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Disney, Occidental, Rivian, Palantir, BioNTech, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week
Text size We’re past the peak of first-quarter earnings season, but with several notable companies still left to report next week. The economic-data highlights of the week will be a pair of inflation ...
Rates Are Rising and Stocks Are Taking a Beating. It Won’t End Soon.
Text size The market reacted violently to the Federal Open Market Committee, which hiked the federal-funds rate target by half a percentage point for only the second time this century. Spencer Platt/G...
The Stock Market Looks Like a Bear. How to Avoid Getting Eaten.
It could be very difficult for Powell and the Fed to tame inflation without causing an economic slowdown. Photo illustration by Barron’s staff; (reference) Dreamstime (5) Text size Like Winnie t...
Teva CEO Sees a Final Opioid Settlement Coming This Year
Text size Teva CEO Kåre Schultz has been predicting a national opioid settlement for years. Christopher Goodney/Bloomberg Teva Pharmaceutical Industries CEO Kåre Schultz has, for years, been predictin...
Dow Futures Rise After April’s Sharp Selloff as Wall Street Looks to the Fed
Text size Photo credit: NYSE Stock futures traded modestly higher Monday as investors tried to shake off April’s broad selloff ahead of an expected aggressive move by the Federal Reserve to tame infla...
Earnings Season Has Been Just One More Reason to Sell Stocks
Text size Apple dropped 3.7% on Friday after its outlook disappointed. Gabby Jones/Bloomberg The only takeaway to be drawn from a volatile week of earnings reports was that we shouldn’t get our hopes ...
Strong Dollar Aids U.S. Inflation Fight, Adds to Price Pressures Abroad
Text size Chinese 100 yuan bank notes. Paul Yeung/Bloomberg While your attention probably was focused on that big takeover of a certain social-media site, the gyrations in the global currency markets ...
Europe Inches Closer to a Ban on Russian Oil. Here’s What That Would Mean.
Europe will continue debating a ban on imports of Russian oil over the weekend. While such a deal is far from certain, the New York Times reported Friday that the European Union could approve a phased...
The Stock Market Isn’t Falling Like It Did In the 1970s—It’s Even Worse
Text size By the end of trading on Friday, the selloff had gotten worse and we were staring at the worst start to a year since the Great Depression. Spencer Platt/Getty Images It was the worst first f...
Will Biden Cancel Student Debt? Two Years In, He’s Still Mulling Up to $10,000
Text size President Joe Biden said Thursday he is “considering dealing with some debt reduction.” Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Two years since candidate Joe Biden tweeted that student borr...
The Fed’s Interest Rate Hikes Could Be Even Worse Than Feared
Text size Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Tom Williams/Pool/Getty Images Don’t fight the Fed has long been a Wall Street motto. But the nation’s central bank thus far has been a reluctant figh...
The 10-Year Treasury Yield Is Nearing 3%. That’s a Bad Omen for the Stock Market.
Interest rates may finally be getting real. To investors with a sense of history, the near-zero and even negative interest rates of recent years might have seemed unreal, and indeed were unprecedented...
James Anderson of Baillie Gifford on Illumina, Moderna, and Other Companies That Matter
James Anderson, a partner at Scottish money manager Baillie Gifford, has personified growth-stock investing during his 39 years with the firm. He was an early backer of Amazon.com, Tesla, and other “e...
CEO of Top Natural Gas Producer Sees ‘Tremendous’ Moment for U.S. Energy
On Thursday, U.S. climate envoy John Kerry put natural gas companies on the clock, telling them to clean up their acts in the next six to 10 years or be replaced. On Friday, the head of the largest ga...
A Key Bond Yield Nears 3%. It’s a Bad Omen for Stocks.
Interest rates may finally be getting real. To investors with a sense of history, the near-zero and even negative interest rates of recent years might have seemed unreal, and indeed were unprecedented...
Fed’s Powell Puts Half-Point Rate Hike on the Table for May
Text size Fed Chair Jerome Powell will appear on a panel Thursday with European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde. Graeme Jennings/Pool/AFP/Getty Images Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell c...
Home Prices Surged to a Record as Sales Fell. What’s Cooling the Hot Housing Market.
Text size The rising cost of buying a home has weighed on buyers as mortgage rates have increased. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Existing-home sales fell in March fell as home prices climbed to their high...
U.S. Stocks Poised for a Lower Open on Monday
U.S. stock markets are poised for a subdued open on Monday. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Text size U.S. stocks are set for a lower open on Monday. On Sunday night, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures fell...
Tesla, AT&T, Netflix, Bank of America, IBM, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week
Text size First-quarter earnings season picks up next week, with 67 S&P 500 companies scheduled to report. Bank of America will be Monday’s highlight, followed by Netflix , Johnson & Johnson ...
Utility Stocks Are Hot Right Now. Here’s Why.
Text size A Dominion Energy solar-power facility in Selmer, Tenn. Daniel Acker/Bloomberg Higher bond yields are roiling the stock market. Utility shares have benefited—and it doesn’t look like their r...
There Could Be More Downside Ahead for the Stock Market
It could be very difficult for Powell and the Fed to tame inflation without causing an economic slowdown. Photo illustration by Barron’s staff; (reference) Dreamstime (5) Text size Like Winnie t...