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...

Robinhood Has a Crypto Trading Problem. It Might Soon Be Coinbase’s, Too.

Text size Robinhood reported a significant slowdown in trading volumes in the first three months of 2022. Dennizn/Dreamstime Trading platform Robinhood Markets experienced a stark decline in market ac...

‘So bad, it’s good.’ This beleaguered stock market has one big asset on its side, say strategists.

A rough month for stocks is drawing to a close, and many investors likely won’t be sad to see the back of it. And the last day of April trade is looking weak as Apple and Amazon failed to raise the ba...

Amazon’s price targets are slashed and stock sinks after first quarterly loss in seven years

Amazon.com Inc. shares sank more than 12% in Friday trading after the e-commerce and tech giant reported its first quarterly loss in seven years. Amazon AMZN, -14.05% fell to the lowest level since Ju...

Many tech stocks that have crashed are still too expensive to buy

I came across this list of crashed big cap tech stocks on Twitter on April 23: I’ve analyzed every one of those stocks over the last year. When thousands of stocks are down 70%-80% or even 90%, there ...

AbbVie Shares Drop Amid Missed Sales Expectations for Key Drugs

Text size AbbVie stock is up 15.4% so far this year. Courtesy of AbbVie In a quarterly earnings report out Friday, the drugmaker AbbVie cut its full-year earnings guidance, and a number of its key dru...

Netflix Sent Warner Bros. Discovery Stock for a Dive. Execs Bought Up Shares.

Text size David Zaslav, president and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery. Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg Warner Bros. Discovery stock has tumbled in the short time the company was formed from the merger of AT...

Chevron Earnings Just Miss Expectations, Despite Surging Oil Prices

Text size A Chevron petroleum storage tank Joe Raedle/Getty Images Chevron posted earnings that were slightly below analyst expectations for the first quarter. Chevron (ticker: CVX), the second-bigges...

Micron sued for alleged patent infringement

BOISE, Idaho — Bell Semiconductor has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against computer chip maker Micron Technology. The lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court contends that Boise, Idaho-b...

Opinion: Big Tech is no longer winning as big, but these two stocks still seem safe

The Big Tech earnings boom is officially over, but some of the world’s most powerful and valuable companies are breaking off from the pack. As this column told you months ago, profit increases are no ...

Amazon looks to cut costs after first loss in seven years sends stock careening lower

Amazon.com Inc. reported a loss of nearly $4 billion in the first quarter of 2022 as inflationary pressures added costs, and executives expect to make changes to cut some expenses. Amazon AMZN, +4.65%...

Stock of SPAC buying Truth Social jumps after Trump posts for first time in months

Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp., the special purpose acquisition company that is buying the company behind Donald Trump’s Truth Social, soared in after-hours trading Thursday after Trump pos...

Intel’s Revenue Guidance Falls Short. The Stock Drops.

Text size An Intel desktop processor. Courtesy Intel Corporation Intel forecast less revenue than expected for the June quarter, sending the stock lower in after-hours trading. The company cited weake...

Intel stock declines as chip maker doubles down on outlook despite headwinds

Intel Corp. shares declined in the extended session Thursday after the chip maker held onto its full-year outlook amid expected weakness this quarter, forecasting a surge in sales from its major busin...

Rivian Killed Ford Earnings. Now It’s Crushing Amazon’s.

Text size Rivian’s wild stock swings are distorting earnings at both Ford and Amazon. Courtesy Rivian Ford Motor and Amazon.com were early investors in Rivian Automotive . They still own Rivian ...

Apple stock swings to a loss after executives warn of billions in added costs

Apple Inc. topped earnings expectations and set a new record for March-quarter revenue to start 2022, but executives expect to see steeper pressure and billions in additional costs from challenges in ...

Cathie Wood’s ARK Bet Big on Tumbling Teladoc. These Funds Did Too.

Text size A Teladoc member visits virtually with a doctor. Courtesy of Teledoc Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest and other institutional investors were slated to take a steep hit as shares of Teladoc Health pl...

Opinion: Warren Buffett’s investing prowess will go on forever after researchers cracked his investing code

If you’re an investor in Berkshire Hathaway Inc., your performance need not suffer when Warren Buffett stops running the company. That’s according to researchers who claim to have created a stock-pick...

Opinion: There’s a big hole in the Fed’s theory of inflation—incomes are falling at a record 10.9% rate

The most concerning thing about Thursday’s report on U.S. gross domestic product for the first quarter wasn’t that the first line of the first table showed that real GDP fell at a 1.4% annual rate. It...

Tesla Stock Is Dropping Like a Stone. There’s No New Reason.

Text size Tesla cars parked in a lot at a Tesla factory. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Tesla shares opened higher Thursday, then promptly fell. It isn’t easy to find anything new spooking investors. Sh...

‘Buyers of a median-price home are looking at a monthly mortgage payment that is almost 50% higher than it was a year ago.’ The 30-year mortgage rate dips slightly to 5.1%

The interest rate on the country’s benchmark mortgage product edged downward for the first time since early March, but that doesn’t mean the housing market will see a reprieve. The 30-year fixed-rate ...

Boomers are leaving the stock market. Here’s what comes next, says this strategist.

Stocks are in the green for Thursday, with Facebook parent Meta Platforms in the driver’s seat after less disastrous than feared results. Gains are a bit less than what stock futures were promising th...

PayPal Trims 2022 Outlook But Beats Revenue Forecast

PayPal lowered its forecast for adjusted profit for 2022 to a range of $3.81 to $3.93 a share. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Text size PayPal Holdings said its first quarter was a “solid start” but cut...

Ford Posts $3.1 Billion First-Quarter Loss, Maintains 2022 Outlook

Ford Motor Co. F 0.95% swung to a net loss of $3.1 billion in the first quarter, a reversal largely driven by a steep loss in valuation of its stake in electric-vehicle startup Rivian Automotive Inc. ...