Gold at $10,000? Death of the 40-year bull market in bonds? What’s next for the global financial system after Russia’s central bank gets cancelled

The shockwaves are still being felt by the incredible Western sanctions that have rendered the $630 billion in reserves the Russian central bank accumulated virtually unusable. Can the current dollar-...

Remember the stock market before the war in Ukraine? JP Morgan says negativity is overblown, offers 4 hedges

“Markets appear to have been trafficking in an odd mix of hope, fear and uncertainty.” That was Mizuho Bank, summing up the state of play for markets since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine nearly three we...

A New Meme-Stock Frenzy Led AMC to Gold Mine Stake

Day traders looking to capitalize on commodity price volatility catalyzed a chain reaction that ended with movie theater giant AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc.’s unusual deal to take a stake in a gold-...

AMC stuns investors with investment in gold and silver mine as it puts $1.8 billion war chest to work

AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. surprised investors Tuesday with the news of an investment in a gold and silver mine that is well outside of its core cinema business. The company is buying 22% of Hycr...

Portfolio manager with 50 years of experience shares 1970s bear-market lesson, and three stocks to buy now

A previous version of this column gave the incorrect date for the Fed policy decision. The story has been corrected. Investors looking at their screens this morning might feel a bit of relief, with oi...

Ford Stock Is Down For a Very Odd Reason. No, Production Guidance Wasn’t Cut.

Auto investor nerves are frayed as they deal with Russia, inflation and the persistent chip shortage. Scott Olson/Getty Images Text size Automotive News incorrectly reported over the weekend that Ford...

Whether or not a bottom is in, here’s what will ride to the stock market’s rescue over 12 months, one strategist forecasts

So, is this it? After the powerful 2.6% rebound for the S&P 500 SPX, -0.43% on Wednesday, is the bottom in? Arguing yes is Mark Newton, head of technical strategy at Fundstrat, who notes that whil...

At Ford, the Chip Shortage Isn’t Getting Any Better. There Are More Output Cuts.

Text size The Ford company logo is displayed on a sign outside of the Chicago Assembly Plant on February 03, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson/Getty Images The semiconductor shortage that is cons...

Ford Is All In on EVs. One Analyst Isn’t Buying It.

Text size Ford SUVs on a sales lot. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Ford Motor made waves this week, announcing plans to create separate business units inside the company, one for electric vehicles and t...

Ford CEO Shuts Down EV Spinoff Rumors. The Ford Family Won’t Let It Happen.

Ford Motor CEO Jim Farley told investors Wednesday there were no plans to spin off his company’s electric vehicle business. That shouldn’t be a surprise. The Ford family is unlikely to ever let an EV ...

SEC proposes new rule requiring short-sellers to disclose their positions monthly

Gary Gensler has been circling short-sellers for months, and now the Securities and Exchange Commission chief is looking to make a big move. Under a new rule proposed by the SEC Friday morning, some i...

GM Stock Has Tumbled. Director Patricia Russo Bought Up Shares.

Text size GM director Patricia F. Russo (Photo by Monica Schipper/Getty Images for Women’s Forum of New York) Monica Schipper / Getty Images General Motors stock has tumbled in 2022, and directo...

Ford Stock Is Rising on Reports of an EV Spinoff. Steer Clear of the Rumors.

Text size A Ford Motor plant. Courtesy Ford Ford Motor stock is rising in early Friday trading after Bloomberg reported the company might spin off its electric-vehicle business. This isn’t the first r...

6 Stocks for a 2022 of Higher Interest Rates and Slower Earnings Growth

Don’t let inflation fears dominate your investment thoughts. Save time to worry about earnings growth, too. Below, some statistical bellyaching and portfolio defeatism, plus one Wall Street bank’s top...

Inflation has knocked back the market. Here are the key S&P 500 and tech stock levels one strategist fears.

Investors are still trying to come to grips with that double whammy of nosebleed consumer prices and 100-basis-point increase talk from St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard. Read: Oil is ...

Ford Stock’s Rally Is Fizzling. Why Its Stock Is Still a Buy.

Text size A Ford Mustang at a charging station during the Washington Auto Show in January. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg Al Drago/Bloomberg Wall Street is starting to act like this is as good as it...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...