Exxon Could Go Even Bigger on Its Dividend

Text size David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Oil companies used to compete on how much crude they could produce. Now they’re competing on how much cash they can send back to investors. That dynamic could pay...

Bed Bath & Beyond Had Big Earnings Miss. The Stock Is Jumping.

Text size Comparable-store sales at Bed Bath & Beyond fell by 7%. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Shares of Bed Bath & Beyond is up about 13% even after the company’s financial results fell short...

Tesla Stock Is Falling Again. Why Shares Are Giving Back Big Delivery Gains.

Text size Tesla stock is up about 3% this year after giving back its double-digit gain from the first trading day of 2022. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Tesla opened the year with strong fourth-quarter...

Nvidia Stock Faces Short-Term Pressures. Why It’s Still a Buy.

Text size A sign is posted in front of the Nvidia headquarters in Santa Clara, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Getty Images Shares of Nvidia were inching lower Thursday following a...

20 cheap value stocks that Wall Street expects to rise up to 58%

There are plenty of arguments for why the bull market for U.S. stocks will continue in 2022. But investors’ focus appears to have shifted recently in favor of value stocks, rather than the growth stoc...

Bitcoin Tanked After the Fed Minutes Were Released. Here’s Why.

Text size Proponents of Bitcoin argue that its limited supply should make it an inflation-proof asset akin to gold. Dreamstime Bitcoin slid sharply after the Federal Reserve released minutes of its De...

Cathie Wood’s ARK ETFs Are in a Deep Hole—Already

Text size Cathie Wood of ARK Invest Reed Young The new year did not bring a fresh start for Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest, a fund company known for its focus on innovation stocks and high price targets. Th...

Interest-Rate Worries Batter Stock Market

Major U.S. stock indexes fell Wednesday as investors worried that the Federal Reserve might respond more aggressively to rising inflation than previously anticipated.  Markets had largely continued 20...

Rivian Stock Is Dropping Like a Stone. Blame Amazon.

Text size Amazon has ordered 100,000 delivery vans from Rivian. Courtesy Amazon Stock in Rivian Automotive is falling fast because it seems the start-up has competition in supplying electric trucks to...

Stocks Tumble as Fed Minutes Confirm Rate Hikes Are Coming

Text size Interest rate hikes are coming. The stock market is taking note. Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images Stocks fell Wednesday after the minutes from the last FOMC meeting confirmed that the Federal R...

Dow sheds over 300 points, Nasdaq skids 2.9% after Fed minutes surprise with talk of shrinking balance sheet

Stocks traded lower Wednesday afternoon, with the Dow turning negative, after the release of the Federal Reserve’s last policy gathering in 2021 showed robust discussion around a potentially faster pa...

Enphase Stock Sinks as Slower Transition Leads to Sharp Price Cut

Text size David McNew/Getty Images Shares of solar specialist Enphase Energy were tumbling Wednesday after a sharp price cut and downgrade by analysts at BofA Global Research. BofA Global Research low...

Intel stock rallies after upgrade says chip maker ‘is starting to execute on a coherent strategy’

Intel Corp. shares rallied Wednesday after the chip maker received an analyst upgrade on the belief that the chip maker is starting to execute on its turnaround. Intel INTC, +3.12% shares gained as mu...

IBM Seeks Buyer for Watson Health Unit: Report

Text size IBM has hired BofA Securities to solicit bids for artificial-intelligence unit Watson Health, according to Axios. IBM’s looking for a price of more than $1 billion. Dreamstime In the l...

Ford Sales Impress. The Company Handled the Chip Shortage Admirably.

Text size Courtesy Ford Ford Motor’s December and fourth-quarter sales impressed. Especially given the supply-chain woes faced by the entire industry. Investors have rewarded the company for managing ...

AT&T Stock Rises After Posting 1.3 Million Subscriber Adds

Text size AT&T stock fell more than 14% last year. Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images Shares of AT&T rose on Wednesday after the telecommunications and media giant said it added a net 1.3 milli...

Ignore Tesla and Apple Stock for Massive Returns in Tech. Look Here Instead.

Text size Apple recently became the first public company to briefly reach a market cap of more than $3 trillion. Chris McGrath/Getty Images In the past few years, total U.S. stock market returns have ...

AT&T exceeds HBO Max subscriber outlook

Shares of AT&T Inc. are up about 1% in premarket trading Wednesday after the telecommunications company offered some fourth-quarter metrics ahead of an investor conference. AT&T T, +0.83% saw ...

Tesla and Moderna Stock Started 2022 Differently—What History Says Happens Next

The first trading day of 2022 saw both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 finish at record highs for only the sixth time in history and the second time in 30 years. The stock market acti...

Intel Joins the Dogs of the Dow. Why These Stocks Could Be a Good Strategy This Year.

Text size Sign at Intel headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif. Intel joins the so-called Dogs of the Dow for 2022. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Intel will join the Dogs of the Dow for 2022, replacing Cisc...

Taiwan Semi Stock Kicked Off 2022 With Its Best Day in Years. Here’s Why.

Text size Taiwan Semiconductor ADRs saw their biggest percentage gain on Monday since mid-2020. SAM YEH/AFP/Getty Images The first trading day of 2022 was a breakout one for Taiwan Semiconductor Manuf...

Ford Stock Beat Tesla Last Year. Here’s What It Will Do Next.

Text size Ford stock is on a tear. After rocketing in 2021, and big start to 2022, here’s what could happen next. Paul Ellis/AFP via Getty Images One automotive stock is on fire as investors get...

23 dividend stocks that can pass this strict quality screen

Stocks are expensive. You’ve probably been hearing that for years, and based on traditional price-to-earnings ratios it’s true. If you invest now in a broad index, such as the benchmark S&P 500 SP...

Why Are Stocks Down Today? The Dow Is Crushing the Nasdaq.

Text size Michael George Haddad The Dow Jones Industrial Average is crushing the Nasdaq Tuesday, as investors bet that the U.S. economy will continue to boom. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has gain...

Moderna Shipped 800 Million Covid-19 Vaccine Doses in 2021

Text size Syringes with Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine. Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images Moderna said in a letter to shareholders on Tuesday that it had shipped approximately 800 million doses of its Covi...

Citi Is Bullish on Lucid Stock. Where Is the Rest of Wall Street?

Text size A Lucid Air Grand Touring electric luxury car. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty Images Citigroup is staying bullish on electric-vehicle startup Lucid to start the new year. Analyst Itay Michaeli ...

Opinion: Adam Aron’s resolution to refinance AMC’s debt might put his love affair with ‘Apes’ at serious risk

Adam Aron wants to be happier, healthier and find a clever way around his own retail shareholders to pay off some serious debt in 2022. In a pair of tweets, Aron told his followers that “If we can, in...

This investing legend has been predicting surprises for the last 37 years. Here’s how he did last year — and what he’s predicting now

Byron Wien, the vice chairman of private-equity giant Blackstone, has been making his list of ten surprises for 37 years. Previously the chief U.S. investment strategist at Morgan Stanley, Wien has be...

These are the stocks Wall Street analysts heavily favor for 2022 and also expect to rise the most

As the coronavirus pandemic has stretched out, investors have continued to pour money into stocks, in part because the alternatives have been dismal. Why bother with 10-year U.S. Treasury bonds that y...

Taiwan Semiconductor Stock Surges on First Trading Day of 2022

Text size Taiwan Semiconductor ADRs saw their biggest percentage gain on Monday since mid-2020. SAM YEH/AFP/Getty Images The first trading day of 2022 was a breakout one for . American depositary shar...

Tesla Deliveries Crushed Expectations. The Stock Is Moving Higher.

A Tesla Model Y car at a showroom in Beijing. WANG ZHAO/AFP/Getty Images Text size Electric-vehicle leader Tesla delivered a whopping 308,600 vehicles in the fourth quarter of 2021. That’s a record re...

These 12 ‘Dividend Aristocrat’ stocks have been the best income compounders over 5 years

Stock-market investors typically want to anticipate industry events or companies’ successes so they can make as much money as possible. But as a new year begins, a look back can be useful, especially ...