 54% in 2023

Stocks of companies that raise dividends consistently have outperformed during this year’s bear market. Below is a screen showing which stocks are analysts’ favorites for next year among an expanded l...

Why Splunk Stock Is Worth a Look

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...

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...