4 ETF ideas targeting clean water, wind, the smart grid — and a catch-all

For some investment advisers and stock-pickers, so-called green investing is far from just a feel-good move. There are population demographics, a private-public mandate to meet international greenhous...

Apple, Microsoft, Visa, Boeing, GM, Chipotle, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

It’s the busiest week of first-quarter earnings season. A whopping 165 S&P 500 companies are scheduled to report their results for the first three months of 2022. Big Tech giants will be among the...

Twitter Re-Examines Elon Musk’s Bid, May Be More Receptive to a Deal

Twitter Inc. TWTR 3.93% is re-examining Elon Musk’s $43 billion takeover offer after the billionaire lined up financing for the bid, in a sign the social-media company could be more receptive to a dea...

These money and investing tips can be keys to success when stock and bond markets fail

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 4 Earth Day ETFs targeting cle...

Netflix and Disney Stocks Hit a Rough Patch. Don’t Count on a Quick Bounceback.

Netflix hasn’t done much wrong, despite a 35% plunge on quarterly results this past week, and a 22% one back in January. The company has convinced 222 million customers worldwide to hand it an average...

Gap stock sinks 18%, heads for lowest close since July 2020

Gap Inc. stock plunged 18% in Friday trading after the company announced Old Navy’s Chief Executive Nancy Green is leaving the role, and the company lowered first-quarter sales expectations. Green is ...

‘The issues with the IRS are still present and very real’: Millions of Americans are racing to file their tax returns, and filing extensions

Tax Day came and went earlier this week, so if your upcoming weekend plans are just chilling after the last-minute tax time bustle, you might have company. April 18 marked the deadline in most states ...

Cathie Wood’s Flagship Fund Is Down 45% This Year. Money Is Still Flowing In.

Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation exchange-traded fund keeps falling, but investors aren’t jumping ship. Shares of the popular ETF, which is known by its ticker ARKK, have declined 45% so far in 2022—inclu...

BlackRock Stock Has Slid. Director William E. Ford Scooped Up Shares.

BlackRock stock has tumbled this year, and director William E. Ford, the chairman and CEO of investment firm General Atlantic, scooped up shares of the asset manager on the open market. BlackRock (tic...

Johnson & Johnson, Schlumberger Boosted Dividends

Johnson & Johnson, Southern Co., and Schlumberger were among the large U.S. companies that declared dividend this week. Healthcare conglomerate Johnson & Johnson (ticker:JNJ) plans to boost it...

CEO of Top Natural Gas Producer Sees ‘Tremendous’ Moment for U.S. Energy

On Thursday, U.S. climate envoy John Kerry put natural gas companies on the clock, telling them to clean up their acts in the next six to 10 years or be replaced. On Friday, the head of the largest ga...

Buying the Dip Can Be a Retiree’s Best Friend. Here’s How Seniors Can Safely Shop.

Photo illustration by Barron’s Staff; (reference) Dreamstime (4) Text size It’s hard at any age to buy stocks when prices are falling, but for retirees it can be especially nerve-racking because...

Verizon Stock Had Its Worst Its Day Since the Pandemic Hit

Verizon Communications’ first-quarter report won’t be changing any investors’ thesis on the stock. The wireless giant continues to spend big on improving its 5G network to meet management’s promises f...

Six Dividend Stocks to Help Beat Inflation

The hot new investment theme isn’t socially nuanced crypto space finance or metaverse charging networks for virtual vehicles. It’s dividends—cash payments to shareholders. This year, U.S. equity divid...

Amid a storm in tech sector, Google is staying relatively dry and happy

While other tech companies have faced the fury of Wall Street because of a host of issues, Google parent Alphabet Inc. has largely withstood the storm, and analysts believe it will continue to do so w...

Facebook Is Broken. Execs Say a Fix Won’t Come Fast.

Meta Platforms, the former Facebook, has come under heavy fire from Congress, regulators, and even its own users, but there has been nothing like the crisis it now faces. Its core business is decelera...

Netflix is the S&P 500’s worst performer this week — here are the next 14

Investors remained sour for a second consecutive session on Friday as they continued to digest comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell about the prospect for rapidly rising interest rates...

Why did the stock market fall? Dow finishes nearly 1,000 points lower in worst day since October 2020

U.S. stocks fell sharply on Friday to suffer their biggest one-day drop since 2020, as investors continued to weigh hawkish comments on interest rates a day earlier by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome ...

Apple gave investors more than $100 billion last year — how much more is coming?

Apple Inc. is getting ready to show investors the money. Apple’s AAPL, -2.78% Thursday afternoon earnings report not only will reveal how the consumer-electronics giant is managing supply-chain and ma...

Verizon stock heads for sharpest drop in two years as earnings show ‘challenging’ path ahead

Shares of Verizon Communications Inc. were on pace for their biggest drop in more than two years Friday after the telecommunications company showed a net loss of postpaid phone subscribers amid a diff...

Intuitive Surgical Stock Tanks. Blame the Cautious Guidance.

Intuitive Surgical stock was tanking after the surgical systems manufacturer beat earning expectations but failed to significantly raise guidance for upcoming quarters. The company posted first-quarte...

Weekend reads: How to position your investments before the Federal Reserve causes a bear market

Do you remember all the times Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell was quoted as saying inflation in the U.S. was “transitory”? With the Fed now ready to fight inflation, the bond market has quickly...

Opinion: This will be a year for stock market traders — here are 12 companies to favor, says 40-year investing veteran Bob Doll

If you’re relatively new to investing, and you think 2022 has been a year from hell, imagine being in the stock market for over 40 years. That would’ve put you through the Great Financial Crisis in 20...

Cleveland-Cliffs Crushes Earnings Estimates. Contract Steel Pricing Does It.

Rising prices helped steel maker Cleveland-Cliffs report much better-than-expected first-quarter sales and earnings. Prices for Cliffs steel rose even as spot prices for steel dropped in the first qua...

How to prepare your finances for another recession: ‘We think a hard landing will ultimately be unavoidable’

Two years after the short, sharp pandemic-related recession, Wall Street is once again warning of a new recession on the horizon. That’s not a lot to go on, but financial-planning experts say it ought...

For Ackman’s Pershing Square, a Record of Big Hits and Misses

Pershing Square Capital’s William Ackman has had some successes in recent years, but also some big flops, with Netflix being the latest example. Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for The New York Times ...

Here’s how to craft student-loan forgiveness in a way that cuts out those who don’t need help

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York on Thursday released new analyses on student loans, with one blog post focused on who would benefit from various approaches to canceling such debt — as well as eac...

AT&T CEO John Stankey on the Dividend, Inflation, and Why to Buy the Stock

The focus is on 5G wireless and fiberoptic broadband services. DirecTV, WarnerMedia , Vrio, and Xandr all are gone or in the process of being divested. AT&T (ticker: T) completed the spinoff of it...

Blackstone Earnings Fall to $1.22 Billion

Blackstone Inc.’s BX -6.45% first-quarter earnings fell as the value of the private-equity giant’s investments climbed at a slower pace. The New York firm reported net income of $1.22 billion, or $1.6...

AT&T Shareholders Who Sell Warner Bros. Stock Face Tax Complexities

Text size AT&T shares have risen 10% since April 8. Stefani Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images Since the AT&T spinoff of its 71% stake in Warner Bros. Discovery to its shareholders on April 8, ma...

Netflix sheds subscribers and CNN+ will shut down amid competition from Disney, Hulu, HBO, Amazon Prime and Apple. Have we finally hit peak streaming?

Media companies keep dueling for more streaming subscriptions, but viewers might be tapping out in the clash for their attention — and their cash. Netflix on Tuesday reported a first-quarter net loss ...

Blackstone’s Earnings Beat Estimates. Assets Under Management Are Rising.

Text size Blackstone Group had net inflows of $50 billion in the quarter. Munshi Ahmed/Bloomberg Blackstone, the private-equity giant, reported higher distributable earnings than expected and came clo...