The 20 worst U.S. stocks in February: the biggest loser dropped 35%

Updated with month-end prices. The euphoria of January reversed in February, with broad declines for stocks across the board as interest rates continued to rise. Bond interest rates are more attractiv...

Tech execs can’t stop talking about AI after success of ChatGPT

The pace of artificial-intelligence chatter from executives is picking up after the success of ChatGPT, and it isn’t all from Big Tech. Big Tech companies like Microsoft Corp., Meta Platforms Inc., an...

Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google face earnings test amid Big Tech layoffs

In the biggest week of the holiday-earnings season, Big Tech results will receive the spotlight amid thousands of layoffs that could only be the beginning. After tech stocks were decimated in 2022, in...

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...

Buy Regal Rexnord Stock. The Industrial Company’s Shares Could Gain 40%.

Zigging when everyone is zagging can be a good strategy, even if it means some short-term pain. That appears to be the case with Regal Rexnord whose stock looks like a buy following a recent selloff. ...

Netflix, Workday, Costco, Caterpillar and more: These stocks are Cowen’s favorites for 2023

Across the market, Cowen & Co. analysts see undervalued stocks. They rolled out their individual best picks late in the week, highlighting their takes on compelling plays in healthcare, technology...

Dow on verge of a ‘golden cross,’ even as BlackRock predicts historic recession

Despite worries about inflation and an impending recession, there is at least one sign that some bullish market technical analysts might latch onto. An upbeat golden cross appears to be forming in the...

GE Stock Is Flying. Investors Should Be Careful.

This stock market is wild, and it’s been wild for longer than just Thursday’s massive move. Cyclical stocks have been on fire in the fourth quarter. The rally in many beaten-up names, unfortunately, l...

As China-U.S. Relations Cool, Reshoring Heats Up. Honeywell and Other Stocks That Should Benefit.

The gulf between the U.S. and China is widening, which could be good news for stocks benefiting from the reshoring of industries that migrated over the past 40 years. If President Xi Jinping’s consoli...

The Dow soars, Big Tech tumbles: What’s next for stocks as investors await Fed guidance

The past week offered a tale of two markets, with gains for the Dow Jones Industrial Average putting the blue-chip gauge on track for its best October on record while Big Tech heavyweights suffered a ...

Why the Dow is having a killer month as it heads for best October ever

The Dow Jones Industrial Average has been criticized by some market watchers for being a poor barometer of equity-market performance given its relatively small sample size of just 30 stocks. But this ...

Caterpillar’s Earnings Are Good and Sales Top Estimates. But the Stock Falls.

Text size Caterpillar’s earnings and sales in the second quarter beat Wall Street expectations. Bernd Lauter / AFP via Getty Images Caterpillar reported second-quarter numbers that beat Wall Str...

A ‘who’s who of American business’ — big Wall Street names are marking the end phase of the bear market, says adviser

The good news about this bear market in stocks is that we’re more than halfway through it. The bad news is that we’re getting close to the final stage, when “everything must fall.” That’s according to...

Caterpillar’s Headquarters Are Moving to Texas

Caterpillar has had a presence in Texas since the 1960s, according to the firm, but Illinois remains the largest concentration of Caterpillar employees. Dreamstime Text size Caterpillar is moving head...

Caterpillar to move headquarters to Texas from Illinois in fresh blow to the Chicago area

Caterpillar Inc. said Tuesday it will move its global headquarters from Illinois to an existing divisional office in Irving, Texas, in the Dallas–Forth Worth area, in another blow to metropolitan Chic...

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...

Boomers are leaving the stock market. Here’s what comes next, says this strategist.

Stocks are in the green for Thursday, with Facebook parent Meta Platforms in the driver’s seat after less disastrous than feared results. Gains are a bit less than what stock futures were promising th...

Six Dividend Stocks to Help Beat Inflation

The hot new investment theme isn’t socially nuanced crypto space finance or metaverse charging networks for virtual vehicles. It’s dividends—cash payments to shareholders. This year, U.S. equity divid...

Why did the stock market fall? Dow finishes nearly 1,000 points lower in worst day since October 2020

U.S. stocks fell sharply on Friday to suffer their biggest one-day drop since 2020, as investors continued to weigh hawkish comments on interest rates a day earlier by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome ...

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...

Yale professor is keeping tabs on companies still operating in Russia despite Ukraine invasion — and the list includes some household names

A Yale professor and his research team are keeping tabs on companies that are still operating in Russia in the wake of its invasion of neighboring Ukraine — and the list includes many household names....

Caterpillar stock suffers biggest selloff in more than a year as margin, cost disappointments offset big earnings beat

Shares of Caterpillar Inc. took a dive Friday, as surging costs and a disappointing outlook on profit margins overshadowed a big quarterly earnings beat. The construction and mining equipment company ...

What’s old is new again — the Dogs of the Dow are outperforming the stock market

The Dogs of the Dow strategy has been around awhile. It’s where investors pick the 10 stocks with the highest dividend yield in the Dow Jones Industrial Average at the end of the year, and invest equa...

Market Volatility Is Creating Opportunities for Stocks. What to Buy Now

The 2022 market was always going to be a tug of war between earnings and interest rates. Corporate profit growth fueled by the reopening has come up against contracting valuations and expectations of ...

Caterpillar Beats Earnings Estimates. Supply-Chain Issues Aren’t a Problem.

Text size A Caterpillar front loader is displayed on a mound of dirt Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Caterpillar shares were lower even after the company reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter numb...

These are the stocks Wall Street analysts heavily favor for 2022 and also expect to rise the most

As the coronavirus pandemic has stretched out, investors have continued to pour money into stocks, in part because the alternatives have been dismal. Why bother with 10-year U.S. Treasury bonds that y...

These are the best-performing S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 stocks of 2021

The performance of the stock market in 2021 has been nothing short of remarkable, surprising many investors after the dramatic crash-and-recovery cycle of 2020. A continuing recovery for the world eco...