Dividend stocks are facing stiffer competition, thanks to a big spike in bond yields. A risk-free 10-Year Treasury note was recently yielding 3.7%, up from 1.63% at the start of 2021. That’s well abov...
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Ford Stock Is Still a Buy, Despite Supply Issues. Here’s Why.
Ford’s truck business is one heck of a business. Courtesy Ford Text size Ford Motor stock tumbled this past week after the company warned of continued parts shortages, but Wall Street doesn’t seem wor...
Costco Earnings Underwhelmed and the Stock Is Falling. It’s Time to Buy the Dip.
Text size Costco earnings rarely disappoint. Mario Tama/Getty Images Costco Wholesale isn’t the kind of company that delivers much in the way of bad news and Thursday’s earnings report wasn’t anything...
Saving the planet could be blockchain’s killer app – Cointelegraph Magazine
The sustainability movement has emerged as a 21st century megatrend, and it shows no signs of abating. Record heat in Europe, wildfires in the U.S. West, floods in Pakistan, drought in China, and acce...
Bulls Get Scorched by FedEx. Don’t Expect the Fed to Help.
Text size FedEx’s disappointing earnings and unexpectedly weak guidance were key factors in this past week’s stock market swoon. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg The stock market faces a doubly poisonous c...
Goldman Sachs: Why European Natural Gas Could Fall by 50%
Illustration by Elias Stein Text size Here’s a challenge to the conventional wisdom, courtesy of Goldman Sachs : Europe has “solved” its winter natural-gas crisis, and prices could drop by half in the...
The U.S. Consumer Is Running on Fumes, Say These Strategists
Text size This commentary was issued recently by money managers, research firms, and market newsletter writers and has been edited by Barron’s. The Poor(er) U.S. Consumers The Week in 60 Seconds...
The Economy Is Slowing Down. What It Means for the Fed.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell has warned that the central bank’s tighter monetary policy will be painful. The latest data confirm he’s right. Ting Shen/Bloomberg Text size For Jerome Powell’s Fe...
Ferrari’s Family Car: 4 Seats, 1 Trunk—and 800 Horsepower
Illustration by Elias Stein Text size It took a while, but Ferrari has a family car, with four doors and four seats. The iconic Italian sports-car maker, famed for its black “prancing horse” logo, rec...
This Is a Good Time to Buy Short-Term Bonds
Until recently, short-term bonds were a yield wasteland: A two-year Treasury note yielded 0.21% a year ago and just 1% in January. Today, the yield is over 3.8% and could soon touch 4%, thanks in good...
Why Is the Stock Market Down? It Knows the Worst Is Yet to Come.
Text size NYSE From a certain point onward, there is no turning back. The stock market reached that point this past week. Oh, the market was hopeful, entering the week, that inflation had reached its ...
Ethereum is eating the world — ‘You only need one internet’ – Cointelegraph Magazine
There’s a version of the future that’s tantalizingly possible in which Ethereum becomes the base layer for pretty much everything. Recent advances in a technology called zero-knowledge Rollups — from ...
IHS Is a Play on Emerging Market Cellphones. Why the Stock Looks Like a Buy.
Text size IHS’s organic revenue growth has been 18% a year over the past half-decade. Dreamstime IHS Holding is the new kid on the block in the cell-tower world—and its stock may be worth buying. Runn...
Quantitative Tightening Is About to Ramp Up. What It Means for Markets.
The Federal Reserve now owns about a third of both the Treasury and mortgage-backed-securities markets as a result of its emergency asset-buying to prop up the U.S. economy during the Covid-19 pandemi...
T-Mobile Stock Market Value Has Been Rising. It’s Bigger Than Verizon.
Illustration by Elias Stein Text size There’s a new top dog in U.S. telecom. This past Tuesday, T-Mobile US nosed ahead of Verizon Communications , and AT&T in market capitalization—an exclamation...
Inflation Could Be Harder to Tame Than the Fed Anticipates
Text size Another 75-basis-point hike in the federal-funds target is looking very, very likely. Ting Shen/Bloomberg Market participants returned from their summer holidays apparently undaunted by the ...
The Stock Market Had a Crazy Good Week. One Way to Make Sense of It All.
Text size Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Traders prefer a volatile market, and they’ve gotten one in 2022. Stocks have declined, rallied, and dropped again, driven by ever-evolving expectations for ...
Europe’s Unfolding Crises Could Impact U.S. Stocks. Here’s How.
U.S. investors are watching the Federal Reserve but the European Central Bank is likely to keep hiking rates to pull down prices, and those moves deserve more attention. Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg Text si...
Stocks Are Sinking and Rates Are Rising. It’s Painful, But We’re Heading for Normal.
Stocks and bonds are tumbling. Housing has weakened. And I haven’t heard a word about nonfungible cartoon monkey tokens in maybe three months. Strategists are now turning to truly bizarre assets—two I...