6 Defensive Healthcare Stocks for 2023

As investors face another uncertain year for public equities, large-cap healthcare stocks remain an attractive defensive play. They offer a shot at insulating capital from the downturn many still expe...

Bill Miller Is Still Bullish on Bitcoin—and a Lot More

Professional athletes like to retire after a good run. Legendary value investor Bill Miller is taking a different route. Miller, 72, is sticking with the plan he announced in January to hang up his in...

Is a 2023 stock-market rebound in store after 2022 selloff? What history says about losing years.

History shows back-to-back losing years for the stocks are rare — but the size of the market’s drop in 2022 with no sign the Federal Reserve is ready to ride to the rescue means investors should bewar...

AT&T Stung Investors by Spinning Off Warner Bros. Discovery

AT&T ‘s April decision to parcel out its big interest in Warner Bros. Discovery to all shareholders, rather than giving them the option of receiving an equivalent amount of the phone company’s sto...

Disney, Amazon May Join an Unenviable Club of 44 Stocks

Amazon com was trading lower on Tuesday, putting it within a hair’s breadth of closing below its pandemic low. Walt Disney waffling between small gains and losses, is in the same territory. With the S...

Tesla Stock Just Keeps Falling. The ‘Chart’ Is in Control.

Tesla stock was weak again despite the likelihood CEO Elon Musk will step down as head of Twitter, and earnings estimates for 2023 are staying remarkably stable. Investors are scrambling. They can’t, ...

Why the Bank of Japan’s surprise policy twist is rattling global markets

Anchors aweigh? The Bank of Japan sent shock waves through global financial markets Tuesday, effectively loosening a cap on 10-year government bond yields in a surprise move seen as potentially pointi...

Arcus Biosciences, Gilead shares are down after sharing data about new lung cancer drug

Shares of Arcus Biosciences Inc. RCUS, -27.76% were down 17.2% in premarket trading on Tuesday, the day after the company said the experimental treatment for metastatic non-small cell lung cancer that...

Ford Stock Falls. A $1.7 Billion Truck-Rollover Trial Is a Distraction.

Ford Motor has a legal hearing set to start Monday related to a product liability case that resulted in a $1.7 billion punitive award against the auto maker. Investors seem to be a little nervous abou...

Viking Therapeutics’ stock rallies after Madrigal shares positive data about its liver drug

Shares of Viking Therapeutics Inc. VKTX, +77.61% jumped 55% in premarket trading on Monday after a company that is also developing a selective thyroid hormone receptor beta agonist as a treatment for ...

Barron’s 10 Top Stock Picks for 2023

The stock market is coming off its worst year since 2008, but it was finally a good year for value investing—and it was a good year for Barron’s favorite picks, as well.  Every December for the past 1...

The Crypto Ice Age Is Here. What’s Ahead for Bitcoin.

For crypto investors, the only thing to celebrate about 2022 is that it is almost over. The industry is fighting for its life amid a cascade of scandals, bankruptcies, and fury in Washington over its ...

Tesla’s Elon Musk Has a Finance Lesson For Investors. They Disagree.

There is little time off for investors following Tesla these days. The weekend before Christmas is no exception. In the past couple of days, there have been more tweets about the electric-vehicle make...

Why Atlanta Tops the Hottest 2023 Real Estate Markets

Atlanta is hot. Georgia’s capital tops the National Association of Realtors’ list of markets to watch in 2023, based on 10 metrics, including housing affordability, employment conditions, and populati...

DraftKings Is Questioned by the Market. Citi Says the Stock Is a Buy.

DraftKings doesn’t get enough credit from the market, says one Citi analyst, citing the company’s ability to grow as more states legalize online sports betting. In a research note issued Thursday, Cit...

The stock market is tumbling because investors fear recession more than inflation

A stock-market paradox, in which bad news about the economy is seen as good news for equities, may have run its course. If so, investors should expect bad news to be bad news for stocks heading into t...

Nucor, CVS, and 11 More Companies That Raised Their Stock Dividends This Week

Eli Lilly Amgen Nucor and Franklin Resources were among the many companies that declared dividend increases this week. Eli Lilly (ticker: LLY) declared a quarterly payout of $1.13 a share, an increase...

Still a bear market: S&P 500 slump signals stocks never reached ‘escape velocity’

The S&P 500’s close below 3,900 on Thursday signaled the stock market’s rally off the October lows was merely a “tactical bounce,” according to a top Wall Street chart watcher. “The market’s 20-da...

What can we expect from meme stocks AMC, GameStop and Bed Bath & Beyond in 2023?

Meme stocks AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc., GameStop Corp. and Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. have had an eventful 2022, but what can we expect from them in 2023? AMC AMC, -5.18% and GameStop GME, +1.07%...

Stocks Could Return About 10% in 2023—But First, They’re Going to Fall

For U.S. investors, 2023 could seem like two years wrapped in one, with the stock market first falling in anticipation of a recession, only to rebound as the outlook improves toward 2024. The one cons...

The Fed Is Making a Mistake—and the Stock Market Will Pay the Price

We all make mistakes—but the Federal Reserve may be making a bigger one than most. That could mean another difficult year for the stock market in 2023. Those concerns were front and center this past w...

Barron’s 10 Favorite Stocks for 2023

The stock market is coming off its worst year since 2008, but it was finally a good year for value investing—and it was a good year for Barron’s favorite picks, as well.  Every December for the past 1...

Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, and T-Mobile: A Peek at 2023 for Telecom Stock

Charter Communications sent a shudder through the world of telecommunications stocks on Tuesday evening. It held investor day that promised billions of dollars of additional network spending over the ...

The Crypto Ice Age Is Here. It Could Get Even Worse.

For crypto investors, the only thing to celebrate about 2022 is that it is almost over. The industry is fighting for its life amid a cascade of scandals, bankruptcies, and fury in Washington over its ...

BioNTech upgraded to buy on high hopes for combined flu/COVID vaccine and oncology pipeline

Bank of America analysts upgraded BioNTech SE stock to buy from hold on Thursday, citing excitement about its mRNA technology and the outlook for a combined flu/COVID vaccine and oncology vaccines tha...

Stocks could face another explosion of volatility Friday as $4 trillion of options expire in ‘quadruple witching’

Stocks have been on a wild ride this week, and conditions could still get weirder as traders brace for “quadruple witching” on Friday, when a flurry of equity options and futures contracts expire. In ...

Tesla Stock Isn’t Out of the Woods Yet. There Are Too Many EVs.

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Stocks are closing out a dismal 2022 as the Fed fights inflation. Here’s what history says comes next.

Stock-market investors have plenty of reasons to feel gloomy heading into 2023: Inflation is still high, the housing market is sputtering and the Federal Reserve just raised interest rates by another ...

Lucid Secures EV Batteries, But the Stock Falls Anyway

Electric vehicle start-up Lucid is securing electric-vehicle batteries ahead of its product line expansion. The stock isn’t getting any benefit though. Tesla might be to blame. On Tuesday, Lucid (tick...

Oracle’s ‘practically perfect’ earnings report sends stock higher

Oracle Corp.’s cloud offerings and its Cerner business were highlights of the software company’s second-quarter results, analysts say. Oracle ORCL, -0.89% beat Wall Street’s top- and bottom-line expec...

Opinion: Opinion: The Fed should pause rate hikes since inflation has slowed — it won’t

The Federal Reserve should declare an immediate cease fire in its war against inflation and hold its benchmark interest rate steady instead of raising the federal funds by a half percentage point to a...

Tesla Stock Fell Again. Here’s Where It Could Be Headed Next.

Tesla stock is down again, and investors once more are pointing fingers at Twitter. Fixing Twitter might not be enough to fix shares of the electric-vehicle giant, though. Technical stock market analy...