Coinbase: Customers Could Lose Crypto If It Ever Went Bankrupt

Text size Coinbase customers don’t have the same protections as bank or brokerage customers. Dreamstime As if crypto investors don’t already have enough to worry about, Coinbase Global (ticker: ...

Dutch Bros. stock spills 37% lower after forecast cut due to inflation

After its third quarterly earnings report since going public, coffee chain Dutch Bros. Inc.’s shares were slaughtered in late trading Wednesday after executives revised their annual outlook to predict...

Rivian stock dives into record-low territory after Ford disclosed it sold more than $200 million worth of shares

Ford Motor Co. showed how the early bird gets the worm, as the automaker would have raised a lot less from the sale of Rivian Automotive Inc. shares if it waited for the opening bell to start selling....

Boeing Might Sell Stock. It Could Be Too Late.

Text size Boeing’s Chicago headquarters. Scott Olson/Getty Images Boeing ’s chief financial officer indicated his company might sell stock when shares are higher. It’s a good idea. Boeing could ...

Carvana laying off 12% of workforce, execs to forego salaries for rest of year

DETROIT — Online automotive retailer Carvana Co. says it’s letting go about 2,500 workers, roughly 12% of its workforce, as it tries to bring staffing and expenses in line with sales. The Phoenix comp...

Rivian reports earnings this week with stock under more pressure than ever

Rivian Automotive Inc. is slated to report first-quarter earnings after the bell Wednesday, with the EV maker battling a steep decline of its shares and fears of continued operational snags. Rivian RI...

Here’s Why Philip Morris’ Potential Offer for Swedish Match Is Bad for Altria Stock

Text size Philip Morris is in ongoing talks to acquire Swedish Match, the maker of smoke-free tobacco products. Fabrice Coffini/AFP via Getty Images Philip Morris‘ potential acquisition of Swedish Mat...

SoFi Stock Tumbles as Earnings Published Ahead of Schedule

Text size Dreamstime SoFi Technologies stock has resumed trading after formally releasing the earnings that had been released early by Bloomberg. The earnings weren’t supposed to arrive until after th...

Coinbase shares plunge almost 80% from November high, amid selloffs of crypto stocks and funds

Shares of crypto-related companies and funds ended sharply lower Monday, with Coinbase’s shares finishing at the lowest level in history, as both bitcoin and major U.S. stock indexes finished at multi...

DraftKings Golden Nugget purchase could lead to ‘revenue uplift,’ CEO says

DraftKings DKNG, -16.43% has completed its purchase of Golden Nugget Online Gaming in the company’s latest move to boost revenue and lower costs. The acquisition was an all-stock deal worth roughly $4...

Virgin Galactic Stock Is Tumbling. Here’s What’s Troubling Analysts.

Text size Truist Securities downgraded Virgin Galactic stock to Hold from Buy. Courtesy Virgin Galactic Virgin Galactic Holdings Virgin Galactic Holdings stock continues to slide on Monday after Truis...

As Demand for Mental-Health Care Booms, Investors See Opportunities

Psychiatrists and psychologists once ran their own practices. Now the local therapist office could be controlled by a buyout king. Venture capitalists and private-equity firms are pouring billions of ...

Big Pharma Has Enough Cash to Buy All of Biotech. Why M&A Isn’t Happening.

Text size Late last year, Barron’s predicted a wave of deals, citing biotech companies’ cash holdings. Above, the plates used to print one-dollar bills. Alex Wong/Getty Images With biotech...

Oil Prices Top $100, Yet Some Big U.S. Frackers Let Their Production Fall

Oil prices are at their highest in years and politicians want companies to pump more. But most large American frackers are standing pat, or even letting production decline, and instead are handing inv...

Elon Musk pitch deck for Twitter promises to nearly triple ad revenue, create $10 billion subscription business: report

Elon Musk is telling potential investors in his deal for Twitter Inc. that he will seek to triple the company’s ad revenue and create a $10 billion-a-year subscription business within six years, accor...

PepsiCo Raises Its Dividend, and Marriott and Hilton’s Payouts Make a Comeback

Text size PepsiCo stock yields 2.7%. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Baxter International , Devon Energy , and PepsiCo were among the large U.S. companies that announced dividend increases this week. In addit...

Stock market selloff in ‘liquidation’ stage. Why it needs to get ‘hotter’ before it burns out.

This week’s violent U.S. stock-market turnabout may have left investors feeling shaken, but a liquidation phase that may finally be under way will probably need to “get hotter” before it burns itself ...

Starbucks plans to invest roughly $200 million to tackle increased demand for customized cold beverage orders

According to Starbucks Corp.’s interim Chief Executive Howard Schultz, the coffee giant’s problem isn’t demand, but the challenges of meeting it. The company SBUX, -1.26% has allotted more than $200 m...

Zillow Stock Tumbles After Selling More Homes Than Expected. Here’s Why.

Text size Zillow says it has 1,300 homes left in its inventory, most of which have sold or are in agreement to be sold or disposed. Courtesy of Zillow Faster-than-expected home sales in Zillow’s iBuyi...

Opinion: Once richly valued, ‘unicorn’ startups are being gored and investors and funders have stopped believing

When Homer Simpson was asked, “How are we going to get out of this hole?,” he replied, “We’ll dig our way out!” Many people who find themselves in holes they can’t climb out of think that the solution...

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Bought Up the Sliding Stock

Text size Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger. Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg Intel stock slid on the last trading day of April, after the company provided disappointing fiancial forecasts. On the first two trading ...

How to Hitch a Ride on the Porsche IPO

Porsche POAHY 2.09% was more profitable than ever in the first quarter. Investors will have to wait until the fall for its initial public offering, but there are indirect ways to get in early. Volkswa...

Warren Buffett Is Buying Stock Again. What It Means for the Stock Market.

Text size Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett has recently made big bets on Chevron and Occidental Petroleum, along with other stocks. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Warren Buffett sat out much of the po...

Opinion: AMD will finally give investors its data-center data as business soars

Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s data-center business will finally get its own spotlight. After reporting record sales Tuesday and predicting another record this quarter, AMD AMD, +6.25% Chief Financial ...

Lyft stock plunges 26% after forecast, rider numbers come up short

Lyft Inc. said Tuesday that it had a better-than-expected first quarter, with Chief Executive Logan Green saying ride-hailing volumes hit “a new COVID high,” but shares plunged after executives’ forec...

Tesla Schedules Its Annual Meeting. A Stock Split Approaches.

Text size Tesla scheduled its 2022 annual stockholders meeting for later this year. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Mark your calendars: Tesla ’s 2022 annual meeting of stockholders will be held on Aug. 2,...

Berkshire Hathaway May Have Sold Verizon, Bought $10 Billion of Financials

Text size Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway said it incurred $739 million of realized losses on equity sales in the first quarter. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc Berkshire Hatha...

Berkshire Hathaway May Have Sold Verizon Stock in Q1, Bought $10 Billion of Financials

Text size Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway said it incurred $739 million of realized losses on equity sales in the first quarter. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc Berkshire Hatha...

Rivian’s IPO Lockup Is Almost Over. Here’s What that Means for the Stock.

Text size Door panels for the R1T, Rivian’s electric pickup truck, are ready for installation on the trim line. Courtesy Rivian Rivian Automotive investors have been dealing with a lot lately. S...

Alphabet Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat Bought Stock in Blackstone

Text size Blackstone headquarters in New York. Angus Mordant/Bloomberg Blackstone stock has slumped so far in 2022, and director Ruth Porat just bought shares of the private-equity firm on the open ma...

4 Takeaways From the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting

Text size Warren Buffett. Drew Angerer/Getty Images OMAHA, Neb.—The 2022 Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders meeting took place in person on Saturday, with tens of thousands of Warren Buffett fans ...

Buffett invests big chunk of Berkshire Hathaway’s cash

Berkshire Hathaway’s first-quarter earnings fell more than 53% on a large swing on the paper value of its investments, but Warren Buffett found ways to put some of the company’s massive cash pile to w...