After an Incredible Rally, Beware a Dead Cat Bounce

An oil tanker stands at an oil terminal Thursday at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. Getty Images Text size It has been a tough year for stocks. A rally on Wednesday seemed to promise some reversal of the tren...

Tesla’s China Sales Dropped. Tesla Stock Rose Anyway.

Text size Tesla delivered 56,515 vehicles from its Chinese plant in February. Sam Yeh /AFP via Getty Images Tesla sales from its plant in Shanghai fell in February from January, following the pattern ...

Rivian Earnings Are Coming. Wall Street Is Cutting Price Targets in Preparation.

Text size The average analyst target price for Rivian is down to about $116 a share from $133 over the past month. Courtesy Rivian Electric truck maker Rivian Automotive reports fourth-quarter numbers...

Tesla Bears, Watch Out. How the Stock Could Rise Like Apple’s Did.

Text size Tesla’s factory in Fremont, Calif. Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images Anyone bearish on Tesla stock should consider this: A lot of portfolio managers are underweight Tesla stock. Correc...

Boeing Stock Is Rising. A New Buy Rating Is on the Radar.

Text size A Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner Joe Raedle/Getty Images Boeing stock is rising faster than the market after an analyst launched coverage with a Buy rating. Boeing (ticker: BA) stock is up 4.4% in ...

Amazon Announces 20-for-1 Stock Split and $10 Billion Buyback Plan

Text size Amazon shares are up more than 6% on the news in after-hours trading. Bloomberg Amazon . com shares are moving sharply higher in after-hours trading after the e-commerce and cloud-computing ...

How the Federal Reserve could cut its near $9 trillion balance sheet as it fights inflation

Slimming down might be the trickiest part after two years of the pandemic. As the Federal Reserve looks to shrink its near $9 trillion balance sheet to help cool U.S. inflation pegged at a 40-year hig...

A death cross for the S&P 500 is nearing as inflation fears, Russia’s Ukraine offensive rattles stock-market investors

The S&P 500 index is closing in on a death cross, an ominous chart pattern that underscores the downtrend suffered in an asset. A death cross appears when the 50-day moving average crosses below t...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average heads for its first correction in 2 years. Here’s the level to watch.

An ugly stretch for U.S. equities was intensifying as the crisis in Ukraine worsened and investors weighed the prospect of further sanctions to cripple the Russian economy as the Kremlin wages war in ...

Cathie Wood Got Oil Wrong. It Isn’t Going to $12. Here’s What She Missed.

ARK Invest’s Cathie Wood predicted in 2020 that oil prices were headed to $12 a barrel. The prediction wasn’t correct, providing a lesson in commodity investing. Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg Tex...

Stock Market Today: Dow Falls, Gold and Oil Surge, Bed Bath & Beyond Soars

Text size Gold prices marched higher Monday, as investors fled to havens amid declines in stocks. DAVID GRAY/AFP/Getty Images Stocks plunged Monday and investors sought havens as oil prices hit the hi...

Carvana Is More Like Tesla Than Peloton, Says Analyst

Text size Carvana, an online auto dealer, has seen volatility in its stock. Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images Trading in shares of online-auto-dealer Carvana has been volatile lately as bulls and bear...

At Ford, the Chip Shortage Isn’t Getting Any Better. There Are More Output Cuts.

Text size The Ford company logo is displayed on a sign outside of the Chicago Assembly Plant on February 03, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson/Getty Images The semiconductor shortage that is cons...

Broadcom Earnings Are Good News for Nvidia Stock. Here’s Why.

Broadcom chip G0d4ather/Dreamstime.com Text size Broadcom stock is jumping after the company reported stronger-than-expected earnings—and that could be good news for shares of Nvidia and other chip co...

‘We need to increase oil & gas output immediately,’ Elon Musk says as Ukraine crisis jolts U.S. crude to 2008 high

Elon Musk voiced an unusual stance for an electric-vehicle executive on Friday. Tesla Inc.’s TSLA, -0.12% chief executive said the U.S. needs to immediately increase production of oil and gas in a twe...

Stock Market: The Worst Is Yet to Come. So Is a Swift Snapback.

Text size Traders at the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, Feb. 28. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg It’s the end of the world as we know it. The stock market, however, isn’t going anywhere. The last full tra...

Tesla May Have a Path to a $4 Trillion Market Value. Here’s Why.

Text size A Tesla dealership David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Tesla investor Gary Black tweeted out some interesting math Friday. He laid out his case for Tesla’s market capitalization to climb to a whoppi...

Rivian Stock Ends a Hard Week With a Price Target Cut

Text size Rivian Courtesy Rivian Investors in electric-truck start-up Rivian Automotive are having a tough week. Shares slid again Friday after Baird analyst George Gianarikas cut his price target for...

Verizon Has Plans for Faster Growth. Stock Buybacks Are Coming Closer.

Text size Hans Vestberg, Verizon’s CEO. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Verizon Communications could be poised to deliver faster growth in profits and revenue, making possible continued dividend inc...

Tesla Finally Gets German Plant Approval. The Stock Is Falling.

Text size In this aerial view, the new Tesla Giga factory stands near Gruenheide just outside Berlin. Sean Gallup/Getty Images Tesla investors woke to a bit of good news Thursday but the stock isn’t h...

Rivian Stock Is Falling Because EV Prices Are Rising. Investors Aren’t Happy.

Text size Prices for some Rivian vehicles and trim levels are rising up to 20%. Courtesy Rivian Prices for new electric vehicles from electric truck maker Rivian Automotive are rising to help the star...

Salesforce stock options priced for much bigger than usual reaction earnings

Salesforce.com Inc.’s stock CRM, -0.92% rose 0.2% in afternoon trading Tuesday, and was one of just four of 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -2.15% components gaining ground, ahead of the c...

Dow falls nearly 600 points as Russia says it will begin attacks on Kyiv

U.S. stocks traded lower near midday Tuesday as Russia stepped up attacks on Ukraine and warned it would begin “high-precision” strikes on the capital, Kyiv, as its invasion enters a sixth day. What’s...

Rivian Stock’s Price Target Gets a Cut. There Are Too Many Headwinds.

Text size Courtesy of Rivian Electric-truck startup Rivian Automotive reports fourth-quarter earnings in about a week. One analyst cut his price target on the stock ahead of the report because there a...

Luminar Stock Is Holding Steady. Guidance Met Expectations.

Text size Luminar Technologies makes tech for autonomous cars. PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP/Getty Images Autonomous car-tech maker Luminar Technologies reported fourth-quarter earnings Monday evening. Shares...

EPAM Systems Stock Plunges. It Makes Software in Ukraine.

Text size The company had more than 12,000 staff in Ukraine as of the end of 2021. Dreamstime Shares of EPAM Systems tumbled nearly 40% after the software-design company  said it is withdrawing its fi...

Viatris to Sell Biosimilars Business for $3 Billion. Shares Tumble.

Viatris will sell the biosimilars business of the former Mylan to the Indian drugmaker Biocon for as much as $3.3 billion. Dreamstime Text size Viatris , the company formed in 2020 through a merger of...

Stock Market Today: Dow Tumbles With Ukraine in Focus, Oil Surges, Gold Pops

Stocks tumbled into the start of a new trading week, as the invasion of Ukraine and a wave of new sanctions on Russia weighed on investor sentiment. Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 4...

Ford CEO Shuts Down EV Spinoff Rumors. The Ford Family Won’t Let It Happen.

Ford Motor CEO Jim Farley told investors Wednesday there were no plans to spin off his company’s electric vehicle business. That shouldn’t be a surprise. The Ford family is unlikely to ever let an EV ...

Dow futures up over 150 points amid reports that Russia agrees to talks with Ukraine

U.S. stock-index futures on Friday morning turned solidly higher on the back of reports that Russia had agreed to talks to possibly end the military conflict in Ukraine that kicked off earlier this we...

All 30 Dow stocks rise, led by J&J and UnitedHealth; 3M set to snap longest losing streak in 10 years

The shares of all 30 components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +2.51% gained ground in afternoon trading Friday, as the blue chip barometer surged toward its biggest gain in 21 months. Of t...

3M Stock Is Soaring. Thank Johnson & Johnson.

3M stock is jumping Friday. The primary reason isn’t the broad market rally, although that helps. The best explanation for 3M’s rise comes from an odd source for an industrial conglomerate. Johnson &a...