Caterpillar’s Earnings Are Good and Sales Top Estimates. But the Stock Falls.

Text size Caterpillar’s earnings and sales in the second quarter beat Wall Street expectations. Bernd Lauter / AFP via Getty Images Caterpillar reported second-quarter numbers that beat Wall Str...

Stock Market Today: Dow Futures Slip as Pelosi Goes to Taiwan, BP Stock Surges

Text size House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is set to arrive in Taiwan Tuesday. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Stocks were slipping Tuesday amid rising geopolitical tensions, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is ...

Apple is again borrowing in the debt market to raise money to reward shareholders

Apple Inc. AAPL, -0.62% is again planning to issue debt to reward its shareholders by buying back its own shares and paying dividends, according to a regulatory filing. The iPhone maker is planning a ...

Will the stock-market rally turn into a selloff? This bond-market gauge could tip investors off

Now that the Federal Reserve appears to have abandoned its forward guidance tool in favor of being “data dependent” to help inform its future path for rates, investors should keep an eye on this gauge...

Boeing Stock Rises as Strike Temporarily Averted, 787 Cleared for Deliveries

Text size The Federal Aviation Administration gave clearance to Boeing to begin deliveries of the 787 Dreamliner after approving the company’s plan to correct production problems with the aircra...

What Stocks Are Moving Monday? Alibaba, Boeing, NIO and More.

Text size Alibaba stock rises early Monday. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images Stock futures were trading lower Monday as recession fears remained at the forefront of investors’ minds as a new trading mo...

NIO, XPeng, and Li Auto Deliveries Cool Off in July. The Stocks Jump Anyway.

Text size NIO delivered more cars year over year in July. But deliveries fell from June. Odin Jaeger/Bloomberg Demand for Chinese electric vehicles cooled off in July. Falling EV sales in the world’s ...

The Stock Market Had a Great July. Why August Could Be Tougher.

Text size Expectations for future rate hikes changed, hinging largely on two sentences from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s news conference. Ting Shen/Bloomberg Stocks rallied this past week ...

The Stock Market Rallied on Hopes That Rate Hikes Will Soon Wind Down

Text size While the markets and many consumers are worried about inflation, other people, like these skaters at Rockefeller Center in New York, are still spending. Richard Levine/Alamy Markets can sta...

Rivian Was Responsible for Amazon’s Loss. The Market Was Ready This Time.

Text size Amazon’s loss was due almost entirely to the drop in Rivian stock. Courtesy of Rivian Amazon.com lost money in the second quarter of 2022. Rivian Automotive was the reason, again. Rivi...

Stock market’s post-Fed bounce is a ‘trap,’ warns Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson

“‘Ultimately, this will be a trap.’” — Mike Wilson, chief U.S. equity strategist and CIO, Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson, who correctly called the stock market’s 2022 swoon, isn’t convinc...

Surprise? How the stock market has reacted on day of each Fed rate hike in 2022

The Federal Reserve’s strategy of supersize interest rate hikes gets much of the blame for triggering a bear market in stocks in 2022, but investors might be surprised by a look back at how equites ha...

Boeing Earnings Revealed Another Big Loss. What Saved the Day for the Stock.

Text size Boeing delivered 121 commercial jets in the second quarter of 2022, up from 95 jets delivered in the first quarter. Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images Boeing’s quarterly earnings were messy,...

Here’s what Bill Ackman says Powell should tell traders about Fed rate-hike plans

“‘Tomorrow, Powell is likely to be asked: “Market pricing implies that the terminal FF rate will peak at 3.4% in 12/22 immediately declining thereafter to 2.7% by YE ‘23. What factors would cause the ...

Celsius customers write pleas to bankruptcy court to get crypto back: ‘This is an emergency situation, simply to keep a roof over my family and food on their table.’

Some customers of crypto lender Celsius Network, which filed for bankruptcy earlier this month, have written to the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, with a hope of getting their...

The Stock Market Is Entering Its Weakest Months. What to Watch Out For.

Text size Russia restarted natural-gas flows to Western Europe through Nord Stream 1, but President Vladimir Putin can shut it down again. Olga Maltseva/AFP/Getty Images Bad news on the economy was go...

Tesla Stock Could Hit $900 in Its Latest Surge

Text size Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s Twitter saga appears to be a concern still for investors. Mario Tama/Getty Images Tesla stock is on one of its hot streaks again. Shares are climbing Friday, putt...

Cleveland-Cliffs Stock Plunges as Earnings Miss Estimates

Text size Cleveland-Cliffs stock has fallen a bit more than the broader market so far this year. Dreamstime Cleveland-Cliffs reported lower earnings than expected, news that sent the stock sharply low...

Is the Stock Market Going Up? It Depends on the Definition of Recession.

Text size Tradersat the New York Stock Exchange. Seth Wenig/AP Not since Bill Clinton testified about the meaning of the word “is” has so much hinged on the meaning of one simple word. The word is “re...

Alphabet, Amazon Look Ready to Join the Dow After Stock Splits

Text size Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet. Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg The recent stock split by Alphabet could pave the way for the search giant and Amazon . com to join the Dow Jones Industrial Average . ...

Weekend reads: Prepare for a big week — a crucial Federal Reserve decision, tech-company earnings and a GDP report

It was mostly a week for stocks, particularly a rebound in the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index, as companies topped expectations on second-quarter earnings.  The coming week brings a heavy dose of t...

Will the Federal Reserve kill the stock-market bounce?

A summer rebound is stirring hopes the bear market in U.S. stocks has seen its lows, but a meeting of Federal Reserve policy makers this coming week might test the nerves of would-be bulls. “I expect ...

Rivian Stock Is Surging Thanks to Amazon

Text size Amazon has begun using Rivian’s all-electric delivery vans. Jamie Kelter Davis/Bloomberg Stock of electric-truck start-up Rivian Automotive is rising, and Amazon.com is the reason. The...

Ford Now Has Enough Batteries to Grow EV Deliveries Faster Than Tesla—Profitably

Text size The Rouge Electric Vehicle Center Ford plant. Courtesy of Ford Batteries are a critical success factor for any auto maker looking to win electric-vehicle market share. Ford Motor sad it has ...

Buying stocks now could bring you pain over the next few weeks. But you’ll be thanking yourself a year from now, these analysts say.

How bad is the mood out there right now? Try max bearish. So said Bank of America’s latest fund manager survey on Tuesday that showed expectations for profits and growth at recessionary levels. Yet Wa...

The Stock Market May Have Hit Bottom. Here’s Why.

Text size Commodity prices have tumbled in the past month, with oil and copper down 17% and 33%, respectively. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images It never feels good when the stock market turns big gain...

Dow books biggest drop in more than two weeks after report about Apple’s plans to slow hiring, spending

U.S. stocks gave up early gains to finish lower on Monday, after Bloomberg reported that Apple Inc. plans to slow hiring and spending growth in some divisions next year in anticipation of a potential ...

This bear market in stocks remains historically shallow and short: Jefferies

The current bear market may be painful, but history indicates it may need to fall further to clear the way for a meaningful recovery, said analysts at Jefferies.  Stocks have bounced modestly in July,...

GE’s Three-Way Split Is Near. What the New Companies Will Be Called.

Text size GE’s aviation business will become GE Aerospace. Jason Redmond / AFP via Getty Images General Electric is undertaking an epic transformation under the leadership of CEO Larry Culp—the ...

CATL Might Bring Battery Capacity to America With Mexico Plant, Report Says.

Text size Contemporary Amperex Technology is the largest and most valuable battery maker. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg The electric-vehicle battery giant Contemporary Amperex Technology might be readying its ...

Hate Tesla? Investors Can Short the EV Maker With a New Single-Stock ETF.

Text size There is a single-stock ETF that allows anyone to short Tesla stock now. Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty Images Tesla investors have a new way to play the electric vehicle maker in the U.S.—singl...

Vertical Aerospace Stock Soars. American Airlines Provides Cash for eVTOL Maker.

Text size There are many new players vying for eVTOL market share, including Vertical Aerospace. Courtesy Vertical Aerospace Vertical Aerospace , the eVTOL maker, secured some expected funding from Am...