Baidu Stock Jumps Even as Earnings Miss Estimates. Here’s What to Like.

Text size Like its peers in the Chinese tech sector, Baidu faces macroeconomic headwinds. Liu Jin/AFP via Getty Images A growing cloud computing and artificial intelligence business at Baidu helped th...

Dow falls nearly 600 points as Russia says it will begin attacks on Kyiv

U.S. stocks traded lower near midday Tuesday as Russia stepped up attacks on Ukraine and warned it would begin “high-precision” strikes on the capital, Kyiv, as its invasion enters a sixth day. What’s...

Vroom Stock Stalls Out as Used-Car Seller Posts Disappointing Quarter

Text size Vroom’s revenue was higher than anticipated, but the used-car seller lost more money than expected. Gabby Jones/Bloomberg Tight supplies and soaring prices for new cars continue to hav...

Rivian Stock’s Price Target Gets a Cut. There Are Too Many Headwinds.

Text size Courtesy of Rivian Electric-truck startup Rivian Automotive reports fourth-quarter earnings in about a week. One analyst cut his price target on the stock ahead of the report because there a...

‘They all promise to help’ but no financial adviser seems to offer what I need. I have two 401ks, Roth accounts and real estate, and want a one-time plan for managing my money myself. Can you help?

Looking for a financial planner who works for a flat fee? Here’s some advice on how to do it. Getty Images Question: I have done a lot of research to find a fiduciary, but the bottom line is I have ye...

Baidu Stock Jumps Even as Earnings Miss Estimates. There Are Big Things to Like.

Text size Like its peers in the Chinese tech sector, Baidu faces macroeconomic headwinds. Liu Jin/AFP via Getty Images A growing cloud computing and artificial intelligence business at Baidu helped th...

As BP Exits Russia, Other Oil Companies Face Risks Too

Text size Shell has a big stake in a Russian liquefied natural gas project. Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images Oil companies haven’t been this financially strong in decades. They also haven’t been as politi...

Warren Buffett’s Preferred Equity Allocation Is 100%

Warren Buffett’s preferred equity allocation is 100%, and he has adopted that strategy both personally and at Berkshire Hathaway in a way that is radically different from other companies in the insura...

PepsiCo Stock Drops Because Russia Is a Key Market

Text size PepsiCo leads Coca-Cola in Russia. Scott Olson/Getty Images PepsiCo stock took a hit Monday on apparent investor concerns about its exposure to Russia, its second-largest international marke...

Semiconductor sales to Russia banned, but that shouldn’t hurt Intel, AMD and other chip makers

Semiconductor companies are banning sales to Russia following the company’s invasion of Ukraine, but an analyst says the companies shouldn’t feel much of an effect. As Russian forces continued to bomb...

Luminar Stock Is Holding Steady. Guidance Met Expectations.

Text size Luminar Technologies makes tech for autonomous cars. PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP/Getty Images Autonomous car-tech maker Luminar Technologies reported fourth-quarter earnings Monday evening. Shares...

GoodRx Stock Is Plunging to a Record Low. Earnings and Guidance Missed.

Text size GoodRx Holdings stock took a turn for the worse late Monday, after the prescription-drug-referral platform posted disappointing fourth-quarter results. GoodRX GoodRx Holdings stock took a tu...

Retailers’ Wage Increases to Attract Workers Aren’t Yet Denting Profits

Large retailers and other employers that hire hourly workers are continuing to lift wages, and so far have kept profits growing as well. On Monday, Target Corp. TGT 0.28% said it plans to spend up to ...

Novavax’s Revenue Falls Short. Management Expects a Surge.

Text size A doctor handles a vial holding a potential coronavirus vaccine at a Novavax lab in 2020. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images The Covid-19 vaccine maker Novavax expects sales of b...

Viatris stock slides 24% as analysts say sale of biosimilars to Indian partner removes key growth driver

Viatris Inc. said Monday it has agreed to combine its biosimilars portfolio with privately held Indian company Biocon Biologics Ltd. for up to $3.335 billion, as part of a broader overhaul of its busi...

EPAM Systems Stock Plunges. It Makes Software in Ukraine.

Text size The company had more than 12,000 staff in Ukraine as of the end of 2021. Dreamstime Shares of EPAM Systems tumbled nearly 40% after the software-design company  said it is withdrawing its fi...

Viatris to Sell Biosimilars Business for $3 Billion. Shares Tumble.

Viatris will sell the biosimilars business of the former Mylan to the Indian drugmaker Biocon for as much as $3.3 billion. Dreamstime Text size Viatris , the company formed in 2020 through a merger of...

ECB says Russia bank subsidiary likely to fail

FRANKFURT, Germany — An Austria-based subsidiary of Russia’s state-owned Sberbank RU:SBER has been ruled likely to fail after depositors fled due to the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Eur...

BP to Exit 20% Stake in Russia’s Rosneft

Russia’s aggressions in Ukraine prompted reactions from companies such as BP and United Parcel Service as well as Norway’s sovereign wealth fund as the world continues to raise pressure on President V...

Tech Stocks Get a Bear-Market Scare. What Could Come Next.

As Russian forces were pouring over the border into Ukraine, the tech sector briefly tumbled into a bear market on Thursday. Both the Nasdaq 100 and the Nasdaq Composite fell enough that morning to ex...

Home Building Stocks Are Ultracheap, Analyst Says. Investors Are Catching On.

Home building stocks now are “dirt cheap,” according to one Wall Street analyst, and investors are beginning to take notice.  Stephen Kim, the home building analyst at Evercore ISI, wrote in a client ...

Ford CEO Shuts Down EV Spinoff Rumors. The Ford Family Won’t Let It Happen.

Ford Motor CEO Jim Farley told investors Wednesday there were no plans to spin off his company’s electric vehicle business. That shouldn’t be a surprise. The Ford family is unlikely to ever let an EV ...

AMD Stock Is Rising. Investors Are Cheering More Buybacks.

Advanced Micro Devices stock jumped on Friday, the morning after the chip maker unveiled a new $8 billion buyback program. The stock’s newest bull sees more good things coming. AMD (ticker: AMD) said ...

Buffett: Berkshire Hathaway Finds ‘Little That Excites Us’ in the Stock Market

Berkshire Hathaway finds “little that excites us” in the stock market, CEO Warren Buffett said in his annual shareholder letter released Saturday morning. “That’s largely because of a truism: Long-ter...

Look to the Energy Patch for a Dividend Bonanza. Devon Energy and Pioneer Natural Resources Look Good.

What was already going to be a challenging year for investors was further disrupted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But in a market that has been lacking in certainty, income investors may want to ta...

Warren Buffett: Berkshire Hathaway Paid 1% of All U.S. Corporate Tax Receipts

Berkshire Hathaway has the largest amount of domestic infrastructure assets of any American company and paid $3.3 billion in federal taxes in 2021—or nearly 1% of all corporate tax receipts—CEO Warren...

Covid-19 Vaccine Makers Face a New Rival as GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi Prepare to Enter the Ring

As new Covid-19 cases fall, the postpandemic vaccine market grows more interesting. On Wednesday, GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi, two of the world’s largest vaccine makers, said they would submit a Covid ...

Mortgage rates fall amid geopolitical uncertainty. How the Russia-Ukraine crisis could impact home buyers — and interest rates

Home buyers are seeing temporary relief from rising interest rates as markets react to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But in the longer term, inflation remains a serious concern. The 30-year fixed-rate...

Dell stock drops as earnings miss offsets new dividend

Dell Technologies Inc. shares dropped in the extended session Thursday after the computer maker’s earnings fell short of Wall Street expectations while the company’s board initiated a dividend. Dell  ...

AMD announces $8 billion stock buyback program

Shares of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. inched higher in after-hours trading Thursday after the chip company announced a new $8 billion buyback authorization. The new repurchase authorization is in addi...

Bill Gates Bought Up More of This Waste-Management Stock

Waste-management company Republic Services has been down in the dumps this year, but its largest shareholder, Bill Gates, just bought more shares. Republic Services stock (ticker: RSG) has slid 14% ye...

My mom cosigned student loans for my now-disabled sister. How can we repay them?

How to get out of student loan debt. Getty Images/iStockphoto Question: My mom cosigned my sister’s student loan for her online school, but life got in the way for my sister and because of her mental ...