Citigroup, Target, Lennar, and 2 More Companies Keeping Their Dividends Steady

PPL, a utility based in Allentown, Pa., said this week that it plans to raise its next quarterly dividend by 7%. It was an otherwise light stretch for such announcements among large U.S. companies. PP...

Bed Bath & Beyond, Virgin Galactic, Ford, and More Stock Market Movers Friday

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Caterpillar stock rises to 4th straight record after BofA analyst becomes top bull on Wall Street

Shares of Caterpillar Inc. rallied Friday to a fourth straight record close, after BofA Securities analyst Michael Feniger turned bullish on the belief that the construction- and mining-equipment make...

Airline stocks fall after Delta’s weaker-than-expected guidance

Airline stocks fell before market open Friday after Delta Air Lines Inc. gave weaker-than-expected guidance for the first quarter. The carrier’s fourth-quarter results beat analysts’ top and bottom li...

Bank of America’s Subramanian says S&P 500 earnings risk a 10% drop in 2023

“ ‘We are likely to see some downward revisions [to earnings] and our forecast for profits growth for 2023 is $200 for the S&P 500. That would mean about a 10% decline in earnings peak to trough.’...

JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, Bank of America and Citi beat earnings expectations, but worries about headwinds remain

JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc. and Wells Fargo & Co. managed to beat Wall Street’s reduced expectations for their fourth-quarter profits as higher interest rates b...

Bitcoin spikes above $21,000: is the crypto bear market over ?

Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, spiked above the $21,000 mark on Saturday. The move has encouraged crypto investors who have been shaken by the collapse of several high-p...

JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo earnings show the good, the bad and the ugly of people’s finances. So how are they holding up?

Friday’s wave of big-bank earnings gives an important glimpse into Americans’ finances amid high prices, rising interest rates and recession worries. At first glance, most consumers appear to be keepi...

China Takes ‘Golden Shares’ in Alibaba, Tencent in Push to Control Tech Sector

E-commerce giants Alibaba and Tencent climbed on Friday despite reports the Chinese government is working to take so-called ‘golden shares’ in units of both companies.  State-run investment funds have...

JPMorgan Reports Earnings Friday. Here’s What to Expect.

JPMorgan Chase will be one of the first big banks to report fourth-quarter 2022 financial results on Friday, and Wall Street expects a mixed bag. Revenue at the bank is forecast to swell to $34.5 bill...

Citigroup Reports Earnings Friday. Here’s What Wall Street Expects.

Citigroup is in the midst of a yearslong turnaround. On Friday, Wall Street will see how successful the bank’s efforts have been. Like most of its peers, Citigroup (ticker: C) is expected to post a dr...

Bank of America Posts Earnings Friday. What Wall Street Expects.

Higher interest rates are expected to drive up Bank of America ‘s fourth-quarter revenue, even as the bank is projected to see a drop in profits. Bank of America (ticker: BAC) is forecast to post reve...

Bed Bath & Beyond may be heading for a ‘meme squeeze’

Troubled home-goods retailer Bed Bath & Beyond may be heading for a ‘meme squeeze,’ says analyst Ihor Dusaniwsky of S3 Partners. Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. BBBY, +50.14% announced the closure of a...

Taiwan Semiconductor Braces for Downturn Despite Record Profit

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing has reported a record net profit and beat analysts’ expectations for its fourth quarter but warned of waning demand in 2023.  Taiwan Semiconductor (ticker: TSM), the...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing reports record net profit and revenue on chip demand

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. said Thursday that fourth-quarter net profit rose to a new record thanks to growing demand for high-speed computing and better margins. The world’s largest contr...

Bed Bath & Beyond Warned of Bankruptcy. Then Its Stock Soared 166%.

Bed Bath & Beyond shareholders face a growing risk that they could be wiped out in bankruptcy, but you wouldn’t know that by looking at the retailer’s stock this week. Bed Bath stock (ticker: BBBY...

XPeng stock falls after J.P. Morgan says stop buying

Shares of XPeng Inc. fell Wednesday, after J.P. Morgan backed away from its bullish call on the China-based electric vehicle maker, saying the COVID-related reopening trade has been overdone. Analyst ...

Daughter of world’s richest man takes the helm at Dior as LVMH reshuffles its two biggest fashion houses

The biggest luxury brand in the world has announced a shake-up of its two major fashion labels, a move that has put the daughter of the world’s richest man in charge at one of them. LVMH Moët Hennessy...

Nvidia, Walgreens, and Other Beaten-Down Stocks That Can Outperform This Year 

There was no shortage of beaten-down stocks in 2022, with the Russell 1000 index down 20% as high inflation caused market disarray. But some of those shares—that have strong fundamentals—could be big ...

Mercedes and Other European Car Markers Are Aiming for Tesla

Mercedes-Benz Group more than doubled sales of battery electric vehicles this past year. That’s just a start. The company, and its European peers, want to sell a lot more. Tesla had better pay attenti...

Fed’s Powell won’t stop rate hikes until he ‘terrifies’ the wealthiest of investors, says this CIO

Investors are waking up to a whiff of positivity where stocks are concerned for Monday, after last week’s first gain in five that was prompted by weak wage growth Alongside a bleak Institute for Suppl...

Broadcom stock dinged in final minutes on report Apple working on its own WiFi/Bluetooth chips

Broadcom Inc. shares closed sharply lower Monday in the final minutes of trading following a report that Apple Inc. was working on its own WiFi and Bluetooth chips, which would make Broadcom’s unneces...

Tesla Stock Is Almost Up in 2023. There Are a Couple of Reasons for the Rally.

It took two days for Tesla stock to enter a new bull market. That’s surprising action given some of the recent news, which hasn’t sounded good. But there are a few reasons why the shares are on the ri...

These 15 Dividend Aristocrat stocks have been the best income builders

The S&P Dividend Aristocrats deserve more coverage. Those are companies that have raised their dividend payouts consistently over the years — they’re dividend royalty, as it were. As a group, they...

Look for a big cut to TSMC’s 2023 outlook as a bullish sign for chips, one analyst says ahead of earnings

The best thing Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. can do in its earnings report Thursday is to cut its outlook for 2023 big, indicating a bottoming in the first half of the year, according to one ...

Tech’s Bill Is Coming Due. Investors Aren’t the Only Ones Who Will Pay.

For two years now, tech companies have spent massive amounts of money building the capacity to serve what they believed would be a higher level of postpandemic demand. If you build it, they will come....

Alibaba shares rise in Hong Kong after Jack Ma cedes control of Ant Group

Shares of Alibaba Group Holdings are higher following news that co-founder Jack Ma is ceding control of affiliate company Ant Group Co., potentially paving the way to revive plans for an initial publi...

XPeng stock just misses a record selloff, snaps 5-day win streak

The U.S.-listed shares of XPeng Inc. plunged Friday to snap a five-day win streak, as price cuts by Tesla Inc. in China soured sentiment toward China-based electric vehicle makers. The stock XPEV, -15...

Macy’s Warns Consumers Will Be Pressured in 2023. Retail Shares Are Slipping.

Macy’s stock fell on Friday after the department store said fourth-quarter sales would come in at the low to middle end of its guidance, and warned that consumers will be pressured in 2023.  Macy’s (t...

Barron’s Trader Stock Picks Had a Better Year Than the Market. What Worked—and What Didn’t.

It was a good year for the Trader column—and we’re not going to let a little thing like a small decline get in the way of our saying it. In any other year, we might have called our picks lackluster or...

Semiconductor Stocks Are Struggling. A Bottom Could Be Nearer.

This commentary was issued recently by money managers, research firms, and market newsletter writers and has been edited by Barron’s. The Chips Are Really Down UBS House View—Daily U.S. UBSJan. ...

Coinbase Has Been on a Wild Ride This Week Thanks to a ‘Short Squeeze’

Coinbase Global and other beaten-down cryptocurrency stocks ripped higher on Wednesday, only to fall sharply on Thursday. Analysis of the wild ride suggests that “short squeeze” dynamics in a volatile...