Apple stock to suffer first ‘death cross’ chart pattern since the pandemic

Apple Inc.’s stock has fallen far enough and for long enough to produce a certain ominous-sounding bearish chart pattern should didn’t appear during the short COVID-19-induced bear-market selloff of e...

PayPal Stock Has Been Cut in Half. Why Analysts See Upside.

Text size PayPal stock could pass $150 a share by 2026, Mizuho says. Nuttapong Punna/Dreamstime.com There’s plenty of upside for PayPal ’s stock, analysts say. The payments app just needs to get its s...

Here Are 6 Stocks That Pay a Lot in Dividends and Have Solid Yields. And Microsoft and Apple.

PepsiCo total quarterly dividend payout and yield make for an intriguing combination. Here, a Pepsi display at a shop in Grovetown, Ga., earlier this year. Billy Blume/Dreamstime.com Text size Sometim...

Relief at the Pump Could Come Soon. Thank Saudi Arabia.

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Text size Oil prices fell Thursday after the Financial Times reported that Saudi Arabia was ready to increase output as more sanctions on Russia threaten global oil supply...

Brian Moynihan dismisses Jamie Dimon’s warning on the economy: ‘You’ve got hurricanes that come every year.’

Jamie Dimon, the JPMorgan Chase JPM, +0.50% chairman and chief executive, got everyone’s attention when he warned there’s an economic hurricane coming, from rate hikes, the war in Ukraine and inflatio...

Lululemon’s Earnings Are Thursday. Here’s What to Expect.

Text size A Lululemon store in Hong Kong. Dreamstime Lululemon athletica could regain some ground lost in the recent retail selloff if the one-time pandemic winner delivers good news as it reports its...

Google investors shoot down racial-equity audit while approving stock split

Alphabet Inc. investors rejected 17 shareholder proposals at the Google parent company’s annual meeting Wednesday, including a racial-equity audit, but approved a company proposal to increase the shar...

What ChargePoint Earnings Say About the State of EV Charging in America

Text size ChargePoint Inc. had about 188,000 active charging ports at the end of the latest quarter. Dania Maxwell/Bloomberg The electric-vehicle charging-equipment company ChargePoint Holdings report...

Salesforce Stock Is Rising. Strong Earnings Overshadowed a Guidance Cut.

Text size The Salesforce logo at the company’s headquarters in San Francisco. Stephen Lam/Getty Images Salesforce . com stock headed higher in late trading Tuesday on better-than-expected result...

Salesforce stock rallies following raised outlook, with stronger dollar seen as only major headwind

Salesforce Inc. shares rallied in the extended session Tuesday after the cloud-based customer-relationship-management company said business remained strong amid the current rocky economic landscape an...

Why Costco Won’t Raise the Price of Its Hot Dogs

Text size Costco’s membership renewal rate for the U.S. and Canada stood at 92.3% last quarter. David Pail Morris/Bloomberg Costco Wholesale takes care of its more than 64 million members. The s...

Salesforce earnings expected to serve as business-spending bellwether amid economic uncertainty

Salesforce Inc. is expected to have a much more subdued earnings report in the coming week as fear of a recession and inflation, as well as COVID shutdowns in China and the war in Ukraine, are prompti...

Micron, Netflix, and 5 Other Beaten-Up Tech Stocks That Could Be Bargains

Text size Meta Platforms’ advertising business has faced challenges from TikTok and Apple’s privacy changes. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg This year has been brutal for U.S. stocks, but that...

Yamana Gold Stock Surges on $6.7 Billion Gold Fields Deal

Text size Yamana Gold holders would receive 0.6 Gold Fields share for each share outstanding under terms of the proposed takeover. David Gray/AFP/Getty Images Yamana Gold stock surged on Tuesday after...

Al Gore’s Firm Bought Alibaba Stock and Salesforce. It Sold Cisco, Microsoft.

Text size Former Vice President Al Gore in 2019. Scott Heins/Getty Images The investment firm co-founded and chaired by former Vice President Al Gore has made big changes in its U.S.-traded investment...

Alibaba Stock Is Rallying After China Moves to Ease Lockdown Measures

Text size Alibaba stock had a terrible 2021, and 2022 isn’t shaping up very well, either. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg Shares in Alibaba , JD.com , NIO , and other Chinese companies surged on Monday fol...

Costco’s Latest Earnings Show Why the Stock Is a Winner

Text size Costco’s membership renewal rate for the U.S. and Canada stood at 92.3% last quarter. David Pail Morris/Bloomberg Costco Wholesale takes care of its more than 64 million members. The s...

War surges Norway’s oil, gas profit. Now, it’s urged to help

Europe’s frantic search for alternatives to Russian energy has dramatically increased the demand — and price — for Norway’s oil and gas. As the money pours in, Europe’s second-biggest natural gas supp...

Summer Vacationers Want to Kick It Old School

The new and the high tech are suddenly out of fashion, with the Nasdaq down around 23% this year. That sentiment change seems to have bled into the online travel sector, where the uncool is making a c...

Companies Are Rebuilding Their Inventories. What That Means for Profits.

Text size Target’s inventory rose 43.1% and sales grew 4% in the most recent quarter. Joe Raedle/Getty Images After months of being empty, shelves are finally being restocked. That makes shoppers happ...

Citigroup Stock Just Got Downgraded Because Shares Might Have Peaked

Text size Citigroup shares are down more than 10% so far in 2022 Mario Tama/Getty Images Citigroup was downgraded by Credit Suisse after the stock’s recent rise on the view that it won’t go much highe...

Toyota Is Cutting Car Production Again. It’s Bad News for Inflation.

Text size A scene from a Toyoya production line in India. Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg Global car production has been hampered for months because of a plethora of supply-chain and logistics issues. Investor...

Avoiding Recession May Require Moving the Inflation Goal Post

Fed chief Jerome Powell, shown at a May 4 press conference, has said the central bank remains committed to bringing inflation down to 2%. Al Drago/Bloomberg Text size Signs of economic weakness are pi...

Snowflake Stock Looks Like a Buy

Text size Snowflake went public on the New York Stock Exchange in September 2020. The stock more than doubled on its first day of trading. Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock It’s been more than 600 days since...

7 Beaten-Up Tech Stocks That Could Be Bargains

Text size Meta Platforms’ advertising business has faced challenges from TikTok and Apple’s privacy changes. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg This year has been brutal for U.S. stocks, but that...

Palantir Unveils Partnership With Waste-Industry Software Provider Rubicon

Text size Rubicon is going public via a merger with the special-purpose acquisition company Founder SPAC. Photograph by Ignat Kushanrev The data analytics giant Palantir Technologies is moving into cr...

Canopy Growth Stock Is Falling as Earnings Disappoint Wall Street

Text size Canopy Growth reported a 36% drop in revenue from Canadian recreational cannabis sales compared with the same quarter a year ago. Chris Roussakis/Bloomberg Canopy Growth stock is plummeting ...

Stocks to Buy Now: Alphabet, Facebook, and 4 More Bargains

When the stock market gets pounded, bargains abound—or so it seems. But in a bear market, the key to investing success is separating the thoughtlessly discarded from the overpriced junk. With about tw...

Rivian Might Be Shaking Up Management. That Isn’t Why Investors Are Excited.

Text size Rivian stock has been rebounding after taking a beating for most of the month. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Rivian Automotive is shaking up its production plans and management. “We have upda...

Dividend Stocks With the Biggest Payout Ratios Outperform Buybacks

For more than 20 years, stocks with strong dividend payout ratios have acquitted themselves well against two important groups: companies that pay less of their earnings in dividends and firms that rep...

Broadcom Stock Has Gained on VMware Takeover. Its Dividend Could Rise 20%.

Text size Truist analyst William Stein calculates that Broadcom could raise its dividend by over 20% this year. Remus Rigo/Dreamstime.com The stock market has had a mixed reaction to Broadcom ’s inten...

After 2 stormy years of ‘moonshot’ house prices, don’t hold out hope for a major correction. Why COVID-era property values may be here to stay.

There is hope for first-time buyers looking to enter the U.S. housing market, but observers say they will have to be patient. After a two-year surge in home prices during the COVID-19 pandemic, the ho...