XPeng Stock Gets Another Downgrade. It’s Becoming More Controversial Than Tesla.

Shares of pure-play electric vehicle producers can be controversial on Wall Street. High-growth car stocks can be difficult to value when the traditional auto players trade for less than seven or eigh...

Raytheon Stock Named a ‘Best Idea’ for 2023

As the calendar turns to December, investors are thinking about stocks for 2023. Brokerage firm Cowen likes Raytheon Technologies shares for the new year, calling it a “best idea” and a top aerospace ...

Elon Musk Email Was Old News. He Still Likes His Advice For Managers.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk looked to have some welcome news for investors. But it was old news. All that investors can take away from a Saturday tweet is Musk doesn’t like a lot of meetings. An email from Mu...

Second-Largest U.S. Pension Buys Up Rivian, Snowflake, Airbnb, and Noble Stock

America’s second-largest public pension by assets recently increased its investments in some of the market’s more volatile stocks. The California State Teachers’ Retirement System doubled its stakes i...

Black Friday Has Lost Its Punch for Retailers and the Economy

This commentary was issued recently by money managers, research firms, and market newsletter writers and has been edited by Barron’s. Black Friday Said What? Talking Points BMO Capital MarketsNo...

Stock Market Looks Poised to Rally as Bond Yield Falls

Text size Michael Nagle/Bloomberg The worst may be over for the stock market. Key equity indexes continued their autumn rally, and there could be more gains before the end of the year, helped by conti...

TJX, Lowe’s, and Home Depot Stocks Have Soared. Further Gains Might Have to Wait.

Retail stocks—and earnings—are showing signs of life. But even though it is retail’s busiest season, this isn’t a great time to buy.  Shares in retail companies, as measured by the VanEck Retail excha...

Apple’s iPhone Issues Could Hit Revenue. Why Analysts Say Not to Worry.

Apple is facing delivery problems for some iPhones as issues at a critical factory in China continue. But analysts are playing down the potential long-term impact on the company. Apple (ticker: AAPL) ...

Oil Stocks Rally Despite Falling Prices. Why People Are Buying.

A unique phenomenon has been playing out in the oil market: Oil stocks have risen 5% in the past month even as the price of oil has fallen 9%. The divide could mean that oil stocks are set for a downw...

Lesser-known ways to reduce your 2022 tax bill or boost your refund

Charles Taylor | Getty Images 1. If your income is higher in 2022, defer your bonus into 2023 If you’ve had a strong year and expect lower earnings in 2023, you may try to defer a holiday bonus ...

Is the Stock Market Open Today? Here Are the Hours for Black Friday.

Instead of gearing up to trade Thursday, investors may be defrosting their Thanksgiving turkeys—and clipping coupons ahead of Black Friday. This year, Thanksgiving and Black Friday come after two days...

Top Advisors Share the Best Financial Moves to Make Now

It’s easy to get swept up in how stocks, bonds, or your portfolio performed today, this month, or this year, and that’s especially true during market upheavals. But a longer-term view is required to a...

Alibaba and Other Chinese Stocks Keep Rallying. A Big Risk Is Being Ignored.

Alibaba and other Chinese tech stocks appear to have reversed a brutal two-year slide this month. Investors betting on a rebound may be ignoring the risk of China’s “zero Covid” policies and just how ...

Is the Stock Market Open Today? Here Are the Thanksgiving and Black Friday Hours.

Instead of gearing up to trade Thursday, investors may be defrosting their Thanksgiving turkeys—and clipping coupons ahead of Black Friday. This year, Thanksgiving and Black Friday come after two days...

Citigroup, Manchester United, Nordstrom, Tesla and more

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading Wednesday: Citigroup — The stock dropped 2.3% after Citigroup was told it must address weaknesses in its management of financial data by U.S....

Berkshire Scores Big With Japanese Investments. Currency Hedge Is Key.

One of Berkshire Hathaway ‘s bigger investment scores in recent years was the purchase of a group of five Japanese trading companies that now are showing an estimated profit of about $4 billion on an ...

Stocks Have Already Bottomed. How We Know.

The ride upward won’t be easy, but there are mounting signals that the stock market has already hit its low point.  For starters, the S&P 500 is down 17% from its all-time high of 4796 hit in earl...

It’s Time for the Stock Market to Worry About Recession

The stock market is so over the Federal Reserve—but that doesn’t mean it’s out of the woods just yet. Attention is now turning to the U.S. economy—and whether it sinks into recession will determine if...

Al Gore’s Firm Dumps Intel Stock. It Also Sold Shopify and Microsoft Stock.

The investment firm co-founded by former vice president Al Gore recently made some big trades in the largest holdings of its portfolio. In the third quarter, Generation Investment Management sold all ...

Apple Isn’t Recession Proof. The Stock Could Have a Tough 2023.

To be clear, I’m an Apple fanboy, and have been for years. I have a pair of Mac laptops, an iPhone 13 Pro Max, and an Apple Watch. I subscribe to Apple Music, Apple Photos, Apple News, and Apple TV+. ...

Match Group Stock Has Been Knocked Down. It’s Time to Pick It Up.

Online dating has been a heartbreaker for investors in Match Group this year. The stock, however, now looks like a keeper. It hasn’t been an easy year for Match (ticker: MTCH). Its stock has fallen 65...

Fed Tightening Is Having More Impact Than You Might Think

We’ve learned a lot about the transmission of disease in the past few years. Ideas, good and bad, are spread similarly. Robert Shiller, the Yale University Nobel laureate, wrote in Irrational Exuberan...

Schwab’s Liz Ann Sonders Sees Trouble Still Ahead. Where to Invest Now.

Though the U.S. stock market looks healthier than it did during its rough patch over the summer, Charles Schwab Chief Investment Strategist Liz Ann Sonders sees potential trouble still ahead, especial...

The Stock Market Has Stopped Worrying About the Fed. It’s Time to Worry About Recession.

The stock market is so over the Federal Reserve—but that doesn’t mean it’s out of the woods just yet. Attention is now turning to the U.S. economy—and whether it sinks into recession will determine if...

It’s Been a Rough Year for Stocks and Bonds. What to Do in 2023.

With more than a month to go, 2022 is all but certain to go down as an annus horribilis for both stocks and bonds. The crucial question for investors: What does that portend for the year ahead? The re...

GM Has a New Business: Fixing Tesla EVs.

General Motors said something surprising at its investor day in New York City on Thursday. Fixing Teslas is a growing business for the 114 year-old auto maker. That’s right. GM (ticker: GM) dealers ar...

Sell Tesla Stock on ‘Any Rally to $200’

Tesla has been a remarkable stock for a really long time. Not so much in 2022. Investors could use some good news, and some could be on the way. There’s a big headwind to worry about, though. Tesla (t...

Elon Musk Has the Next Tesla CEO in Mind. There Are a Few Candidates.

Tesla board member James Murdoch said Elon Musk knows who could run  Tesla after him. It might have been a throwaway line said while being questioned in a trial. Still, it’s a chance for investors to ...

The Fisker Ocean Is a Reality. Why It’s Not Just Another EV.

Today is the day, the day when production of the all-electric Fisker (ticker: FSR) Ocean SUV begins. Fisker is not Tesla It’s a small EV start-up that will only deliver a handful of cars in 2022, but ...

Ford Shows That Reshoring U.S. Manufacturing Is Happening

Reshoring is a term industrial investors are becoming as familiar with as outsourcing. Outsourcing manufacturing to the regions of the planet with the cheapest labor to drive lower prices for consumer...

Retirement savers seeking safe havens within 401(k) plans may rue it

Yongyuan | E+ | Getty Images Data suggests some retirement savers are seeking out safe havens within their 401(k) plans. But the move may hobble those investors in the long run; in fact, it may have d...

Buy American Tower, Crown Castle, and SBA Communications Stock. The REITs Look Ready to Rebound

Certainty during rocky macroeconomic times deserves a premium. Predictable and dependable profits are exactly what cell-tower real estate investment trusts provide, and yet their stocks are selling at...