NIO shares soar in Hong Kong despite earnings miss

NIO Inc. 9866, +17.06% shares soared in Hong Kong, tracking Wall Street gains overnight as slower-than-expected U.S. inflation buoyed markets and helped investors shrug off the Chinese electric-car ma...

Berkshire Hathaway Cuts Stake in U.S. Bancorp By More Than Half

A new filing indicates that Berkshire Hathaway cut its stake in U.S. Bancorp by 56% to 52.5 million shares that are now worth $2.4 billion. In a form 13-G filing dated Thursday, Berkshire Hathaway (BR...

One reason the rich get richer

Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald disagreed about the rich. Fitzgerald, who had stars in his eyes, supposedly said, “The rich are different from the rest of us.” “Yes,” repli...

FTX lent over half of its customer funds to affiliated trading firm: WSJ

Embattled crypto exchange FTX, once the third-largest crypto exchange by trading volume, reportedly lent more than half of its customer funds to its affiliated trading firm Alameda Research, exposing ...

Crypto Is Losing a Big Trader. A Top Exchange May Also Be Worthless.

The world of cryptocurrency remains in turmoil. The dust hasn’t settled, but it looks like the market will lose one one of its most influential trading firms, and possibly one of the largest exchanges...

Binance CEO in internal memo: ‘I had very little knowledge of the internal state of things at FTX’

“‘It was less than 24 hours ago that SBF called me. And before that, I had very little knowledge of the internal state of things at FTX.’” — Changpeng Zhao, CEO of Binance Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao o...

Amazon Has Lost $1 Trillion in Market Cap. Ouch.

Amazon.com has now lost more than $1 trillion in market capitalization, the most ever by a U.S. company and the first time one company has shed that much market value. It’s a painful reminder to inves...

Disney stock tumbles to worst day since 2001 after ‘massive earnings downgrade’

Walt Disney Co. has a profit problem, and that’s helped send shares of the media giant to their worst daily performance in more than two decades. Though Disney DIS, -13.16% notched record sales during...

Opinion: Tesla investors have been the biggest losers in Elon Musk’s Twitter deal, and those losses continue

Twitter users have complained a lot about Elon Musk’s early moves after taking control of the social network, but their complaints seem tiny compared with what Tesla Inc. investors have had to suffer....

Tesla Stock Won’t Stop Dropping. Here’s How Low It Could Go.

Text size Brand-new cars at the Tesla factory in Fremont, Calif. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Tesla stock is now down about 46% year to date. Growing competition in electric vehicles, inflation, softe...

Here’s why you should be worried about state and local pensions

America, about 26 million people across America are relying on state and local pension plans to take care of them in their retirement years. That figure includes 15 million retired teachers, police of...

Plug Power Missed Sales Estimates By a Mile. Wall Street Isn’t Worried.

Hydrogen fuel-cell technology company Plug Power reported third-quarter results that fell way short of Wall Street expectations, but analysts still believe the company’s future is very bright. Tuesday...

Lucid Stock Plunges as Reservations for Cars Drop

Electric-vehicle maker Lucid turned in respectable third-quarter earnings and stuck with its forecast for vehicle shipments this year, but the stock was dropping. Reservations were the issue. Lucid (t...

‘It’s a touchy subject’: My in-laws live in our basement. They gave us our 20% down payment. Should we charge them for renovations?

Last year, my husband and I approached my in-laws to see if they wanted to live with us. We had learned that my father-in-law had terminal cancer but could still live five to seven years in remission,...

Semiconductor stocks have bounced from 2022 lows — and analysts expect upside of at least 28% in the next year

For investors aiming to take advantage of stock market declines, the obvious question is: How far is too far for stocks to fall? The semiconductor industry, a standout performer during the reopening o...

Elon Musk Sold $4 Billion More Worth of Tesla Stock. The Timing Is Odd.

Investors were waiting for stock sales from Tesla CEO Elon Musk, guessing he needed to sell more shares to finish his Twitter purchase. He sold more stock, but it happened after the Twitter deal close...

Plug Power results come in below Street view following warning

Plug Power Inc. shares fluctuated between small gains and losses in the extended session Tuesday after the hydrogen- and fuel-cell systems company made good on its warning a few weeks ago and results ...

Opinion: Quality and high dividends set these five semiconductor stocks apart from rivals

It’s been a tough year in the stock market, but reserve some empathy for semiconductor investors. The iShares Semiconductor ETF SOXX, +2.20% is down 40.5% this year, compared with 19.6% for the benchm...

Here’s the trouble under the hood at Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway

It’s midterm day in America, so pack your weapon (where legally permitted), have your local election lawyer on speed dial and get out the popcorn. U-S-A, U-S-A. More on that later. The company lost $2...

Microsoft Deal, Not Earnings, Is the Focus for Activision Stock

Wall Street barely reacted to Activision Blizzard’s third-quarter results on Monday because investors are much more focused its deal to be acquired by Microsoft for $69 billion in cash. Activision Bli...

Why Okta, Twilio and Salesforce are bucking the trend of cloud-software stocks’ slide

Cloud-software stocks continued to sell off Monday, following one of the space’s worst weeks ever, although not as fast as Friday selloff as a few beaten-up stocks received upgrades and giants like Sa...

Digital Ocean Earnings Raise More Big Questions About the Cloud

DigitalOcean posted better-than-expected third quarter results, but the provider of cloud-based computing service to small- and medium-size businesses offered guidance for the fourth quarter that fell...

S&P 500 earnings estimates for 2023 take ‘complete U-turn’ as recession risks loom, according to BofA

The S&P 500 risks another leg down after a “complete U-turn” in 2023 earnings-per-share estimates for the U.S. stock-market index, according to a BofA Global Research note. “Forward estimates have...

Berkshire Sold $5 Billion of Financial Stocks, Possibly Citigroup and Bank of NY

Berkshire Hathaway likely unloaded nearly $5 billion of financial stocks from its portfolio in the third quarter, and two possible candidates for the trimmed positions are Citigroup and Bank of New Yo...

Carvana, Dealers Show Risks of Deflation. Ford, GM Investors Should Watch Out.

Text size A Carvana car-vending machine in Huntington Beach, Calif., in 2019. Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images Why buy now if prices are going to be lower tomorrow? That isn’t a question U.S. consumers h...

Could Oil Prices Reach $200 a Barrel? Some Traders Are Betting on It.

Oil hasn’t yet climbed back to $100 per barrel, but options traders are increasingly setting their sights on another target—$200. The most actively traded Brent crude options contract on Thursday was ...

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...

Alibaba and Other Chinese Stocks Are Rallying Again. Why It Doesn’t Make Sense.

Chinese stocks rallied on Monday as investors continued to be optimistic that coronavirus rules would be eased, despite repeated messages from authorities that China would stay the course on “zero Cov...

Oil at $200 a Barrel? Some Traders Are Betting on It.

Oil hasn’t yet climbed back to $100 per barrel, but options traders are increasingly setting their sights on another target—$200. The most actively traded Brent crude options contract on Thursday was ...

Deutsche Bank Faces Threat of Fines Over Money-Laundering Controls

Germany’s top financial watchdog threatened to fine Deutsche Bank AG if it doesn’t implement controls against money laundering by a set deadline, suggesting the regulator isn’t satisfied with the bank...

Opinion: A switch to ‘premium’ can keep you invested amid the tech wreck in stocks

It seems as if the stock market is punishing all technology companies regardless of performance. That underlines a set of opportunities for long-term investors. There were many eyes on this cycle of t...