Tesla Stock Is Almost Up in 2023. There Are a Couple of Reasons for the Rally.

It took two days for Tesla stock to enter a new bull market. That’s surprising action given some of the recent news, which hasn’t sounded good. But there are a few reasons why the shares are on the ri...

The Dow takes ‘important first step’ toward a new bull market

Don’t dis the Dow Jones Industrial Average just because it’s made up of only 30 stocks, because if the stock market bounces back from last year’s selloff, it’ll be the Dow that leads it. With the Dow ...

Occidental, Moderna, and 22 Other Stocks Set to Lag the Market in 2023

There are dozens of overvalued stocks that are good bets to lose big over the coming year. You may be surprised that there are any overvalued stocks left in the market at all. Hasn’t the bear market a...

Stocks Rallied Dramatically. It’s Still a Bear Market

This commentary was issued recently by money managers, research firms, and market newsletter writers and has been edited by Barron’s. Bear-Market Rallies Technical Strategy BTIGNov. 11: Thursday...

Traders are loading up on bets against the stock market — and this time, it’s not a contrarian signal, says Citi

Markets continue to absorb the reverberations from this week’s Federal Reserve policy decision. The S&P 500 SPX has given up a chunk of its latest rally after Chair Jerome Powell suggested it was ...

How Low Will the Stock Market Go? S&P 3300 Might Just Be the Start.

The stock market desperately wants to put in a low. The Federal Reserve won’t let it. You wouldn’t know that from looking at the market this past week. On the one hand, U.S. economic data remains stro...

Kraft Heinz’s Earnings Beat Forecasts. Why the Stock Is Falling Anyway.

Text size Kraft Heinz posted second-quarter adjusted earnings that beat Wall Street expectations. Alex Wong/Getty Images Kraft Heinz posted higher earnings than analysts expected and raised its full-y...

Read for the Fed Preview. Stay for the Trouble Brewing in the Mortgage Market.

Recent inflation data are something of a game-changer for monetary policy. Expectations for what will come out of the Federal Reserve’s meeting this week and beyond have quickly ratcheted higher, spel...

It Might Not Be Time to Buy Stocks Yet. This Technical Analyst Sees the Market Going Even Lower.

Text size Michael Nagle/Bloomberg The major U.S. stock market indexes have lost roughly 12% to 25% this year, a painful setback after two years of gains. Time to buy? Not so fast, based on a technical...

The Stock Market Has Tumbled. The Best Stocks to Buy Now.

Investors are on pace for their worst year in history, declared strategists at one U.S. bank this past week. Their reasoning? Stocks and bonds are off to terrible starts, while consumer prices have ro...

Gold Is Heading Higher as Inflation Rages. Why the Next Stop Could Be $3,000 an Ounce.

Gold bugs have been a lonely bunch, but that may be starting to change. In the past week, gold made another run at $2,000 a troy ounce, a level above which it has closed only once, back in August 2020...

Bitcoin Prices, Other Cryptos Fall—and Why One Trader Sees a Tumble to $30,000

Text size Bitcoin and the rest of the crypto space has come under pressure amid a shift in Fed policy. Rutmer Visser/Dreamstime Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies slipped lower on Monday, continuing t...

Missed the Dip in Stocks? Where to Find Yields of 3% to 6%.

I sneezed, and missed the buying opportunity in stocks. The S&P 500 was down 13% at one point this year. It ended the first quarter with a loss of just 4.6%, including dividends. But all of the ba...

Apple, Tesla, and 98 Other Growth Stocks That Are Getting Their Groove Back

Text size Apple stock fell 18% from Jan. 3 to March 14. Dale Del La Rey/AFP via Getty Images Growth stocks like Apple and Tesla have had quite the time these past four months–retreating, then roaring....

Tech Stocks Get a Bear-Market Scare. What Could Come Next.

As Russian forces were pouring over the border into Ukraine, the tech sector briefly tumbled into a bear market on Thursday. Both the Nasdaq 100 and the Nasdaq Composite fell enough that morning to ex...

Stock market faces the most ‘massive misallocation’ of ‘capital in the history of mankind,’ says ARK’s Cathie Wood

Cathie Wood, the star fund manager and chief executive of ARK Invest, took to CNBC to defend the woeful performance of the manager’s suite of disruptive innovation funds. Wood told the business networ...

Facebook Stock Is Rising. Today’s the Day It Might End Its Slide.

Text size Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms Alex Wong/Getty Images Wednesday just might be the day that shares of Meta Platforms , the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, bounce off rock bo...

Opinion: The 60%-40% portfolio will deliver anemic returns over the next decade — here’s how to adapt

We have entered a new paradigm of anemic return expectations for traditional asset-allocation models. The prospects of a lost decade ahead are uncomfortably high for portfolios that are 60% invested i...

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...

Stock Market Suffers Worst Week Since 2020. Here’s What Comes Next.

Text size The decline has been painful for investors who have been trained to buy on the dips. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg A bad start to 2022 just got a whole lot worse. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ...

Alibaba Stock May See Its Worst Day of 2022. Here Are Two Reasons Why.

Text size Alibaba stock has outperformed much of the tech sector so far in 2022. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images Alibaba stock is poised to take one of the biggest tumbles of the year Tuesday as inves...

Tech Is Falling Again. Why Apple, Tesla, and Other Tech Stocks Are Still Buys.

Text size Apple and other tech stocks have had a rough start to 2022. They could still be good picks. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Tech stocks are getting slammed yet again, for familiar reasons. Inve...

‘We absolutely believe Ether’ surpassing bitcoin’s total market value ‘can happen this year,’ says ETF expert: ‘The bull case is an Etherum ETF in 2022’

Hello there! The Invesco QQQ Trust QQQ is up over 2% so far this week. That is not where many investors would have bet that the popular exchange-traded fund would be trading now based on the wild acti...

Nasdaq Composite ends 3 percentage points from correction, as investors react to Fed, Friday’s jobs report

U.S. stocks ended lower Friday, in a turbulent session that concluded with all three major benchmarks suffering weekly declines, following a monthly jobs report whose headline figure came in far below...

Alibaba Stock Rises — as Other Tech Tumbles — Even as It Gets a Price Target Cut

Text size Alibaba investors were taken on a wild, ugly ride in 2021. Could 2022 be different? Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images Tech stocks have been tumbling. In a surprise twist, Alibaba is doing rema...