CrowdStrike, Stitch Fix, Tesla, Occidental, SoundHound, and More Market Movers

Text size CrowdStrike’s outlook for the fiscal first quarter and year was higher than analysts’ estimates. Dreamstime Stock futures edged higher Wednesday following a session in which stocks sold off ...

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...

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Posts Fourth-Quarter Earnings Fall

Berkshire Hathaway operating earnings declined 8% in the fourth quarter to $6.7 billion after taxes, hurt by a drop in profits at the company’s railroad business and a decline in the U.S. dollar.  Exc...

Warren Buffett Muses on Berkshire Hathaway’s Future in Annual Letter

Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett is looking to shape the company for when he’s gone. At a time when other famous conglomerates like General Electric (ticker: GE) are splitting up into multiple mo...

Large U.S. Pension Sells Alibaba, TSMC, MGM Stock. It Bought Harley-Davidson.

One of the largest U.S. public pension plans made big changes in its investments, including Asian tech giants. The New York State Common Retirement Fund cut its investments in Alibaba Group Holding (t...

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...

Barron’s 10 Top Stock Picks for 2023

The stock market is coming off its worst year since 2008, but it was finally a good year for value investing—and it was a good year for Barron’s favorite picks, as well.  Every December for the past 1...

Barron’s 10 Favorite Stocks for 2023

The stock market is coming off its worst year since 2008, but it was finally a good year for value investing—and it was a good year for Barron’s favorite picks, as well.  Every December for the past 1...

Qualcomm, Nvidia Are Top Picks Among Semiconductor Stocks, Analyst Says

Text size For investors looking for near-term protection, Credit Suisse analysts said wireless-device specialist Qualcomm was their top pick. Dreamstime Semiconductor stocks have fallen far enough to ...

Apple Issues iPhone Supply Warning. But the Real Issue Is Demand.

Big Tech just can’t catch a break. After a dismal earnings season, in which Apple was one of the only bright sparks, the tech giant offered up its own bad news Sunday. Apple said Covid restrictions in...

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Cleared to Buy as Much as Half of Occidental’s Shares

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has the green light from regulators to purchase as much as 50% of Occidental Petroleum Corp.’s shares, after seeking approval for such a transaction in July. In a r...

Berkshire Hathaway Bought Apple, Chevron Stock, Sold GM, Verizon

Text size Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway made modest stock purchases in the second quarter. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc Berkshire Hathaway added to its stakes in Apple , C...

What Stocks Are Moving Monday? Tesla, Palantir, First Solar and More.

Text size Tesla shares rise early Monday. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Stock futures were trading higher Monday with investors assessing how aggressive the Federal Reserve will be in its ef...

New Buyback Tax Will Force Companies to Think Twice on How to Use Cash

In the scrap over how to fund President Joe Biden’s spending plans, the Democrats’ focus has shifted from taxing private funds to public at the last minute. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D., Ariz.) backs dropp...

Nikola to Buy Battery Maker Romeo Power for $144 Million

Listen to article (2 minutes) Electric-truck startup Nikola said it has agreed to buy battery-technology company Romeo Power in an all-stock deal that values Romeo at roughly $144 million. Nikola said...

BYD Stock Is Sinking. Warren Buffett May Be One Reason Why.

Text size BYD is a major manufacturer of electric vehicles. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg Shares in BYD sank on Tuesday amid speculation that high-profile investor Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway was selli...

China’s Auto Sales Are Booming. Can the Rebound Last?

Text size China’s auto market is showing a robust rebound. Here: a BYD Tang vehicle at the company’s showroom in Beijing. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg While the recent recovery in much of China’s ...

Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Buys More Occidental Petroleum Stock

Text size Warren Buffett hip Somodevilla/Getty Images Berkshire Hathaway continued to buy more shares of Occidental Petroleum in recent days, purchasing a total of about $580 million of stock on Wedne...

Berkshire Hathaway Stock Hit Hard in June. Warren Buffett Is Probably Unfazed.

Text size Berkshire has scaled back its stock repurchase program this year, and that may be sending a message that CEO Warren Buffett doesn’t view the stock as being so cheap. Bill Pugliano/Gett...

Snowflake Stock Looks Like a Buy

Text size Snowflake went public on the New York Stock Exchange in September 2020. The stock more than doubled on its first day of trading. Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock It’s been more than 600 days since...

Occidental Stock Rises on Record $4.7 Billion Quarterly Profit

Text size Occidental Petroleum has a huge footprint in the Permian Basin of West Texas. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Shares of Occidental Petroleum , one of the biggest producers of U.S. onshore oil and ga...

Wall Street Is So Terrified, Stocks Might Be Ready to Rise

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell Tom Williams-Pool/Getty Images Text size To paraphrase Monty Python, the stock market isn’t dead quite yet. Sure, it feels like the S&P 500 has nowhere to go bu...

Dow Futures Rise After April’s Sharp Selloff as Wall Street Looks to the Fed

Text size Photo credit: NYSE Stock futures traded modestly higher Monday as investors tried to shake off April’s broad selloff ahead of an expected aggressive move by the Federal Reserve to tame infla...

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Spent Billions on Chevron. This Might Be Why.

Text size Photograph by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images There is a cottage industry on Wall Street predicting what would Warren would buy. That, of course, refers to Berkshire Hathawa y (ticker: BRK.B) C...

Berkshire Hathaway First Quarter Operating Profits Edged Higher as Buybacks Slowed

Berkshire Hathaway made a big bet on other stocks in the first quarter, and energy was a favorite. Warren Buffett’s company bought $51.1 billion worth of equities in the quarter, according to the comp...

A Lesson About Wealth From Elon Musk, the World’s Richest Human

Text size Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who is the world’s richest human. Patrick Pleul/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk is worth a cool $274 billion. Now, a former auto analyst-turned-market research...

Tesla Beat All the Trillion-Dollar Stocks. Berkshire Hathaway Did Even Better.

Text size The new Tesla factory in Germany. Sean Gallup/Getty Images What do Elon Musk and Warren Buffett have in common? Shares of both of their megacapitalization companies posted gains for the firs...

Berkshire Hathaway to Acquire Reinsurer Alleghany for $11.6 Billion

Text size Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway agreed to buy Alleghany shares for $848.02 a share in cash, or a tot...

Berkshire-Backed StoneCo Issues a Bullish Outlook. The Stock Is Soaring.

Text size Dreamstime Shares of Brazilian payment processor StoneCo were skyrocketing Friday after Citi upgraded the stock, citing an attractive valuation and the company’s strong outlook for the first...

Berkshire Hathaway Stock Sets a Record. Buffett Can Thank Occidental, Not Apple.

Text size Shares of Berkshire Hathaway, led by Warren Buffett, hit an all-time high. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc The Sage of Omaha just can’t keep his hands off Occidental Petroleum ...

Berkshire Hathaway’s Market Cap Climbs. It Could Soon Overtake Tesla.

Text size Berkshire Hathaway currently is the sixth most valuable stock in the S&P 500. Photograph by Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg Tesla is the fifth most valuable stock in the S&P 500. But Warren ...