DraftKings Lands New Bull as Profitability Nears. This Analyst Also Likes Penn.

Text size Casinos are traditionally unaffected even in a recession scenario. Ethan Miller/Getty Images DraftKings and Penn National Gaming stocks will outperform the market by selling additional produ...

Oil Tanker Is Stopped by U.S. in Transit From Russian Port to New Orleans

U.S. authorities have stopped a ship traveling from Russia to Louisiana with a cargo of fuel products, say people familiar with the matter. The Daytona tanker is owned by Greek shipowner TMS Tankers L...

Bank Stocks Boost Dividends After Fed Stress Tests

Text size The Fed’s annual stress tests were introduced following the 2008-09 financial crisis. Dreamstime Morgan Stanley , Goldman Sachs , Wells Fargo , and Bank of America said they would rais...

Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo Boost Dividends After Fed Stress Tests

Text size The Fed’s annual stress tests were introduced following the 2008-09 financial crisis. Dreamstime Morgan Stanley , Goldman Sachs , Wells Fargo and Bank of America said they would raise ...

Why UPS Stock Could Be a Winner. Margins Are Improving.

Text size UPS CEO Carol Tome.. (Photo by JIM WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Until recently, United Parcel Service operated a little like the New York Yan...

General Motors EV Partner Sees Director Buy More Stock

Text size MP Materials shares have slipped 21% so far this year Joe Buglewicz/Bloomberg MP Materials stock has slipped this year, and director Randall Weisenburger bought more shares of the rare-earth...

Jefferies Just Posted Results. Investment Banks Should be Worried.

Text size Total underwriting revenue at Jefferies was down by 62% as banks face tougher conditions. Amir Hamja/Bloomberg Wall Street just got a taste of what to expect when investment banks post secon...

Metaverse can’t be built on the corporate business model, says EY innovation lead

Magnus Jones, the innovation lead at big four accounting firm Ernst & Young (EY), believes that the Metaverse would be led by the younger generation and cannot be built on the same principles of t...

Berkshire Holds 16.4% of Occidental Petroleum After Recent Purchase

Text size Buffett likes American companies, and Occidental gets the vast bulk of its energy production domestically. Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images Berkshire Hathaway continued to add to its stake i...

Ceragon stock surges on acquisition offer from Aviat

Ceragon Networks Ltd. CRNT, -5.43% shares surged in the extended session Monday after Aviat Networks Inc. AVNW, -2.08% offered to acquire the wireless telecom equipment company and shake up its board....

JetBlue Raises Offer to Buy Spirit Airlines—Again

JetBlue Airways Corp. isn’t backing down in its fight to buy Spirit Airlines Inc. raising its offer yet again in an effort to outmaneuver rival Frontier Airlines. JetBlue on Monday proposed a $400 mil...

Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo Boost Shareholder Payouts

The largest U.S. banks said they would increase payouts to shareholders after the Federal Reserve said the banks are able to keep lending in a severe hypothetical recession. Four of the six biggest ba...

Vanguard Sues UHNW Advisor Over Alleged Client Solicitation

The Vanguard Group is suing one of its former ultrahigh-net-worth financial advisors for allegedly violating a one-year nonsolicitation agreement he signed while an employee. The financial services gi...

Digital World Acquisition Discloses Federal Subpoenas as Director Resigns

Digital World Acquisition the special-purpose acquisition company that plans to merge with former President Donald Trump’s social-media company, said a federal grand jury in the Southern District of N...

Axsome Therapeutics Stock Soars on Proposed FDA Labeling for Depression Drug

Text size Axsome is reviewing the proposed labeling from the FDA. Dreamstime Shares of Axsome Therapeutics were soaring Monday after the biopharmaceutical company announced some good news in an attemp...

Gensler labels bitcoin a ‘commodity’ as crypto prices stabilize

Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler said Monday that bitcoin BTCUSD, -0.24% was the only cryptocurrency he was prepared to publicly label a commodity, rather than a security, in a...

The Russian Default Is Less Worrisome Than It Appears. Keep Watching Oil.

A general view of the Kremlin, Red Square and St. Basil’s Cathedral in central Moscow. AFP via Getty Images Text size Russia’s first default on its foreign debt in more than 100 years is the lat...

Russian Gas Cuts Threaten World’s Largest Chemicals Hub

LUDWIGSHAFEN, Germany—For years, BASF SE one of the world’s largest chemicals companies, built its business model around cheap and plentiful Russian natural gas, which it uses to generate power and as...

Bosses Swear by the 90-Day Rule to Keep Workers Long Term

In the quest to retain workers, companies are sharpening their focus on a very specific common goal: 90 days. Hold on to an employee for three months, executives and human-resources specialists say, a...

Cruise Lines Can’t Duck Their Debt

Cruise ships, it seems, are like ducks—elegant and effortless above the water, fighting like crazy to stay afloat beneath. On the surface, the industry is finally steaming ahead after over a year at b...

Carvana Sought to Disrupt Auto Sales. It Delivered Undriveable Cars.

Terri Burton wanted to do something special to mark her son’s high school graduation, so she bought him the car of his youthful dreams: a Volkswagen Golf GTI. But the purchase was the start of a night...

Apollo’s Stock Is Expected to Rise. Here’s Why.

Apollo Global Management is the most misunderstood of the publicly traded alternative asset managers. But the stock could represent significant upside for those who wish to take a look, according to R...

Employees Scrambled to Keep Robinhood Afloat in January 2021 Meme-Stock Frenzy, House Report Finds

Robinhood Markets struggled to handle huge volumes of stock trading and sparred with its principal customer, market maker Citadel Securities, during the week in January 2021 when meme stocks exploded,...

Buy Starbucks Stock. Shares Could Be Ready to Run.

China’s economic slowdown is among the factors pressuring Starbucks shares. Above, dispensing coffee to customers on the go in Hangzhou. Long Wei/VCG/Getty Images Text size A sequel is seldom as good ...

Smith & Wesson stock soars as Supreme Court ruling boosts ‘pretty big’ part of gun maker’s business

Shares of Smith & Wesson Brands Inc. rallied again Friday, as better-than-expected earnings and a dividend hike followed a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States to strike down a New Y...

8 Home-building and Steel Stocks That Offer Substantial Value

Looking for the cheapest stocks in the market now? Two industries stand out: home builders and steel makers. Barron’s screened for the 10 stocks in the S&P 500 index, S&P Midcap 400, and S&...

Altria Shakes Off a Sell Rating and Gets an Upgrade

Text size Rising macroeconomic uncertainty contributed to a downgrade of Altria’s stock in early June. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images Altria Group stock was rising Friday after the tobacc...

How retirees should navigate this bear market

Here’s how best to play the market for the rest of 2022: Don’t look. I offer this advice not because I believe the bear market will continue—though of course it could. I would offer the same advice if...

Merck Pushes Forward With Potential Deal for Seagen

Merck & Co. is pushing forward with a potential deal for biotech Seagen Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be one of the largest takeovers of the year. The Wall Stre...

Spirit Airlines Sticks With Frontier Deal After Sweetened Offer

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Best and Worst Spots in the U.S. Housing Market, According to Lennar

Elias Stein Text size Jersey and Florida are hot. Austin and Seattle are not. On Tuesday, home builder Lennar ’s co-CEO Richard Beckwitt on an earnings call provided a tour of U.S. housing markets. “S...

High-Yield Bonds Are Looking Like Bargains After an Awful First Half

There are no bad bonds, only bad prices. So Dan Fuss, Loomis Sayles’ vice chairman, has often observed—a lesson gleaned from more than six decades of experience managing corporate bond portfolios. Aft...