Beyond Meat Plans to Lay Off 4% of Global Workforce

Beyond Meat is cutting 4% of its global workforce, saying the layoffs are part of its plan to reduce costs as inflation prompts consumers to buy less-expensive protein. The California-based company, w...

Berkshire Buys Buffett Successor’s Stake in Prized Utility Unit

Text size Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images Berkshire Hathaway bought a 1% stake held by Vice Chairman Greg Abel in the company’s big electric utility business for $870 million in cash, hig...

Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway reports $44 billion loss as portfolio value falls

Warren Buffett’s company reported a $43.76 billion loss in the second quarter as the paper value of its investments plummeted and he bought significantly fewer stocks, but Berkshire Hathaway’s many op...

Buy PayPal Stock. The Battered Payments Company Is Starting to Perk Up.

Anyone who bought PayPal Holdings stock last summer may be ruing the day. Despite popping a bit this past week, the shares, at $97, are still off 68% from their highs around $308. Memories of the stoc...

Berkshire Hathaway Beats Estimates for Second-Quarter Profits

Text size Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett added slightly to stakes in Apple and Chevron. Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg Berkshire Hathaway ’s operating profits rose 39% in the second quarter, topping e...

SoftBank Is Ready to Slash Its Massive Stake in Alibaba. Here’s Why.

Text size SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son was a major early investor in Alibaba. Koki Nagahama/Getty Images SoftBank is positioned to sharply sell down its stake in Chinese tech giant Alibaba through a...

Pfizer in Advanced Talks to Buy Global Blood Therapeutics for About $5 Billion

Pfizer is in advanced talks to buy Global Blood Therapeutics the maker of a recently approved drug for sickle-cell disease, for about $5 billion, in the latest move by the drug giant to bolster its po...

Fuel cell-powered truck maker Hyzon’s stock suffers record plunge after accounting questions raise delisting fears

Shares of Hyzon Motors Inc. were suffering a record plunge toward a record low Friday, after the maker of fuel cell-powered trucks disclosed a “myriad of issues,” including accounting regularities tha...

What a Buyback Tax Means for Apple, Meta, and Microsoft

Text size Arizona Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema Drew Angerer/Getty Images Democratic party leaders struck a deal with moderate holdout vote Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, moving their climate and healthcare bi...

Twitter Stock Is Downgraded. Analyst Needs Just One Sentence to Explain Why.

Text size Twitter stock is downgraded given uncertainty over the company’s pending acquisition by Elon Musk. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Twitter stock received another downgrade on Friday, fuel...

New Buyback Tax Will Force Companies to Think Twice on How to Use Cash

In the scrap over how to fund President Joe Biden’s spending plans, the Democrats’ focus has shifted from taxing private funds to public at the last minute. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D., Ariz.) backs dropp...

Buy GE Stock as a Breakup Looms

So, it comes to this— General Electric once arguably the greatest of American companies, will cease to exist, at least as the industrial titan it once was. After more than 20 years of decline, the com...

Warner Bros Discovery Had an Ugly Quarter. It’s Combining HBO Max and Discovery+.

In its first quarter as a combined company, Warner Bros. Discovery missed Wall Street’s estimates across the board, saw streaming subscriber growth slow, and watched its leverage rise. Warner Bros. Di...

Warner Bros. Discovery stock slammed after earnings debut

In its first earnings report since bringing in HBO Max and other WarnerMedia properties, Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. on Thursday missed revenue expectations by roughly $2 billion and reported a large ...

Zillow is almost done selling homes, but stock slumps as the hard part is still to come

Zillow Group Inc. is almost done selling all the homes it bought in a flurry that led to a flameout of its iBuying business, but its plans for the future led to shares plunging in extended trading Thu...

A Recession Is Coming. These Are the Stocks to Hunker Down In.

Eli Salzmann loves nothing better than finding a company that’s a “dog of a stock with no momentum” but on the verge of better days. At its core, that is what value investing is all about. Over the co...

Airbnb stock falls sharply despite earnings beat, plan to repurchase $2 billion in stock

Airbnb Inc. said Tuesday that it had its first profitable second quarter as a public company, and that it is so confident in its business that it is buying back $2 billion of its stock. “Our Q2 result...

BP raises dividend and buyback after profit surge

BP PLC BP, +3.29% on Tuesday reported that its profits rose further in the second quarter of the year, and increased both the dividend and the quarterly share buyback. The multinational energy group m...

Cathie Wood’s Ark Bought More Roku Stock. This Analyst Sees 24% Downside.

Text size Cathie Wood of ARK Invest has Roku as one of the biggest investments in her funds. Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg Roku’s earnings report last week sent shares into a free fall, but Cathie Woo...

Apple Borrows Money to Buy Back Stock. What That May Say About the Bond Market.

Text size A new Apple store in London, shown in late July. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Apple is gearing up for a four-part bond sale to fund stock buybacks. Apple (ticker: AAPL ) is planning to use the p...

Nikola to Buy Battery Maker Romeo Power for $144 Million

Listen to article (2 minutes) Electric-truck startup Nikola said it has agreed to buy battery-technology company Romeo Power in an all-stock deal that values Romeo at roughly $144 million. Nikola said...

Did Buffett Buy More Apple Stock? Berkshire’s Earnings Should Make It Clear.

Text size Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Warren Buffett went on a buying spree in the stock market during the first quarter, when Berkshire Hath...

Buy or Sell Apple Stock After Its Strong Earnings? 5 Reasons to Pick It Up.

Text size Apple has had to grapple with supply chain challenges and rising interest rates. Photo by DANIEL SLIM Apple ’s better-than-expected earnings report helped shake off investor concerns about h...

Job switchers saw a greater increase in salary than people who decided to stay put. Here’s what’s at stake.

It pays to look around. The number of job switchers reporting wage gains has expanded while the number of job stayers reporting wage gains actually contracted as inflation exacts its toll, according t...

A Spirit Deal Is Finally Here. Why J.P. Morgan Says Sell the Stock.

Text size Spirit stock is up more than 17% in 2022. Joe Raedle/Getty Images JetBlue reached a deal to purchase Spirit on Thursday, but while that company prepares to buy Spirit for $33.50 a share, J.P...

Lockheed Martin Stock Is Up for the Year. Director John Donovan Bought Shares.

Text size Lockheed Martin stock has logged gains this year, and a director scooped up shares on a recent dip. Gretchen Lemke/Lockheed Martin Corporation Lockheed Martin stock has performed nicely this...

Twitter v. Musk: Why the Court of Chancery Will Never Order Specific Performance.

Text size A court could compel Tesla chief executive Elon Musk to purchase Twitter, but could it compel him to operate it in the best interest of shareholders? Al Drago/Bloomberg About the author: Car...

Paramount stock drops after bearish call by Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs weighed in with a skeptical view of Paramount Global Inc. Tuesday, writing that the current economic backdrop could complicate the media company’s streaming objectives. “We have not chan...

Nancy Pelosi’s husband sells $4 million worth of Nvidia stock at a major loss

The husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sold more than $4 million worth of shares in software and computer-chip company Nvidia NVDA, +7.60% this week, publicly available financial disclosures show. ...

Buy Warner Bros. Discovery, But Sell Paramount, Goldman Says. Here’s Why.

Text size Combining and relaunching the HBO Max and Discovery+ services as well as cutting costs can be tough for WarnerMedia. Dreamstime Investors should buy Warner Bros. Discovery stock because the ...

Uber and 10 Other ‘Busted IPOs’ That Could Still Have Value

Text size Of the top five 2021 IPOs ranked by size, all are in the red versus original offering prices, including Rivian Automotive. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Investors often clamor for access to b...

Alibaba Plans to Move Its Stock to Hong Kong. Others Will Follow.

Text size Alibaba says it has filed to change its primary stock listing to Hong Kong rather than the U.S. AFP via Getty Images Alibaba Group Holding on Tuesday said it has filed to change its primary ...