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...

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...

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...

Yamana Gold Stock Surges on $6.7 Billion Gold Fields Deal

Text size Yamana Gold holders would receive 0.6 Gold Fields share for each share outstanding under terms of the proposed takeover. David Gray/AFP/Getty Images Yamana Gold stock surged on Tuesday after...

Qualcomm Keen to Buy Arm Stake in Chip Designer’s Upcoming IPO, CEO Says

Text size Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon hasn’t yet spoken to SoftBank about a potential investment in Arm, the FT reports. Mario Tama/Getty Images Qualcomm is keen to buy a stake in SoftBank Group...

Unilever Stock Rises Sharply as Nelson Peltz Is Added to Board

Text size Unilever makes food and household goods such as Dove soap, Hellmann’s mayonnaise, and Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. ANP/AFP via Getty Images Unilever said it appointed Nelson Pelt...

Cruise Stocks Have Sunk. Only Two Have Seen Large Insider Buys.

Text size Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings ships sit idle. The company and Carnival saw large stock buys by insiders. Tim Rue/Bloomberg All three cruise-line operators are pretty much in the same boat t...

DiDi Stock Rises on Report Chinese Auto Giant FAW Is Considering Buying Stake

Text size DiDi’s value has plummeted since it listed in the U.S. last year. Yan Cong/Bloomberg Shares of Chinese ride-hailing company DiDi Global gained after it was reported that carmaker China...

Durability of U.S. stock- market bounce in question as inflation worries linger ahead of payrolls report

Investors took a breather this week as U.S. stocks bounced back from a weeks long selloff and the latest reading on inflation offered glimmers of optimism to those hoping for a peak in price pressures...

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...

Palantir Unveils Partnership With Waste-Industry Software Provider Rubicon

Text size Rubicon is going public via a merger with the special-purpose acquisition company Founder SPAC. Photograph by Ignat Kushanrev The data analytics giant Palantir Technologies is moving into cr...

Boeing Hasn’t Delivered…on Jets or Other Requisites for Recovery

Text size At this point, Boeing’s task is simple—it needs to stop the bleeding. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Boeing’s badly beaten-up stock might be nearly as weak as it will get. When Barron’s recommended...

Dividend Stocks With the Biggest Payout Ratios Outperform Buybacks

For more than 20 years, stocks with strong dividend payout ratios have acquitted themselves well against two important groups: companies that pay less of their earnings in dividends and firms that rep...

Broadcom Stock Has Gained on VMware Takeover. Its Dividend Could Rise 20%.

Text size Truist analyst William Stein calculates that Broadcom could raise its dividend by over 20% this year. Remus Rigo/Dreamstime.com The stock market has had a mixed reaction to Broadcom ’s inten...

Is It Time to Buy Stocks Again? Why Citi Says Yes.

Text size Can investors finally stop worrying about a bear market? Photo by MORRIS MAC MATZEN/AFP via Getty Images It’s been a long slog this year for the plummeting stock market. Citigroup’s model th...

Twitter Stock Jumps. Tesla CEO Elon Musk Is Fine-Tuning His Potential Purchase.

Text size Tesla CEO Elon Musk filed an amended regulatory form for his potential buy of Twitter. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk said in a regulatory filing Wednesday that he no longer pla...

TotalEnergies, Equinor, and Other Oil Companies With Attractive Dividends

Equinor, TotalEnergies, and Repsol are up sharply this year—but their solid dividend outlooks make them worth hanging onto. Even Kleppa/Oyvind Gravas, Woldcam AS Text size Some of Europe’s lesser-know...

Opinion: Strong insider buying suggests a 15% rally in the S&P 500 from here

One of the troubling things about this market downturn is that as brutal as it got, corporate insiders never showed much interest in their discounted stocks. That’s changed in a big way. They’re bulli...

Here are 15 high-yield stocks expected to raise dividends the most through 2024

The stock market, shocked by the Federal Reserve’s policy changes to fight inflation, has been gored this year, with growth and technology companies bearing the brunt of the biggest declines. Dividend...

Broadcom May Pay About $60 Billion for VMware With Announcement Thursday

Text size Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware would be one of the biggest deals of 2022 so far. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Chip maker titan Broadcom may announce a deal to purchase software compa...

Twitter’s stock falls below where Elon Musk bought it, turning a $1.1 billion profit into a $40 million loss

Easy come, easy go, as shares of Twitter Inc. fell below where Elon Musk bought it, wiping out more than $1.1 billion in gains in four weeks. The social-media company’s stock TWTR, -5.55% sank 6.0% in...

Snowflake May Have Upside After a Big Drop in the Bear Market

Text size Snowflake, the cloud-based data warehouse company, has been pummeled in the bear market. Gabby Jones/Bloomberg Snowflake publishes results on Wednesday, giving investors a fresh look after a...

Dan Quayle Bought Up Carvana’s Slumping Stock

Text size Former Vice President Dan Quayle. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Carvana stock has slumped this year, and former Vice President Dan Quayle, who serves the used-car retailer as a director, bought ...

Opinion: Snap’s warning of a weaker outlook sends ripples through tech stocks

An unexpected warning about the deteriorating economy by Snap Inc. Chief Executive Evan Spiegel rippled through internet and social-media stocks late Monday, potentially ruining the market’s comeback ...

Five Things to Know About Broadcom’s Potential Deal for VMware

Text size Broadcom stock slipped in response to news of the possible deal. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Broadcom ’s expected acquisition of cloud computing provider VMware will likely rank as one of t...

Snap stock falls 30% after Snapchat parent says it will miss estimates due to deteriorating economy

Snap Inc. stock fell more than 30% in the extended session Monday after the Snapchat parent said it likely will miss quarterly estimates as the economy has “deteriorated further and faster than antici...

Broadcom in Talks to Pay About $60 Billion for VMware

Broadcom is in talks to pay around $60 billion for VMware people familiar with the matter said, in what would be one of the biggest takeover deals of the year. The two technology companies are aiming ...

Monkeypox cases are driving up stock prices for these companies

Growing concern about the emergence of monkeypox in Europe and the U.S. has sent shares of several vaccine and drug companies soaring. Though infections are rarely reported outside of Central and West...

Why Shale Drillers Are Pumping Out Dividends Instead of More Oil and Gas

Shale drillers have been hamstrung by pipeline constraints, rising prices for oil-field supplies and shortages of roughnecks and rigs. But there is another reason the highest oil and gas prices in yea...

Broadcom reportedly in talks to buy VMware

Chip maker Broadcom Inc. is in negotiations to buy enterprise cloud-computing company VMware Inc., according to multiple reports Sunday night. Bloomberg News, Reuters, the New York Times and the Wall ...

$6 a Gallon Gasoline? Here’s How It Could Happen.

Illustration by Elias Stein Text size U.S. gasoline prices are at record highs, averaging more than $4.50 per gallon at the pump, and surpassing $4 in all 50 states for the first time. But, says Natas...

Opinion: This plan to tax the ultrarich is much simpler and better than Biden’s idea

President Joe Biden and Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-OR) have proposed different ways to tax unrealized capital gains every year. Their shared goal is understandable, with trillions of ...