More Shoppers Buy Store Brands, Eating Into Big Food Companies’ Sales

Cost-conscious consumers are buying more store brands at the supermarket, raising pressure on big food companies that are dealing with their own rising costs. Lower-cost oatmeal, pickles, granola bars...

Restaurant Stocks Are Finally Coming Back. This One Looks Like a Good Bet.

Text size A recession, if one comes, would be particularly bad news for full-service restaurants. Saul Martinez/Bloomberg Recent market volatility can make anyone’s stomach queasy. Some restaurant sto...

Apple, Amazon, Meta Highlight Tech-Heavy Earnings Week

Tech giants Apple Amazon.com and Microsoft headline a busy earnings week amid growing investor fears of recession, rising interest rates and surging inflation. A little more than one-third of S&P ...

It’s the end of ‘fantasyland’ for Big Tech and its workers

After Big Tech grew in unprecedented and unchecked fashion for a decade, building ostentatious palaces to house growing workforces while plying them luxuriant freebies to keep them from defecting to r...

Buy Amazon Stock: It Could Double From Here

Amazon.com has reported earnings about 100 times since it went public in 1997. Every one of those quarterly reports has shown a growing company, despite plenty of ups and downs in the economy—and the ...

Opinion: The cloud boom is coming back to earth, and that could be scary for tech stocks

Cloud computing is widely viewed as a recession-resistant business, but the theory has not really been tested since cloud-service providers have not experienced a major economic downturn since becomin...

Opinion: As Snap melts down, its founders make sure to protect the people who matter: themselves

Snap Inc. has never been an investor-friendly company — as long as those investors weren’t its founders, at least — and the parent company of the Snapchat app made that even clearer Thursday. Amid a m...

Snap’s Earnings Are Thursday. Here’s What to Expect.

Text size In May, Snap lowered financial forecasts it had issued in April. Dreamstime When Snap reports its second-quarter results, investors will be watching closely to see how badly the weakening ec...

Stock Futures Drop, Implying Reverse in Earnings-Season Rally

Text size After two days of gains, investors are preparing for declines tomorrow. Spencer Platt/Getty Images U.S. stock futures were down Wednesday evening as markets appeared to reverse course follow...

Buying stocks now could bring you pain over the next few weeks. But you’ll be thanking yourself a year from now, these analysts say.

How bad is the mood out there right now? Try max bearish. So said Bank of America’s latest fund manager survey on Tuesday that showed expectations for profits and growth at recessionary levels. Yet Wa...

‘Hot inflation is over.’ Here’s where what that means for investors, says this portfolio manager.

A firmer start is ahead for stocks. Investors seem to be perking up after Apple spoiled the mood some on Monday via a report it plans to slow its hiring roll. If true, Apple AAPL, +2.39% has good comp...

A ‘who’s who of American business’ — big Wall Street names are marking the end phase of the bear market, says adviser

The good news about this bear market in stocks is that we’re more than halfway through it. The bad news is that we’re getting close to the final stage, when “everything must fall.” That’s according to...

Apple price target cut to $175 at Citi, which offers five reasons to keep buying the stock

Cautious consumers, macroeconomic worries and continued supply chain bottlenecks are going to work against Apple Inc. in the near term, but don’t give up on shares now. That’s the view from Citi analy...

iHeart, Audacy, Clear Channel Stocks Fall on Forecast of Ad Market Slowdown

Text size Stock in iHeart has lost about two-thirds of its value so far this year. Jason Kempin/Getty Images for Clear Channel The prospect of an imminent economic recession has triggered a rush to th...

Devon Energy’s Rick Muncrief: Barron’s Top CEOs 2022

Rick Muncrief, CEO of Devon Energy Christopher Goodney/Bloomberg Text size Richard E. “Rick” Muncrief was a relatively under-the-radar executive at a small oil-and-gas explorer before the Covid pandem...

Biden Dropping China Tariffs Could Be Good News for Tech Stocks

If President Joe Biden rolls back tariffs on Chinese exports, it could have bigger implications than the impact on inflation. The U.S. is considering dropping the levies started by Donald Trump in 201...

Mark Zuckerberg issues dire economic warning to Meta employees

Mark Zuckerberg has issued a chilling message to Meta Platforms Inc. employees: The company faces one of the “worst downturns that we’ve seen in recent history” that will necessitate a scaling back in...

The Best Income Investments Now

Income-oriented investors, it’s time to celebrate. There are suddenly many more opportunities—in areas ranging from junk bonds to real estate investment trusts—after the bear markets in stocks and bon...

Activision Stock Is a Bet on Microsoft’s Takeover. It’s One Worth Making.

Text size Gamers play a beta version of Activision Blizzard’s ‘Overwatch 2’ in a tournament in San Antonio. Sergio Flores/Bloomberg With mergers getting increased scrutiny, Microsoft picked a tough ti...

These 10 stocks in the S&P 500 lost $4.2 trillion of investors’ money during the first half of 2022

The first half of 2022 is over, and good riddance for investors: The S&P 500 Index declined 20.6%. Below are two lists of the worst-performing stocks in the S&P 500 SPX, -0.88% this year. Firs...

Google, Snapchat and 24 Other Tech Companies Get Lower Estimates by J.P. Morgan

Text size Google’s advertising should hold up relatively better than others, according to the analysts. Angela Weiss /AFP via Getty Images As consumer spending slows, fuel costs rise, and chance...

Wall Street’s favorite stock sector has potential upside of 43% as we enter the second half of 2022

At the midpoint of 2022, investors are looking at a remarkable change in stock valuations. The S&P 500 SPX has declined 20%, but the benchmark index’s forward price-to-earnings valuation has falle...

Oaktree’s Howard Marks is finding bargains: ‘I am starting to behave aggressively’

Stocks are mostly higher on Tuesday, with China to thank for some of that as the country announced the biggest easing in COVID travel requirements since about March 2020. China’s news may add to the s...

General Motors EV Partner Sees Director Buy More Stock

Text size MP Materials shares have slipped 21% so far this year Joe Buglewicz/Bloomberg MP Materials stock has slipped this year, and director Randall Weisenburger bought more shares of the rare-earth...

Alphabet and Meta Have an Ad Revenue Problem. What It Means for Their Stocks.

Text size The Google logo is seen with the rainbow flag in New York. Angela Weiss /AFP via Getty Images Alphabet, Meta Platforms, and other big tech companies have seen their valuations undergo a sign...

These dividend stocks yield at least 5% and have plenty of room to raise payouts

This year’s stock price declines make for an increasing number of stocks with high dividend yields of at least 5%. Below is a screen that highlights 29 that appear to be able to raise their payouts co...

This dividend fund is down 3% vs. S&P’s 20% drop. Here are its top stock picks

By now even the most ardent tech and growth-stock enthusiasts realize the bull market is over. John Kornitzer’s approach to selecting high-quality stocks for the Buffalo Flexible Income Fund is one th...

U.S. stock futures drop as Powell testimony looms, recession worries return to the spotlight

Recession worries were back in the spotlight for Wall Street on Wednesday, with equity futures and oil prices dropping, as investors looked ahead to Congressional testimony from Federal Reserve Chairm...

These software companies are unsung winners in the semiconductor industry

Mention semiconductors and chip giants such as Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and NVIDIA Corp. spring to mind, but there are other, less high-profile companies, operating in the space that d...

Why IBM is one of few tech giants that are actually gaining through the selloff

International Business Machines Corp., unlike many other tech giants, has been able to buck the sector’s selloff in recent months. Shares of IBM IBM, -0.79% are up 1.60% year-to-date, compared to 12.5...

‘The goal is never to seek the top’: The wild, hair-raising ride of a 30-something investor who battled against NFT hackers and dodged the crypto crash

Vinny Zane has a taste for life — and an appetite for risk. The 38-year-old teacher and father of a 2-year-old son on Brooklyn’s Coney Island got into crypto in 2017 with $4,000 worth of Bitcoin, and ...

Debt and Dividends Can Co-Exist. Here Are 5 Stocks That Shouldn’t Wilt.

Despite a hefty debt load, Deere has a healthy dividend-payout ratio that should allow its disbursements to continue. Courtesy of John Deere Text size Although a heavy debt load can sometimes crimp or...