7 Energy Stocks That Shorts Are Betting Against

Text size Workers at a CNX Resources site in Pennsylvania in September. Justin Merriman/Bloomberg Short selling most energy stocks has been a losing bet for the past year and a half. Even companies th...

Why hedge-fund manager Doug Kass says his bearish case is now stronger and dip buyers should bide their time

For equity dip buyers still waiting in the wings, hedge-fund manager Doug Kass suggests holding fire for now as better bargains, and unfortunately worse times, are ahead. “It is my view that the odds ...

Inflation Is Surging. Here Are Some Portfolio Changes to Consider.

Market sentiment changes awfully fast these days. Rising concerns about the impact of interest-rate hikes pushed the S&P 500 down more than 5% in January (with the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Inde...

The stock split from Google’s parent may spark a wave, Bank of America analysts say

Stock splits usually work, and the 20-for-1 split by Google’s parent company Alphabet may spark a wave. That’s according to analysis from Bank of America, which found that companies that have announce...

This fund sold out of Facebook’s parent and PayPal before their earnings disasters. Here’s what it bought instead.

Facebook parent Meta Platforms was probably the least loved megacap tech stock before its slide over its weak first-quarter outlook, but its sheer size meant it was a widely owned holding — according ...

CVS Stock Is Tumbling. Lowered Range for Cash-Flow Guidance Unnerved Investors.

Text size CVS stock is falling after earnings. Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for CVS Pharmacy   CVS Health stock was falling after lowered cash-flow guidance overshadowed better-than-expected fourth-quart...

How Much Is Trump’s New Social-Media Company Worth? Traders Can’t Decide

Traders are struggling to place a consistent value on Donald Trump’s new social-media venture, a business that hasn’t offered much in the way of details but one that supporters think is destined to ta...

‘If you’re a wage earner you’re going to fall behind’: Ex-Fed insider warns of ‘difficult few years’ due to inflation

Former Federal Reserve insider Thomas Hoenig thinks the U.S. faces a painful reckoning because of high inflation. Hoenig was a lone dissenter eight times in 2010, when the Fed voted to pursue a then-n...

Buy the dip? Why the stock market’s bounce off January lows may prove premature

A big stock-market bounce after an ugly January might reflect misplaced confidence in a previously tried-and-true trading strategy, a Wall Street analyst warned on Monday. “After a tough markdown of s...

Opinion: Trump-related SPACs surge, then fall, as retail investors have their own Joe Rogan experience

Joe Rogan’s podcast future is up in the air, and — for a few hours on Monday — so were the stock prices of some MAGA SPACs. Shares in CF Acquisition Corp VI CFVI, +18.17% soared as high as 39.7% in la...

Nvidia becomes 7th-largest U.S. company as it passes Facebook owner Meta for the first time

Nvidia Corp. became the seventh-largest U.S. company Monday as it overtook Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. for the first time. A reshuffling among the ranks of the most valuable U.S. companies ref...

A Big Tech Trade Is Losing Its Luster

The stock market’s popular FAANG trade is starting to show cracks. Investors say they are reconsidering their approach to trading big technology stocks after a week marked by giant swings in share pri...

Alphabet, Payal and Other Growth Stocks That Can Thrive in a Labor Shortage

Text size PayPal is among companies keeping employees happy, according to Just Capital. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The inability to hire workers and a labor shortage is an oft-repeated concern from ...

Why Alphabet, Nvidia, and Others Belong in the Dow Jones Industrials

The Dow Jones Industrial Average, launched in 1896, has trailed the S&P 500 index of late. That could change if Alphabet , which said on Tuesday that it would split its stock 20-1 (cutting shares ...

These end-of-life planning forms will save your family a lot of heartache, the trouble with Alaska’s oil fund and more retirement news

From MarketWatch: Opinion: Big money trouble with Alaska’s $80 billion oil fund: A major political row has broken out at Alaska’s Permanent Fund, the state’s giant $82 billion oil fund, where the firi...

‘This is not 1980’: What investors are watching as next U.S. inflation reading looms

Investors next week will be closely watching for the latest reading on U.S. inflation, which has been running hot against the backdrop of a volatile stock market in 2022. “Inflation will be the data p...

Boston Beer Fell Flat on a Hard Seltzer Glut. Its Stock Is Now a Buy.

After an initial pop in hard-selzer demand during the pandemic, Boston Beer found itself with an unforeseen oversupply of Truly. Dreamstime Text size Hard seltzer proved to be a bubble that few brewer...

Beat inflation with 3 stocks that bet against oil in favor of EVs and the renewable-power grid

The likelihood that lingering inflation and other factors lead to persistently higher oil prices leaves this stock picker focused on alternative energy and electric vehicles. Ivana Delevska, founder a...

Royal Caribbean may finally be confident enough to provide long-term financial guidance

Royal Caribbean Group looks poised to report the first billion-dollar quarter since the pandemic, and may finally be confident enough about the post-pandemic outlook to provide long-term financial tar...

Amazon May Have Saved the Stock Market. But It’s Looking Even Worse for Meta.

After Meta Platforms’ disastrous earnings outlook, the mood was pretty sour. And with investors weighing up the Federal Reserve’s future path for interest rates and the potential impact on valuations,...

This way of picking value stocks has actually worked — and Berkshire Hathaway screens the best

Amazon.com’s earnings surprise is the story of the day, pushing even the jobs report into second billing. More on that in a second. But the broader story of the markets is unchanged. Interest rates ar...

Snap shares soar 59% on first profitable quarter

Whipsawed by Meta’s poor results a day earlier, Snap Inc. reported its first quarterly profit as well as top- and bottom-line numbers that beat Street expectations on Thursday. The results turned arou...

Facebook wasn’t Thursday’s only big loser — these 16 other Nasdaq-100 stocks dropped at least 5%

Thursday was brutal for technology stock investors, as the carnage spread far beyond the parent company of Facebook. Below is a list of the worst 20 performers among the Nasdaq-100 on Feb. 3., led by ...

Opinion: ARK investors have lost $4 billion — ‘We believe we’re going to see the turn sooner rather than later,’ Cathie Wood says

Four billion dollars would provide for a lot of retirements. It would, for example, pay for about 80,000 of these popular recreational vehicles. Or about 40,000 of these popular boats. Or, more prosai...

Opinion: Invest in Google if you like — but that stock split isn’t a solid reason to be bullish

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Alphabet’s just-announced 20-for-1 stock split is not the bullish omen that investors are making it out to be. There are two major arguments being given for why this stock split is...

Ford Stock Jumps Because It Might Have Bigger EV Plans

Text size 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning Lariat. Courtesy Ford Ford Motor shares are trading near their daily highs on Tuesday after Bloomberg reported the company would spend more on vehicle electrificati...

Opinion: Google is finally splitting its stock; will Amazon be next, leading to a Dow shakeup?

Alphabet Inc. is finally carving into its gargantuan stock price with a stock split, which leaves only one Big Tech company remaining with a huge per-share price despite an easy avenue to change it. A...

AT&T CFO Defends Spinoff, Saying It Benefits Retail Investors

Text size AT&T’s chief financial officer, Pascal Desroches. Courtesy AT&T AT&T is defending its move to spin off its big stake in WarnerMedia rather than pursue a split-off, or excha...

Nio Deliveries Fell Last Month. What That Means for Tesla Stock.

Text size Deliveries for XPeng, Li, and NIO combined were down in January, snapping a two-month streak of gains. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images Electric-vehicle deliveries at NIO , XPeng , and Li...

Bears beware. Past corrections for the S&P 500 are only 15% on average, outside of recessions

Even after a rough January for Wall Street, it might take the U.S. economy slipping into a recession before the S&P 500 index risks entering a bear market, according to Oxford Economics. “Equities...

With Chevron Stock Near Record Highs, Analysts Are Divided

Text size A Chevron petroleum storage tank in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The oil giant missed analysts’ earnings estimates when it reported fourth-quarter results on Friday. Joe Raedle/Getty Images C...

Opinion: AT&T and 4 more unloved dividend stocks to buy in a ‘risk-off’ era

With stocks off to one of their worst starts to the year since the 2008-2009 financial crisis, it’s no longer crazy to talk about a sustained period of market volatility or a prolonged “risk off” envi...