For Nvidia Stock, It’s Game On!

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Thomas H. Lee, Leveraged-Buyout Pioneer, Dies of Apparent Suicide

Private-equity pioneer Thomas H. Lee died unexpectedly at 78, his colleagues and family said late Thursday. New York Police Department officials said first responders to an emergency call Thursday mor...

Tech Carried This Upturn, and Now It’s Taking the Market Down With It

The prospect of still-higher short- and long-term interest rates produced the worst week for the S&P 500 index in the relatively young year, a drop of 2.67%, and the third straight down week for t...

Intel Cut Its Dividend. Home Depot, McDonald’s, and Other Stocks Could Be Next. 

Intel is cutting its dividend. In a treacherous environment for the economy and profits, more companies could do the same. On Wednesday, Intel (ticker: INTC) cut its dividend by 66% to an annual 50 ce...

Intel Cut Its Dividend. These Stocks Could Be Next. 

Intel is cutting its dividend. In a treacherous environment for the economy and profits, more companies could do the same. On Wednesday, Intel (ticker: INTC) cut its dividend by 66% to an annual 50 ce...

Intel Stock Looks Better After the Dividend Cut, Says Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley is getting more optimistic about Intel stock following the chip maker’s decision to reduce its dividend. Earlier this week, Intel (ticker: INTC ) announced a 66% dividend cut, reducing ...

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Could Get an Occidental Stock Payoff

One of Berkshire Hathaway’s best investments in the past five years was its purchase of $10 billion of Occidental Petroleum preferred stock paying an 8% dividend yield. Occidental Petroleum (ticker: O...

Home Depot Beat Earnings Views, Boosted the Dividend. Why the Stock Is Falling.

Home Depot beat fourth-quarter earnings expectations, but missed on revenue and issued disappointing guidance for fiscal 2023. It also raised the dividend, but shares of the home-improvement retailer ...

Lithium Stocks Crashed. Now We Know Why. What It Means for Tesla, EV Stocks.

Lithium stocks cratered on Friday. The reason was a mystery. Now investors have an answer—it was down to the world’s largest electric-vehicle battery maker, Contemporary Amperex Technology , or CATL, ...

Walmart, Alibaba, Moderna, and More Stocks to Watch This Week

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Wall Street Expects Brutal Coinbase Earnings. Why an Analyst Upgraded the Stock.

Wall Street is mostly muted ahead of earnings from Coinbase Global expecting to see deep losses and the lowest quarterly sales in two years from the cryptocurrency broker when the group reports earnin...

Bitcoin Rises Near $25,000. It Needs to Clear Key Levels to Keep Rallying.

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were rising on Monday as the march higher in digital assets continued despite a quiet day in the stock market, with investors away from Wall Street for the President...

A Debt-Ceiling Fight Could Raise U.S. Borrowing Costs and Worsen Budget Deficits

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Generous Bond Yields Prove There Is an Alternative to Stocks

Return with us to ancient times, when dinosaurs ruled, at least in technology terms. It was early 2007, when Blackberries were in everybody’s mitts and the first iPhone hadn’t yet gone on sale, let al...

A Sideways Stock Market and the Case for Selling in March

Investors have heard the dictum “sell in May and go away.” This year they might want to consider selling in March. The May adage follows from market seasonality. Historically, investors have realized ...

Nvidia Stock Can Endure a Slowdown, Analyst Says. AI Is Key.

Nvidia should be insulated from any slowdown in the broader economy by increased spending on artificial intelligence, said analysts at Oppenheimer and KeyBanc, who lifted their price targets on shares...

Albemarle, Lithium Stocks Beat the Market for Years. Until Now.

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The S&P 500’s Rally Is in Question. It Doesn’t Mean Stocks Will Plunge.

Investors just don’t feel confident about stocks’ rally over the past few months, but the market could still hold up well this spring. The S&P 500 has risen about 15% since early October, when it ...

Deere Earnings Are Coming. The Stock Needs a Beat.

Agricultural machinery giant Deere reports its fiscal first-quarter earnings Friday morning. Investors could really use a “beat-and-raise” quarter from the company. Deere stock (ticker: DE) outperform...

EV Battery Maker QuantumScape’s Stock Is Plunging After a Run-Up

QuantumScape stock saw a wild gain on Wednesday, ahead of reporting a narrower-than-expected fourth-quarter loss after the market close. Shares are plunging Thursday morning. What’s more, the plunge i...

Amazon and Other Quality Stocks Have Been Hit Hard. They Could Be Buys. 

Quality stocks have been out of favor for a while now. The category includes names that have been slammed but that have bright outlooks—and those are potential buys.  There are many ways to define a q...

Stocks Aren’t Falling When Bond Yields Rise. It’s a Problem.

In the post-Covid world, the stock market is supposed to go down when bond yields go up, but recently, stocks haven’t reacted much to the bond market. Something has to give.  In roughly the past month...

Berkshire Hathaway Slashes Stake in Taiwan Semi. What Else Buffett Sold.

Berkshire Hathaway slashed its stake in Taiwan Semiconductor during the fourth quarter and nearly eliminated what had been a large stake in U.S. Bancorp according to filings late Tuesday. Berkshire Ha...

Palantir Stock Is Still Surging. It’s Not Just Earnings Causing Excitement.

Palantir Technologies stock was surging Tuesday. But a quarterly update from the data-analytics software company was probably not the real reason, with comments from the CEO about M&A more likely ...

Palantir Reports First Profitable Quarter. The Stock Is Soaring.

Palantir Technologies shares are soaring in late trading Monday after the company posted better-than-expected results for the fourth quarter, including its first-ever GAAP profit. The data-analytics s...

Tesla Stock Is Down Again. It’s Not From EV Competition.

Tesla stock is down again, dropping for a second consecutive day. Are investors fretting about more electric-vehicle competition? Probably not. The stock chart is a better explanation for Monday’s dip...

Fastly Stock Jumps Ahead of Earnings. Analyst Says Shares Can Soar 62%.

A BofA Securities analyst turned bullish on Fastly, upgrading shares to Buy on optimism about the company’s recently appointed CEO. The cloud computing company’s stock surged as a result. Tal Liani, B...

JNJ Bought Up Biotech Stock MeiraGTx. It Sold Procept BioRobotics.

Johnson & Johnson recently increased an investment in an embattled biotech stock, and slashed a position in a maker of surgical robotics that rocketed last year. Johnson & Johnson (ticker: JNJ...

Largest U.S. Pension Buys Up Apple, Tesla, and Disney Stock. It Sold Walmart.

The largest public pension in the U.S. by assets just made major changes in its investment portfolio. The California Public Employees’ Retirement System bought more Apple (ticker: AAPL), Tesla (TSLA),...

Who Will Win the Super Bowl This Year? Sports Betting Apps Might Be the Champs.

The first U.S. sports-betting operations are moving toward profitability after a period out of favor with investors. Feb. 11, 2023 12:01 am ET Fans will flood into Phoenix on Sunday to watch Super Bow...

Stock Market Has Worst Week of 2023. No News Is Bad News.

It’s the middle of February, and the stock market finally seems caught in the winter doldrums. There may be more gray days ahead. Even the most optimistic investors will admit that January’s blisterin...