Warren Buffett’s firm took big stake in Activision Blizzard ahead of Microsoft deal

OMAHA, Neb. — Warren Buffett’s company placed a rare bet on a technology company late last year and it has already paid off in a big way. Berkshire Hathaway BRK.B, -1.52% revealed in documents filed w...

Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater boosts its bets on China

The world’s biggest hedge fund boosted its bet on Chinese companies in the fourth quarter. The latest 13-F filing from Bridgewater Associates shows the firm boosted the number of shares it’s held in A...

Intel Agrees to Buy Tower Semiconductor in $5.4 Billion Deal

Text size Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Intel Corp . agreed to buy Israeli company Tower Semiconductor for $5.4 billion as it looks to expand its manufacturing capacity and technology portfolio amid ri...

Intel reaches $5.4 billion deal to buy Tower Semiconductor

Intel Corp. on Tuesday struck a $5.4 billion deal to buy Tower Semiconductor, as it seeks to bolster its manufacturing capabilities. Intel INTC, -0.10% said it’s paying $53 per share in cash for Tower...

Opinion: These 5 tech stocks — including small caps you probably don’t know — can lead the sector’s comeback

Amid all the big swings in the S&P 500 and other benchmarks, it’s natural for many investors to be worried. But as the adage attributed to Warren Buffett goes, sometimes it pays the most to be gre...

NIO, XPeng, Li Auto Shares Shake Off Weak Sales Data. The Outlook Seems Bright.

Text size A Nio car. Chinese new-car sales fell in January. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images Chinese new-car sales fell in January. But the shares of Chinese electric-vehicle makers  NIO , Xpeng , ...

How Oil Could Hit $150. It’s Not Just About Russia.

Text size West Texas intermediate crude oil was trading near $94 a barrel on Monday. Spencer Platt/Getty Images By one measure, oil prices could rise to $150 a barrel this year, which would be the hig...

Elon Musk gave 5 million Tesla shares to charity after teasing possible donation to fight world hunger

Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk donated more than 5 million Tesla shares in November, days after the U.N. World Food Program outlined a plan to potentially use a $6 billion donation from the worl...

Meta Stock Has Never Been Cheaper Since Its 2012 IPO

Text size Meta Platforms, the former Facebook, has a lower price-to-earnings ratio than other Big Tech companies. Noah Berger/AFP via Getty Images Meta Platforms ‘ stock is as cheap now as it has ever...

Peloton’s New CEO Pours Cold Water on Sale Speculation. The Stock Drops.

Text size A Peloton logo on a dumbbell at the company’s showroom in Dedham, Massachusetts. Adam Glanzman/Bloomberg Peloton Interactive stock fell Monday after the exercise company’s new chief ex...

10 tech value stocks that at least 75% of analysts rate as a ‘buy’ right now

So far, 2022 is a year of value stocks. But some tech stocks fit that definition. Below is a high-conviction list of technology stocks among the S&P 500 SPX, +0.05% that have low valuations to ear...

Splunk Stock Surges on Report of $20 Billion Cisco Buyout Offer

Text size Cisco made an offer to acquire Splunk for more than $20 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Shares of Splunk were rising sharply Monday on a report th...

George Soros Buys a Big Rivian Stake

Text size Soros Fund Management’s stake was worth about $2.1 billion at the end of December. Courtesy Rivian George Soros’ family investment office, Soros Fund Management, revealed a new stake i...

PayPal Stock Lost 2 Years of Gains. CEO Dan Schulman Bought Up Shares.

Text size PayPal President and CEO Dan Schulman Drew Angerer/Getty Images Nearly two years of gains have been wiped from PayPal Holdings’ market value since the payments company reported a disappointi...

What CEOs Are Saying: ‘We See Inflation Going Up Everywhere’

Here is what some of the world’s corporate leaders said in their quarterly earnings reports this week about inflation, pricing strategy and the pandemic. Coca-Cola Co. KO -1.78% Chief Executive James ...

Inflation Is Everywhere, Including Places You Might Not Expect

Inflation is seeping through American business, hitting companies in unexpected ways beyond higher prices for materials, shipping or wages. It is adding to legal costs for the maker of Marlboro cigare...

Billionaire George Soros reveals stake in Rivian, sells some tech shares

Billionaire George Soros’ investment fund has taken a more than $1 billion stake in electric-pickup maker Rivian Automotive Inc. According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Fr...

Giant Pension Exited Alibaba and Bought Coinbase, Lucid, and Rivian Stock

Text size Alibaba is no longer a holding in a New Jersey pension fund. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images Late in 2021, New Jersey’s state pension bought up newly public stocks that have plunged so far i...

DraftKings Isn’t the Best Way to Play the Online Gambling Boom. Buy These 6 Stocks Instead.

Online sports gambling, once one of the hottest areas of the stock market, has fallen out of favor with investors. Investors worry about fierce competition and steep losses driven by heavy marketing a...

a clash of the West’s corporate and strategic interests

The deal went through swiftly – and almost immediately prompted calls for a national security review. Just three months after Chinese-state-owned Zijin Mining Group announced its US$960 million ...

Cathie Wood’s ARK Stays the Course, Betting Big on Innovation

Cathie Wood’s ARK Investment Management LLC is snapping up more shares of largely unprofitable companies, doubling down on a bet that many traders and investors expect to be tested this year by rising...

Buy Synaptics Stock. It’s the Best-Performing Chip Stock.

Synaptics historically made fingerprint sensors and other chips to power touchscreens and has more recently expanded into the Internet of Things business. Illustration by Stuart Briers Text size The s...

6 Stocks for a 2022 of Higher Interest Rates and Slower Earnings Growth

Don’t let inflation fears dominate your investment thoughts. Save time to worry about earnings growth, too. Below, some statistical bellyaching and portfolio defeatism, plus one Wall Street bank’s top...

The Arm deal is dead, but Nvidia is not expected to slow down

Nvidia Corp.’s acquisition of Arm Ltd. has been scuttled, but that isn’t expected to stop the chip maker’s charge into the data center. seeks to cut further into Intel Corp.’s and Advanced Micro Devic...

Zillow Is Betting on a Housing Super App. What Wall Street Thinks.

Text size Zillow Group announced plans to shut down its home-flipping business in November. Chris Goodney/Bloomberg Zillow ‘s spectacular decision to shut down its home-flipping business last year has...

Inflation Is Red Hot. How to Protect Your Portfolio and Grow Income.

Income investors—especially those who depend on fixed coupons from bonds—face a hit to their purchasing power as inflation stands above 7%. One strategy to hedge against such big price increases, howe...

Weekend reads: Inflation fear and opportunities for investors

U.S. consumer price inflation rose to a 40-year high of 7.5% in January. That pace is running way ahead of wage growth, and the official figures can mask even more pain, depending on a family’s circum...

Inflation has knocked back the market. Here are the key S&P 500 and tech stock levels one strategist fears.

Investors are still trying to come to grips with that double whammy of nosebleed consumer prices and 100-basis-point increase talk from St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard. Read: Oil is ...

3M, T. Rowe, and 7 More Companies That Raised Their Dividends This Week

Text size Dupont said it will increase its quarterly dividend by 10%. Mark Makela/Getty Images Interpublic Group of Companies, Kimco Realty, and DuPont de Nemours were among the larger U.S. companies ...

GE’s Annual Report Is Shorter Again. Things Are Changing.

Text size General Electric plans to break itself into three parts. Sebastien Bozon/AFP via Getty Images General Electric ‘s latest annual report is more evidence that the company is shaking itself up....

4 Stocks That Could Thrive During Inflation

Text size Caterpillar is lucky to have customers flush with cash from rising commodity prices. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Inflation is hot—and that’s cooling off plenty of companies’ earnings. But n...

6 Stocks to Play Online Gambling Boom

Online sports gambling, once one of the hottest areas of the stock market, has fallen out of favor with investors. Investors worry about fierce competition and steep losses driven by heavy marketing a...