Oil Companies Lift Their Dividends as Cash Rolls In

It was a busy week for dividend increases at energy companies, a bonus for investors who have scored as the stocks have taken off this year. The sector is prospering as Russia’s war against Ukraine ha...

Here’s strong new evidence that a U.S. stock-market rally is coming soon

Yet another piece of the investor-sentiment puzzle is falling into place to support a sizeable U.S. stock-market rally. I’m referring to an index that measures investors’ confidence that any market di...

Opinion: Don’t cheer yet — rising gold prices are likely to reverse

Long-suffering gold bugs will likely have to suffer a while longer. That’s because gold traders on the whole have not thrown in the towel and thereby given up on the yellow metal GC00, +0.54%. Only wh...

Judge Pauses Albertsons’ $4 Billion Special Dividend From Kroger Merger

A Washington judge has blocked Albertsons Cos. from paying out $4 billion in dividends while regulators review its proposed merger with Kroger.   King County Superior Court Commissioner Henry Judson a...

New stock-market lows ahead? What investors need to know as Fed signals rates will be higher for longer.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell sent a clear signal interest rates will move higher and stay there longer than previously anticipated. Investors wonder if that means new lows for the beaten-dow...

Berkshire Hathaway’s Earnings Are Saturday. Here’s What to Watch.

When Berkshire Hathaway reports its third-quarter earnings on Saturday, investors won’t be spending a lot of time looking at the bottom line. The conglomerate’s stock buybacks, equity purchases, and l...

India-Focused Payments Company Ebix Races to Raise Cash Against Debt Deadline

Payments and software company Ebix Inc. is seeking to raise cash to pay back some $600 million in debt due early next year, but time is running short as it awaits regulatory approval for a public offe...

Apple and Google stocks both had their worst week in more than two years

Shares of Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc. both suffered their largest weekly declines since the beginning days of the pandemic this week, as Big Tech companies continued to draw closer scrutiny from Wall...

Amazon stock breaks long-term chart support, and the worst may still be to come

Amazon’s stock has tumbled enough over the past week to do real damage to its long-term chart — and enough to warn investors the worst may be yet to come. But amid the market turmoil and concerns over...

The future looks gloomy for retirees — if you look closely at financial history

Retirement planning requires us all to become historians. Surely not, you object: Do we really have to become proficient in yet another subject? Unfortunately, yes. Regardless of whether you’re aware ...

Sell These 3 Tech Stocks Because PC Demand Is Tumbling, Morgan Stanley Says

Falling demand for computers and electronics has made a Morgan Stanley analyst more pessimistic on three PC-related stocks. On Friday, Morgan Stanley analyst Erik Woodring reiterated his Underweight/S...

Get ready for some bullish history to repeat with these stocks, says BofA analysts

Stagflation is coming, but with that comes a silver lining for some equities if history is any guide. That’s according to strategists at Bank of America, who see a macro backdrop that continues to ref...

Traders are loading up on bets against the stock market — and this time, it’s not a contrarian signal, says Citi

Markets continue to absorb the reverberations from this week’s Federal Reserve policy decision. The S&P 500 SPX has given up a chunk of its latest rally after Chair Jerome Powell suggested it was ...

Opendoor Vents the Roof – WSJ

Zillow’s decision last year to jump out of this burning house is suddenly looking kind of smart. Opendoor Technologies said Thursday that its automated home-flipping business sold 33% more homes than ...

Ex-housekeeper sues Jeff Bezos, claims discrimination, unsafe working conditions

SEATTLE — A former housekeeper for Amazon AMZN, -0.90% founder Jeff Bezos says she and other employees suffered unsafe working conditions that included being forced to climb out a laundry room window ...

Atlassian stock drops 23% after earnings, potentially wiping away more than $10 billion in valuation

Atlassian Corp. shares dropped in the extended session Thursday after the business-collaboration software company’s earnings and revenue outlook fell short of Wall Street expectations as executives sa...

PayPal earnings forecast heads higher, but revenue outlook sends the stock lower yet again

PayPal Holdings Inc.’s cost-savings story began to play out in the latest quarter, but that wasn’t enough to satisfy investors as the digital payments giant also cut its revenue forecast for the full ...

Cloudflare stock drops more than 10% after results, outlook top Street view

Cloudflare Inc. shares fell in the extended session Thursday even after the cybersecurity company’s results and forecast topped the Wall Street consensus. Cloudflare NET, +0.86% shares dropped as much...

Lumen stock falls after dividend is eliminated, but is there a silver lining?

Lumen Technologies Inc. shares were falling sharply in Thursday trading after the telecommunications company announced it was eliminating its dividend and selling another business, moves that have pro...

Nikola Stock Is Rising. The Company Is Making More Trucks.

Stock in the electric and hydrogen truck-technology firm Nikola is rising after the company reported better-than-expected third-quarter sales. The company is ramping up production—a good sign for any ...

‘This has gone on too long’: The bank paid itself $18,000 in fees. My late father’s trust has not been distributed. What recourse do I have?

My father’s father set up a trust at a major bank with my father and the bank’s trust department as co-trustees. My father died at the end of last year; upon his death, the trust was supposed to be di...

‘Oh, my gosh, why am I not in the market?’ This forecaster says investors will be shocked by what’s about to happen next.

Slower, but higher rates and no pivot this side of Christmas. That was the message from Fed Chairman Jerome Powell after the central bank’s fourth-straight jumbo hike. Bruised investors continue to se...

Self-Driving Technology Provider Luminar Just Hit a Big Milestone

After 10-plus years of moonshot R&D, Luminar Technologies has made it into automotive production with its radarlike systems. Wednesday evening, lidar maker Luminar (ticker: LAZR) reported third-qu...

Hedge fund giant Elliott warns looming hyperinflation could lead to ‘global societal collapse’

“Investors should not assume they have ‘seen everything’” That was from executives at leading hedge fund Elliott Management, who warned that the world is heading towards the worst financial crisis sin...

State attorneys general sue to block Albertsons’ $4 billion dividend payout

The attorneys general of California, Illinois and the District of Columbia are suing Albertsons in an effort to stop the grocery chain from paying a nearly $4 billion dividend to its shareholders. The...

Caesars’ Sports-Betting Business Strengthens. What That Means for DraftKings.

Text size Caesars reported earnings of 24 cents a share from revenue of $2.89 billion for its third quarter. Dreamstime Caesars Entertainment stock was higher Wednesday after the casino operator poste...

PayPal Reports Earnings Today. What to Expect.

PayPal may be in the midst of a turnaround but Wall Street still expects the payments company to post a sharp drop in earnings when it reports third-quarter financial results after the bell Thursday. ...

Oil Dividend Stars Devon and Pioneer Face Tests After Payout Cuts

Some of the biggest outperformers in the U.S. energy sector— Pioneer Natural Resources and Devon Energy —cut their dividend payouts in the latest quarter as oil prices caused cash flow to slip. The cu...

Bernstein launches coverage of Canada’s Tilray, Cronos and Canopy Growth but stops short of any buy ratings

Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. analyst Nadine Sarwat initiated coverage of three Canadian cannabis stocks on Wednesday but stopped short of any buy recommendations at current levels. “Is the buzz gone...

Qualcomm stock drops more than 7% after poor outlook, months-long chip glut

Qualcomm Inc. shares fell in the extended session Wednesday following the chip maker’s poor outlook, and estimates of about two months or more of inventory it needs to clear in its core business. Qual...

What’s next for markets after Fed’s 4th straight jumbo rate hike

What’s next for markets now that the Federal Reserve has delivered its fourth and possibly final jumbo rate increase of 75 basis points? Well, a lot, actually. A sometimes tumultuous third-quarter ear...

Dow ends 500 points lower, Nasdaq falls 3.4% after Fed raises rates, Powell signals terminal interest rate will be higher than expected

U.S. stock indexes finished a volatile session with losses on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve announced the fourth straight jumbo increase in its benchmark interest rate and hinted at a potential ...