Jeff Bezos Is Worried About Tech Valuations, and It’s Weighing on Amazon Stock

Text size Jeff Bezos has given investors new reason to worry about the valuations of tech stocks. David Ryder/Getty Images Technology investors hoping for a quick rebound to new highs may be in for a ...

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...

Chegg stock plummets toward lowest price in 4 years after annual forecast chopped

Chegg Inc. shares plunged toward their lowest price in four years Monday afternoon, after the online-education company slashed an annual forecast provided three months ago. Chegg CHGG, +0.97% righted ...

ON Semiconductor Gets Backed by Auto Demand. Stock Rises on Record Revenue.

Text size ON Semiconductor said it expects automotive and industrial customers to account for an increasing share of revenue. Photograph by Adi Goldstein  ON Semiconductor delivered record revenue for...

Redbox stock surge continues, but don’t call it a short squeeze

Shares of Redbox Entertainment Inc. were continuing their massive surge Monday, which analysts saw as reflective of increased investor comfort in the wake of recent financing announcements as well as ...

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...

Home Buyers Are Finding Ways to Take the Sting Out of Rising Mortgage Rates

Mortgage rates are at their highest level in more than a decade. Home buyers are fighting back.  More borrowers are paying fees to cut their interest rates and making higher down payments to lower the...

Buy Lithia Motors Stock. The Used-Car Dealer Could Rise 65%.

Lithia Motors owns about 280 dealerships nationwide and has a market capitalization of $8.2 billion. Courtesy Lithia Motors Text size Good luck finding a bargain on a used car—but you can get one in t...

Storied VC says investors are unlearning the lessons of the last bull market. Jeff Bezos says you should listen.

Investors are mustering some courage following the worst month since the pandemic, and Friday’s session that ended with the Dow DJIA, -2.77% tanking nearly 1,000 points and the S&P 500 SPX, -3.63%...

Social-Media Platforms Lay It On Thick

The tech industry hasn’t been shy about coining its own dubious metrics over the years. But lately, even the basic ones aren’t to be trusted. Social-media investors have historically focused on two ke...

Gas prices are up roughly 40% from just a year ago. So you may want to try this method to get ‘basically free money’ for gas — but there’s a catch

Is a gas credit card right for you? Getty Images Amid high inflation, rising prices of crude oil and the war in Ukraine, gas prices have jumped from an average of about $2.88 per gallon a year ago, to...

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 ...

Earnings Season Has Been Just One More Reason to Sell Stocks

Text size Apple dropped 3.7% on Friday after its outlook disappointed. Gabby Jones/Bloomberg The only takeaway to be drawn from a volatile week of earnings reports was that we shouldn’t get our hopes ...

Berkshire Hathaway’s Charlie Munger Takes Another Swipe at Robinhood

Charlie Munger’s opinion of Robinhood HOOD -2.82% Markets Inc. hasn’t improved in the past year. If anything, it has become more negative. “It was pretty obvious that something like that was going to ...

Tesla Investors Beware: Bad NIO, Li, XPeng April Deliveries Hit by Covid.

A Covid outbreak in China, which forced production shutdowns, is weighing on April’s output numbers for electric vehicle makers. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images Text size Chinese electric ve...

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...

‘We cannot do that.’ 3 things NOT to ask your financial adviser to do for you

Getty Images A financial adviser can do a lot of things — provide advice to help you manage your finances, execute trades on your behalf, create holistic financial plans based on your short- and long-...

Grubhub Owner Jet Could See Broader Engine Failure

Grubhub owner Just Eat Takeaway.com’s TKWY 3.87% share price fell nearly 70% over the past year. Trimming the fat might not help in the long run. The European food-delivery giant said in April it woul...

‘I think we’re in the final innings.’ Pimco’s Kiesel thinks the housing market has hit its top

Mark Kiesel is thinking of selling his California home and becoming a renter. Families looking to buy a home make want to take heed. Kiesel, who serves as global credit chief investment officer at Pim...

At the Berkshire Hathaway meeting, Warren Buffett aims to assure shareholders

OMAHA, Neb. — At the start of the Berkshire Hathaway BRK.B, -2.55% BRK.A, -2.94% annual meeting on Saturday, chairman and chief executive officer Warren Buffett wasted no time speaking to the question...

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Spent Billions on Chevron. This Might Be Why.

Text size Photograph by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images There is a cottage industry on Wall Street predicting what would Warren would buy. That, of course, refers to Berkshire Hathawa y (ticker: BRK.B) C...

Warren Buffett Says Markets Have Become a ‘Gambling Parlor’

OMAHA, Neb.—As recently as February, Warren Buffett lamented he wasn’t finding much out there that was worth buying.  That is no longer the case. After a yearslong deal drought, Mr. Buffett’s Berkshir...

Berkshire Hathaway: Live Coverage of the Annual Shareholders Meeting

OMAHA, Neb.—The Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders meeting is back in person for 2022, after a two-year pandemic hiatus moved the so-called “Woodstock for Capitalists” online. Warren Buffett addre...

Berkshire Hathaway First Quarter Operating Profits Edged Higher as Buybacks Slowed

Berkshire Hathaway made a big bet on other stocks in the first quarter, and energy was a favorite. Warren Buffett’s company bought $51.1 billion worth of equities in the quarter, according to the comp...

I-bonds are all the rage — what’s the best way to use them?

With the release of March’s Consumer Price Index, we now know that a risk-free investment yielding 9.6% will be available as of May 2. I’m speaking, of course, about Series I savings bonds from the U....

Here’s What’s Next for Tesla Investors Now That Elon Musk Sold Stock

Text size Tesla is expected to release Photograph by Spencer Platt/Getty Images Only Tesla CEO Elon Musk can make an annual proxy statement exciting. With Tesla’s 2022 proxy statement possibly arrivin...

Apple, IBM, and 14 More Companies That Raised Their Stock Dividends

Text size IBM plans to raise its dividend. Migel Medina/AFP via Getty Images Apple, International Business Machines, and Discover Financial Services were among the large U.S. companies that announced ...

For Exxon and Chevron, profit misses could create a buying opportunity

Mixed quarterly results dragged shares of Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp. lower on Friday, although Wall Street kept Chevron stock among its top energy picks and predicted more upside for Exxon sh...

GE Stock Is Overpriced, What Ails Teladoc, and More From Analysts

Text size These reports, excerpted and edited by Barron’s, were issued recently by investment and research firms. The reports are a sampling of analysts’ thinking; they should not be considered the vi...

Europe Inches Closer to a Ban on Russian Oil. Here’s What That Would Mean.

Europe will continue debating a ban on imports of Russian oil over the weekend. While such a deal is far from certain, the New York Times reported Friday that the European Union could approve a phased...