If this stock market is shaping up like 2008, here’s where we could be headed next, says strategist

Those looking for a bit of good news to start the week may have to cast the net further out. Stocks are tilting lower as COVID-19 cases flare up in China, threatening more lockdowns. And the plate was...

Bed Bath & Beyond Insiders Scooped Up Stock After an Awful Quarter

Text size Bed Bath and Beyond insiders snapped up shares of the home-goods retailer. Erin Cadigan/Dreamstime.com Everything but the kitchen sink has seemed to go wrong at Bed Bath & Beyond , but t...

Fed Up With China, One Boss Tries Removing It From the Supply Chain

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Coal Is on Its Way Out, Despite Supreme Court EPA Ruling

Text size A NextEra Energy wind farm in Whitewater, Calif. Bing Guan/Bloomberg The U.S. utility industry’s shift from coal and toward renewables likely will be unaffected by a recent Supreme Court rul...

T-Mobile US’ Mike Sievert: Barron’s Top CEOs 2022

Mike Sievert, CEO of T-Mobile US Courtesy of T-Mobile US Text size The telecom industry has been the province of sleepy corporate giants weighed down by lackluster growth and failed deals. Following i...

Big Banks Report Earnings This Week. Here’s What Wall Street is Watching.

Text size CEO Brian Moynihan says Bank of America is always prepared for a recession because it has no choice but to be ready, Davis Turner/Getty Images The big banks start to report their earnings th...

Reddit Traders Haven’t Given Up on GameStop. Neither Have Short Sellers.

Text size GameStop announced a stock split, a CFO departure, and layoffs this week. Spencer Platt/Getty Images GameStop was back in the news this week after the company announced a stock split, a CFO ...

Twitter Faces Renewed Questions on Path Ahead as Elon Musk Tries to Abandon Deal

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Cryptocurrency Is Coming to Your Credit Cards

Cryptocurrencies are a volatile investment today, but card companies including Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc. are betting crypto will one day be used routinely for everyday purchases from food to cloth...

Crypto Rout Deflates Some Web3 Startups Buoyed by Push Into Digital Tokens

The cryptocurrency rout has spread to startups that offer users digital tokens, pushing down digital asset prices and driving away hordes of users. The startups—part of what has been called Web3—allow...

These money and investing tips can help you hit the market’s curveballs

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 These dividend stocks are reco...

Will earnings season trigger another leg lower for the Dow? Investors hunt for recession clues

Stock-market investors just can’t get off the merry-go-round this summer. A stronger-than-expected U.S. June jobs report on Friday calmed fears that the economy might have already slipped into recessi...

Strike at Machinery Maker CNH Industrial Grinds On as Talks Stall

Negotiations between CNH Industrial NV and the equipment maker’s striking workers have hit a stalemate, deepening supply-chain problems with farm and construction equipment. Bargaining sessions betwee...

American Weed Stocks Are Cheap and About to Get a Sales Bump

The AdvisorShares Pure US Cannabis ETF is down 25% in the past month, while the S&P 500 dropped 7%. Courtesy of Trulieve Text size However bad the year has been for most stocks, it’s been especial...

Kraft Heinz’s Miguel Patricio: Barron’s Top CEOs 2022

Miguel Patricio, CEO of Kraft Heinz Courtesy of Kraft Heinz Text size This month marks the seventh anniversary of the merger that created Kraft Heinz . The deal, led by Warren Buffett and Brazil’s 3G ...

Exxon Mobil’s Darren Woods: Barron’s Top CEOs 2022

Darren Woods is CEO of Exxon Mobil Christopher Pike/Bloomberg Text size Empty roads presented a clear problem for a company in the business of pulling oil out of the ground and turning it into fuel. B...

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella: Barron’s Top CEOs 2022

Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft Courtesy Microsoft Text size Under Satya Nadella, Microsoft has solidified its dominance in several key software categories, including office-productivity subscriptions...

Miami’s Gold Rush: Finance Firms and Crypto Move In, Bringing Strains

From his new office in Miami Beach, real-estate investor Barry Sternlicht is only steps from the ocean. His waterfront mansion is just a short drive away. Cold winters and state income taxes are a thi...

D.R. Horton’s David V. Auld: Barron’s Top CEOs 2022

David V. Auld is CEO of D.R. Horton Courtesy of D.R. Horton Text size America has a big housing shortage, and no company is doing more to address it than D.R. Horton . Under David Auld’s leadership, t...

Nordstrom’s Erik Nordstrom: Barron’s Top CEOs 2022

Erik Nordstrom, CEO of Nordstrom Courtesy Text size A darling stock, Nordstrom isn’t. Hardly any of the roughly 20 analysts who cover it recommend buying the shares. The century-old retailer is perhap...

Prosecutors Say JPMorgan Traders Scammed Metals Markets by Spoofing

CHICAGO—JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s precious-metals traders consistently manipulated the gold and silver market over a period of seven years and lied about their conduct to regulators who investigated ...

Twitter Didn’t Seek a Sale. Now Elon Musk Doesn’t Want to Buy. Cue Strange Legal Drama.

Elon Musk’s showdown with Twitter has set the stage for what could become one of the most unusual courtroom battles in corporate-takeover history—a spurned acquisition target that never sought to be b...

American Weed Stocks Are Cheap, and About to Get a Sales Bump

The AdvisorShares Pure US Cannabis ETF is down 25% in the past month, while the S&P 500 dropped 7%. Courtesy of Trulieve Text size However bad the year has been for most stocks, it’s been real har...

Manufacturers Brace for Nord Stream Repairs, Fearing Pipeline Won’t Reopen

PARIS—European manufacturers are preparing for possible natural-gas rationing that would force them to shut production amid fears that Russia is about to cut off gas deliveries via its main artery to ...

Elon Musk Bails on Twitter: What It Means for the Stock

Text size Tesla CEO Elon Musk filed to end his $44 billion merger agreement with Twitter on July 8. POOL/AFP via Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s move to terminate his $44 billion deal to purchase T...

iHeart, Audacy, Clear Channel Stocks Fall on Forecast of Ad Market Slowdown

Text size Stock in iHeart has lost about two-thirds of its value so far this year. Jason Kempin/Getty Images for Clear Channel The prospect of an imminent economic recession has triggered a rush to th...

I’m the chief economist for a $5 billion real estate data and title company. Here are 5 things you need to know about the housing market now

Mark Fleming Housing has become increasingly unaffordable to millions of Americans — with home prices and mortgage rates continuing to rise (see the lowest rates you may qualify for now here). So – as...

GE Stock Gets a Big Cut but Investors Shrug It Off

Text size GE wind turbines. Sebastien Salom-Gomis/AFP via Getty Images The stock market is said to be forward looking. That seems to be the case headed into second-quarter-earnings season. Stocks are ...

Opinion: Medicare is broken — and not in the way you might think

For nearly every retiring American, Medicare is both universal and universally complex. Yet, Medicare is broken – and not in the way most people think.  Every few years, news organizations raise the a...

What Happened to the Twitter-Elon Musk Deal?

Elon Musk said he is seeking to terminate his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter nearly two months after saying the deal was “on hold” over his questions about the number of spam and fake accounts on the...

These companies hopped on the crypto train when times were booming. Which are exposed in a downturn?

During recent cryptocurrency booms, companies have been quick to jump on the trend, whether by reorienting their entire businesses around the buzzy theme, building meaningful crypto features alongside...

How you can avoid bond fund losses when rates rise

Bond funds that don’t lose money when interest rates rise? Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? Such funds do exist, and my guess is that right now you’d jump at the chance to invest in them. That’...