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What the rising probability of a ‘growth scare’ means for the stock market, according to Citigroup
Recession worries are working their way into equities, according to Citigroup. A “mild recession in 2023” could lead to a drop of about 20% for the S&P 500 index from its late March high of around...
Berkshire Hathaway Is Likely to Buy Alleghany. No Rival Bids Emerged.
Text size Alleghany’s noninsurance operations include a toy business and a steel fabricator. Dreamstime It looks like Berkshire Hathaway will succeed in buying the insurer Alleghany for $11.6 bi...
Oil Service Stocks Are Gaining Steam. These Are the Ones to Watch.
Text size Prices and margins are improving for companies like Haliburton. Dreamstime Oil services and equipment companies slimmed down after the last oil bust, and that’s left them looking lean as oil...
Southwest Gas Stock Soars. It’s Exploring a Sale and Other Alternatives.
Text size Flared natural gas being burned off. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Southwest Gas said Monday its board authorizedthe review of a full range of strategic alternatives, includinga sale of the com...
IBM Reports Earnings Tuesday. What to Expect.
Text size Wall Street projects IBM will post revenue of $13.8 billion for its first quarter. MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP via Getty Images When IBM reports first-quarter earnings on Tuesday, Wall Street will be ...
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 ...
Have fun AND retire rich — a great tax-refund life hack
For the 100 million of you who will get a tax refund this year, the former head of retirement solutions at J.P. Morgan has a great and very simple idea. Don’t spend all your refund. And don’t save all...
IBM Reports Earnings Tuesday. Wall Street Is Watching for Software Growth.
Text size Wall Street projects IBM will post revenue of $13.8 billion for its first quarter. MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP via Getty Images When IBM reports first-quarter earnings on Tuesday, Wall Street will be ...
‘The graveyard shift is the most understaffed:’ I work as a waiter on the Las Vegas Strip. We are overworked, underpaid, and our drunk customers often don’t tip
Dear Quentin, I currently work at a fast-casual restaurant on the Las Vegas Strip. I have worked at the company for three years. I work at the busiest outlet of this restaurant in the world. During t...
U.S. stock futures slip headed into big earnings week
U.S. stock-index futures fell Sunday, ahead of a big week of earnings reports. As of midnight Eastern, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures YM00, -0.16% futures were down about 80 points, or 0.2%, whi...
Decade-High Mortgage Rates Pose Threat to Spring Housing Market
U.S. housing sales are heating up again this spring, but the highest mortgage rates in more than a decade threaten to cool the sales pace that has gripped the market for nearly two years. Home sales r...
Tesla stockholders ask judge to silence Elon Musk in ‘funding secured’ fraud case
DETROIT — A group of Tesla shareholders suing CEO Elon Musk over some 2018 tweets about taking the company private is asking a federal judge to order Musk to stop commenting on the case. Lawyers for s...
Peloton Is Raising Its Subscription Price. What It Means for the Stock.
Text size Peloton XXX Ezra Shaw/Getty Images For years, Peloton Interactive executives characterized the company’s $39 a month subscription price point as “sacred,” “sacrosanct,” and “our golden goose...
Tesla, AT&T, Netflix, Bank of America, IBM, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week
Text size First-quarter earnings season picks up next week, with 67 S&P 500 companies scheduled to report. Bank of America will be Monday’s highlight, followed by Netflix , Johnson & Johnson ...
These money and investing tips are what you need when markets aren’t giving what you want
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Quest for Pricing Power Drives Stock Gains
Investors are on the hunt for companies with the magic words during any spell of inflation: pricing power. With consumer prices rising at their fastest pace in 40 years and stocks wobbly over the Fede...
When Quitting Normalizes, Benefit to Low-Wage Workers May Subside
Low-wage workers capitalized on the rare opportunity of a tight labor market with a burst of job-switching. That wave shows signs of easing now and economists say that, apart from a one-off rise in wa...
Opinion: Elon Musk’s bid for Twitter spells trouble for Tesla investors — here’s why
For years, Elon Musk has used hype to prop up Tesla’s stock. It’s worked so well that other companies have followed his lead. But now we think the world has seen that the emperor has no clothes. The a...
Utilities Plan Huge Electric Grid Upgrades, Adding to Power Bills
American utilities are planning their biggest spending increases in decades to upgrade aging grids, prepare for electric vehicles and make the transition to renewable energy—moves poised to further bo...
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...