Cash Flow Will Be Key in 2023 for Ford, GM, and Tesla Investors

Headed into 2023, automotive investors have a lot to worry about including rising interest rates, vehicle affordability, car pricing, supply chains, inventories, and, of course, the possibilities of a...

Are Warren Buffett’s Investment Aides Beating the Stock Market?

Todd and Ted may be having a tough year in the stock market. Todd Combs and Ted Weschler each were hired by Berkshire Hathaway (ticker: BRK/A, BRK/B) CEO Warren Buffett more than a decade ago to manag...

Tesla Stock Just Keeps Falling. The ‘Chart’ Is in Control.

Tesla stock was weak again despite the likelihood CEO Elon Musk will step down as head of Twitter, and earnings estimates for 2023 are staying remarkably stable. Investors are scrambling. They can’t, ...

Ford Stock Falls. A $1.7 Billion Truck-Rollover Trial Is a Distraction.

Ford Motor has a legal hearing set to start Monday related to a product liability case that resulted in a $1.7 billion punitive award against the auto maker. Investors seem to be a little nervous abou...

Barron’s 10 Top Stock Picks for 2023

The stock market is coming off its worst year since 2008, but it was finally a good year for value investing—and it was a good year for Barron’s favorite picks, as well.  Every December for the past 1...

Tesla’s Elon Musk Has a Finance Lesson For Investors. They Disagree.

There is little time off for investors following Tesla these days. The weekend before Christmas is no exception. In the past couple of days, there have been more tweets about the electric-vehicle make...

Barron’s 10 Favorite Stocks for 2023

The stock market is coming off its worst year since 2008, but it was finally a good year for value investing—and it was a good year for Barron’s favorite picks, as well.  Every December for the past 1...

The Next U.S. Energy Revolution Is Here

Until now, the U.S. clean-energy revolution has been imported. Other countries make almost all of the batteries, solar panels, and critical chemicals used in America. But the revolution is starting to...

Tesla Stock Has Cost Musk $200 Billion. Here’s Who, and What, to Blame.

The drop in Tesla stock has cost investors and CEO Elon Musk a huge amount of money. As the end of the year approaches, investors—and maybe even Musk—should consider how it happened. On Monday, Tesla ...

GM Has a New Business: Fixing Tesla EVs.

General Motors said something surprising at its investor day in New York City on Thursday. Fixing Teslas is a growing business for the 114 year-old auto maker. That’s right. GM (ticker: GM) dealers ar...

Intel Left In The Lurch As Industrial Manufacturers Switch To Custom Chips

Semiconductors are a modern marvel. The idea something so small can also be so powerful is … [+] mind-blowing. Bettmann Archive One of the biggest trends that nobody is talking about is the race...

5 Jobs Which Could Be Taken By Artificial Intelligence In The Next 10 Years

(Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images) Getty Images Key Takeaways AI has well and truly hit the mainstream, with startups touting its potential to disrupt almost every industry imaginable. There’s no doub...

The Fisker Ocean Is a Reality. Why It’s Not Just Another EV.

Today is the day, the day when production of the all-electric Fisker (ticker: FSR) Ocean SUV begins. Fisker is not Tesla It’s a small EV start-up that will only deliver a handful of cars in 2022, but ...

Elon Musk Complains of High Workload After Twitter Takeover

Elon Musk said he has “too much work” as the chief executive of both Twitter and Tesla as he undertakes mass layoffs and grapples with an advertising backlash at the social-media company.   “I am real...

What the Stock Market and the Midterm Elections Have Common.

Investing and politics go together about as well as mango chutney and burned hair, and we prefer to focus on the stocks and leave the pontificating about the state of the nation to the Beltway pundits...

Market Losses Can Reduce Your Tax Bill for Years. Here’s How.

This year’s market mayhem could shave your tax bill for years to come. With just weeks to go, 2022 is poised for steep negative annual returns in both stocks and bonds, a correlated collapse that has ...

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...

Carvana, Dealers Show Risks of Deflation. Ford, GM Investors Should Watch Out.

Text size A Carvana car-vending machine in Huntington Beach, Calif., in 2019. Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images Why buy now if prices are going to be lower tomorrow? That isn’t a question U.S. consumers h...

Twitter Has a Lot of Debt. It’s Not an Issue for Tesla—Yet.

Twitter has a new, consolidated debt of $18.5 billion. Win McNamee/Getty Images Text size Elon Musk had a bad weekend and that could pose problems for Twitter—and, by extension, Tesla stock.  Musk’s f...

XPeng Stock Plunges After Rare Double-Downgrade

Shares for Chinese electric vehicle maker XPeng have just been hammered in 2022—and they dropped even more Friday after a once-bullish analyst said to sell the stock. Citi analyst Jeff Chung doubled-d...

Ford Earnings Are Coming. What To Expect.

Third-quarter results from Ford Motor are due after the close of trading Wednesday. They should tell investors something about the state of the U.S. auto industry. Wall Street is looking for third-qua...

Coca-Cola And General Motors Both Beat Estimates In Q3 Earnings Results

Coca-Cola beat Wall Street analysts Q3 estimates by 8.34%. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Getty Images Key takeaways General Motors have had a big Q3, beating earnings per share estimates by ...

A Look At Some Of The Earnings Coming The Week Of October 24

Wall Street and Broad Street signs, color toning applied, New York City, USA. getty On the earnings front, I’m spoiled for choice this week as a truckload of companies are expected to weigh in. That’s...

Foxconn Unveils EVs. The Apple iPhone Maker Is Pushing Into the Car Business.

Not all car companies want to build their own vehicles anymore. The reason is that they don’t have to. Tuesday, the contract manufacturer Hon Hai Precision Industry (Taiwan), an Apple (ticker: AAPL) i...

Goldman Sachs Reports Earnings Today. Everyone Is Watching For This.

Goldman Sachs Group is the last of the big banks to post third-quarter earnings but Wall Street is more concerned over the investment bank’s bigger plans. Over the last few weeks reports have noted th...

Tesla Could Be a ‘Zombie Stock’ as Interest Rates Rise

A longtime pessimist about Tesla says the shares could be headed for what he calls “zombie stock” territory. David Trainer, CEO of stock research firm New Constructs, who wrote in August 2013 that Tes...

General Motors Launches New GM Energy Business Unit To Focus On EV Ecosystem Integration

General Motors is launching a new GM Energy business unit to provide bidirectional charging, fleet … [+] charging management and stationary storage General Motors Transportation requires much mo...

Ford’s EV Sales Nearly Tripled in September. The Stock Is Surging.

Ford Motor   sales fell 9% in September but electric-vehicle sales almost tripled with the auto maker’s F-150 Lightning remaining the best-selling EV pickup truck in the U.S. The automaker said total ...

General Motors EV Bolt Sales Set a Record

General Motors investors got some good news Monday. The auto giant is making headway selling electric vehicles even before GM rolls out new models designed to boost EV sales even further. Monday, GM (...

Ford Stock Is Still a Buy, Despite Supply Issues. Here’s Why.

Ford’s truck business is one heck of a business. Courtesy Ford Text size Ford Motor stock tumbled this past week after the company warned of continued parts shortages, but Wall Street doesn’t seem wor...

Ford’s Big Earnings Warning Is Really Good News. Just Ask Wall Street.

Text size There is a silver lining in Ford’s ugly update for the third quarter of 2022. Leon Neal/Getty Images Ford Motor said a lack of parts and inflation would leave it with a third- quarter ...

The Shift To EVs Requires A Massive Expansion Of Battery Metal Mining

Electric cars charging in Berlin, Germany. Getty Images The ongoing transition away from fossil fuels will likely trigger shortages of some key metals used in electric vehicle batteries requiring hund...