This fund has increased its dividend for 56 straight years. Now it’s snapping up GE.

Markets are nearing the end of a tough week, with one more hurdle to go after Fed Chairman Jerome Powell set investors straight on his willingness to go to the mat on inflation. Next up is Friday’s no...

AMC asks NYSE and FINRA to ‘look closely’ at the trading of its stock

AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. has asked the New York Stock Exchange and FINRA to look closely at the trading of its stock, according to CEO Adam Aron. “Many of you, and we, are aware that AMC Entert...

Powell’s comments slammed markets. Here’s what one bank sees for stocks, bonds.

The market really took Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s words at face value on Tuesday. Short-term yields rose, and the stock market slumped, with this comment: recent data suggest “the ultimate ...

Why the stock-market rally can keep going, says Morgan Stanley strategist who only recently warned of a death zone

On the heels of last week’s losing-streak breaking rally, investors look headed for the sidelines on Monday. Apart from an underwhelming growth forecast from China over the weekend that’s knocking oil...

Ford to raise production as U.S. auto sales start to recover

Ford will increase production of six models this year, half of them electric, as the company and the auto industry start to rebound from sluggish U.S. sales in 2022. The automaker announced Friday tha...

Ignore Wall Street’s gloom. Stocks do better when earnings fall: strategist

Adios to February, which disappointed many stock investors who enjoyed a bullish start to the year. But fears of a bigger meltdown by those swept up in Wall Street gloom may be in vain, says our call ...

GM to Axe Hundreds of Jobs. But It’s Not About Cutting Costs.

General Motors is cutting salaried and executive staff positions, after saying earlier this year that it didn’t plan layoffs. GM (ticker: GM) representatives on Tuesday said the cuts affected a small ...

AMC stock tumbles after 14th consecutive quarterly loss, fourth straight year in the red

AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. reported a loss for a 14th consecutive quarter and fourth consecutive year Tuesday, and shares fell in after-hours trading. The movie-theater chain and meme-stock pheno...

Opinion: Ford’s pact with Chinese EV battery maker is a sucker punch to American taxpayers

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin made national headlines recently when he rejected a Ford Motor F, +1.30% factory in a struggling part of the state, owning to Ford’s partnership with Contemporary Ampe...

This is what Warren Buffett, a self-described ‘so-so investor,’ says is his ‘secret sauce’

Stocks are rebounding on the heels of a rotten week — the worst since December for the S&P 500 SPX, +1.15% and the Nasdaq Composite COMP, +1.39%. And as Wall Street analysts go dark, with talk of ...

How big is the storm in cloud? Salesforce, Zoom and Snowflake will tell you

Is a cloud recession forming on the horizon? Markets could soon find out as some of the biggest names in the cloud-software business report earnings in the week ahead after a storm for their stocks. T...

Bonds are right and stocks are wrong. Here’s what you should do about it, says BlackRock

The final session of Wall Street’s holiday-shortened trading week will see the S&P 500 open pretty much smack in the middle of the 3,800 to 4,200 range it’s inhabited for more than three months. D...

Stellantis Stock Rises After Earnings Top GM, Ford, and Even Tesla

Stellantis finished up 2022 stronger than expected. By some measures, the company had a better year than even Tesla Stellantis stock climbed in early Wednesday trading. Stellantis (ticker: STLA) repor...

Want to play the lottery? These are the most speculative stocks of the year, by one measure

It’s 13-F season, which means the world gets to find out most of what the world’s top fund managers have been up, on a tape-delay basis. The likes of Warren Buffett and Carl Icahn it is fair to say ar...

The peak of this market rally is almost here, says JPMorgan. Time to ditch U.S. stocks, and buy these instead, says Wall Street giant.

Roses are red, violets are blue, will CPI turn into the stock market’s Waterloo? The inflation data showed higher prices remain sticky, even if overall pressure eased a bit. The stock market seems to ...

AMC CEO Adam Aron eyes 2023 hike in movie releases, touts ‘path to eventual pandemic recovery’

AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc.’s path to recovery will be helped by an increase in movies released in theaters this year, according to CEO Adam Aron, who noted that 35% more movies will be released i...

Here are five companies to pick if Goldman Sachs is right about the stock market being flat in 2023

Hearts, flowers and CPI data. Get ready for Tuesday. And hell hath no fury like a disappointed Wall Street. The last time CPI let the markets down — last September — stocks melted down like chocolate....

Bed Bath & Beyond had a rough week. Here’s what could happen next.

It has been a tumultuous week for Bed Bath & Beyond Inc., as the troubled company averted bankruptcy with what has been described as an “unusual” equity offering.  The home-goods retailer and meme...

Ford Stock Is Falling. This Is Why.

Stock in Ford Motor has had a strong start to 2023, but the shares have slid since the company reported fourth quarter earnings, when CEO Jim Farley lamented profits his company left on the table in 2...

Bed Bath & Beyond equity offering ‘one of the most unusual financing situations we have witnessed,’ analyst says

Bed Bath & Beyond Inc.’s BBBY, -8.13% unusual equity offering may have averted bankruptcy for the time being, but big challenges remain for the troubled retailer, according to KeyBanc Capital Mark...

This nearly 150-year-old fund hasn’t cut its dividend since 1938. Here are the stocks it likes, and four it doesn’t.

Markets are stuck, as evidenced by Thursday’s session in which early gains were met with closing losses. There really wasn’t a rhyme or reason to it, with Tuesday’s CPI report likely the North Pole to...

Bed Bath & Beyond’s lifeline comes at ‘incredible cost’ to shareholders, analyst warns

Bed Bath & Beyond Inc.’s equity offering may be a lifeline as the troubled retailer teeters on the brink of bankruptcy — but it could spell trouble for the company’s shareholders, according to Wed...

No wonder Powell didn’t commit to extra hikes. Here are five reasons the January jobs report may be too good to be true.

Traders took heart that Fed Chair Jerome Powell, when he wasn’t being questioned by David Rubinstein on how he gets by on $190,000 per year, didn’t commit on Tuesday to having to be even more aggressi...

The stock market is a ‘drunken psycho.’ Why this hedge-fund manager is shorting some of the market’s biggest stocks.

Stocks are struggling for traction ahead of a few words from Fed Chair Jerome Powell, who will make his appearance this afternoon, just days after moonshot jobs data. Our call of the day from the pres...

A Successful EV Start-Up Needs Cars, Capacity, and Cash

The company that provided the chassis for the original Tesla Roadster has reimagined itself as an electric-vehicle start-up. The market doesn’t have much love for EV start-ups in general these days, b...

Bed Bath & Beyond stock surges in revenge of the meme stocks that lifts AMC

Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. led a revenge of the meme stocks Monday, with shares rallying 92%, but the stock turned around hard in after-hours trading as executives announced plans to sell convertible ...

The next few days may reveal whether investors have been riding one big suckers rally, says this strategist.

Stocks are off to a weaker start as caution grips investors following Friday’s monster jobs beat. While subject to revisions, that 517,000 surge in U.S. jobs may have shredded hopes among some that th...

Ford Mach-E Sales Fall 45%. The Reasons: High Prices, Incentive Confusion.

Text size Ford sold 2,626 Mustang Mach-E electric vehicles in January, down from 4,775 in December. Scott Olson/Getty Images Electric-vehicle sales at Ford Motor dipped to start the new year, showing ...

Coinbase and Others Are Set for a GameStop Moment in Crypto Stock Short Squeeze

There is a short squeeze going on in beaten-down stocks across the cryptocurrency sector. All it takes is a quick look at the likes of Coinbase Global and Silvergate Capital to see that ‘ GameStop -st...

Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Ford, Nordstrom, and More Stock Market Movers

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Ford Missed Earnings, Will Pay Special Dividend, and Sold Rivian Stake

Ford Motor’s earnings for the fourth quarter weren’t good enough even though guidance for 2023 was just about right. The stock is falling even as strong cash flow has the company paying a special divi...

Ford logs $2 billion loss in 2022, says profit was left ‘on the table’

Ford Motor Co. late Thursday reported a $2 billion loss for the year and mixed quarterly results, blaming “deeply entrenched” shortcomings around costs and systems that put the brakes on its hopes to ...