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Baidu Stock Jumps Even as Earnings Miss Estimates. There Are Big Things to Like.
Text size Like its peers in the Chinese tech sector, Baidu faces macroeconomic headwinds. Liu Jin/AFP via Getty Images A growing cloud computing and artificial intelligence business at Baidu helped th...
PepsiCo Stock Drops Because Russia Is a Key Market
Text size PepsiCo leads Coca-Cola in Russia. Scott Olson/Getty Images PepsiCo stock took a hit Monday on apparent investor concerns about its exposure to Russia, its second-largest international marke...
Novavax’s Revenue Falls Short. Management Expects a Surge.
Text size A doctor handles a vial holding a potential coronavirus vaccine at a Novavax lab in 2020. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images The Covid-19 vaccine maker Novavax expects sales of b...
ECB says Russia bank subsidiary likely to fail
FRANKFURT, Germany — An Austria-based subsidiary of Russia’s state-owned Sberbank RU:SBER has been ruled likely to fail after depositors fled due to the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Eur...
BP to Exit 20% Stake in Russia’s Rosneft
Russia’s aggressions in Ukraine prompted reactions from companies such as BP and United Parcel Service as well as Norway’s sovereign wealth fund as the world continues to raise pressure on President V...
Home Building Stocks Are Ultracheap, Analyst Says. Investors Are Catching On.
Home building stocks now are “dirt cheap,” according to one Wall Street analyst, and investors are beginning to take notice. Stephen Kim, the home building analyst at Evercore ISI, wrote in a client ...
Ford CEO Shuts Down EV Spinoff Rumors. The Ford Family Won’t Let It Happen.
Ford Motor CEO Jim Farley told investors Wednesday there were no plans to spin off his company’s electric vehicle business. That shouldn’t be a surprise. The Ford family is unlikely to ever let an EV ...
Look to the Energy Patch for a Dividend Bonanza. Devon Energy and Pioneer Natural Resources Look Good.
What was already going to be a challenging year for investors was further disrupted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But in a market that has been lacking in certainty, income investors may want to ta...
Warren Buffett: Berkshire Hathaway Paid 1% of All U.S. Corporate Tax Receipts
Berkshire Hathaway has the largest amount of domestic infrastructure assets of any American company and paid $3.3 billion in federal taxes in 2021—or nearly 1% of all corporate tax receipts—CEO Warren...
Covid-19 Vaccine Makers Face a New Rival as GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi Prepare to Enter the Ring
As new Covid-19 cases fall, the postpandemic vaccine market grows more interesting. On Wednesday, GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi, two of the world’s largest vaccine makers, said they would submit a Covid ...
Bill Gates Bought Up More of This Waste-Management Stock
Waste-management company Republic Services has been down in the dumps this year, but its largest shareholder, Bill Gates, just bought more shares. Republic Services stock (ticker: RSG) has slid 14% ye...
My mom cosigned student loans for my now-disabled sister. How can we repay them?
How to get out of student loan debt. Getty Images/iStockphoto Question: My mom cosigned my sister’s student loan for her online school, but life got in the way for my sister and because of her mental ...
Li Auto Posts Second Straight Quarterly Profit. The Stock Is Rising.
Text size Li Auto ONE Courtesy of Li Auto Chinese electric-vehicle maker Li Auto reported a profitable fourth quarter even as the company ramped up spending on vehicle development. The results looked ...
As BP Exits Russia, Other Oil Companies Face Risks Too
Text size Shell has a big stake in a Russian liquefied natural gas project. Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images Oil companies haven’t been this financially strong in decades. They also haven’t been as politi...