Blackstone’s Big New Idea Leaves It Bruised

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Airbnb, Coca-Cola, Shopify, Deere, DoorDash, Paramount, and More Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

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Only 13 companies have issued upbeat profit forecasts for Q1, but earnings are due from this pessimism-resistant industry

A tough fourth quarter for corporate earnings is largely in the past, and the first quarter isn’t exactly looking great either, but upcoming results this week from the one industry spared by the pande...

Largest U.S. Pension Buys Up Apple, Tesla, and Disney Stock. It Sold Walmart.

The largest public pension in the U.S. by assets just made major changes in its investment portfolio. The California Public Employees’ Retirement System bought more Apple (ticker: AAPL), Tesla (TSLA),...

The IRS Has New Tax Rules for State Payments. What They Could Mean for You.

The Internal Revenue Service on Friday gave the green light to taxpayers in 21 states who had been waiting for the agency to clarify the taxability of certain state payments before filing their federa...

These money and investing tips can build your portfolio’s offense and defense

Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Sign up here to get MarketWatch’s best mutual funds and ETF stories emailed to you weekly! INVESTING NEWS & TRENDS 10 value stocks for today’s ma...

K-1 and K-3 Tax Forms Will Be A Hassle This Year. What to Do About It.

It’s an annual ritual for some investors: watching others file their tax return and pocket their refund while you wait, and wait, for the Schedule K-1 tax forms needed to complete your taxes. Partners...

Who Will Win the Super Bowl This Year? Sports Betting Apps Might Be the Champs.

The first U.S. sports-betting operations are moving toward profitability after a period out of favor with investors. Feb. 11, 2023 12:01 am ET Fans will flood into Phoenix on Sunday to watch Super Bow...

Why MGM Resorts International Stock Is Worth a Wager

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AI is dominating the action in the stock market right now

OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, is receiving billions of dollars in funding from Microsoft Corp. MSFT, -0.20%. The rollout of this new technology has been followed by similar efforts by Alphabet Inc...

SoftBank Plans Arm Holdings IPO in 2023

One strange twist in the current obsession with artificial intelligence is the trauma afflicting one of AI’s biggest fans—SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son. In 2017, Son launched the world’s largest-ever ven...

Gambling on Biotechs—and Pfizer | Barron’s

To the Editor: Pfizer has a lot of good and bad points, as mentioned in your cover story “Pfizer Is Moving Beyond Covid. Why Its Stock Is a Buy.” (Feb. 3). But the hardest one to deal with for all bio...

Big Oil’s Big Paradox: Record Profits, Low Stock Valuations

Big Oil has never been more profitable, but it has hardly ever been a smaller part of the stock market. That’s enough to make industry executives feel unappreciated. “We’re grossly undervalued,” says ...

Fed Governor warns crypto investors: ‘Don’t expect taxpayers to socialize your losses’

Federal Reserve Gov. Christopher Waller on Friday fired off a warning about the risks of cryptocurrencies, saying they are “nothing more than a speculative asset, like a baseball card.” “If you buy cr...

Prudential, Corning, and 8 More Companies That Raised Their Stock Dividends

Prudential Financial, Phillips 66 Tractor Supply and Interpublic were among the various large companies that announced dividend increases this week. It continues to be a busy period for such moves as ...

ChatGPT Has Sparked an AI Craze. How to Build a Long-Term AI Portfolio.

Artificial intelligence has sparked new competition in internet search—for the first time in decades. Here’s how to build an AI portfolio. Feb. 10, 2023 6:06 pm ET It has been more than 70 years...

IRS says people in most states who got inflation-relief payments don’t have to report it on their taxes. Here’s where.

The IRS is not going to tax payments from most of the states that cut checks to residents last year in order to help them defray rising living costs. This week, the IRS has been trying to determine if...

Lumen stock has worst week in more than two decades, hits lowest prices since Reagan was in office

Lumen Technologies Inc. shares plunged to their worst weekly performance in more than two decades and their lowest prices since Ronald Reagan was in office Friday, as the business that used to carry t...

Bed Bath & Beyond had a rough week. Here’s what could happen next.

It has been a tumultuous week for Bed Bath & Beyond Inc., as the troubled company averted bankruptcy with what has been described as an “unusual” equity offering.  The home-goods retailer and meme...

Bed Bath & Beyond to Shut Down Canadian Stores in Bankruptcy

Bed Bath & Beyond Inc.’s Canadian division will shut down its stores under court protection after the company received an unusual lifeline earlier this week to save its U.S. operations from bankru...

Nvidia, Broadcom, and Marvell Are Chip Stocks to Benefit in AI Arms Race

J.P. Morgan says there are three semiconductor companies that will thrive from the rising demand for artificial-intelligence services and software. In a note to clients on Friday, analyst Harlan Sur s...

This Facebook executive’s $4 million stock sale could be another sign of Meta’s rebound

A Meta Platforms Inc. executive’s multimillion-dollar stock sale could be another sign that things are returning to normal at the social-media company. Chief Business Officer Marne Levine sold $4.45 m...

Buy Hertz Stock. It’s Cheap, Well-Run, and Renting Teslas.

A revitalized Hertz is set to put investors in “the driver’s seat,” to borrow a phrase from its 1960s ad campaign. This isn’t the Hertz of old, however. Before 2020—and its bankruptcy filing—the compa...

Everything GE CEO Larry Culp Had for Investors in the Annual Report

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Tesla Stock Options Trading Soared. Now Shares Are Falling.

After eight straight gains, Tesla stock is down. There is no smoking gun to blame Friday’s drop on. Shares just hit $200 too soon, driven by everything from stock chart patterns to options traders to ...

Raytheon CEO Bought Up This Energy Stock

After a strong 2022, Phillips 66 stock recently slipped, and one director scooped up shares of the diversified-energy firm on the open market. Phillips 66 stock (ticker: PSX) surged 44% in 2022—a stro...

‘Cash is the cool kid on the block’: High-yield savings accounts, Treasury Bills, money market funds, and CDs — here’s where your cash can earn up to 4.5%

Cash isn’t just the dollar bills you put in your pocket — in this market, it might seem to be a patch of steady ground. There are multiple options: People can put their money in high-yield savings acc...

Ford Stock Is Falling. This Is Why.

Stock in Ford Motor has had a strong start to 2023, but the shares have slid since the company reported fourth quarter earnings, when CEO Jim Farley lamented profits his company left on the table in 2...

Lyft stock melts down after earnings ‘debacle for the ages’

Lyft Inc. isn’t getting too many stars for its latest earnings report, which is helping to send shares down more than 30% Friday morning as numerous bulls head for the hills and fret about the company...

Bed Bath & Beyond equity offering ‘one of the most unusual financing situations we have witnessed,’ analyst says

Bed Bath & Beyond Inc.’s BBBY, -8.13% unusual equity offering may have averted bankruptcy for the time being, but big challenges remain for the troubled retailer, according to KeyBanc Capital Mark...

Micron Suspends Executive Bonuses. The Stock Was Upgraded, Too.

Micron Technology has suspended bonuses for executives, and the stock earned an upgrade, though the two don’t appear to be connected. Micron (ticker: MU) said late Thursday a board committee had appro...