Axsome Therapeutics Stock Soars on Proposed FDA Labeling for Depression Drug

Text size Axsome is reviewing the proposed labeling from the FDA. Dreamstime Shares of Axsome Therapeutics were soaring Monday after the biopharmaceutical company announced some good news in an attemp...

Gensler labels bitcoin a ‘commodity’ as crypto prices stabilize

Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler said Monday that bitcoin BTCUSD, -0.24% was the only cryptocurrency he was prepared to publicly label a commodity, rather than a security, in a...

The Russian Default Is Less Worrisome Than It Appears. Keep Watching Oil.

A general view of the Kremlin, Red Square and St. Basil’s Cathedral in central Moscow. AFP via Getty Images Text size Russia’s first default on its foreign debt in more than 100 years is the lat...

Russian Gas Cuts Threaten World’s Largest Chemicals Hub

LUDWIGSHAFEN, Germany—For years, BASF SE one of the world’s largest chemicals companies, built its business model around cheap and plentiful Russian natural gas, which it uses to generate power and as...

Bosses Swear by the 90-Day Rule to Keep Workers Long Term

In the quest to retain workers, companies are sharpening their focus on a very specific common goal: 90 days. Hold on to an employee for three months, executives and human-resources specialists say, a...

Cruise Lines Can’t Duck Their Debt

Cruise ships, it seems, are like ducks—elegant and effortless above the water, fighting like crazy to stay afloat beneath. On the surface, the industry is finally steaming ahead after over a year at b...

Carvana Sought to Disrupt Auto Sales. It Delivered Undriveable Cars.

Terri Burton wanted to do something special to mark her son’s high school graduation, so she bought him the car of his youthful dreams: a Volkswagen Golf GTI. But the purchase was the start of a night...

Apollo’s Stock Is Expected to Rise. Here’s Why.

Apollo Global Management is the most misunderstood of the publicly traded alternative asset managers. But the stock could represent significant upside for those who wish to take a look, according to R...

Employees Scrambled to Keep Robinhood Afloat in January 2021 Meme-Stock Frenzy, House Report Finds

Robinhood Markets struggled to handle huge volumes of stock trading and sparred with its principal customer, market maker Citadel Securities, during the week in January 2021 when meme stocks exploded,...

Buy Starbucks Stock. Shares Could Be Ready to Run.

China’s economic slowdown is among the factors pressuring Starbucks shares. Above, dispensing coffee to customers on the go in Hangzhou. Long Wei/VCG/Getty Images Text size A sequel is seldom as good ...

Smith & Wesson stock soars as Supreme Court ruling boosts ‘pretty big’ part of gun maker’s business

Shares of Smith & Wesson Brands Inc. rallied again Friday, as better-than-expected earnings and a dividend hike followed a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States to strike down a New Y...

8 Home-building and Steel Stocks That Offer Substantial Value

Looking for the cheapest stocks in the market now? Two industries stand out: home builders and steel makers. Barron’s screened for the 10 stocks in the S&P 500 index, S&P Midcap 400, and S&...

Altria Shakes Off a Sell Rating and Gets an Upgrade

Text size Rising macroeconomic uncertainty contributed to a downgrade of Altria’s stock in early June. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images Altria Group stock was rising Friday after the tobacc...

How retirees should navigate this bear market

Here’s how best to play the market for the rest of 2022: Don’t look. I offer this advice not because I believe the bear market will continue—though of course it could. I would offer the same advice if...

Merck Pushes Forward With Potential Deal for Seagen

Merck & Co. is pushing forward with a potential deal for biotech Seagen Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be one of the largest takeovers of the year. The Wall Stre...

Spirit Airlines Sticks With Frontier Deal After Sweetened Offer

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Best and Worst Spots in the U.S. Housing Market, According to Lennar

Elias Stein Text size Jersey and Florida are hot. Austin and Seattle are not. On Tuesday, home builder Lennar ’s co-CEO Richard Beckwitt on an earnings call provided a tour of U.S. housing markets. “S...

High-Yield Bonds Are Looking Like Bargains After an Awful First Half

There are no bad bonds, only bad prices. So Dan Fuss, Loomis Sayles’ vice chairman, has often observed—a lesson gleaned from more than six decades of experience managing corporate bond portfolios. Aft...

Analysts see lowest grades for Bank of America and JPMorgan in Fed’s stress test

Bank of America Corp. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. emerged with the lowest marks among the overall passing grade for banks in the Fed’s annual stress test, analysts at Jefferies and Citigroup said Fri...

Pessimism on chip stocks is hitting a new high, and the money seems to be flowing toward software

The outlook for the semiconductor sector is moving from bad to worse, and investors appear to be moving their money into the software sector as a result. Pessimism about the future of the chip sector ...

GM Stock Has Been Hammered, Which Makes Owning a Piece of Its EV Future a Bargain

Text size GM has been showing off its Cadillac Lyriq SUV electric vehicle, priced like Tesla’s Model Y. Courtesy of Cadillac Inflation, rising interest rates, and recession fears have all conspired ag...

Polestar Shares Rise in Electric-Vehicle Maker’s Market Debut

Updated June 24, 2022 5:12 pm ET Listen to article (2 minutes) Shares in Polestar Automotive Holding UK PLC jumped 16% on their first day of trading Friday, after the Swedish electric-vehicle maker co...

EV Newcomer Polestar Stock Has a Big and Wild First Trading Day

Text size Thomas Ingenlath, CEO of Polestar AB, will run the new company. Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg The merger of the special-purpose acquisition company Gores Guggenheim and the electric-vehicle make...

Carnival Stock Surges as Second-Quarter Revenue Rises Sharply

Text size A large Carnival cruise ship docked at port in turquoise blue water. Dreamstine Shares of Carnival were rising Friday after the cruise line posted second-quarter revenue that rose sharply fr...

Intel wins latest race in chip uses for the cloud, says KeyBanc Capital Markets

Chip giant Intel Corp. is leading growth in cloud technology, according to new research from KeyBanc Capital Markets. Intel Corp. INTC, +3.21% is the winner in KeyBanc’s latest monthly data tracking s...

Bed Bath & Beyond is reducing store hours and turning down the air conditioning to cut costs, analysts say

Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. is turning down the air conditioning at its stores in order to save cash, according to Bank of America analysts who conducted channel checks and store visits. Other measures...

6 Oil Stocks That Can Buck Increased Bearishness

Text size An oil pumpjack pulls oil from the Permian Basin oil field in Odessa, Texas. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Oil prices have fallen 10% this month, and stocks have been sinking with them. In fact, s...

Berkshire Hathaway Stock Hit Hard in June. Warren Buffett Is Probably Unfazed.

Text size Berkshire has scaled back its stock repurchase program this year, and that may be sending a message that CEO Warren Buffett doesn’t view the stock as being so cheap. Bill Pugliano/Gett...

IPOs From 2021 Have Crashed. It May Be Time to Buy Some of Them.

Text size A view of the Fearless Girl statue wearing an F45 Training hat. Noam Galai/Getty Images Most initial public offerings from 2021 have performed badly, and Jefferies suggests that 13 from that...

Tesla Shanghai to Halt Production Temporarily. It Isn’t Covid.

Text size An aerial view of Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory. Xiaolu Chu/Getty Images Tesla ’s plant near Shanghai is going to shut down temporarily, according to reports. The downtime will add some uncerta...

Zendesk Close to Striking Buyout Deal, Sources Say

Zendesk Inc. is close to a deal with a group of buyout firms, according to people familiar with the matter, resurrecting a failed attempt to sell itself in what would be one of the biggest private-equ...

Ken Griffin Moving Citadel From Chicago to Miami Following Crime Complaints

Billionaire Ken Griffin is relocating his hedge-fund firm Citadel from Chicago to Miami, the third major employer to announce the move of a corporate headquarters from Illinois in the past two months....