Investors may be in for this rude surprise: History shows inflation can take years to return to normal even when Fed hikes above 10%

History can be a powerful tool, particularly in a high-inflation environment like this one in which no suitable economic model seems to apply. Inflation — running at 8.3% as of April, near a four-deca...

Opinion: The Federal Reserve is shrinking its balance sheet under duress, which makes a soft landing nearly impossible

The Federal Reserve has begun to downsize its balance sheet. What does that mean for you? First, you must understand where the balance sheet’s expansion came from and why that policy was pursued. Then...

PayPal Stock Has Been Cut in Half. Why Analysts See Upside.

Text size PayPal stock could pass $150 a share by 2026, Mizuho says. Nuttapong Punna/Dreamstime.com There’s plenty of upside for PayPal ’s stock, analysts say. The payments app just needs to get its s...

Here Are 6 Stocks That Pay a Lot in Dividends and Have Solid Yields. And Microsoft and Apple.

PepsiCo total quarterly dividend payout and yield make for an intriguing combination. Here, a Pepsi display at a shop in Grovetown, Ga., earlier this year. Billy Blume/Dreamstime.com Text size Sometim...

Google’s Owner Paid $296,000 to a Typical Worker. Here’s What Other Firms Pay

With a booming economy and a tight job market, median pay rose last year for most S&P 500 companies, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. Google parent Alphabet and Facebook Meta Platforms...

Small-cap growth stocks are at their lowest P/E valuation in at least 24 years.

Growth stocks typically trade at premium prices. But in this market, rising interest rates have turned small-cap growth stocks into a bargain group. This may be a beautiful setup for long-term investo...

Relief at the Pump Could Come Soon. Thank Saudi Arabia.

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Text size Oil prices fell Thursday after the Financial Times reported that Saudi Arabia was ready to increase output as more sanctions on Russia threaten global oil supply...

Our retirement system hurts the middle class

America has a vast and elaborate system of public policies supposedly designed to help us all save for retirement and avoid the catastrophe of a penurious and poverty-stricken old age. But does this s...

Brian Moynihan dismisses Jamie Dimon’s warning on the economy: ‘You’ve got hurricanes that come every year.’

Jamie Dimon, the JPMorgan Chase JPM, +0.50% chairman and chief executive, got everyone’s attention when he warned there’s an economic hurricane coming, from rate hikes, the war in Ukraine and inflatio...

Lululemon’s Earnings Are Thursday. Here’s What to Expect.

Text size A Lululemon store in Hong Kong. Dreamstime Lululemon athletica could regain some ground lost in the recent retail selloff if the one-time pandemic winner delivers good news as it reports its...

Opinion: With Sheryl Sandberg gone from Facebook, Wall Street should fear its future

When Sheryl Sandberg first joined Facebook in 2008, she was often referred to as the “adult in the room” that could help co-founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, then just 24 years old, turn it...

Meta’s Sheryl Sandberg Is Stepping Down

Text size Meta Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg joined Facebook in 2008. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images Meta ’s Sheryl Sandberg is stepping down as chief operating officer of Facebook’s paren...

Why a top Wall Street quant sees S&P 500 taking back all its losses by yearend

JP Morgan’s Marko Kolanovic, one of the most closely followed quantitative analysts on Wall Street, augured in a note to clients on Wednesday that U.S. stocks could see a torrid rebound during the lat...

This market strategist with a spot-on record sees stocks surging 15% to 25% from their May low

The U.S. stock market’s two-week rally is even stronger than it looks. That’s saying something, since this rally has already tacked on impressive gains. As of the market’s close prior to the Memorial ...

Elon Musk says workers should return to the office or quit. It’s a big gamble: ‘Tesla is kick-starting its own local Great Resignation’

Elon Musk is giving his employees an ultimatum. Tesla’s  TSLA, -2.36% chief executive officer and founder responded Thursday to an apparent leaked email that called on employees to return to the offic...

Google investors shoot down racial-equity audit while approving stock split

Alphabet Inc. investors rejected 17 shareholder proposals at the Google parent company’s annual meeting Wednesday, including a racial-equity audit, but approved a company proposal to increase the shar...

What ChargePoint Earnings Say About the State of EV Charging in America

Text size ChargePoint Inc. had about 188,000 active charging ports at the end of the latest quarter. Dania Maxwell/Bloomberg The electric-vehicle charging-equipment company ChargePoint Holdings report...

Amazon’s Stock Split Is Coming. Watch Tesla and Google for More.

Text size Amazon stock was at $2,423.06, or a little over $121 on a post-split basis, on Wednesday. Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images It could be a stock-split summer on Wall Street. Some of a flu...

GM vs. Ford Stock: Both Are Down, but One Has Near-Term Upside

Text size Ford vehicles are displayed on the sales lot at Serramonte Ford in Colma, California. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Price targets for Ford Motor and General Motors have been coming down latel...

Oil Prices on Rise Again as OPEC Considers Suspending Russia From Output Deal

Text size Oil prices have surged above $100 a barrel since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. David McNew/Getty Images Oil prices edged higher after briefly falling back on Tuesday following a report...

Salesforce Stock Is Rising. Strong Earnings Overshadowed a Guidance Cut.

Text size The Salesforce logo at the company’s headquarters in San Francisco. Stephen Lam/Getty Images Salesforce . com stock headed higher in late trading Tuesday on better-than-expected result...

U.S. stocks end lower Tuesday as Biden, Powell meet on inflation; Dow, S&P eke out gains in May

U.S. stocks closed lower Tuesday, the final session of May, as Treasury yields pushed higher following last week’s equity market bounce after a historic string of weekly losses. The Dow Jones Industri...

Salesforce stock rallies following raised outlook, with stronger dollar seen as only major headwind

Salesforce Inc. shares rallied in the extended session Tuesday after the cloud-based customer-relationship-management company said business remained strong amid the current rocky economic landscape an...

GameStop, Salesforce, Netflix, Alphabet, Nvidia, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed Monday for Memorial Day. A handful of major companies report later this week, with the economic-data highlight being jobs Friday. HP and...

Opinion: 5 large companies that will emerge from the tech wreck as even more fearsome

The Nasdaq Composite Index’s rebound after seven weeks of losses restored some faith in technology stocks. After all, more than half of Nasdaq-member companies were until recently down 50% or more fro...

Fed’s quantitative tightening is about to arrive: What that might mean for markets

The Federal Reserve’s almost $9 trillion portfolio is about to be reduced starting on Wednesday, in a process intended to supplement rate hikes and buttress the central bank’s fight against inflation....

Why Costco Won’t Raise the Price of Its Hot Dogs

Text size Costco’s membership renewal rate for the U.S. and Canada stood at 92.3% last quarter. David Pail Morris/Bloomberg Costco Wholesale takes care of its more than 64 million members. The s...

Yuan-ruble trading explodes 1,000% in latest challenge to U.S. dollar’s dominance

The Russian ruble has rebounded sharply off the lows seen after the invasion of Ukraine, although there remains a wide margin between prices quoted in Moscow and those quoted offshore. But in the late...

Should You Buy or Sell Rivian Stock? What One Analyst Says To Do Now.

Text size Electric-car maker Rivian went public on the Nasdaq in November. Courtesy of Rivian Wall Street is sticking with its Buy call for Rivian stock. Mizuho analyst Vijay Rakesh says that current ...

Hot stocks may bring an initial thrill, but they’ll break your heart

My father was born ​in 1936 in Brooklyn. He attended Erasmus High School, earned a degree in chemical engineering from Brooklyn Polytechnic High School and then went on to study dentistry at New York ...