Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Spent Billions on Chevron. This Might Be Why.

Text size Photograph by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images There is a cottage industry on Wall Street predicting what would Warren would buy. That, of course, refers to Berkshire Hathawa y (ticker: BRK.B) C...

I-bonds are all the rage — what’s the best way to use them?

With the release of March’s Consumer Price Index, we now know that a risk-free investment yielding 9.6% will be available as of May 2. I’m speaking, of course, about Series I savings bonds from the U....

GE Stock Is Overpriced, What Ails Teladoc, and More From Analysts

Text size These reports, excerpted and edited by Barron’s, were issued recently by investment and research firms. The reports are a sampling of analysts’ thinking; they should not be considered the vi...

Robinhood Has a Crypto Trading Problem. It Might Soon Be Coinbase’s, Too.

Text size Robinhood reported a significant slowdown in trading volumes in the first three months of 2022. Dennizn/Dreamstime Trading platform Robinhood Markets experienced a stark decline in market ac...

A rough 4 months for stocks: S&P 500 books the worst start to a year since 1939. Here’s what pros say you should do now.

To say that it has been a perilous stretch for bullish stock investors on Wall Street lately is a bit of an understatement. Marked by stomach-churning volatility and bruising losses in once-popular te...

Cathie Wood’s ARK Bet Big on Tumbling Teladoc. These Funds Did Too.

Text size A Teladoc member visits virtually with a doctor. Courtesy of Teledoc Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest and other institutional investors were slated to take a steep hit as shares of Teladoc Health pl...

Opinion: Warren Buffett’s investing prowess will go on forever after researchers cracked his investing code

If you’re an investor in Berkshire Hathaway Inc., your performance need not suffer when Warren Buffett stops running the company. That’s according to researchers who claim to have created a stock-pick...

Opinion: Berkshire and Buffett have 5 words for sellers who want their money: ‘Take it or leave it’

As fans flock this weekend to Omaha, Neb. for Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholders meeting hosted by Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett, you may be wondering what all the fuss is about.  The answer: ...

Robinhood shares are now 75% below last July’s IPO price after job cuts announcement, but analysts are unfazed

Shares of Robinhood Markets Inc. sank to a fresh low on Wednesday, after the online-trading platform said it’s cutting 9% of its workforce after a rapid expansion that started in 2020 when stay-at-hom...

Elon Musk has a deal to buy Twitter at $54.20. Should you buy it cheaper now and make a tidy profit? Proceed with caution, experts say.

Now that Elon Musk has a deal to buy Twitter and take it private, some retail stock pickers might be eyeing a quick buying opportunity in the social-media company before it leaves the public markets. ...

Occidental, Hess, and 3 Other Oil Companies With Big Earnings Momentum

Marathon Petroleum’s refinery in Los Angeles. The oil company has benefited from the increase in demand for petroleum products like diesel fuel. Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images Text size Some energy...

Annaly Capital to Sell Middle- Market Lending Portfolio to Ares for About $2.4 Billion

Text size Ares currently has $314 billion assets under management, up from $25 billion in 2008. Dreamstime Ares Management Corp said Monday that it agreed to buy the middle-market lending portfolio of...

When Will Coinbase Stock Hit Bottom? JPMorgan Sees Bigger Losses Ahead

Text size Some analysts are getting more bearish on Coinbase stock. Tiffany Hagler-Geard/Bloomberg When will Coinbase stock finally hit bottom? Investors in the crypto exchange have been riding a slid...

JCPenney owners offer $8.6 billion to acquire rival Kohl’s

The owners of JCPenney have made an offer to acquire archrival Kohl’s in a deal that could value the department-store chain at upwards of $8.6 billion, The Post has learned. Under the proposal, shoppi...

Gold prices settle at a 2-month low as investors sidestep the metal for more attractive safe havens

Gold futures on Monday posted their lowest finish since late February, with the traditional haven failing to find support as investors dumped equities and other assets perceived as risky, while jumpin...

Kohl’s Stock Is Rising. Another Bidder May Have Emerged.

Text size A Kohl’s store Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Are two department stores better than one? The owners of JCPenney may think so, if reports that they are the latest potential suitors for Ko...

PS Business Parks to Be Bought for $7.6 Billion By Blackstone. The Stock Soars.

Text size Blackstone bought PS Business Parks shortly after acquiring American Campus Communities , a student-housing company. Dreamstime PS Business Parks stock soared on Monday after the commercial ...

The stock market selloff still has another 20% to go, says the godfather of liquidity

As the meat of earnings season begins, it’s worth noting what investors have learned so far. The short version is, apart from a few isolated companies (cough, Netflix, cough), not a whole lot: the pro...

Asian markets tumble amid worries about earnings, Fed rate hike

TOKYO — Asian shares declined Monday after U.S. stocks ended last week on a tumble as global markets’ expectations for higher interest rates continued to set the tone. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 NIK...

U.S. stock futures sink, suggesting more losses Monday

After sharp losses Friday, Wall Street is poised for more declines as stock-index futures slid Sunday night. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures YM00, -0.46% were last off more than 170 points — an i...

Buy JPMorgan Stock. Despite Losing Some of Its Swagger, Shares Are Cheap.

There is a little less swagger than usual at JPMorgan Chase these days, and that’s probably good news for investors. Shares of the bank, the industry leader in market value and profits, are down 17% t...

James Anderson of Baillie Gifford on Illumina, Moderna, and Other Companies That Matter

James Anderson, a partner at Scottish money manager Baillie Gifford, has personified growth-stock investing during his 39 years with the firm. He was an early backer of Amazon.com, Tesla, and other “e...

Surging Fertilizer Costs Are Pushing Food Prices Higher

Fertilizer costs have roughly doubled from a year ago as the war in Ukraine disrupted the flow of supplies from Russia, the world’s largest exporter of the commodity. That has contributed to higher gl...

For Active Funds, Being Different From the Index Isn’t Enough

The popular active-share metric was designed to find mutual funds that simply mimic an index-fund-like portfolio while charging steeper active-management fees. But it may not be as adept at finding wi...

4 ETF ideas targeting clean water, wind, the smart grid — and a catch-all

For some investment advisers and stock-pickers, so-called green investing is far from just a feel-good move. There are population demographics, a private-public mandate to meet international greenhous...

These money and investing tips can be keys to success when stock and bond markets fail

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 4 Earth Day ETFs targeting cle...

Cathie Wood’s Flagship Fund Is Down 45% This Year. Money Is Still Flowing In.

Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation exchange-traded fund keeps falling, but investors aren’t jumping ship. Shares of the popular ETF, which is known by its ticker ARKK, have declined 45% so far in 2022—inclu...

BlackRock Stock Has Slid. Director William E. Ford Scooped Up Shares.

BlackRock stock has tumbled this year, and director William E. Ford, the chairman and CEO of investment firm General Atlantic, scooped up shares of the asset manager on the open market. BlackRock (tic...

What’s next for stock market as Federal Reserve moves toward ‘peak hawkishness’

Investors will watch for another gauge of U.S. inflation in the week ahead after the stock market was rattled by the Federal Reserve ramping up its hawkish tone and suggesting large interest rate hike...

Six Dividend Stocks to Help Beat Inflation

The hot new investment theme isn’t socially nuanced crypto space finance or metaverse charging networks for virtual vehicles. It’s dividends—cash payments to shareholders. This year, U.S. equity divid...

Dow’s biggest drop since 2020 has bulls nervously watching this support level, says chart watcher

The stock market’s Friday plunge will have market bulls looking for the Dow Jones Industrial Average to hold important support tied to the market’s gyrations all the way back to the 2007-09 financial ...