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...
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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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...