An Alzheimer’s Drug’s Big Surprise: What It Means

Until this past week, there seemed to be no answers to the Alzheimer’s puzzle. The leading theory of the disease, that it was caused by a buildup of beta amyloid plaque in the brain, had been disprove...

Short U.S. stocks and short-term Treasurys until Halloween, Bank of America strategist says

Short U.S. stocks as well as short-term bonds until Halloween, a Bank of America strategist advises. Michael Hartnett, chief investment strategist at Bank of America Securities, said he’s a tactical b...

Price analysis 9/30: SPX, DXY, BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, ADA, SOL, DOGE, DOT

Equities markets have extended their decline, but Bitcoin and select altcoins have not given up much ground, leading some traders to believe that the bottom is in. The United States equities markets h...

How Low Will the Stock Market Go? S&P 3300 Might Just Be the Start.

The stock market desperately wants to put in a low. The Federal Reserve won’t let it. You wouldn’t know that from looking at the market this past week. On the one hand, U.S. economic data remains stro...

Lockheed Martin hikes dividend 7% as Ukraine war drags on

Lockheed Martin Corp. LMT, -0.90% said late Friday its board approved a 7% hike to the aerospace and defense company’s dividend. The company said it will pay a $3-a-share dividend, up from a pre...

Altria and Juul end noncompete deal: Here’s what that means for e-cigarette sales and marketing

Altria Group Inc. said Friday it has taken a step that extricates it from its noncompete arrangement with vaping company Juul Labs Inc., freeing both companies to pursue their own strategies. In a reg...

Stock-market turnaround? Why October is known as a ‘bear killer.’

While September lived up to its reputation as a brutal month for stocks, October tends to be a “bear-market killer,” associated with historically strong returns, especially in midterm election years. ...

AT&T maintains quarterly dividend, with yield above 7%

AT&T Inc. T, -1.22% said Friday it was keeping its quarterly dividend at 27.75 cents a share, payable Nov. 1 to shareholders of record on Oct. 10. With the telecommunications and media companyR...

‘Painfully slow capitulation’: Why investors keep getting inflation wrong

A brutal third quarter in financial markets came to a close on Friday and one thing is overwhelmingly clear: Inflation is the single most important factor driving asset valuations right now and yet fe...

‘We are in deep trouble’: Billionaire investor Druckenmiller believes Fed’s monetary tightening will push the economy into recession in 2023

Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller sees a “hard landing” for the U.S. economy by the end of 2023 as the Federal Reserve’s aggressive monetary tightening will result in a recession.  “I will be...

Rivian Gets Another Buy Rating. Why Analysts Are Overlooking Ford.

Text size Rivian and Ford have a lot of strategic similarities. Courtesy Rivian Electric truck maker Rivian Automotive picked up a new Buy rating, but the optimism for leading EV start-up stocks just ...

Hurricane Ian May Hurt Florida Properties, and Actually Help Insurers

When Hurricane Andrew hit south Florida on the morning of Aug. 24, 1992, insurance stocks opened down. But by noon they’d recovered and the sector closed up that day, recalls MKM Partners analyst Harr...

It’s the worst September for stocks since 2008. What that means for October.

September is traditionally the toughest month for stocks, but this one is shaping up to be the worst since 2008, during the bleak days of the financial crisis. Seasonally inclined investors may wonder...

Here’s why investors should start betting on Apple and the stock market now

Sometimes it pays not to dismiss market lore. They said September was usually bad. They were right. The S&P 500 SPX, -2.11% will enter the last trading day of the month having shed 7.95%. Worries ...

The SPAC Bubble Has Burst. 6 Stocks That Still Have Potential.

One year ago, investors couldn’t get enough of special-purpose acquisition companies. Now, they can’t dump SPACs fast enough. In 2021, some 613 SPACs came to market, two-and-a-half times as many as in...

Microsoft, Chevron and 3 Other Favorite Stocks to Buy, According to Advisors

For most of 2022, the market has been a grim place, with stocks swept up in the Federal Reserve’s war on stubbornly high inflation. But while the long-term outlook for markets might seem gloomy, indiv...

Bond Yields Are Finally Looking Attractive. What to Buy Now.

It has taken a historic selloff, but the bond rout may finally be winding down. Yields are also looking plump enough to be attractive again. A two-year Treasury now gets you 4.1%, a yield not seen sin...

Bank of America clients are buying the dip in U.S. stocks, shifting from cyclicals to defensive

In light of the recent U.S. stock market losses, Bank of America (BofA) saw more buying of equities among its clients during last week’s selloff, and there was a shift in who was buying and what they ...

Tesla Q3 Delivery Results Are Coming. What to Watch For.

Tesla third-quarter delivery results are coming, and while calling the Q3 delivery figure will be tough, calling the stock price reaction will be even harder. Given all the crosscurrents in the econom...

The Dow just joined the S&P 500 in a bear market: What investors need to know

The Dow Jones Industrial Average couldn’t outrun the bear. The blue-chip gauge on Monday fell 329.60 points, or 1.1%, to close at 29,260.81. That left the Dow DJIA, -1.11% 20.5% below its Jan. 4 recor...

A surging U.S. dollar is creating an ‘untenable situation’ for the stock market, warns Morgan Stanley’s Wilson

The U.S. dollar’s unrelenting surge is raising worries over corporate earnings, warned a closely followed Wall Street analyst, who noted that similar performances by the currency have historically led...

APEs sink toward new low after AMC discloses deal for sale of up to $1.4 billion worth of shares

Shares of AMC Preferred Equity Units APE, -5.87%, known as “APEs,” dropped 7.8% toward a new low in morning trading Monday, after AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. AMC, -14.52% disclosed a d...

Solar Panels Don’t Power Your Home and Other Insights From an Energy CEO

Text size Generac stock is down 51% year to date. Andreas Rentz/Getty Images Powering a home is getting more complicated as outages rise and options—such as solar panels, generators, and batteries—pro...

Morgan Stanley says investors should consider this port in the market storm right now

The great British pound selloff, credited with exacerbating a global rout for markets last week, looks set to continue wreaking some havoc on Monday. Economic woes in Old Blighty are adding to the mar...

Junk-Bond Yields Top 8%. It Could Be a Good Time to Buy.

High-yield bonds are finally living up to their name after the broad selloff in fixed-income markets this year. Better known as junk, the $1.5 trillion sector looks appealing, as yields have risen to ...

Will This Be Another ‘Lost Decade’ for the Stock Market?

Text size Investors are staring at a ‘lost decade.” NYSE After four decades of incredible performance, the stock market could be at the beginning of a lost decade. Yes, the S&P 500 has...

The Stock Market Is Reeling. How It Could Stop Falling Next Week.

Text size The S&P 500 is down 23% from its January peak. Getty Images After one of the worst weeks for the stock market in 2022, two factors could swing the market over the next few days and set i...

Why the ‘sell Rosh Hashanah, buy Yom Kippur’ trade is a tough call as stock-market selloff deepens

It might seem arbitrary to take investing advice from old market adages, but there is one market strategy commonly mentioned ahead of the Jewish holidays – “Sell Rosh Hashanah, Buy Yom Kippur.”  This ...

Price analysis 9/23: SPX, DXY, BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, ADA, SOL, DOGE, DOT

The strength of the U.S. dollar continues to negatively impact risk assets, but that did not prevent Bitcoin and select altcoins from staging a few strong rallies this week. The S&P 500 index has ...

The Stock Market Is Reeling. What to Watch This Week.

Text size The S&P 500 is down 23% from its January peak. Getty Images After one of the worst weeks for the stock market in 2022, two factors could swing the market over the next few days and set i...

Microsoft, Accenture, and American Tower Boost Dividends

Text size Microsoft, Accenture, and American Tower REIT lifted dividends. Gerard Julien/AFP via Getty Images Microsoft , Accenture , and American Tower REIT declared dividend increases this week in a ...

Stocks crashing? No, but here’s why this bear market feels so painful — and what you can do about it.

Hashtags about a stock-market crash may be trending on Twitter, but the selloff that has sent U.S. equities into a bear market has been relatively orderly, say market professionals. But it’s likely to...