Broadcom May Pay About $60 Billion for VMware With Announcement Thursday

Text size Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware would be one of the biggest deals of 2022 so far. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Chip maker titan Broadcom may announce a deal to purchase software compa...

Twitter’s stock falls below where Elon Musk bought it, turning a $1.1 billion profit into a $40 million loss

Easy come, easy go, as shares of Twitter Inc. fell below where Elon Musk bought it, wiping out more than $1.1 billion in gains in four weeks. The social-media company’s stock TWTR, -5.55% sank 6.0% in...

Snowflake May Have Upside After a Big Drop in the Bear Market

Text size Snowflake, the cloud-based data warehouse company, has been pummeled in the bear market. Gabby Jones/Bloomberg Snowflake publishes results on Wednesday, giving investors a fresh look after a...

Dan Quayle Bought Up Carvana’s Slumping Stock

Text size Former Vice President Dan Quayle. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Carvana stock has slumped this year, and former Vice President Dan Quayle, who serves the used-car retailer as a director, bought ...

Opinion: Snap’s warning of a weaker outlook sends ripples through tech stocks

An unexpected warning about the deteriorating economy by Snap Inc. Chief Executive Evan Spiegel rippled through internet and social-media stocks late Monday, potentially ruining the market’s comeback ...

Five Things to Know About Broadcom’s Potential Deal for VMware

Text size Broadcom stock slipped in response to news of the possible deal. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Broadcom ’s expected acquisition of cloud computing provider VMware will likely rank as one of t...

Broadcom in Talks to Pay About $60 Billion for VMware

Broadcom is in talks to pay around $60 billion for VMware people familiar with the matter said, in what would be one of the biggest takeover deals of the year. The two technology companies are aiming ...

Monkeypox cases are driving up stock prices for these companies

Growing concern about the emergence of monkeypox in Europe and the U.S. has sent shares of several vaccine and drug companies soaring. Though infections are rarely reported outside of Central and West...

Why Shale Drillers Are Pumping Out Dividends Instead of More Oil and Gas

Shale drillers have been hamstrung by pipeline constraints, rising prices for oil-field supplies and shortages of roughnecks and rigs. But there is another reason the highest oil and gas prices in yea...

Broadcom reportedly in talks to buy VMware

Chip maker Broadcom Inc. is in negotiations to buy enterprise cloud-computing company VMware Inc., according to multiple reports Sunday night. Bloomberg News, Reuters, the New York Times and the Wall ...

$6 a Gallon Gasoline? Here’s How It Could Happen.

Illustration by Elias Stein Text size U.S. gasoline prices are at record highs, averaging more than $4.50 per gallon at the pump, and surpassing $4 in all 50 states for the first time. But, says Natas...

You bought. They sold. Meet some of the insiders who unloaded $35 billion in stock amid the tech IPO bonanza before it tanked.

A year ago, Heather Hasson and Catherine “Trina” Spear traveled from Santa Monica, Calif., to New York to ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. The co–chief executives of FIGS, an onli...

‘I partially support my partner of 12 years as his business is, sadly, failing’: I’m 33, and have $300,000 in company stock. Should I sell those shares to pay off my debt of $56,000?

I am 33 years old, I currently make just over $120,000 a year, including an annual bonus, and my company has gifted me with around $300,000 in equity in the firm, although our stock is brand new, so i...

Twitter Strikes Back, Says It Will Enforce Agreement With Elon Musk

Text size Elon Musk says the $44 billion deal to buy Twitter is on hold. Twitter disagrees. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Twitter will hold Elon Musk to his offer to buy the company at the $44 billi...

Opinion: Elon Musk doesn’t want to buy Twitter anymore, but Twitter should make him pay for it

It’s becoming quite clear that Elon Musk no longer wants to buy Twitter Inc., at least not at the price he negotiated. But Twitter should not walk away without at least $1 billion — and potentially mu...

Which of Buffett’s bank stocks might make you the most money?

This is the time of the quarter when investors get to see what changes Warren Buffett and the management team at Berkshire Hathaway have made to the conglomerate’s stock portfolio. The big splash in B...

Berkshire Hathaway Didn’t Have to Disclose Earlier its 10% Stake in Paramount. Here’s Why.

Text size Berkshire Hathaway now owns 10.6% of Paramount Global. Dreamstime Berkshire Hathaway ’s purchase of more than 10% of Paramount Global , disclosed late Monday, normally would have triggered a...

Rivian CEO Bought Stock in the EV Start-Up. The Shares Are Rising.

Text size CEO R.J. Scaringe’s recent purchase means he owns about 4.5 million shares of Rivian stock. Courtesy of Rivian Rivian ’s CEO R.J. Scaringe stepped up and bought the dip in his company’...

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway reveals new stakes in Paramount, Citigroup

OMAHA, Neb. — Warren Buffett’s company on Monday revealed all the investment moves it made in the first quarter, when it spent more than $51 billion on stocks. But Buffett had already shared the bigge...

PayPal borrows $3 billion to help fund debt buyback plan

PayPal Holdings Inc. hit the market on Monday with a $3 billion corporate bond financing to help the online money-transfer and payments giant fund a $2 billion tender offer for its own debt. The four-...

Berkshire Hathaway Sold Nearly All Its Verizon Stake in the First Quarter

Text size Warren Buffett’s Berkshire bought stakes in Paramount Global and Market in the first quarter. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc Berkshire Hathaway bought stakes in Citigrou...

Carvana Issued a New Operating Plan. The Stock Is Rallying.

Text size A Carvana used car “vending machine” on May 11, 2022 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Carvana shares were rising Monday as investors reacted to the used car platform’s ...

Diamondback Energy Agrees to Buy Rattler Midstream for $2.2 Billion

Text size The energy landscape has transformed dramatically since Rattler was taken public in 2019. Callaghan O’Hare/Bloomberg Rattler Midstream shares soared on Monday after the company announc...

JetBlue Launches Tender Offer for Spirit Airlines at $30 a Share

Text size Spirit Airlines planes are shown at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images) Spirit Airlines shares surged Monday after JetBlue Airways launch...

Renault Sells Russia Business to State-Backed Entity for One Ruble

PARIS—French auto maker Renault SA has reached a deal to cede its 68% stake in Russia’s biggest car maker to a state-backed entity for one ruble and a six-year option to buy back its shares, according...

JetBlue to Launch Tender Offer for Spirit, Urge Shareholders to Vote Against Frontier Deal

JetBlue Airways Corp. said it plans to launch a hostile takeover attempt for discount carrier Spirit Airlines Inc. after Spirit rejected JetBlue’s $3.6 billion offer in favor of an existing deal with ...

Are SPACs That Bad? Study Find Similar Returns for Blank Checks and IPOs

Text size A wheel loader moves ore at MP Materials’ mine in Mountain Pass, Calif. Joe Buglewicz/Bloomberg Special-purpose acquisition companies have lost their luster this year. But recent data ...

Opinion: Elon Musk is likely trying to get a lower price for Twitter

Is Elon Musk’s $44 billion bid for Twitter actually a $1 billion joke by the world’s richest man? That’s a possibility that cannot be ignored, as investors scramble to make sense of Musk’s latest shen...

Princeton University Discloses Large Stake in Lithium Miner

Text size Students walk on campus at Princeton University. William Thomas Cain/Getty Images Princeton University disclosed that it owned a large stake in an early-stage lithium miner. In fact, Princet...

Buy Citizens Financial Stock. Its Shares Could Gain 29%.

Bigger is better in banking—and Citizens Financial Group has been taking steps that should allow it to play with the bigger boys. Its stock looks like a winner. These days, it’s nearly impossible for ...

Soros fund doubles down on Rivian bet, buys stakes in Lucid, Nio

Billionaire George Soros’s investment fund has doubled down on its bet on Rivian Automotive Inc. and taken new positions on EV makers Nio Inc. and Lucid Motors Inc., according to a filing late Friday....

Starbucks’ CEO Howard Schultz Bought $10 Million of Stock

Text size Howard Schultz has halted Starbucks’ buybacks of its stock. Getty Images Howard Schultz, now on his third stint as Starbucks ‘ top executive, just bought millions of dollars of the cof...