Biden Proposed Stock Buyback Restrictions. What Advisors Need to Know.

This year has seen plenty of high-profile announcements of stock buybacks. Amazon  enacted a $10 billion repurchase program while General Electric set its own at $3 billion. Later, Alibaba announced t...

MicroStrategy to borrow against its bitcoin holdings to buy more of the cryptocurrency

MicroStrategy has been conducting a strategy for some time of using its data analytics business to fund the purchase of bitcoin. Now it’s taking that strategy one step further — it’s borrowing, agains...

SEC targets SPACs with new rules about forecasts, mergers

A flag outside the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Securities and Exchange Commissi...

Henry Ford’s Great-Grandson Buys Up Ford Stock

Text size Ford Motor has been hurt by cost inflation, rising interest rates, and persistent parts shortages. Dreamstime Ford Motor stock has slipped so far this year, and Executive Chair Bill Ford, gr...

Freed Huawei Finance Chief Meng Wanzhou Returns to Company Spotlight

HONG KONG—Months after returning home to a hero’s welcome in China, Huawei Technologies Co. finance chief Meng Wanzhou was back in the spotlight Monday: This time, she was in more familiar surrounding...

What AT&T Is Giving Investors in WarnerMedia Spinoff⁠ and How It Will Work

Text size Justin Sullivan/Getty Images This article originally appeared on MarketWatch. AT&T Inc. detailed its plans for the spinoff of WarnerMedia on Friday, with investors eventually expected to...

Stock Market Gets Boost From Bond Selloff. Time to Sell the Rip?

Text size NYSE The Federal Reserve is talking tough about fighting inflation—and the stock market loves it. Don’t expect equities to be so relaxed if Powell & Co. act on their words. The S&P 5...

Chinese EV maker Nio vows to expand to more countries this year

Chinese electric-vehicle maker Nio Inc. late Thursday reported quarterly sales slightly above Wall Street expectations, vowing to make 2022 a year of “reacceleration” for its business and to sell its ...

Here is what AT&T is giving investors in WarnerMedia spinoff, and how it will work

AT&T Inc. detailed its plans for the spinoff of WarnerMedia on Friday, with investors eventually expected to receive a share of the new streaming-media entity for every four AT&T shares they o...

What Ryan Cohen’s Insider Buys Say About GameStop’s True Value

Text size GameStop stock can take investors on a wild ride. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Just when meme stocks seemed down for the count, Chewy co-founder Ryan Cohen stepped in and bought 100,000 shar...

Why The Experts Are Banking On Financial Institution M&A

Interest Rates and other conditions are setting the stage for more bank acquisitions this year. By Calvin Trice and Jeff Sheban Business and technology concept. getty Bank deals should return to a ste...

Aurora Cannabis to acquire TerraFarma, parent of Thrive Cannabis

Aurora Cannabis Inc. ACB, -1.37% ACB, -2.40% has reached a deal to buy Thrive Cannabis’ parent company, TerraFarma Inc., seeking to strengthen its business in market and expand focus on premium produc...

Cannabis Mega-Merger: Cresco Is Buying Columbia Care

Text size Marijuana products are displayed at the Cresco Labs Sunnyside Lakeview dispensary in Chicago. Daniel Acker/Bloomberg Cresco Labs reached an agreement to acquire Columbia Care, a fellow Canad...

Tencent Music Stock Is Soaring After Earnings. It Can Thank Alibaba.

Text size A monitor displays Tencent Music Entertainment Group signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Chinese stocks are soaring after Alibaba a...

Warren Buffett Does Deal Making Differently. Alleghany Acquisition Shows How.

Text size Warren Buffett Drew Angerer/Getty Images When it comes to acquisitions, Warren Buffett does things differently, and Berkshire Hathaway ’s deal on Monday for Alleghany illustrates his unique ...

Warren Buffett Puts Some of His $144 Billion to Work With Alleghany Deal

Warren Buffett Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc Text size It was only three weeks ago that Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett wrote of the unpleasantness associated with h...

Warren Buffett’s Deal for Alleghany Is Great for Berkshire, So-So for Alleghany

Berkshire Hathaway ’s agreement to buy insurer Alleghany for $11.6 billion looks like an excellent deal for Berkshire, but only a so-so one for Alleghany. Berkshire Hathaway (ticker: BRK. A and BRK. B...

Berkshire Hathaway to Acquire Reinsurer Alleghany for $11.6 Billion

Text size Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway agreed to buy Alleghany shares for $848.02 a share in cash, or a tot...

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway strikes $11.6 billion deal for reinsurer Alleghany Corp.

Warren Buffett picked the industry he arguably knows best, insurance, for his first major deal in two years. Berkshire Hathaway BRK.B, -0.74% BRK.A, -1.05% struck an $11.6 billion, all-cash deal to bu...

EV Stock Workhorse Has Tumbled. CEO Rich Dauch Bought Up Shares.

Text size A Workhorse vehicle Courtesy Workhorse Workhorse Group stock hit a nearly two-year low a few weeks ago, and CEO Rich Dauch and executive Stan March just bought up shares of the electric-vehi...

Anaplan Stock Surges on Deal to Be Bought by Thoma Bravo for $10.7 Billion

Text size Photograph by Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Anaplan , a provider of business-planning software, agreed to be acquired by private-equity firm Thoma Bravo for $66 a share, or $10.7 billion. The offe...

Berkshire-Backed StoneCo Issues a Bullish Outlook. The Stock Is Soaring.

Text size Dreamstime Shares of Brazilian payment processor StoneCo were skyrocketing Friday after Citi upgraded the stock, citing an attractive valuation and the company’s strong outlook for the first...

Kohl’s Is a Takeover Target. What That Means for the Stock.

Kohl’s stock soared on reports of potential takeover offers that could value the company at more than $9 billion. Getty Images Text size Kohl’s investors have been trapped between hopes for a takeout ...

Cash-Rich Berkshire Hathaway, Apple, and Alphabet Should Gain From Higher Rates

Text size Apple could be earning $4 billion more on its cash by 2023 Sean Gallup/Getty Images With its enormous cash reserves now earning next to nothing, Berkshire Hathaway could be one of the bigger...

Tesla Stock, Nvidia Were Sold by Retail Traders. Here’s What They Bought.

Text size (Photo by CHRIS DELMAS/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Retail traders were taking a cautious approach by selling stocks like Tesla and Nvidia as the markets gained for a third con...

Nvidia Stock Needs a Catalyst. It Could Get One Next Week.

Text size After rocketing higher in 2021, Nvidia shares have been under pressure in 2022. Remus Rigo/Dreamstime.com Like much of the rest of the stock market, to say nothing of the beaten-down tech se...

Berkshire Hathaway Again Boosts Its Stake in Occidental Petroleum

Text size Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Berkshire Hathaway continued to add to its large stake in Occidental Petroleum in recent days and now holds a $7.2 billio...

A New Meme-Stock Frenzy Led AMC to Gold Mine Stake

Day traders looking to capitalize on commodity price volatility catalyzed a chain reaction that ended with movie theater giant AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc.’s unusual deal to take a stake in a gold-...

GE Shows Why Stock Buybacks Aren’t Always as Good as Dividends

Text size GE’s net debt now amounts to 2.5 times Ebitda, compared with an average of 2 times for industrial companies in the S&P 500. Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images News that General Elec...

Constellation Energy Is a Buy at Goldman Sachs. Here’s Why.

Text size Constellation is one of the largest carbon-free energy generators in the country, relying on a mix of hydro, wind, solar, and nuclear energy. Sean Gallup/Getty Images Shares of Constellation...

Warren Buffett Runs Berkshire Hathaway Like It’s the 1960s.

In some important respects, CEO Warren Buffett runs Berkshire Hathaway like it’s the 1960s, when he took control of the company. CEO and board pay remain at 1960s levels. Top executives are paid entir...

8 Companies That Raised Their Stock Dividends This Week

Text size Colgate-Palmolive raised its stock dividend this week. Rene Van Den Berg/Dreamstime.com Colgate-Palmolive , Dick’s Sporting Goods , and Applied Materials were among the large U.S. companies ...