Can Energy Stocks Stay Hot in 2022?

By most measures, 2021 was a good year to be an energy investor. According to research firm Morningstar Inc., energy outperformed every other funds sector, and asset flows into these funds grew a net ...

Nasdaq Composite ends 3 percentage points from correction, as investors react to Fed, Friday’s jobs report

U.S. stocks ended lower Friday, in a turbulent session that concluded with all three major benchmarks suffering weekly declines, following a monthly jobs report whose headline figure came in far below...

Nearly 8% of the S&P 500 has taken a bath this week — 39 stocks fell at least 10%

This stock market is very sensitive to any hint of an increase in interest rates, so it may be no surprise that many tech high-flyers have been falling to earth. But there are others whose shareholder...

Robinhood Is Making Changes. Keep an Eye on Its Stock.

Text size Tiffany Hagler-Geard/Bloomberg Robinhood Markets stock is in the doldrums, down more than 50% from its initial public offering price in July. The company is making moves to reverse that decl...

Value stocks have pulled ahead of growth in recent weeks. Is it a head-fake?

U.S. value stocks are beating growth equities in the first week of 2022, extending their outperformance in December and faring better through the broad market slump sparked Wednesday by investor conce...

Opinion: Value has beaten growth by a huge margin — these are now top investment newsletters’ best value-stock picks

(Note: The dividend-yield column at the bottom of this story has been corrected. The correct yields are now shown.) Value will be especially valuable in 2022. I’m referring to the latest round in valu...

Unprofitable tech trades are off to an ugly 2022. Here are the ETFs to consider as Cathie Wood’s Ark sinks.

Happy Thursday! In mythology, Janus is a god of transitions who is often depicted as a two-faced deity. A mere three sessions into the month of January, and some investors already may be feeling whipl...

Is it time to fight the Fed? This veteran strategist says the central bank won’t risk a 20% drop in house prices and a 30% slide in stocks.

The bond bears have been in ascendance this week, even before the release of the latest minutes from the last Federal Open Market Committee meeting. The yield on the 10-year Treasury has jumped 23.7 b...

Opinion: Social Security blows it again

Social Security had another disastrous financial year in 2022 even as it hurtles toward insolvency. America’s main pension plan saw its investments badly trail the booming markets, competitors, and ev...

Tesla Stock Is Falling Again. Why Shares Are Giving Back Big Delivery Gains.

Text size Tesla stock is up about 3% this year after giving back its double-digit gain from the first trading day of 2022. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Tesla opened the year with strong fourth-quarter...

20 cheap value stocks that Wall Street expects to rise up to 58%

There are plenty of arguments for why the bull market for U.S. stocks will continue in 2022. But investors’ focus appears to have shifted recently in favor of value stocks, rather than the growth stoc...

Interest-Rate Worries Batter Stock Market

Major U.S. stock indexes fell Wednesday as investors worried that the Federal Reserve might respond more aggressively to rising inflation than previously anticipated.  Markets had largely continued 20...

Rivian Stock Is Dropping Like a Stone. Blame Amazon.

Text size Amazon has ordered 100,000 delivery vans from Rivian. Courtesy Amazon Stock in Rivian Automotive is falling fast because it seems the start-up has competition in supplying electric trucks to...

Stocks Tumble as Fed Minutes Confirm Rate Hikes Are Coming

Text size Interest rate hikes are coming. The stock market is taking note. Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images Stocks fell Wednesday after the minutes from the last FOMC meeting confirmed that the Federal R...

Dow sheds over 300 points, Nasdaq skids 2.9% after Fed minutes surprise with talk of shrinking balance sheet

Stocks traded lower Wednesday afternoon, with the Dow turning negative, after the release of the Federal Reserve’s last policy gathering in 2021 showed robust discussion around a potentially faster pa...

Ignore Tesla and Apple Stock for Massive Returns in Tech. Look Here Instead.

Text size Apple recently became the first public company to briefly reach a market cap of more than $3 trillion. Chris McGrath/Getty Images In the past few years, total U.S. stock market returns have ...

AT&T exceeds HBO Max subscriber outlook

Shares of AT&T Inc. are up about 1% in premarket trading Wednesday after the telecommunications company offered some fourth-quarter metrics ahead of an investor conference. AT&T T, +0.83% saw ...

Tesla and Moderna Stock Started 2022 Differently—What History Says Happens Next

The first trading day of 2022 saw both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 finish at record highs for only the sixth time in history and the second time in 30 years. The stock market acti...

Intel Joins the Dogs of the Dow. Why These Stocks Could Be a Good Strategy This Year.

Text size Sign at Intel headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif. Intel joins the so-called Dogs of the Dow for 2022. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Intel will join the Dogs of the Dow for 2022, replacing Cisc...

Taiwan Semi Stock Kicked Off 2022 With Its Best Day in Years. Here’s Why.

Text size Taiwan Semiconductor ADRs saw their biggest percentage gain on Monday since mid-2020. SAM YEH/AFP/Getty Images The first trading day of 2022 was a breakout one for Taiwan Semiconductor Manuf...

23 dividend stocks that can pass this strict quality screen

Stocks are expensive. You’ve probably been hearing that for years, and based on traditional price-to-earnings ratios it’s true. If you invest now in a broad index, such as the benchmark S&P 500 SP...

Why Are Stocks Down Today? The Dow Is Crushing the Nasdaq.

Text size Michael George Haddad The Dow Jones Industrial Average is crushing the Nasdaq Tuesday, as investors bet that the U.S. economy will continue to boom. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has gain...

Opinion: Adam Aron’s resolution to refinance AMC’s debt might put his love affair with ‘Apes’ at serious risk

Adam Aron wants to be happier, healthier and find a clever way around his own retail shareholders to pay off some serious debt in 2022. In a pair of tweets, Aron told his followers that “If we can, in...

This investing legend has been predicting surprises for the last 37 years. Here’s how he did last year — and what he’s predicting now

Byron Wien, the vice chairman of private-equity giant Blackstone, has been making his list of ten surprises for 37 years. Previously the chief U.S. investment strategist at Morgan Stanley, Wien has be...

These are the stocks Wall Street analysts heavily favor for 2022 and also expect to rise the most

As the coronavirus pandemic has stretched out, investors have continued to pour money into stocks, in part because the alternatives have been dismal. Why bother with 10-year U.S. Treasury bonds that y...

Taiwan Semiconductor Stock Surges on First Trading Day of 2022

Text size Taiwan Semiconductor ADRs saw their biggest percentage gain on Monday since mid-2020. SAM YEH/AFP/Getty Images The first trading day of 2022 was a breakout one for . American depositary shar...

Tesla Deliveries Crushed Expectations. The Stock Is Moving Higher.

A Tesla Model Y car at a showroom in Beijing. WANG ZHAO/AFP/Getty Images Text size Electric-vehicle leader Tesla delivered a whopping 308,600 vehicles in the fourth quarter of 2021. That’s a record re...

These 12 ‘Dividend Aristocrat’ stocks have been the best income compounders over 5 years

Stock-market investors typically want to anticipate industry events or companies’ successes so they can make as much money as possible. But as a new year begins, a look back can be useful, especially ...

Tesla, Novavax, Exxon Mobil: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today

Updated Jan. 3, 2022 7:22 am ET Stock futures are rising ahead of the first trading session of the new year. Here’s what we’re watching in Monday’s action: Tesla TSLA -1.27% shares jumped 7.6% ahead o...

Stock Futures Rise and Tesla Surges as a New Trading Year Begins

Text size A Wall Street sign outside the New York Stock exchange (NYSE) at Wall Street on November 30, 2020 in New York City. ANGELA WEISS/AFP/Getty Images Stock futures were rising Monday, suggesting...

Cheaper Stocks Boost S&P 500’s Prospects in New Year

Investors banking on a roaring bull market in U.S. stocks in 2022 are enjoying the company of an unexpected ally: valuations.  The S&P 500 rose 27% in 2021, capping a third consecutive year of dou...