Toyota Revs Up Race With Tesla

Toyota TM 0.29% finally has a product to compete with Tesla. Despite an awkward name and mixed reviews, the bZ4X could be the most consequential electric vehicle launched this year. Toyota’s first pur...

In a ‘baby with the bathwater’ market, here are a dozen unfairly punished stocks, ripe for a bounce

Another equity selloff is brewing as a warning from Snapchat’s parent has triggered broader panic, with fears Snap is the next canary in the coal mine for tech. Or it just may be another excuse to sel...

Robinhood and 4 Other Broken IPO Stocks That Could Be Buys

After a bubbly year for initial public offerings, 2022 looks like a bust. Shares of many companies that came public last year are down 80% or more from their peaks. “This is the IPO market’s worst sel...

The technician who called the 2020 market bottom says a ‘shocking rally’ is in store

It’s been a terrible week in an awful year for the stock market. Walmart WMT, -0.82%, Target TGT, -0.62%, and Tencent 700, +3.53% each reported disappointing results to add fuel to the worries about i...

Why Consumers Will Buy Ford’s F-150 Lightning, According to Analysts

Text size The stakes are high for Ford’s new F-150 Lightning. Courtesy Ford The Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck is one of the most significant vehicle launches in U.S. history. Americ...

Will the stock market drop 20% or 48% from the peak? Here’s the key factor, says this strategist.

“Is the economy under control or is it spiraling out of control? That’s the million-dollar question traders continue arguing over,” sums up CrackedMarket blogger Jani Ziedins. Clearly, the latter argu...

Why this investor who paid $650,000 to lunch with Buffett isn’t buying or selling stocks right now

It’s 13-F season, and you’re not going to find many like Guy Spier’s Aquamarine Capital in the first quarter —- zero buys, zero sells. “Pathetic, isn’t it,” quips Spier in an interview. Spier says he ...

Here’s what just happened that triggers stock market drops 71% of the time, warns Credit Suisse

Wall Street’s in an unusually bullish mood Tuesday morning. Tim Holland, chief investment officer at Orion Advisor Solutions, argues the market has just notched two peaks. Last week, the Labor Departm...

Gloomy Goldman offers 20 ‘safety’ stocks with valuations below the previous 2 bear markets

It’s tight quarters in Wall Street’s bear sleuth these days. Goldman Sachs just downgraded their 2022 U.S. growth forecast (to 2.4% from 2.6%) and 2023 (to 1.6% from 2.2%), as senior chairman Lloyd Bl...

Renault Sells Russia Business to State-Backed Entity for One Ruble

PARIS—French auto maker Renault SA has reached a deal to cede its 68% stake in Russia’s biggest car maker to a state-backed entity for one ruble and a six-year option to buy back its shares, according...

This portfolio manager’s strategy uses just one ETF and his own ‘crash indicator’ to beat the market by 530%

Markets are off to a stronger start on Friday, but it’s been a rough few days, with the S&P 500 facing a six-week losing streak, its longest in a decade. With a war raging in Europe, surging price...

GM and Ford Get Double Downgrades to Sell. Wells Fargo Sours on EVs.

Text size Ford F-150 Lightning electric truck Courtesy of Ford The auto industry is all-in on electric vehicles. Wells Fargo isn’t so sure that’s a great idea. Wednesday evening, analyst Colin Langan ...

Rivian stock dives into record-low territory after Ford disclosed it sold more than $200 million worth of shares

Ford Motor Co. showed how the early bird gets the worm, as the automaker would have raised a lot less from the sale of Rivian Automotive Inc. shares if it waited for the opening bell to start selling....

Morgan Stanley’s done better than most forecasting markets during this turbulent year. Here’s what it says is coming next.

Wall Street analysts are the types who get to the airport with hours to spare. Year-ahead previews come in before Thanksgiving, so it can’t be too huge a surprise that Morgan Stanley has released its ...

Buy GM Shares, But Not Ford or Tesla. Here’s What One Analyst Says.

Text size GM looks to be the preferred U.S. auto maker pick among Wall Street analysts, with about 85% of analysts covering the stock rating it a Buy. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Investors are bearis...

Yes, GM Needs to Do More to Challenge Tesla. But the Stock Is a Buy.

General Motors has grand ambitions and a cheap stock. That could be a winning combination for investors. But to realize it, the pace of the giant car maker’s electric-car launches must catch up to the...

Toyota Is Trying to Catch Up in the Crowded EV Race. It May Be Too Late.

Toyota Motor became the world’s most successful car company through the spirit of kaizen, or continuous improvement. Now, with electric vehicles on the rise, kaizen might prove to be its undoing. Kaiz...

This trader predicted the bond meltdown, tech selloff and oil’s surge. Here’s what she says is coming next.

Fade the Fed anyone? Stocks are headed south, following a big Wall Street rally stemming from perceptions Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and co. may be less hawkish than markets think. A short-li...

How to Hitch a Ride on the Porsche IPO

Porsche POAHY 2.09% was more profitable than ever in the first quarter. Investors will have to wait until the fall for its initial public offering, but there are indirect ways to get in early. Volkswa...

Redbox stock surge continues, but don’t call it a short squeeze

Shares of Redbox Entertainment Inc. were continuing their massive surge Monday, which analysts saw as reflective of increased investor comfort in the wake of recent financing announcements as well as ...

Storied VC says investors are unlearning the lessons of the last bull market. Jeff Bezos says you should listen.

Investors are mustering some courage following the worst month since the pandemic, and Friday’s session that ended with the Dow DJIA, -2.77% tanking nearly 1,000 points and the S&P 500 SPX, -3.63%...

‘So bad, it’s good.’ This beleaguered stock market has one big asset on its side, say strategists.

A rough month for stocks is drawing to a close, and many investors likely won’t be sad to see the back of it. And the last day of April trade is looking weak as Apple and Amazon failed to raise the ba...

Rivian Killed Ford Earnings. Now It’s Crushing Amazon’s.

Text size Rivian’s wild stock swings are distorting earnings at both Ford and Amazon. Courtesy Rivian Ford Motor and Amazon.com were early investors in Rivian Automotive . They still own Rivian ...

Boomers are leaving the stock market. Here’s what comes next, says this strategist.

Stocks are in the green for Thursday, with Facebook parent Meta Platforms in the driver’s seat after less disastrous than feared results. Gains are a bit less than what stock futures were promising th...

Ford Posts $3.1 Billion First-Quarter Loss, Maintains 2022 Outlook

Ford Motor Co. F 0.95% swung to a net loss of $3.1 billion in the first quarter, a reversal largely driven by a steep loss in valuation of its stake in electric-vehicle startup Rivian Automotive Inc. ...

Ford’s Earnings Took a Huge Hit From Rivian. Wall Street Is Happy Anyway.

Text size Ford’s shares have moved about 7% or 8%, up or down, on average after the past four quarterly reports. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Ford Motor reported first-quarter earnings that mode...

The bond market has crashed. Why one strategist says embrace the pain and get back in.

Investors are more or less trained to think about assets in stock-market terms. That is, a correction is a 10% drop from its peak, and a bear market is 20% drop, etc. But not all assets are equal. In ...

A secular bear market is here, says this money manager. These are the key steps for investors to take now.

Turnaround Tuesday is looking wobbly, as stock futures slip ahead of big earnings from Microsoft MSFT, -2.70% and Alphabet GOOGL, -2.86%, after the market close. Those results could provide a fresh ca...

Ford Hurries Out F-150 Lightning to Grab Share of Electrics Market

The latest electric vehicles offer the power to charge household devices or other EVs using the energy stored in the car’s battery. WSJ’s George Downs explores how some companies are developing vehicl...

Big Pension Sells GM and Nvidia Stock. It Bought Ford and Intel.

Text size GMC vehicles Brandon Bell/Getty Images Alabama’s pension has made some intra-sector trades among its bigger investments. Retirement Systems of Alabama slashed an investment in General Motors...

The stock market selloff still has another 20% to go, says the godfather of liquidity

As the meat of earnings season begins, it’s worth noting what investors have learned so far. The short version is, apart from a few isolated companies (cough, Netflix, cough), not a whole lot: the pro...

As Putin eyes a date to declare victory, here’s a Ukraine scenario that could slam stocks by another 10%

Stocks are set to get a major bump on Thursday, thanks to blowout results from Tesla, which go some way in easing the sting over Netflix disappointment. With earnings sharply in focus for now, market ...