GM, Ford Stock Downgrades Are Mounting. Auto Giants Face a Troubling Trend.

Text size GM and Ford stock have tumbled from 52-week highs set last month. Patrick Hertzog/AFP via Getty Images Downgrades are mounting for auto giants General Motors and Ford Motor . Wall Street is ...

Ford Takes More Capacity Offline Because of Trucker Blockade in Canada

Text size Demonstrators against Covid-19 vaccine mandates block the roadway at the Ambassador Bridge border crossing, in Windsor, Ontario, Canada on Feb. 9. Geoff Robins / AFP via Getty Images Ford Mo...

This fund sold out of Facebook’s parent and PayPal before their earnings disasters. Here’s what it bought instead.

Facebook parent Meta Platforms was probably the least loved megacap tech stock before its slide over its weak first-quarter outlook, but its sheer size meant it was a widely owned holding — according ...

Tesla Finally Gets a Mention as Biden Talks Up Electric Vehicles

Text size President Joe Biden spoke in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images President Joe Biden just publicly said the T-word— Tesla —seeming to extend an olive branch to ...

Ford Confirms Production Will Be Rolled Back at Some Plants This Week

Text size Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images Ford Motor on Saturday confirmed reports that it would be rolling back production at some of its plants beginning this week, but the news wasn’t weighing o...

Rising Battery Prices Add Uncertainty to Electric-Vehicle Costs

Surging prices for the metals that make up electric-vehicle batteries have ended a decadelong decline that brought the cost of EVs to within spitting distance of gasoline-powered vehicles. Newsletter ...

Beat inflation with 3 stocks that bet against oil in favor of EVs and the renewable-power grid

The likelihood that lingering inflation and other factors lead to persistently higher oil prices leaves this stock picker focused on alternative energy and electric vehicles. Ivana Delevska, founder a...

This way of picking value stocks has actually worked — and Berkshire Hathaway screens the best

Amazon.com’s earnings surprise is the story of the day, pushing even the jobs report into second billing. More on that in a second. But the broader story of the markets is unchanged. Interest rates ar...

Ford Stock Falls After Earnings. What Wall Street Thinks.

Text size Ford’s Maverick in hybrid form, with 37 mpg combined. Ford photo Ford’s fourth-quarter earnings, reported Thursday evening, came in a little light and financial guidance for 2022 didn’...

Rivian Rescued Amazon Earnings—but Not Ford’s. Here’s Why.

Text size Courtesy of Rivian Amazon.com ‘s huge earnings beat was huge, but it wasn’t driven by consumer shopping or its cloud business. It was mostly driven by gains from its holdings of Rivian Autom...

Amazon holiday earnings blow away expectations (thanks to Rivian), stock spikes

Amazon.com Inc. executives thought that supply-chain and staffing concerns could wipe away their holiday profit. They were wrong. Amazon AMZN, -7.81% reported fourth-quarter profit of $14.3 billion, o...

How Rivian Rescued Amazon Earnings–But Not Ford

Text size Courtesy of Rivian Amazon.com ‘s huge earnings beat was mostly driven by gains from its holdings of Rivian Automotive stock. Ford Motor owns Rivian stock too. Like Amazon , it reported bette...

The party’s over for AMC and GameStop investors — but the luckier meme-stock winners are now bracing for a massive tax bill

When Jason Gutierrez kept refreshing GameStop’s performance between work tasks during the wild, early days of 2021, he admits future tax obligations weren’t his No. 1 priority. “It was in the back of ...

Opinion: Biden borrows too much, while America’s economy hollows out

It’s easy to be distracted by Russia’s provocations in Ukraine and the Federal Reserve’s new war on inflation but as the economy recovers from the delta and omicron variants, difficult post-pandemic c...

Ford Stock Jumps Because It Might Have Bigger EV Plans

Text size 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning Lariat. Courtesy Ford Ford Motor shares are trading near their daily highs on Tuesday after Bloomberg reported the company would spend more on vehicle electrificati...

Nio Deliveries Fell Last Month. What That Means for Tesla Stock.

Text size Deliveries for XPeng, Li, and NIO combined were down in January, snapping a two-month streak of gains. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images Electric-vehicle deliveries at NIO , XPeng , and Li...

Tesla, GM, and 3 Other Stocks That Could Be Best EV Plays

Text size Tesla stock is a pick for a play on autonomous driving. Jens Schlueter/Getty Images Electric vehicles are taking over. That spells opportunity for investors. The growth of EV sales is great,...

Why Electric-Component Supplier Wesco’s Stock Is a Buy

Demand for cloud computing, power from renewable sources, and electric vehicles, along with more extreme weather events, mean that electrical infrastructure will need extensive investment for years to...

What’s old is new again — the Dogs of the Dow are outperforming the stock market

The Dogs of the Dow strategy has been around awhile. It’s where investors pick the 10 stocks with the highest dividend yield in the Dow Jones Industrial Average at the end of the year, and invest equa...

When to stop investing in the stock market? Wild price swings are shaking the resolve of some: Is it time to bail out of equities and bonds?

Is it time to bail out of stocks and bonds? This isn’t the market that investors likely signed up for back in 2021 when shares in GameStop Corp. GME, +4.69% and movie chain AMC Entertainment Holdings ...

Weekend reads: Robinhood’s bad news — and a bit of good news

It’s been a year since Robinhood Markets Inc. HOOD, +9.65% briefly suspended “buy” orders for GameStop Corp. GME, +4.69%, AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. AMC, +3.72% and other meme stocks. The brokera...

Tesla Reported Record Profits. Its Stock Was Punished. It’s a Better Buy Than GM or Ford.

Text size The reaction to Tesla’s fourth-quarter earnings report was the worst to an earnings beat in its history. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg What the heck just happened to Tesla stock? Its shares go...

Tesla Stock Sinks and Cathie Wood’s ARK Gets Back to Buying the Stock

Text size The inside of a Tesla Model 3. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images Exchange-traded funds under the umbrella of Cathie Wood’s ARK Investment purchased 33,482 shares of electric-vehicle compa...

Tesla Earnings ‘Disappointed.’ Why Analysts Are Raising Their Price Targets.

Text size The inside of a Tesla car Model 3 is seen at a Tesla shop inside of a shopping Mall in Beijing on May 26, 2021. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images Tesla stock was falling Thursday after re...

Tesla’s Earnings Beat Was Better Than You Think. Here’s Why.

Text size Joe Raedle/Getty Images Tesla’s quarterly earnings call had everything: Robots, self-driving car claims, production updates and more. All that might have distracted investors from an importa...

Tesla Reports a Record Profit. Its Outperformance Was Below Average.

Text size Tesla earned $2.54 a share in the fourth quarter of 2021. Xiaolu Chu/Getty Images Tesla stock was bobbing around the break even line after the company reported better-than-expected earnings ...

Tesla’s Earnings Day Is Here. This Is the Real Number to Watch.

Text size Wall Street expects Tesla will earn about $2.36 a share for the fourth quarter of 2021. Xiaolu Chu/Getty Images investors expect Tesla to earn more than expected when it reports its fourth-q...

Tesla Earnings Are Coming. They Better Be Good.

Text size A Tesla EV drives through the Las Vegas Convention Center Loop ahead of the 2022 Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas this month. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images Trading in Tes...

Tesla Stock Is Getting Hammered. Here’s Where Shares Might Find Support.

Text size Tesla cars at one of the auto maker’s super-charging stations. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images The Tesla selloff turned into a bloodbath briefly Monday, leaving dazed bu...

Monday’s worst-performing stocks in the S&P 500 are down as much as 42% for 2022

Monday’s stock-market decline accelerated, and a closer look at the day’s worst performers highlighted painful double-digit year-to-date drops. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -2.92% was down a...

Rivian Stock Is Falling and Wall Street Isn’t Helping

Text size *** ONE-TIME USE *** Rivian Manufacturing Courtesy Rivian Stock in electric-truck startup Rivian Automotive has been decimated to start 2022. Dazed investors must be wondering what, if anyth...

Here’s one asset in an ‘up crash’ — and the stocks tied to it are lagging behind the move

There always seems to be an unusual commodity that captures the attention of the market. Last year it was uranium, which had both a theme — the need for clean energy provided by nuclear reactors — and...