BOISE, Idaho — Bell Semiconductor has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against computer chip maker Micron Technology. The lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court contends that Boise, Idaho-b...
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Apple stock swings to a loss after executives warn of billions in added costs
Apple Inc. topped earnings expectations and set a new record for March-quarter revenue to start 2022, but executives expect to see steeper pressure and billions in additional costs from challenges in ...
Not So Easy to Follow the 4% Rule in Retirement
April 26, 2022 12:19 pm ET Photo: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg News “It’s Time to Rethink 4% Retirement Rule” (Personal Journal, April 20) is fascinating, especially the revelation that Bill Bengen, now re...
Opinion: Berkshire and Buffett have 5 words for sellers who want their money: ‘Take it or leave it’
As fans flock this weekend to Omaha, Neb. for Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholders meeting hosted by Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett, you may be wondering what all the fuss is about. The answer: ...
Natural Gas Prices are Holding Up. Here’s Why.
Text size The Yamal-Europe pipeline from Russia has exit points in Wloclawek, Poland. The pipeline is a major source of Europe’s natural gas. Omar Marques/Getty Images Vladimir Putin’s decision ...
CEO reportedly laments red ink incurred from Air Force One deal as Boeing posts $1.2 billion first-quarter loss
Boeing said Wednesday that it lost $1.2 billion in the first quarter as it took large write-downs and lost money in both its civilian-airplane and defense businesses. The loss was bigger than Wall Str...
Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway are once again outperforming the stock market. Apple is one big reason but these other 10 stocks also helped
During the long, tech-driven bull market, you may have seen more than one article suggesting Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett’s investing style was no longer valid. With Buffett leading the congl...
Boeing Looked for Flaws in Its Dreamliner and Couldn’t Stop Finding Them
For years, Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration handled 787 Dreamliner deliveries as though the perfect was the enemy of the good. The FAA allowed the plane maker to deliver the wide-body je...
‘I’m spending a fortune on home maintenance. I realize my second husband is essentially living in my house for free’: What is a fair way to split costs?
I am a retired 62-year-old woman. I was widowed in 2006 at the age of 46 and raised my two children (now 24 and 27) on my own. I used my husband’s life insurance money (about $500,000) to maintain our...
Opinion: Why I don’t want bitcoin in my 401(k)
Hooray! At long last, the company managing my 401(k) plan will allow me to bet up to 20% of my retirement funds on a digital Ponzi scheme that generates no income and has no practical use. Fidelity In...
Poland and Bulgaria say Russia suspending natgas supplies over rubles
Officials in Poland and Bulgaria say Russia is suspending their countries’ natural gas deliveries starting on Wednesday. The governments of the two European countries said Tuesday that Russian energy ...
Poland says Russia warned that natgas supply will stop on Wednesday
Russia will halt natural gas flows to Poland on Wednesday in an escalation in the standoff between Moscow and Europe over energy supplies and the war in Ukraine, according to news reports Tuesday. Rus...
Alibaba Stock Drops to Its Lowest Level in 6 Years. Behind the Latest Fall.
Text size Shanghai has been under strict Covid-19 lockdowns since March. Dreamstime The worsening Covid-19 situation in China is weighing on the country’s stock market, with companies including Alibab...
The Fed’s Interest Rate Hikes Could Be Even Worse Than Feared
Text size Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Tom Williams/Pool/Getty Images Don’t fight the Fed has long been a Wall Street motto. But the nation’s central bank thus far has been a reluctant figh...
Stock Futures, Oil Prices and Chinese Shares Fall
U.S. stock futures fell, oil prices declined and Chinese stocks suffered their worst selloff in more than two years as Beijing sticks to its zero-Covid strategy while faced with increasing cases in ma...
Oil joins tumbling commodities as China COVID spread triggers fresh demand worries
Oil prices tumbled on Monday, amid fresh worries that spreading COVID cases and more lockdowns in China will hurt demand. That has added to concerns that Federal Reserve tightening could also weaken p...
Asian markets tumble amid worries about earnings, Fed rate hike
TOKYO — Asian shares declined Monday after U.S. stocks ended last week on a tumble as global markets’ expectations for higher interest rates continued to set the tone. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 NIK...
Saudi Royals Are Selling Homes, Yachts and Art as Crown Prince Cuts Income
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia—Saudi princes have sold more than $600 million worth of real estate, yachts and artwork in the U.S. and Europe since the kingdom’s de facto ruler tightened the purse strings of th...
Elon Musk Says Bill Gates has a $500 million short position in Tesla
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is irked at Bill Gates. He doesn’t see how Gates, a leading proponent of sustainable energy, could possibly sell Tesla’s stock short. And Musk says Gates is doing just that. In a t...
4 ETF ideas targeting clean water, wind, the smart grid — and a catch-all
For some investment advisers and stock-pickers, so-called green investing is far from just a feel-good move. There are population demographics, a private-public mandate to meet international greenhous...
These money and investing tips can be keys to success when stock and bond markets fail
Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Sign up here to get MarketWatch’s best mutual funds and ETF stories emailed to you weekly! INVESTING NEWS & TRENDS 4 Earth Day ETFs targeting cle...
Netflix and Disney Stocks Hit a Rough Patch. Don’t Count on a Quick Bounceback.
Netflix hasn’t done much wrong, despite a 35% plunge on quarterly results this past week, and a 22% one back in January. The company has convinced 222 million customers worldwide to hand it an average...
Opinion: There’s a big hole in the Fed’s theory of inflation—incomes are falling at a record 10.9% rate
The most concerning thing about Thursday’s report on U.S. gross domestic product for the first quarter wasn’t that the first line of the first table showed that real GDP fell at a 1.4% annual rate. It...