AT&T’s Dividend-Loving Investors Are Dialing the Wrong Number

AT&T income-hungry shareholders should have seen it coming. In April last year, a month before announcing the spinoff of its media division to shareholders in the form of shares of a 71% stake in ...

Merck Looks Attractive, With or Without Seagen

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Exxon Skips Its Victory Lap

More than a year after an activist investor-led shake-up, Exxon Mobil has ticked a lot of boxes to endear itself to its shareholders. Now, the company is on a broader charm offensive. Exxon Mobil on F...

Target Inventory Warning Portends Retail Bloodbath

Target ’s inventory problem is turning out even worse than it expected just a short time ago. Its latest warning could portend a promotional bloodbath among retailers this summer. The retailer on Tues...

Altria’s Cigarette Addiction Is Becoming Unhealthier

For years tobacco companies have been fighting regulators more than each other. That might be about to change, and Altria MO -0.61% in particular needs a game plan. If Philip Morris International’s PM...

Why GM and Ford Stocks Have Driven Off Course

Are high gas prices and rising interest rates hitting demand for gas-guzzlers? Sales data don’t offer much of an answer these days, leaving investors to fear the worst. On Monday, Ford Motor reported ...

India’s Russian-Oil Buy: Red Flag or Red Herring?

Desperate times call for desperate measures. The adage may sum up India’s recent decision to buy discounted Russian oil. While it raised eyebrows in the West, the purchase at this time of soaring pric...

Intel Pays Up for Foundry Expertise

For anyone doubting Intel Corp.’s ambitions to make chips for others, the company’s acquisition of Tower Semiconductor should lay their doubts to rest. The deal reported by The Wall Street Journal lat...

Who Really Got Rich From the GameStop Revolution?

When Reddit became the rowdy center of the investing universe last January, its co-founder Alexis Ohanian called the frenzy a “revolution” and a “chance for Joe and Jane America, the retail buyers of ...