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...

Palantir Earnings and Outlook Fall Short of Estimates. The Stock Plunges.

Text size Palantir guided to a ‘base case’ of $470 million in revenue for the second quarter. Dreamstime Palantir Technologies posted soft first-quarter results, along with June quarter gu...

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...

BioNTech Earnings Top Forecasts on Strong Sales of Covid-19 Vaccine

Text size BioNTech is continuing to work with Pfizer on follow-on Covid-19 vaccines. (Photo by THOMAS LOHNES/AFP via Getty Images) BioNTech , the German biotech company, reported first-quarter earning...

Opinion: The Dow and the S&P 500 are likely falling into a bear market but your portfolio doesn’t have to sink with them

After talking to my nervous neighbors about the Nasdaq stocks they own, I discovered that most don’t want financial advice. So I’ll offer it here. The Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, -1.40% is in a bear ...

6 financial advisers and pros answer one question: ‘If a client came to you with $1,000 to invest right now, what would you tell them to do with it?’

Imagine this: You’ve got $1,000 to invest, but you don’t know what exactly to do with it. We asked 6 financial advisers what they’d do if a client came to them with $1,000 — here’s what they advise. (...

2 Stocks to Buy Amid Tech’s Wreckage

Text size Tens of billions of investors’ capital has been vaporized inside some top tech hedge funds. It could be the quickest collapse of dollar value in hedge fund history. Dreamstime Warren Buffett...

Disney, Occidental, Rivian, Palantir, BioNTech, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week

Text size We’re past the peak of first-quarter earnings season, but with several notable companies still left to report next week. The economic-data highlights of the week will be a pair of inflation ...

Opinion: Which jobs have come back, and which ones haven’t

Although the recovery in output, wealth and hours worked has been remarkable since February 2020, the U.S. economy remains deeply scarred by the COVID-19 pandemic. Total hours worked in the nonfarm ec...

The office ‘is over,’ Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says, and flexibility is the future

““I think that the office as we know it, is over.”” That’s Airbnb Chief Executive Brian Chesky, in an interview with Time magazine’s The Leadership Brief published Sunday. “It’s kind of like an anachr...

Disney, Occidental, Rivian, Palantir, BioNTech, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

Text size We’re past the peak of first-quarter earnings season, but with several notable companies still left to report next week. The economic-data highlights of the week will be a pair of inflation ...

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 ...

Billionaire George Kaiser’s Bank Drills Deeper Into the Oil Patch

Banks all over the U.S. and around the world have curtailed lending to the U.S. oil-and-gas sector. BOK Financial Corp. BOKF 1.09% has doubled down. The Tulsa, Okla.-based bank holding company for the...

Most Americans were feeling gloomy even before last week’s dramatic dive in stocks — and now they fear a prolonged bear market

In a matter of hours, promising signs of a stock market rally turned into pessimism, even panic. For retail investors trying to get their legs during a volatile moment, Thursday’s deep downward lurch ...

Giant Pension Bought AMD, Tilray, Uber, and Petrobras Stock

Text size An AMD EPYC processor. Courtesy AMD New Jersey’s state pension materially increased investments in some of its larger positions. State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D, the pension’s larg...

Market’s 2022 Slide Has Already Changed Investor Behavior

The 2022 pullback in U.S. stocks intensified last week, with stocks on Thursday staging their largest single-day decline since the onset of the pandemic. The plunge came just a day after Federal Reser...

Virgin Galactic Burned Less Cash Than Expected. The Stock Fell Anyway.

Text size Virgin Galactic reported a loss of 36 cents a share in the first quarter on sales of $319,000. Courtesy Virgin Galactic Space tourism pioneer Virgin Galactic posted first-quarter results wer...

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...

Bill.com Stock Plummets as Revenue Growth Slows

Text size Bill.com’s financial forecasts point to slower revenue growth than in the past. Dreamstime Bill.com’s stock lost nearly a third of its value even though the bill-payment automation com...

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...

Bausch + Lomb, Year’s Second-Biggest IPO, Pops in Public Debut

Text size Bausch + Lomb’s IPO is the second-biggest so far this year. Scott Olson/Getty Images Eye-care company Bausch + Lomb and biotech PepGen kicked off their lives as public companies Friday...

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...

Yes, GM Needs to Do More to Challenge Tesla. But the Stock Is a Buy.

General Motors has grand ambitions and a cheap stock. That could be a winning combination for investors. But to realize it, the pace of the giant car maker’s electric-car launches must catch up to the...

Toyota Is Trying to Catch Up in the Crowded EV Race. It May Be Too Late.

Toyota Motor became the world’s most successful car company through the spirit of kaizen, or continuous improvement. Now, with electric vehicles on the rise, kaizen might prove to be its undoing. Kaiz...

Week’s Best: Warren Buffett Snipes at Wall Street

Warren Buffett, chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway. Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett had some choice words for financial advisors and asset manager...

The Stock Market Looks Like a Bear. How to Avoid Getting Eaten.

It could be very difficult for Powell and the Fed to tame inflation without causing an economic slowdown. Photo illustration by Barron’s staff; (reference) Dreamstime (5) Text size Like Winnie t...

This little-known Vanguard fund has been crushing it — yes, even in this market

What would Jack Bogle think? The legendary Vanguard founder, who died three years ago at 89, famously advised investors to avoid anything fancy in their retirement portfolios, 401(k) plans and IRAs. B...

Opinion: What does Social Security insolvency mean, and how can it impact your retirement?

In the last several months you may have seen news headlines announcing that the Social Security program will be insolvent by 2033. This could be alarming if you’re planning to retire, but it doesn’t n...

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 ...

‘She has no ambition’: I’m 41 and make $100,000. I’m buying a home before getting married. My fiancée earns $50,000 and has $20,000 in student debt. What’s a fair prenup?

I have been in my current relationship for almost three years. I’m a young woman, 41, have a great, stable career and make about $100,000 a year. I am ambitious and my prospects have me increasing my ...

Illumina Stock Plunges Despite Strong Results, Gene-Sequencing Sales

Text size Illumina turned in stronger financial results than expected. Dreamstime The gene-sequencing supplier Illumina delivered on its March quarter financial forecasts, as global demand for genetic...