Alibaba a Target of GameStop’s Ryan Cohen. Why the Stock Market Shrugged.

Investor Ryan Cohen, who has found fame with activist campaigns at meme stocks such as GameStop and Bed Bath & Beyond is now targeting Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba   The billionaire co-founder...

Carvana stock jumps after ‘poison pill’ adopted, exercisable if an investor acquires at least 4.9% stake

Shares of Carvana Co. CVNA, +5.48% jumped 2.4% in premarket trading Tuesday, after the online used-car retailer said it adopted a shareholder rights plan, in an effort to block investors from buying u...

How a ‘triple-barreled buy signal’ and other green flags could send the S&P 500 20% higher, says this money manager

A holiday-shortened week is looking like it will get off to a lower start, as China landed some weak growth numbers and more earnings roll out. That’s after two positive weeks to start 2023. But there...

Former FTX US head denies participation in fraud involving the company

Brett Harrison, former head of the U.S. arm of FTX, distanced himself from the crypto exchange co-founded by Sam Bankman-Fried, which filed for bankruptcy back in November. Harrison, who resigned as F...

Citigroup, Target, Lennar, and 2 More Companies Keeping Their Dividends Steady

PPL, a utility based in Allentown, Pa., said this week that it plans to raise its next quarterly dividend by 7%. It was an otherwise light stretch for such announcements among large U.S. companies. PP...

For All His Criticisms of Disney, Peltz and Iger Probably Agree: Streaming Has to Be Fixed

“Great news: Nelson Peltz made a slide deck about me,” said no CEO ever. But maybe Walt Disney Bob Iger had mixed feelings about the 35-pager that dropped this past week. One one hand, it says that he...

Bed Bath & Beyond Ponders Bankruptcy, Exciting the Meme Crowd

What were shareholders thinking? Shares of retailer Bed Bath & Beyond zoomed 179%, to $3.49 this past week, despite the retailer warning of a possible bankruptcy. One explanation: Meme stock mania...

China Takes ‘Golden Shares’ in Alibaba, Tencent in Push to Control Tech Sector

E-commerce giants Alibaba and Tencent climbed on Friday despite reports the Chinese government is working to take so-called ‘golden shares’ in units of both companies.  State-run investment funds have...

Bed Bath & Beyond may be heading for a ‘meme squeeze’

Troubled home-goods retailer Bed Bath & Beyond may be heading for a ‘meme squeeze,’ says analyst Ihor Dusaniwsky of S3 Partners. Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. BBBY, +50.14% announced the closure of a...

Investors mock Elon Musk’s bid to move Tesla trial from California

SAN FRANCISCO — Lawyers for Tesla shareholders suing the electric vehicle maker’s CEO Elon Musk over a misleading tweet are urging a federal judge to reject the billionaire’s request to move an upcomi...

AMD poaches Marvell’s Jean Hu for CFO slot as Devinder Kumar retires

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said late Wednesday that financial chief Devinder Kumar was retiring and that Marvell Technology Inc.’s Jean Hu would take his place. Marvell MRVL, +3.81% announced that Hu...

Bed Bath & Beyond Warned of Bankruptcy. Then Its Stock Soared 166%.

Bed Bath & Beyond shareholders face a growing risk that they could be wiped out in bankruptcy, but you wouldn’t know that by looking at the retailer’s stock this week. Bed Bath stock (ticker: BBBY...

XPeng stock falls after J.P. Morgan says stop buying

Shares of XPeng Inc. fell Wednesday, after J.P. Morgan backed away from its bullish call on the China-based electric vehicle maker, saying the COVID-related reopening trade has been overdone. Analyst ...

Could Apple WiFi chips just be a ploy to get a better deal from Broadcom?

Broadcom Inc. shares fell Tuesday following reports that Apple Inc. was working on its own radiofrequency (RF) chips, but one analyst wondered whether those plans would get shelved if the chip maker o...

CVS eyes next-generation health clinics after Amazon’s move for One Medical

CVS Health Corp. is investing in a young chain of health clinics, and may be looking to acquire another. CVS CVS, -0.12% invested $100 million in a Carbon Health Inc., a San Francisco-based chain of u...

Opinion: Why a prominent Tesla investor wants Elon Musk to put him on the board

Ross Gerber is well-known in certain circles as a longtime Tesla Inc. investor, thanks to being a bullish voice on Twitter about the electric-vehicle company. As Tesla TSLA, +5.93% stock has plummeted...

Fed’s Powell won’t stop rate hikes until he ‘terrifies’ the wealthiest of investors, says this CIO

Investors are waking up to a whiff of positivity where stocks are concerned for Monday, after last week’s first gain in five that was prompted by weak wage growth Alongside a bleak Institute for Suppl...

Keurig K-Cup settlement: Today’s the final day to join the $10 million lawsuit

If you have been making your morning cup of coffee using the popular Keurig KDP, -0.63% pods, aka K-Cups, then you may be entitled to some money. The beverage giant recently agreed to settle a class-a...

These 15 Dividend Aristocrat stocks have been the best income builders

The S&P Dividend Aristocrats deserve more coverage. Those are companies that have raised their dividend payouts consistently over the years — they’re dividend royalty, as it were. As a group, they...

European drugmakers including AstraZeneca pony up for U.S.-listed biopharmas

European drugmakers on Monday announced a trio of deals around a billion dollars each to buy U.S.-listed biopharmas at hefty premiums. Anglo-Swedish AstraZeneca AZN, +1.42%   AZN, -1.26% said it’s pay...

Tech’s Bill Is Coming Due. Investors Aren’t the Only Ones Who Will Pay.

For two years now, tech companies have spent massive amounts of money building the capacity to serve what they believed would be a higher level of postpandemic demand. If you build it, they will come....

Alibaba shares rise in Hong Kong after Jack Ma cedes control of Ant Group

Shares of Alibaba Group Holdings are higher following news that co-founder Jack Ma is ceding control of affiliate company Ant Group Co., potentially paving the way to revive plans for an initial publi...

XPeng stock just misses a record selloff, snaps 5-day win streak

The U.S.-listed shares of XPeng Inc. plunged Friday to snap a five-day win streak, as price cuts by Tesla Inc. in China soured sentiment toward China-based electric vehicle makers. The stock XPEV, -15...

FTC’s proposed ban on noncompete agreements could have biggest impact on tech industry

Ryan Morrissey is a serial founder of software companies, having already launched three separate startups. Yet when he sold one of those companies, he had to sign an agreement to not start any more fo...

Dividends Versus Interest Income | Barron’s

To the Editor:There are many, many choices (“Barron’s 12 Best Income Investments for the New Year, Cover Story, Dec. 30). Two things to remember: 1) reward equals risk (there’s no such thing as a free...

The House Speaker Tussle Is Just a Warm-Up for the Main Event: The Debt Ceiling Battle

The battle over the speaker of the House of Representatives is something not seen for a century or more. But the more relevant precedent for investors might be 2011, when the drawn-out struggle to rai...

Snowflake Is a Great Cloud Stock to Buy on the Dip, Says Wells Fargo

Investors should buy Snowflake shares because companies are going to need the cloud-software data warehousing company’s services even as the economy slows down, Wells Fargo Securities says. On Friday,...

The Case for Holding—Not Selling—GE’s Healthcare Stock

A healthcare giant has been born: General Electric completed the spinoff of its healthcare business, GE HealthCare Technologies on Wednesday, with the shares trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker GEH...

CrowdStrike Stock Has Tumbled. A Director Scooped Up Shares.

CrowdStrike Holdings stock tumbled in 2022, and one director scooped up shares of the provider of security software in the last week of that year. CrowdStrike (ticker: CRWD) lost about half of its mar...

Fate Therapeutics stocks heads for record selloff after Janssen collaboration terminated and job cuts

Shares of Fate Therapeutics Inc. FATE, -61.18% plunged 56.8% in premarket trading, putting them on track for a record one-day selloff, after the biopharmaceutical company announced the termination of ...

AMC stock: CEO says he won’t sell more shares

AMC CEO Adam Aron has given an update on his shareholding of the movie theater chain and its AMC Preferred Equity units. “More AMC shares and APE units vested yesterday, bringing my current ownership ...

Why Pfizer Is Pulling Back on Research Into Rare Disease, Gene Therapy

Pfizer is planning to pull back on early-stage research into treatments for rare diseases, including the development of new viral-based gene therapies, the company told employees on Thursday afternoon...