Delta Might Buy 737 MAX Jets. That Would Be a Big Win for Boeing.

Text size Delta shares are down about 28% from their 52-week highs. Investors are waiting for air traffic to recover from the pandemic. Yuki Iwamura/AFP via Getty Images Delta Air Lines is considering...

Berkshire Hathaway Stock Sets a Record. Buffett Can Thank Occidental, Not Apple.

Text size Shares of Berkshire Hathaway, led by Warren Buffett, hit an all-time high. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc The Sage of Omaha just can’t keep his hands off Occidental Petroleum ...

‘Where should I live and what am I going to do?’ Retirement advice we’re not getting from financial advisers

Retirement is one of the Top 10 most stressful life events, according to the psychiatrists Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe. As someone who recently began unretirement (or semiretirement), I concur. But...

Alibaba and JD.com Stocks Fall Back After Historic Gains. What Comes Next?

Text size Alibaba stock notched its best-ever one-day gains on Wednesday. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg Investors in Chinese stocks, long-accustomed to pain, have just seen an astonishing turnaround. What come...

GameStop Earnings Are Today. Don’t Expect to Learn Much About Its New Strategy.

Text size Wall Street analysts expect GameStop to report fourth-quarter sales of $2.16 billion Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images GameStop is set to report fiscal fourth-quarter earnings after the marke...

Tesla, EV Stock Valuations Make No Sense. Time to Recalibrate.

Text size A man plugs in his electric vehicle for charging Jacques Demarthon/AFP via Getty Images Wild trading, due to a plethora of issues, has made it nearly impossible to track valuation of electri...

Berkshire Hathaway Again Boosts Its Stake in Occidental Petroleum

Text size Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Berkshire Hathaway continued to add to its large stake in Occidental Petroleum in recent days and now holds a $7.2 billio...

American Airlines stock surges toward biggest gain in more than a year after carrier raises revenue outlook

Shares of airline operators enjoyed a broad rally Tuesday, after a number of major carriers raised their revenue guidance, and as a further pullback in crude oil prices helped soothe concerns over ris...

Drone Maker’s Stock Jumps On U.S. Assistance to Ukraine

Text size An AeroVironment drone. Most of the company’s business is in defense. Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg Stock in the defense supplier AeroVironment is jumping Wednesday as President Joe Bide...

Lockheed Martin Stock Dips After Report U.S. Is Buying Fewer F-35s Jets

Text size The U.S. military has ordered some 2,400 F-35 jets. Above, F-35C Lightning II planes based in California fly in formation. Shannon E. Renfroe/ Navy Public Affairs Support Element West / Lock...

Tesla Plant Halted by Covid. The Stock Rises Because There Also Is Good News.

Text size An aerial view of Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory. Xiaolu Chu/Getty Images Tesla is halting production at its Shanghai plant for a couple of days. It isn’t because of parts shortages. Tes...

Saudi Arabia Considers Accepting Yuan Instead of Dollars for Chinese Oil Sales

Saudi Arabia is in active talks with Beijing to price some of its oil sales to China in yuan, people familiar with the matter said, a move that would dent the U.S. dollar’s dominance of the global pet...

GE Shows Why Stock Buybacks Aren’t Always as Good as Dividends

Text size GE’s net debt now amounts to 2.5 times Ebitda, compared with an average of 2 times for industrial companies in the S&P 500. Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images News that General Elec...

AMC stuns investors with investment in gold and silver mine as it puts $1.8 billion war chest to work

AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. surprised investors Tuesday with the news of an investment in a gold and silver mine that is well outside of its core cinema business. The company is buying 22% of Hycr...

Alibaba Stock Is Really Hurting. Why It Might Not Bounce Back Any Time Soon.

Text size Shares of Alibaba have notched massive declines. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images Investors in Alibaba are used to pain. But the stock is really hurting this time, with it on track for a 27% ...

Chinese EV Stocks NIO, XPeng and Li Auto Sink Again. What’s Wrong? Everything.

Text size LI Auto via Weibo Shares of U.S.-listed Chinese electric-vehicle producers were tumbling again Monday, leaving shareholders reeling. A couple of issues seem to loom larger in investors’ mind...

Ford Stock Is Down For a Very Odd Reason. No, Production Guidance Wasn’t Cut.

Auto investor nerves are frayed as they deal with Russia, inflation and the persistent chip shortage. Scott Olson/Getty Images Text size Automotive News incorrectly reported over the weekend that Ford...

Nokia stock rallies after Raymond James says it’s OK to buy now

The U.S.-listed shares of Nokia Corp. got a boost Monday, after Raymond James analyst Simon Leopold upgraded the Finland-based network infrastructure company, citing an improving competitive position ...

Tesla Stock Drops Again as Issues Start to Pile Up

Text size Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Patrick Pleul – Pool/Getty Images Tesla shares are lower again, adding to Friday’s significant decline, as investors weigh the impact of another tweet from CEO Elo...

Intel’s Lagging Notebook Shipments Are ‘Yellow Flag,’ Analyst Says

Text size Intel Dreamstime Intel ’s notebook shipments may struggle in the near term, adding further pressure to a stock that has traded lower this year, according to analysts at Citi. Notebook shipme...

8 Companies That Raised Their Stock Dividends This Week

Text size Colgate-Palmolive raised its stock dividend this week. Rene Van Den Berg/Dreamstime.com Colgate-Palmolive , Dick’s Sporting Goods , and Applied Materials were among the large U.S. companies ...

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Now Holds $6.9 Billion of Occidental Petroleum After Recent Buys

Text size Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Berkshire Hathaway continued its aggressive purchases of the shares of Occidental Petroleum this week, lifting its stake...

Dow books fifth straight week of losses as Biden says allies trying to avoid World War III

U.S. stocks closed lower Friday, with all three major benchmarks booking another week of losses, after President Joe Biden called for a suspension of normal trade relations with Russia as part of sanc...

GE Builds 350-Ton Turbines at Its Power Facilities. Here’s What We Found on a Tour.

Text size 7HA.03 gas turbine in GE’s Greenville, S.C., factory. Courtesy GE Power General Electric led a tour of one of its South Carolina gas power facilities as part of its Investor Day on Thursday—...

The world’s largest asset manager and a big bond fund are reported to be early losers from the war in Ukraine

As Wall Street assesses the damage to balance sheets resulting from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the world’s largest asset manager and a big bond fund are reported to be early losers. BlackRock BLK, ...

Norway’s Central Bank Sells Apple Stock. It Bought Nvidia, Plug Power, and NIO.

Text size The iPhone 13 displayed at the Fifth Avenue Apple Store Spencer Platt/Getty Images Norway’s central bank recently trimmed its exposure to iPhones, and increased investments in the ecosystem ...

XPeng Launches New EV in Europe. It’s Low-Priced Competition for Tesla Model 3.

Text size Xpeng P5 Courtesy Xpeng Chinese electric-vehicle maker XPeng is pushing further into Europe, selling another vehicle model in multiple countries. The coming car is XPeng’s new, low-priced se...

EBay CEO outlines new digital wallet, storage facility as part of long-term strategy

It was a coming out of sorts for eBay Inc. CEO Jamie Iannone at the company’s investor day on Thursday. In his first meeting with analysts since taking over the top spot at eBay EBAY, -4.39% nearly tw...

NIO Stock Trading Debut in Hong Kong Ends With a Thud

Text size Pedestrians walk past a Nio Inc. showroom in Beijing, China Qilai Shen/Bloomberg Stock in Chinese electric-vehicle maker NIO is now listed on two stock exchanges: The New York Stock Exchange...

GE’s Power Business Is Its Most Complicated. It Also Holds the Most Potential.

Text size A General Electric wind turbine Sebastien Bozon/AFP via Getty Images Thursday, General Electric management took investors on a deep dive into its embattled power business at an analyst event...

Buy FMC Stock. It Looks Ready to Rally on Flush Farmers and Sustainable Products.

FMC could benefit from rising prices for agricultural commodities and a sharpening focus on sustainable crop-protection solutions. Here, tiered farms in the Philippines. Courtesy FMC Text size Soaring...

Capital Gains and Dividend Tax Rates for 2021-2022

Investors with taxable accounts—as opposed to tax-favored retirement accounts such as individual retirement accounts or 401(k)s—are often eligible for lower tax rates and other benefits. When an inves...