Ponzi scheme behind patriotic vodka, once featured on ‘Fox & Friends,’ scammed investors out of $900,000 to pay IRS and Amex bills, prosecutors say

A Connecticut businessman has pleaded guilty to operating an unpatriotic Ponzi scheme that pocketed $900,000 from investors looking to buy a pro-veteran vodka company. Brian Hughes, 57, of Madison, Co...

GM Stock Has Tumbled. Director Patricia Russo Bought Up Shares.

Text size GM director Patricia F. Russo (Photo by Monica Schipper/Getty Images for Women’s Forum of New York) Monica Schipper / Getty Images General Motors stock has tumbled in 2022, and directo...

Ford Stock Is Rising on Reports of an EV Spinoff. Steer Clear of the Rumors.

Text size A Ford Motor plant. Courtesy Ford Ford Motor stock is rising in early Friday trading after Bloomberg reported the company might spin off its electric-vehicle business. This isn’t the first r...

Coke, Walmart, and 8 More Companies That Boosted Their Stock Dividends

Text size Things go better with Coke, as the company’s long-ago jingle proclaimed. Things are also going better for the beverage company’s stockholders, thanks to the news that its dividend will be in...

Intel Slides After Analyst Day. Wall Street Sees Risks From Foundry Plans.

Text size Intel laid out its expectations at a meeting for analysts and investors on Thursday. Courtesy Intel Corporation Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger came into his first analyst day since he took the top ...

Intel Pays Up for Foundry Expertise

For anyone doubting Intel Corp.’s ambitions to make chips for others, the company’s acquisition of Tower Semiconductor should lay their doubts to rest. The deal reported by The Wall Street Journal lat...

Gold Miner Barrick Unveils Variable Dividend That Could Mean a 3% Yield

Text size Barrick Gold produced 1.2 million ounces of gold in the fourth quarter. David Gray/AFP via Getty Images Barrick Gold, one of the two largest gold mining companies in the world, plans to intr...

Generac Stock Rises Because It Expects ‘Exceptional Revenue Growth’ in 2022

Text size Dreamstime Shares of Generac Holdings were surging Wednesday after the generator maker’s 2022 outlook energized investors. “The company is initiating guidance for 2022 that anticipates anoth...

AMD Stock Rose After Company Closed Buy of Xilinx

Text size AMD completed the acquisition of Xilinx. Dreamstime Advanced Micro Devices said Monday morning that it completed its all-stock acquisition of Xilinx, and AMD CEO Lisa Su added the chair titl...

IBM executives call older workers ‘dinobabies,’ discrimination lawsuit alleges

Executives at IBM IBM, -0.16% referred to the company’s older workers as “dinobabies” in internal email correspondence, according to a new age-discrimination lawsuit. These emails were submitted as ev...

Cathie Wood’s ARK Snaps Up Sea Stock After Reports India Bans Game

Text size Cathie Wood, chief executive officer and chief investment officer of ARK Investment Management LLC Alex Flynn/Bloomberg Sea Ltd. shares were rebounding Tuesday, after plunging on Monday foll...

What a Monster, Constellation Merger Might Mean and Why Coca-Cola Could Be Key

Text size Monster Beverage display, Indianapolis, IN, November, 2020. Jonathan Weiss/Dreamstime.com Monster Beverage stock climbed early Tuesday as investors weighed up a possible merger between the e...

Warren Buffett’s firm took big stake in Activision Blizzard ahead of Microsoft deal

OMAHA, Neb. — Warren Buffett’s company placed a rare bet on a technology company late last year and it has already paid off in a big way. Berkshire Hathaway BRK.B, -1.52% revealed in documents filed w...

Intel Agrees to Buy Tower Semiconductor in $5.4 Billion Deal

Text size Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Intel Corp . agreed to buy Israeli company Tower Semiconductor for $5.4 billion as it looks to expand its manufacturing capacity and technology portfolio amid ri...

Intel reaches $5.4 billion deal to buy Tower Semiconductor

Intel Corp. on Tuesday struck a $5.4 billion deal to buy Tower Semiconductor, as it seeks to bolster its manufacturing capabilities. Intel INTC, -0.10% said it’s paying $53 per share in cash for Tower...

Elon Musk gave 5 million Tesla shares to charity after teasing possible donation to fight world hunger

Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk donated more than 5 million Tesla shares in November, days after the U.N. World Food Program outlined a plan to potentially use a $6 billion donation from the worl...

Meta Stock Has Never Been Cheaper Since Its 2012 IPO

Text size Meta Platforms, the former Facebook, has a lower price-to-earnings ratio than other Big Tech companies. Noah Berger/AFP via Getty Images Meta Platforms ‘ stock is as cheap now as it has ever...

Splunk Stock Surges on Report of $20 Billion Cisco Buyout Offer

Text size Cisco made an offer to acquire Splunk for more than $20 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Shares of Splunk were rising sharply Monday on a report th...

George Soros Buys a Big Rivian Stake

Text size Soros Fund Management’s stake was worth about $2.1 billion at the end of December. Courtesy Rivian George Soros’ family investment office, Soros Fund Management, revealed a new stake i...

PayPal Stock Lost 2 Years of Gains. CEO Dan Schulman Bought Up Shares.

Text size PayPal President and CEO Dan Schulman Drew Angerer/Getty Images Nearly two years of gains have been wiped from PayPal Holdings’ market value since the payments company reported a disappointi...

Billionaire George Soros reveals stake in Rivian, sells some tech shares

Billionaire George Soros’ investment fund has taken a more than $1 billion stake in electric-pickup maker Rivian Automotive Inc. According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Fr...

Giant Pension Exited Alibaba and Bought Coinbase, Lucid, and Rivian Stock

Text size Alibaba is no longer a holding in a New Jersey pension fund. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images Late in 2021, New Jersey’s state pension bought up newly public stocks that have plunged so far i...

Cathie Wood’s ARK Stays the Course, Betting Big on Innovation

Cathie Wood’s ARK Investment Management LLC is snapping up more shares of largely unprofitable companies, doubling down on a bet that many traders and investors expect to be tested this year by rising...

The Arm deal is dead, but Nvidia is not expected to slow down

Nvidia Corp.’s acquisition of Arm Ltd. has been scuttled, but that isn’t expected to stop the chip maker’s charge into the data center. seeks to cut further into Intel Corp.’s and Advanced Micro Devic...

Inflation Is Red Hot. How to Protect Your Portfolio and Grow Income.

Income investors—especially those who depend on fixed coupons from bonds—face a hit to their purchasing power as inflation stands above 7%. One strategy to hedge against such big price increases, howe...

3M, T. Rowe, and 7 More Companies That Raised Their Dividends This Week

Text size Dupont said it will increase its quarterly dividend by 10%. Mark Makela/Getty Images Interpublic Group of Companies, Kimco Realty, and DuPont de Nemours were among the larger U.S. companies ...

GE’s Annual Report Is Shorter Again. Things Are Changing.

Text size General Electric plans to break itself into three parts. Sebastien Bozon/AFP via Getty Images General Electric ‘s latest annual report is more evidence that the company is shaking itself up....

AMD Stock Sees Steep Drop Ahead of Xilinx Acquisition

Text size This week, AMD stock saw its biggest two-day decline since October 2018. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Advanced Micro Devices stock has come under severe selling pressure just ahead of the com...

After Alphabet’s Stock Split, Amazon and Others Look Ripe to Split Shares

Text size Amazon, Chipotle, and others could be candidates for splitting their stocks. Noah Seelam/AFP via Getty Images Alphabet recently announced it is splitting its stock. It probably won’t be the ...

Asana CEO Has Bought $1 Billion of Company Stock in Historic Buying Spree

Text size Asana co-founder and CEO Dustin Moskovitz has bought more than $1 billion worth of the company’s stock since last June. Courtesy Asana In what is likely the most aggressive run of insi...

Buy SoFi Stock, Analyst Says. The Fintech Should Deliver Strong Revenue Growth.

Text size SoFi has been focused on member growth, according to BofA. Rafaelhenriquepress/Dreamstime SoFi Technologies stock is a buy because the company will deliver strong revenue growth thanks to it...