Could Apple WiFi chips just be a ploy to get a better deal from Broadcom?

Broadcom Inc. shares fell Tuesday following reports that Apple Inc. was working on its own radiofrequency (RF) chips, but one analyst wondered whether those plans would get shelved if the chip maker o...

Nvidia, Walgreens, and Other Beaten-Down Stocks That Can Outperform This Year 

There was no shortage of beaten-down stocks in 2022, with the Russell 1000 index down 20% as high inflation caused market disarray. But some of those shares—that have strong fundamentals—could be big ...

Exxon, Diamondback, and Coterra Stock Could Continue to Rally

U.S. energy stocks outperformed every other sector in the market in 2021 and 2022. That sets up a key test this year of the industry’s staying power. Not since 2010 has energy outperformed the broader...

Mercedes and Other European Car Markers Are Aiming for Tesla

Mercedes-Benz Group more than doubled sales of battery electric vehicles this past year. That’s just a start. The company, and its European peers, want to sell a lot more. Tesla had better pay attenti...

The ‘best job in America’ pays over $120,000 a year — and offers a low-stress, healthy work-life balance

We’ve had the great resignation, quiet quitting, resistance to going back to the office — and now? It turns out people are looking for happiness, stability, flexibility and a good salary. In 2023, in ...

Sotera Health to pay $408 million to settlement allegations in Illinois

Shares of Sotera Health Co. SHC, +102.20% soared 57% in premarket trading on Tuesday after the company said it will pay $408 million to settle more than 870 million legal cases in Illinois. Sotera own...

Powell’s in Sweden. Rates Will Likely Go Higher Still Despite Companies’ Pain.

Investors looking at Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s speech at a conference at Sweden’s Riksbank Tuesday will be tempted to carefully parse his words for any hint as to when the interest-rate...

IRS wraps up paying people this lucrative pandemic-era tax break. Here’s how much money they can expect — and why they’re getting it.

Nearly two years after lawmakers temporarily changed tax rules in the middle of the filing season in order to exclude a major chunk of jobless benefits from federal income tax, the Internal Revenue Se...

CVS eyes next-generation health clinics after Amazon’s move for One Medical

CVS Health Corp. is investing in a young chain of health clinics, and may be looking to acquire another. CVS CVS, -0.12% invested $100 million in a Carbon Health Inc., a San Francisco-based chain of u...

Opinion: Why a prominent Tesla investor wants Elon Musk to put him on the board

Ross Gerber is well-known in certain circles as a longtime Tesla Inc. investor, thanks to being a bullish voice on Twitter about the electric-vehicle company. As Tesla TSLA, +5.93% stock has plummeted...

Fed’s Powell won’t stop rate hikes until he ‘terrifies’ the wealthiest of investors, says this CIO

Investors are waking up to a whiff of positivity where stocks are concerned for Monday, after last week’s first gain in five that was prompted by weak wage growth Alongside a bleak Institute for Suppl...

Broadcom stock dinged in final minutes on report Apple working on its own WiFi/Bluetooth chips

Broadcom Inc. shares closed sharply lower Monday in the final minutes of trading following a report that Apple Inc. was working on its own WiFi and Bluetooth chips, which would make Broadcom’s unneces...

Tesla Stock Is Almost Up in 2023. There Are a Couple of Reasons for the Rally.

It took two days for Tesla stock to enter a new bull market. That’s surprising action given some of the recent news, which hasn’t sounded good. But there are a few reasons why the shares are on the ri...

Keurig K-Cup settlement: Today’s the final day to join the $10 million lawsuit

If you have been making your morning cup of coffee using the popular Keurig KDP, -0.63% pods, aka K-Cups, then you may be entitled to some money. The beverage giant recently agreed to settle a class-a...

These 15 Dividend Aristocrat stocks have been the best income builders

The S&P Dividend Aristocrats deserve more coverage. Those are companies that have raised their dividend payouts consistently over the years — they’re dividend royalty, as it were. As a group, they...

Novavax’s stock rallies after the company names new CEO

Shares of Novavax Inc. NVAX, +11.25% were up about 9% in trading on Monday after the company said John Jacobs will take over as president and CEO on Jan. 23. Jacobs, the former president and CEO of Ha...

Look for a big cut to TSMC’s 2023 outlook as a bullish sign for chips, one analyst says ahead of earnings

The best thing Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. can do in its earnings report Thursday is to cut its outlook for 2023 big, indicating a bottoming in the first half of the year, according to one ...

Metropolitan Bank Is Fleeing Crypto. Bitcoin Investors Should Be Worried.

Metropolitan Bank Holding (ticker: MCB), one of the earliest banks to delve into digital assets, says it’s closing out the part of its business that catered to crypto firms. It’s a development that sh...

European drugmakers including AstraZeneca pony up for U.S.-listed biopharmas

European drugmakers on Monday announced a trio of deals around a billion dollars each to buy U.S.-listed biopharmas at hefty premiums. Anglo-Swedish AstraZeneca AZN, +1.42%   AZN, -1.26% said it’s pay...

Tech’s Bill Is Coming Due. Investors Aren’t the Only Ones Who Will Pay.

For two years now, tech companies have spent massive amounts of money building the capacity to serve what they believed would be a higher level of postpandemic demand. If you build it, they will come....

Alibaba shares rise in Hong Kong after Jack Ma cedes control of Ant Group

Shares of Alibaba Group Holdings are higher following news that co-founder Jack Ma is ceding control of affiliate company Ant Group Co., potentially paving the way to revive plans for an initial publi...

Elon Musk says he can’t get fair trial in California in Tesla shareholder suit, wants Texas

WASHINGTON — Elon Musk has urged a federal judge to shift a trial in a shareholder lawsuit out of San Francisco because he says negative local media coverage has biased potential jurors against him. I...

XPeng stock just misses a record selloff, snaps 5-day win streak

The U.S.-listed shares of XPeng Inc. plunged Friday to snap a five-day win streak, as price cuts by Tesla Inc. in China soured sentiment toward China-based electric vehicle makers. The stock XPEV, -15...

The Dow takes ‘important first step’ toward a new bull market

Don’t dis the Dow Jones Industrial Average just because it’s made up of only 30 stocks, because if the stock market bounces back from last year’s selloff, it’ll be the Dow that leads it. With the Dow ...

Noncompete agreements will be a thing of the past for workers — from hairstylists to executives — if federal regulators have their way

Employers would be banned from making staff sign noncompete clauses, according to proposed rules that federal regulators say would boost worker pay and end a major drag on people who wish to change jo...

Why a stock market obsessed with the Fed’s inflation fight should focus on Main Street jobs in 2023

Fortunes on Wall Street this year could hinge less on what’s happening to high-paid workers in San Francisco’s reeling technology sector and more on a familiar part of American life: the working class...

Macy’s Warns Consumers Will Be Pressured in 2023. Retail Shares Are Slipping.

Macy’s stock fell on Friday after the department store said fourth-quarter sales would come in at the low to middle end of its guidance, and warned that consumers will be pressured in 2023.  Macy’s (t...

These money and investing tips can keep you afloat if stocks circle the drain

Sign up here to get MarketWatch’s best mutual funds and ETF stories emailed to you weekly! INVESTING NEWS & TRENDS How the Dow’s start to the new year affects the stock market’s 2023 return Many r...

Barron’s Trader Stock Picks Had a Better Year Than the Market. What Worked—and What Didn’t.

It was a good year for the Trader column—and we’re not going to let a little thing like a small decline get in the way of our saying it. In any other year, we might have called our picks lackluster or...

FTC’s proposed ban on noncompete agreements could have biggest impact on tech industry

Ryan Morrissey is a serial founder of software companies, having already launched three separate startups. Yet when he sold one of those companies, he had to sign an agreement to not start any more fo...

Semiconductor Stocks Are Struggling. A Bottom Could Be Nearer.

This commentary was issued recently by money managers, research firms, and market newsletter writers and has been edited by Barron’s. The Chips Are Really Down UBS House View—Daily U.S. UBSJan. ...

Coinbase Has Been on a Wild Ride This Week Thanks to a ‘Short Squeeze’

Coinbase Global and other beaten-down cryptocurrency stocks ripped higher on Wednesday, only to fall sharply on Thursday. Analysis of the wild ride suggests that “short squeeze” dynamics in a volatile...