3M’s stock surges after company says 90% of earplug plaintiffs had ‘normal’ hearing

Shares of 3M Co. surged Wednesday after the maker of consumer, industrial and healthcare products said the U.S. Department of Defense’s records show that the “vast majority” of claimants in litigation...

Deere’s stock is having its best day in 2 years

Shares of John Deere parent Deere & Co. powered up to their best one-day performance in two years after the maker of agricultural, construction and forestry equipment reported a big fiscal first-q...

14 dividend stocks that rose 100% or more in 5 years as the payouts doubled

In basketball, a double-double is a combination of at least 10 or more of the following in a game: points scored, rebounds, assists, blocked shots or steals. For dividend stocks, you might find a scre...

3M raises dividend to $1.50 a share

3M Co. MMM, +0.34% said late Tuesday its board has declared a dividend of $1.50 a share for the first quarter, up from $1.49 a share. The dividend is payable on March 12 to shareholders of record on F...

Indian tycoon Adani hit by more losses, calls for probe

Shares in troubled Adani Enterprises gyrated Friday, tumbling 30% and then rebounding after more than a week of heavy losses that have cost it tens of billions of dollars in market value. The company,...

Stanley Black & Decker dives after Q4 results beat expectations, but 2023 outlook is well below forecasts

Shares of Stanley Black & Decker SWK dove 4.6% in premarket trading Thursday, after the tools maker reported fourth-quarter results that beat expectations but provided a full-year profit outlook t...

Intuitive Surgical stock drops 10%, COVID resurgence hobbles sales

Shares of Intuitive Surgical Inc. ISRG dropped more than 10% in the extended session Tuesday after the maker of surgical robotic systems reported fourth-quarter results slightly below Wall Street expe...

3M stock dips after earnings miss, company plans to cut 2,500 jobs

Shares of 3M Co. MMM, +1.63% were down nearly 4% in premarket action Tuesday after the manufacturing giant missed profit expectations for the latest quarter and delivered a downbeat earnings outlook f...

GE stock falls after earnings, FCF beat expectations but outlook was downbeat

Shares of General Electric Co. GE, +2.69% fell 2.2% in premarket trading Friday, after the industrial conglomerate reported fourth-quarter profit, revenue and free cash flow (FCF) that beat expectatio...

Don’t let the ‘bear market house of mirrors’ fool you, Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson warns of the stock market

An important week for earnings is straight ahead, with the spotlight on updates from the tech space, which has been laying off thousands of workers. Among those not expecting good news in the earnings...

Earnings Watch: Microsoft, Tesla and Intel are about to face the doubters

After one of the worst years in Wall Street’s history, investors have some serious questions for companies. As holiday returns roll in — and with them, forecasts for the months or year ahead — many ha...

Caterpillar stock rises to 4th straight record after BofA analyst becomes top bull on Wall Street

Shares of Caterpillar Inc. rallied Friday to a fourth straight record close, after BofA Securities analyst Michael Feniger turned bullish on the belief that the construction- and mining-equipment make...

These 15 Dividend Aristocrat stocks have been the best income builders

The S&P Dividend Aristocrats deserve more coverage. Those are companies that have raised their dividend payouts consistently over the years — they’re dividend royalty, as it were. As a group, they...

GE Healthcare stock to start trading as separation from GE is completed

The first stage of the break up of General Electric Co. GE, +1.76% has been completed, as GE HealthCare Technologies Inc. GEHC, +4.78% has been officially separated and will begin trading Wednesday as...

Generac stock leads S&P 500 gainers after Janney says buy, citing ‘free option’ on clean energy

Shares of Generac Holdings Inc. surged Wednesday, after Janney analyst Sean Milligan said the sharp selloff this year has provided investors an opportunity to buy into an established brand with a domi...

One company could determine if U.S. corporate profits rise to a record next year

As Wall Street looks toward 2023, earnings growth for the companies that make up the S&P 500 index could hinge on just one of them: Amazon.com Inc. Amazon AMZN, -1.39%, the online retail giant who...

10 Dividend Aristocrat stocks expected by analysts to rise up to 54% in 2023

Stocks of companies that raise dividends consistently have outperformed during this year’s bear market. Below is a screen showing which stocks are analysts’ favorites for next year among an expanded l...

Veteran manager offers 5 ‘cheap, quality, dividend’ stocks that will let you play one of tech’s biggest themes.

2022 may be remembered as the year investors fell out of love with tech stocks. While the Nasdaq Composite COMP, -3.91% is up about 5.3% this quarter, that’s after three dismal ones, and a 28% loss fo...

Icahn loads up on Twitter, oil and gas in third quarter, dumps Welbilt

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn acquired more than 12.5 million shares of Twitter Inc. during the third quarter, ahead of Elon Musk’s takeover of the company, while also boosting his holdings in Occid...

21 dividend stocks yielding 5% or more of companies that will produce plenty of cash in 2023

When the stock market has jumped two days in a row, as it has now, it is easy to become complacent. But the Federal Reserve isn’t finished raising interest rates, and recession talk abounds. Stock inv...

Fed to put a ‘firm foot on the brake pedal’ this week

The Federal Reserve is widely expected this week to raise its benchmark interest rate by 0.75 percentage points in an effort to slow the economy as a way to cool inflation. “What the Fed was doing ear...

Why FedEx’s stock plunge is so bad for the whole stock market

FedEx Corp.’s profit warning has cast a pall on the broader stock market, as a record plunge in the package delivery giant’s stock has helped trigger one half of a Dow Theory “sell” signal. FedEx shar...

3M stock extends bounce after UBS recommends investors stop selling, saying sentiment is ‘washed out’

Shares of 3M Co. extended their bounce Friday, after a long-time bearish analyst said investors should stop selling, as the recent “derating” in price suggests all litigation liability has already bee...

Shrinking the Fed’s balance sheet sheet is not likely to be a benign process, new Jackson Hole study warns

“If the past repeats, the shrinking of the central bank’s balance sheet is not likely to be an entirely benign process and will require careful monitoring of the banking sector’s on-and off-balance sh...

15 quality dividend stocks that you can buy on sale right now

John Buckingham, editor of the Prudent Speculator newsletter, paraphrases Warren Buffett when he says “whether it is socks or stocks, we like to buy quality merchandise that is marked down.” And 2022 ...

In a busy morning 3M announces healthcare spin off, mixed earnings and subsidiary’s voluntary bankruptcy

3M Co. was busy before market open Tuesday, announcing the planned spinoff of its healthcare business, second-quarter results, and the voluntary bankruptcy of the company’s Aearo Technologies subsidia...

These 10 stocks in the S&P 500 soared at least 8% after the Fed made its big move — but only 3 have gains for 2022

Wednesday turned into a big day for stocks — the S&P 500 index had its largest one-day percentage gain in nearly two years — after the Federal Reserve raised the federal funds rate by half a perce...

These stocks soared during the pandemic, and then crashed. Ten are now expected to double in price.

A screen of stocks that popped during the coronavirus pandemic highlights dozens that have crashed. But some are considered worthy of purchase by a majority of analysts. You might want to keep an eye ...

A secular bear market is here, says this money manager. These are the key steps for investors to take now.

Turnaround Tuesday is looking wobbly, as stock futures slip ahead of big earnings from Microsoft MSFT, -2.70% and Alphabet GOOGL, -2.86%, after the market close. Those results could provide a fresh ca...

Dividend Aristocrat stocks can help you keep ahead of inflation. These 15 take top prizes for raising payouts.

Some investors are interested in stocks that pay high dividend yields for a source of income. Others believe it is better to focus on total returns over long periods. The Dividend Aristocrats are a gr...

U.S. economy will fall into a recession this summer, as inflation eats into consumer spending, former Fed official warns

Higher inflation will force consumers to limit their spending by so much that the economy will slump into a recession by the July-September quarter, former Federal Reserve Governor Lawrence Lindsey sa...

Fed’s Powell sees the light — and turns far more hawkish than expected

After remaining stubbornly dovish last year, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Wednesday jumped the central bank squarely into the hawkish camp at his press conference on Wednesday. “The March...