Text size Winnebago Industries said that it plans to boost its quarterly dividend by 50%. Courtesy of Winnebago It was a very light week for dividend announcements, which tend to slow down in August b...
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Regal Owner Cineworld Nears Bankruptcy as Theater Comeback Lags
Cineworld Group PLC, the owner of Regal Cinemas, is preparing to file for bankruptcy within weeks after struggling to rebuild movie-theater attendance from pandemic lows, according to people familiar ...
S&P 500 earnings are rising only because of strength in this one sector
S&P 500 index company earnings for the second quarter were certainly better than expected, but it’s debatable whether overall results were actually good, given that year-over-year growth was due o...
Here’s what a leading bull and bear are saying comes next as markets stall
The stock market has all but stalled this week. The S&P 500’s 200-day moving average has seemingly morphed from magnet to resistor. It’s the summer: NYSE composite volume was the lowest of the yea...
Ford Faces $1.7 Billion Verdict in Fatal Rollover of F-250 Pickup
Ford Motor is facing a potential $1.7 billion in punitive damages after a Georgia jury reached a verdict Friday in a case involving a 2014 rollover of a Ford F-250 pickup truck that left two people de...
Single-stock ETFs: ‘We’re going to see this entire ETF category absolutely explode’
Hi! In this week’s ETF Wrap, you’ll get a look at the wave of single-stock ETFs that have recently hit the market — and whether they may be geared toward your investment approach. Please send feedback...
Verizon Faces Growing Price Pressures: Analyst
Text size Competitive concerns are weighing on Verizon stock, which was trading down 2.8% Thursday. Cindy Ord/Getty Images Shares of Verizon Communications were falling in Thursday trading after an an...
GM Reinstates Dividend. Ford’s Yield Is Higher.
Text size GM stock was rising after the auto maker said it was reinstating its dividend. Bill Pugliano/Getty Images American automotive giant General Motors is returning capital to shareholders again—...
Bill Gates Is Ecolab’s Largest Shareholder. He Just Scooped Up More Shares.
Text size Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has been buying shares of Ecolab. Leon Neal/WPA Pool /Getty Images Ecolab ’s largest shareholder, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, bought more shares of the p...
Ryan Cohen Dumped Bed Bath & Beyond Stock. Is the Meme Trade Over?
Text size Ryan Cohen sold his entire stake in Bed Bath & Beyond. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images So much for diamond hands. Ryan Cohen, meme stock cheerleader extraordinaire, just did something that ...
Tech Stocks Are Due for Another Fall
Text size Technology fundamentals are getting worse, not better. One example is weakening demand for consumer electronics. Illustration by Barron’s (Dreamtime 4) For years, tech investors seemed...
Berkshire Hathaway Can Acquire Up to 50% of Occidental Petroleum, Filing Says
Text size Berkshire Hathaway currently has a 20% stake in Occidental. Callaghan O’Hare/Bloomberg Occidental Petroleum stock jumped Friday after Berkshire Hathaway got approval from the Federal E...
Serena Williams pushes Selena Gomez’s startup to $100 million valuation
In the same Vogue feature where Serena Williams announced her possible retirement after the U.S. Open, the tennis star said she’ll continue to prioritize investment in women-owned businesses. Days la...
Rivian Drops Cheapest Versions of Its Electric Truck and SUV Models
Electric-vehicle startup Rivian Automotive Inc. is discontinuing the cheapest versions of its pickup truck and SUV models, citing low customer demand. Eliminating the base version, dubbed the Explore ...
Hedge funds pile up $125 billion bet against the S&P 500’s big summer rally
A more than $125 billion institutional short position has been building up against the U.S. stock market, driven by hedge funds, according to BNP Paribas. Futures contract data points to a sharp incre...
3M Unit Defends Request to Shield Parent From Mass Earplug Lawsuits
Lawyers representing 3M Co. ’s bankrupt Aearo Technologies LLC subsidiary defended its request to a bankruptcy judge to extend a litigation stay to the parent company to resolve mass earplug lawsuits,...
Deere Stock Tumbles as Earnings Miss Expectations
Text size Higher crop and food prices tend to boost demand for Deere products. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Deere reported fiscal third-quarter earnings that missed analysts’ expectations and the stoc...
Chip stocks tanked as pandemic demand for electronics slumped, but there are still some winners
After two years of unprecedented chip sales and demand related to the COVID-19 pandemic, a long-feared reversal has struck the semiconductor industry, but some markets are still performing strongly — ...
Ryan Cohen’s RC Ventures Sells Entire Stake in Bed Bath & Beyond
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July existing-home sales fall for the sixth straight month, realtors see ‘housing recession’
The numbers: U.S. existing-home sales fell 5.9% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.81 million in July, the National Association of Realtors said Wednesday. This is the sixth straight monthly de...
Meme stock Bed Bath & Beyond ‘decoupled from economic reality’ but now getting crushed; it isn’t alone
This is an eventful time for meme stocks, as evidenced by Bed Bath & Beyond’s rollercoaster week. Shares of the troubled retailer skyrocketed recently, driven by the Wall Street Bets crowd on Redd...