250 years of history is telling investors to bet on Treasury bonds in 2023, Bank of America says

Benchmark U.S. Treasury bonds are facing their worst annual returns since 1788, but a big bounce is likely in the new year, along with a stock rout. That’s according to a team of strategists at Bank o...

Opinion: Facebook and Google grew into tech titans by ignoring Wall Street. Now it could lead to their downfall

Alphabet Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. became two of the most valuable companies in the world by largely ignoring Wall Street and its concerns about their spending and big-money acquisitions. Now, in t...

Facebook earnings cut in half, Meta stock sinks toward lowest prices in more than 6 years

Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. on Wednesday became the latest tech titan tattooed by a precipitous drop in digital advertising, reporting less than half the profit it had in the same quarter a ye...

Here’s what needs to happen for the stock market to bottom, according to Goldman Sachs strategists

Housing’s in freefall. Big Tech is slowing down. Even at Coca-Cola KO, +0.80%, which surprised to the upside for the third quarter, CEO James Quincey flagged “there are some changes in consumer behavi...

U.S. stock rally set to stall after Microsoft and Alphabet earnings disappoint

U.S. stock futures fell on Wednesday after results from tech behemoths Microsoft and Alphabet disappointed investors. How are stock-index futures trading S&P 500 futures ES00, -0.72% dipped 23 poi...

Stocks are having a stellar October. Why the bear-market rally may have more room to run.

An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the U.S. midterm elections. They will be held Nov. 8, not Nov. 9. Despite a raft of risky events that investors must face down over the coming we...

Google ad sales take a hit and widely miss estimates, Alphabet stock drops 6%

Alphabet Inc. is feeling the sting of a downturn in digital-ad spending. Google’s parent company reported just 6% sales growth year-over-year Tuesday and missed widely on its advertising revenue, push...

Opinion: This one stock stands out when looking at key data from the FAANG+ group

This has been a difficult year for tech-oriented stocks, but smart long-term investors often look for bargains. Why not buy quality merchandise when it is on sale? The FAANG group of stocks is well-kn...

This hedge fund manager who made winning bets in 2020, says investors should brace for a decades-long bear market

On the heels of last week’s bullish turn for stocks, the setup is looking slightly less positive for Monday. Hong Kong stocks may be affecting the mood with a giant slump after China’s leader cemented...

Residential housing demand ‘cratered’ as mortgage rates spiked, analyst says

Raymond James analyst Buck Horne lowered ratings on all of the home-builder stocks he covers, as he believes the recent “relentless” climb in mortgage rates has ensured a housing recession. “Interest ...

U.S. stock futures surge after Wall Street’s best week since June

U.S. stock futures surged out of the gate late Sunday, after Wall Street notched its best week since June. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures YM00, +0.62% jumped more than 200 points, or 0.7%, on Su...

What’s needed for stocks to rally is capitulation, but that could come from unexpected sources, strategist says

It’s the end of what felt like another very choppy week in stocks. And yet the S&P 500 SPX, +0.36% is in line to start the final session only about 1% or so below last Friday’s close. Uncertainty ...

‘Mass layoffs’ of Meta bus drivers lead to pleas for Facebook to bring workers back to the office

Protesters on Thursday urged Meta Platforms Inc. to call its Silicon Valley-based engineers and other employees back to the office, after Facebook’s parent company continued to dismiss service workers...

Apple Earnings Are Next Week. What to Watch.

When Apple reports financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter next Thursday, the most crucial question will be whether the company is seeing signs of strain from the softening consumer economy. P...

A Big Tesla Stock Sale Is Coming. We Don’t Know How Big.

It’s looking increasingly likely that Tesla investors will have to deal with their CEO Elon Musk buying social media platform Twitter In the long run, the issue for Tesla (ticker: TSLA) investors is m...

The top 25 market events of the last 25 years

On an October morning 25 years ago, MarketWatch started providing real-time news and market data to the general public on the internet. Individuals were fleeing their stockbrokers for new online platf...

Netflix and Tesla stocks are not having a good year, but here comes a chance to turn it around

Two stocks that have defined Wall Street’s boom in the past decade — streaming giant Netflix Inc. and electric-vehicle maker Tesla Inc. — will hope to turn around some poor recent trajectories as earn...

Meta’s Metaverse Push Is Racking Up Big Losses. Today, Zuckerberg Makes His Case.

Get ready for the state of the metaverse address.  Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg will deliver the keynote talk for this year’s edition of the company’s annual Meta Connect developer event, which ...

Opinion: The stock market is in no man’s land. Prepare to cash in when the turnaround comes

If you were too scared to buy stocks last week when investors panicked, I’d suggest doing a little selling now to free up your nerves — and capital. I’ll be a buyer on the next leg down, just as I was...

Opinion: Big selling wave in stocks makes for a buying opportunity, says Baron manager who has 20% of his fund’s assets in Tesla

Institutional investors have been clearing out of stocks. They sold $42 billion worth in the five weeks ending Sept. 21. That followed $51 billion in sales during the five weeks ending Sept. 7 — the b...

Facebook parent is no longer one of 10 most valuable U.S. companies. Here’s what just overtook it.

Meta Platforms Inc. is furthering its descent through the ranks of the biggest companies in the U.S., this time falling below Exxon Mobil Co. for the first time in more than five years. The Facebook p...

Elon Musk tops Forbes list of 400 richest Americans

Elon Musk is now America’s richest person, according to Forbes. Musk, the 51-year-old Tesla TSLA, +2.51% executive who also wants to conquer the field of space exploration, was ranked No. 1 on the For...

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...

These Are the 7 Worst Housing Markets, According to Lennar

Higher mortgage rates have cut into home sales at a national level—but, as the saying goes, all real estate is local.  Lennar , the nation’s second-largest builder by market capitalization, on Thursda...

Meta Quietly Reduces Staff in Cost-Cutting Push

Meta Platforms is planning to cut expenses by at least 10% in the coming months, in part through staff reductions, as the social-media giant confronts stalling growth and increased competition, accord...

Weekend reads: This may cause the next financial crisis

The Federal Reserve invigorated the economy before and during the coronavirus pandemic by purchasing Treasury bonds. The central bank was the main purchaser of newly issued U.S. debt and created trill...

Almost 100 Facebook janitors laid off as Silicon Valley service-worker cuts continue

Nearly 100 Facebook janitors were laid off from the tech giant’s California offices Friday, two months after being told their jobs would be safe. The number of job cuts was actually supposed to be clo...

The S&P 500 sank 5% in a very bad week for stocks. These 20 lost as much as 24%.

U.S. stocks sputtered Friday to close out the week in the red. The day’s declines of less than 1% for the broad indexes paled against Tuesday’s, when they sank 4% to 5%. For the week, the Dow Jones In...

Facebook stock falls to yet another ignominious level

Facebook was a member of the exclusive $1 trillion club a year ago, but it’s fallen a long way since then. Now named Meta Platforms Inc. META, -2.18%, the company saw its market value fall below $400 ...

It’s a great time to scoop up bargain stocks. Here are 21 examples that could make you a lot of money.

Are you a contrarian investor? Sometimes it seems everyone claims to be one, but it isn’t easy, especially after a wipeout such as the one we saw on Sept. 13. An investor who wishes to pay bargain pri...

The Meta meltdown: This chart shows Facebook’s fall from grace among the most valuable U.S. companies

Dogged by competitive and macroeconomic threats, Meta Platforms Inc. is sinking down the ranks of the largest U.S. companies. After a 9.4% daily slide in its stock, Meta META, -9.37% ranked 10th by ma...

These five stocks in the S&P 500 lost almost half a trillion dollars in value in one day amid widespread wipeout

A decline in gasoline prices couldn’t mask the problem that spooked investors on Sept. 13: Core consumer prices resumed their rapid increase during August. Fear of the Federal Reserve’s ongoing tighte...