EU Shipowners Race to Move Russian Oil Before Sanctions Kick In

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What to Buy Right Now: 42 Picks From Barron’s Roundtable Pros

To everything there is a season: A time to hide in a bunker with a crash helmet on as stock and bond prices plummet, and a time to wade cautiously into the market in search of newly created bargains. ...

California Truckers Struggle to Comply With New Employment Law

Trucking companies and truck owner-operators are scrambling to figure out how to operate under a new California law that toughens definitions of nonemployee drivers, upending decadeslong practices tha...

Taiwan Semi Boosts Revenue Forecast After Topping Earnings Estimates

Text size Photograph by Sam Yeh/AFP/Getty Images Strong demand from auto makers and consumer goods giants helped Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing raise revenue forecasts for the year and beat second...

Taiwan Semi shares rise after earnings, sales beat forecasts

Shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. rose on Thursday after the third-party silicon wafer manufacturer reported forecast-beating earnings and sales in its June-ending quarter. TSMC TSM, +2...

Fed Up With China, One Boss Tries Removing It From the Supply Chain

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UPS’ Carol Tomé: Barron’s Top CEOs 2022

Carol Tomé, CEO of UPS Courtesy of UPS Text size Not all volume is good volume, says Carol Tomé, a former Home Depot executive who came out of retirement to run UPS two years ago. She sold the company...

Oil Tanker Is Stopped by U.S. in Transit From Russian Port to New Orleans

U.S. authorities have stopped a ship traveling from Russia to Louisiana with a cargo of fuel products, say people familiar with the matter. The Daytona tanker is owned by Greek shipowner TMS Tankers L...

Why UPS Stock Could Be a Winner. Margins Are Improving.

Text size UPS CEO Carol Tome.. (Photo by JIM WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Until recently, United Parcel Service operated a little like the New York Yan...

Stock Market Closed for Juneteenth, June Economic Data, and More to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed on Monday in observance of Juneteenth. There will be a handful of earnings reports, annual shareholders meetings, and economic-data rele...

FedEx’s Dividend Hike Stands Out

Text size FedEx trucks at a sorting facility Justin Sullivan/Getty Images FedEx grabbed the headlines this week for dividend announcements, declaring an increase of more than 50% to its quarterly payo...

FedEx Raises Dividend, Stock Jumps 9%. Is ‘New Day Dawning?’

FedEx stock is soaring after the company announced a dividend increase. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Text size FedEx stock was soaring after the delivery company raised its dividend and said it would ad...

Opinion: As tech melts down, a truth remains: Semiconductors are eating the world

Everyone’s favorite trade in the stock market, technology, has gone the way of the dodo. Oil and value stocks are all the rage. But one part of technology — semiconductors — is vital not only to the t...

NIO Has Good News for Tesla. Production Is Recovering After Covid-19 Lockdowns.

Text size Shares of electric-vehicle maker NIO are down 25% since the end of March. Lintao Zhang/Getty Images Chinese Covid-19 lockdowns have hurt electric-vehicle sales and production since late Marc...

Buy Genco Shipping & Trading Stock. The Shipping Company Is About to Pay a 14% Dividend Yield.

The shipping industry is undeniably cyclical, a feature that has kept away legions of investors burned by too many sudden downturns with no clear pattern of recovery. But for Genco Shipping & Trad...

Opinion: Which jobs have come back, and which ones haven’t

Although the recovery in output, wealth and hours worked has been remarkable since February 2020, the U.S. economy remains deeply scarred by the COVID-19 pandemic. Total hours worked in the nonfarm ec...

Billionaire George Kaiser’s Bank Drills Deeper Into the Oil Patch

Banks all over the U.S. and around the world have curtailed lending to the U.S. oil-and-gas sector. BOK Financial Corp. BOKF 1.09% has doubled down. The Tulsa, Okla.-based bank holding company for the...

The Future of Transportation Is a Lot More Than Tesla. How to Invest.

We once thought the future of transportation meant George Jetson’s flying car. Instead, we got Elon Musk’s Tesla—the company and the electric car—whose twin successes jolted the global automotive indu...

Chinese Tech Giants Quietly Retreat From Doing Business With Russia

HONG KONG—Chinese tech companies are quietly pulling back from doing business in Russia under pressure from U.S. sanctions and suppliers, despite calls by Beijing for companies to resist overseas coer...

Opinion: Have semiconductor companies’ performance decoupled from the economy? Taiwan Semi earnings say yes, but we’ll get a clearer picture soon

Sentiment around technology and growth has sunk as rising interest rates, persistent inflation and a less accommodative Federal Reserve have sent investors running for safer bets. Although the fourth ...

These 20 highly rated stocks are expected to rise at least 70% over the next year

A sliding stock market means many companies are on sale, which spells opportunity for investors with investment horizons of several years. A list of the most favored names among analysts, along with c...

Why consider the Dow transports when they point to a slowing economy? Because these 7 stocks are cheap

The Dow Jones Transportation Average has long been considered a good forward indicator of the direction of the U.S. economy. With early signs that an economic slowdown is coming, this might be an obvi...

Rivian CEO Warns of Looming Electric-Vehicle Battery Shortage

NORMAL, Ill.—Rivian Automotive Inc. Chief Executive RJ Scaringe is warning that the auto industry could soon face a looming shortage of battery supplies for electric vehicles—a challenge that he says ...

Inflation is raging, but these 16 companies have pricing power

Decades of deflationary forces that helped feed booming prices for U.S. stocks are over, at least for now. But some companies are countering the trend, by a combination of holding down expenses and ra...

The end of one-chip wonders: Why Nvidia, Intel and AMD’s valuations have experienced massive upheaval

It wasn’t too long ago that Intel Corp. was the unquestioned king of U.S. chip makers and the largest semiconductor company by market capitalization. It’s also not long since most computing was done w...

China’s Nio halts EV production as COVID lockdowns disrupt its supply chain

Nio Inc., the China-based electric-vehicle maker, over the weekend warned of delivery delays after suspending production due to COVID-19 restrictions that have disrupted its supply chain. “There will ...

UPS Stock Is Down For a Seventh Straight Day. Here’s Why.

Text size UPS stock is on a seven-day losing streak. Alex Wong/Getty Images   United Parcel Service stock is on an ignominious streak, falling for seven consecutive days. There hasn’t been much compan...

Tesla Deliveries Rose in Quarter Elon Musk Calls Exceptionally Difficult

Tesla Inc. vehicle deliveries rose in the first quarter, but missed Wall Street expectations as the company struggled with global supply-chain disruptions and a brief Covid-19 shutdown at its Shanghai...

China’s Bet on Sending Its Exports Through Russia Hits Setback

Sanctions imposed on Russia are disrupting China’s ambitions to move more exports to Europe, a setback for the $4 trillion effort championed by Chinese leader Xi Jinping to cement his country as the w...

Opinion: I’ve always pounded the table on revolutionary companies. Now I’ve found myself buying Intel’s stock

This may be a surprise for those of you who have been following me on MarketWatch, as I have focused on finding Revolutionary companies early on and holding on to them, usually forever. Intel is a com...

The Boeing 737 Crash Isn’t Worrying the Market. How We Know.

Text size A China Eastern Airlines Corp. passenger aircraft at Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg A plane crash in China has clearly shaken investor confidence in Boeing . S...