Shares of Verizon Communications Inc. VZ, -0.48% rose 0.2% in premarket trading Tuesday, after the telecommunications company raised its quarterly dividend by 2%, to extend its lead has the highest-yi...
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Retail Stocks Got an Earnings Boost. Why There’s No Comfort in That.
Text size Many retailers are still struggling with the high inventories, with profits dragged down by pricier supply-chain and transport costs. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Investors breathed a sigh of ...
GameStop, Apple, Kroger, NIO, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week
Text size U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed on Monday for Labor Day. It’s a quiet week on the earnings calendar once investors return from the long weekend, but a few major economic-data rele...
Lucid Stock Takes a Tumble. Why? Look at the Shareholder Mix.
Illustration by Elias Stein Text size A sudden drop in Lucid Group ’s stock price highlights a key investing insight: Shareholder mix matters. The electric-vehicle maker’s shares (ticker: LCID) fell 6...
Bonds Are in a Bear Market. How to Play What Happens Next.
Text size A shift in Federal Reserve monetary policy has helped ratchet up bond yields, hitting prices. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Red-hot inflation and rising interest rates have hammered the globa...
‘The psychology has changed so quickly’: Why stock-market lows may be retested as S&P 500 enters its weakest stretch of year
With summer winding down, the U.S. stock market is set up for a potentially shaky fall. “Recession fears are the most likely trigger of a retest of the June lows,” said Ed Clissold, chief U.S. strate...
Opinion: The stock market is unrelentingly bearish but still nowhere close to triggering a ‘buy’ signal
The S&P 500 Index SPX, -1.07% has been in a bearish phase since the mid-summer rally fizzled out near 4,300 points. The declining 200-day moving average of the benchmark index happened to be close...
Dow Inc. and LyondellBasell Stock Won’t Outperform Soon, Says J.P. Morgan
Text size Dow Inc. and LyondellBasell were both downgraded at least two times this week. Alamy Dow Inc. and LyondellBasell Industries “are probably not the best places to put new money to work,” J.P. ...
Apple, Tesla and Amazon stocks in danger of 1st closes below 50-DMAs in nearly 2 months
Shares of mega-capitalization companies Apple Inc. AAPL, -1.36%, Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, -0.24% and Tesla Inc. AMZN, -0.24% are all falling toward losing streaks of at least five sessions, enough to pus...
Why an epic U.S. dollar rally could be a ‘wrecking ball’ for financial markets
The U.S. dollar is on a tear, hitting historic highs versus major rivals and sending ripples through global financial markets as investors see the Federal Reserve pressing interest rates higher in its...
The Stock Market Looked Ready to Recover Before Falling Apart. What Went Wrong.
Text size Jonathan Alpeyrie/Bloomberg August’s payrolls data was greeted with chants of “Goldilocks” for being not too hot and not too cold. Investors, however, forgot that “Goldilocks and the Three B...
U.S. stocks on track for biggest blown lead since April in final hour of trading
The S&P 500 is on track to book its biggest blown lead since April as the broad-market index is down nearly 1% in the last hour of trading on Friday, as news of a prolonged halt of natural gas flo...
The Stock Market Is in a ‘Super Bubble,’ Renowned Investor Jeremy Grantham Says
Text size Jeremy Grantham, shown in 2010. Daniel Acker/Bloomberg Famed investor Jeremy Grantham says the stock market is in the midst of a “super bubble.” That means prices are even more out of whack ...
Why Renowned Investor Jeremy Grantham Says Stocks Are in a ‘Super Bubble’
Text size Jeremy Grantham, shown in 2010. Daniel Acker/Bloomberg Famed investor Jeremy Grantham says the stock market is in the midst of a “super bubble.” That means prices are even more out of whack ...
What does Friday’s jobs report mean for the market? ‘Too hot’ and stocks could tumble, says market pro
With Federal Reserve Chair Powell last week reaffirming plans to keep raising interest rates to bring down inflation despite the risk of recession, Friday’s monthly U.S. jobs report may once again car...
Tesla Stock Takes Hit From Nvidia’s Warning About Business With China
Text size Production at Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory could face another supply problem in coming months. Xiaolu Chu/Getty Images Nvidia ’s new chip problem can impact shares of some chip custome...
NIO, other China-based EV maker stocks fall after August deliveries reports
Shares of NIO Inc. NIO, -8.21% fell 2.2% in premarket trading Thursday, even after the China-based electric vehicle maker reported August deliveries that jumped 81.6% from a year ago to 10,677 vehicle...
Hempacco stock debuts at more than 6 times the IPO price
Shares of Hempacco Co. Inc. HPCO, -34.32% blasted out of the gate Tuesday, as they opened more than 6 times the initial public offering price. The San Diego-based maker of herb, spice and cannabinoid ...
Jeremy Grantham warns ‘tragedy’ looms as stock ‘superbubble’ may burst
A “superbubble” appears dangerously near its “final act” after the recent rally in U.S. stocks lured some investors back into the market just ahead of potential “tragedy,” according to Jeremy Grantham...
Wall Street Analysts Rate Stocks With a Variety of Labels. Here’s How to Read Them.
Text size Wall Street analysts slap Buy, Strong Buy, Sell, Underperform, Neutral or other labels on stocks Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Ratings can be confusing. Analysts slap Buy, Strong Buy, Sell, Underp...