How Gautam Adani Made (and Could Lose) a $147 Billion Fortune

Listen to article (2 minutes) AHMEDABAD, India—Gautam Adani is ubiquitous in this country. His name is plastered on roadside billboards and on the airports and shipping docks he operates. His power pl...

NXP Semiconductor stock falls as outlook comes up short of expectations

NXP Semiconductors NV shares dropped in the extended session Monday after the chip maker’s quarterly forecast fell short of Wall Street expectations. NXP NXPI, -1.13% forecast earnings of $2.82 to $3....

Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google face earnings test amid Big Tech layoffs

In the biggest week of the holiday-earnings season, Big Tech results will receive the spotlight amid thousands of layoffs that could only be the beginning. After tech stocks were decimated in 2022, in...

Blackstone Stock Is a Good Investment, Even in a Downbeat Economy

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...

IBM’s layoffs aren’t helping the stock, as analysts still fret about cash flow

International Business Machines Corp. shares slumped Thursday after analysts picked apart Big Blue’s free cash flow results and outlook amid layoffs, and found a “mixed blessing” in the company’s driv...

Why Layoffs at 3M, Dow Are More Concerning Than Amazon, Google and Microsoft

Layoffs are spreading beyond tech. That’s a troubling trend investors should be paying attention to. On Thursday, chemicals giant Dow Inc. (ticker: DOW) reported weaker-than-expected fourth-quarter nu...

Intel stock drops nearly 10% after earnings miss, execs predict quarterly loss as data-center market shrinks

Intel Corp. shares dropped more than 9% in the extended session Thursday after the chip maker reported a big miss for the fourth quarter, forecast a loss for the first quarter, said the data-center ma...

Dow Inc. Warns of Weakness, to Lay Off 2,000 Workers as Earnings Fall

Chemicals giant Dow Inc. sees the global economy slowing down and is preparing for weakness by cutting costs and focusing on cash generation. That’s the right playbook for a weak operating environment...

Opinion: Central banks are buying gold at the fastest rate in half a century

Here’s another reason why it may not be completely insane to add some gold bullion to your 401(k) or retirement account. Central banks are stocking up. Three economists—Serkan Arslanalp and Chima Simp...

Lam Research to trim 7% of workforce, increase R&D spending as memory-chip crunch hits outlook

Lam Research Corp. shares declined in the extended session Wednesday after the silicon-foundry equipment supplier said it will cut its workforce by 7%, while increasing the portion it spends on R&...

Intel stock’s dividend sticks out among chip makers. But a cut may be coming.

Semiconductor stocks have been on a tear so far this year, following a difficult 2022. But now that we’re in the thick of fourth-quarter earnings season, investors will be questioning whether or not I...

Don’t let the ‘bear market house of mirrors’ fool you, Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson warns of the stock market

An important week for earnings is straight ahead, with the spotlight on updates from the tech space, which has been laying off thousands of workers. Among those not expecting good news in the earnings...

Earnings Watch: Microsoft, Tesla and Intel are about to face the doubters

After one of the worst years in Wall Street’s history, investors have some serious questions for companies. As holiday returns roll in — and with them, forecasts for the months or year ahead — many ha...

‘Overbought and overpriced’: This investor sees a bubble popping for one popular group of stocks

Investors wouldn’t be blamed for sizing up the first losing week in three for the S&P 500 and decide to start the weekend early. Stocks are on the rise in early action, but that won’t sway five-da...

The 1980s was the blueprint for the upcoming disinflation cycle and these are the stocks for it, strategists say

Stocks logged a third-straight losing session on Thursday as investors continue to deal with a mixed bag of economic data. That followed Wednesday’s session and extremely weak industrial production th...

Dow drops over 600 points, posts worst day of year after weak economic data, hawkish Fed remarks erase inflation cheer

U.S. stock indexes finished sharply lower on Wednesday, with both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 index booking their worst day in over a month, after data on falling retail sales...

10 simple investments that can turn your portfolio into an income dynamo

Many people are good at saving up money for retirement. They manage expenses and build up their nest eggs steadily. But when it comes time to begin drawing income from an investment portfolio, they mi...

Caterpillar stock rises to 4th straight record after BofA analyst becomes top bull on Wall Street

Shares of Caterpillar Inc. rallied Friday to a fourth straight record close, after BofA Securities analyst Michael Feniger turned bullish on the belief that the construction- and mining-equipment make...

JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo earnings show the good, the bad and the ugly of people’s finances. So how are they holding up?

Friday’s wave of big-bank earnings gives an important glimpse into Americans’ finances amid high prices, rising interest rates and recession worries. At first glance, most consumers appear to be keepi...

Gold prices post a golden cross, settle at highest since April

Gold prices on Friday marked their first settlement above $1,900 an ounce since April, finding support from a weekly decline in the U.S. dollar in the wake of data showing a slowdown in U.S. inflation...

Why a Winning Streak for Gold Could Help Barrick and Newmont Stock Rise

The market slumps of 2022 drove investors to many havens, including gold. While the price of the precious metal has risen 4% over the past year, that rally didn’t fully extend to gold miners’ stocks. ...

Why Thursday’s U.S. CPI report might kill stock market’s hope of inflation melting away

A mild stock market rally to kick off the new year will be put to the test Thursday when investors face a highly-awaited U.S. inflation reading which could well help determine the size of the Federal ...

Could Apple WiFi chips just be a ploy to get a better deal from Broadcom?

Broadcom Inc. shares fell Tuesday following reports that Apple Inc. was working on its own radiofrequency (RF) chips, but one analyst wondered whether those plans would get shelved if the chip maker o...

These 15 Dividend Aristocrat stocks have been the best income builders

The S&P Dividend Aristocrats deserve more coverage. Those are companies that have raised their dividend payouts consistently over the years — they’re dividend royalty, as it were. As a group, they...

Macy’s Warns Consumers Will Be Pressured in 2023. Retail Shares Are Slipping.

Macy’s stock fell on Friday after the department store said fourth-quarter sales would come in at the low to middle end of its guidance, and warned that consumers will be pressured in 2023.  Macy’s (t...

Why a Long-Term Investor Is Sticking With Tesla and Cloud Shares

Everything about the investment approach at Baillie Gifford screams patience. Founded more than 110 years ago, the Scottish portfolio management firm, which oversees $250 billion, is a believer in the...

Why gold prices may be headed for record highs this year

Gold recently climbed to its highest prices in nearly seven months, feeding expectations that the precious metal is on track to notch record highs this year, after closing out 2022 with a modest loss....

Dow ends down nearly 350 points after jobs data, hawkish Fed comments hammer stocks

U.S. stock indexes ended another choppy session in the red on Thursday as investors digested a fresh batch of labor-market data and hawkish commentary from Federal Reserve officials, while looking ahe...

Fed to stock market: Big rallies will only prolong painful inflation fight

It was a “don’t make me come back there” moment from the Federal Reserve. A line from the minutes of the central bank’s December policy meeting released Wednesday afternoon was taken by analysts and e...

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 (...

Gold, silver kick off 2023 by advancing to highest levels in months

Gold prices kicked off the first trading session of 2023 on Tuesday by advancing to fresh 6-month highs, bolstered by lower bond yields and expectations about more central-bank buying. Other precious ...

Opinion: 11 predictions for money, technology, stocks and crypto for 2023

Here are some 2023 predictions for financial markets, the economy and stocks. I’ve spent the last year and a half being cautious in the wake of the Bubble-Blowing Bull Market that finally ended early ...