Verizon raises dividend, to extend lead as highest-yielding Dow component

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...

Al Gore’s Firm Bought Up Microsoft, Shopify Stock

Text size Al Gore’s investment firm, Generation Investment Management, made big bets on Microsoft and Shopify stock. Ian Forsyth/Getty Images Al Gore’s investment firm recently made some big cha...

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 ...

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...

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...

Should You Buy Target Stock? Yes, Its Problems Won’t Last Forever.

Fashion is fickle, even for trend-friendly Target . But the trend might get friendlier for the stock as it looks to put 2022 behind it. It seems everything that could go wrong for Target (ticker: TGT)...

The Nasdaq’s 6-day slide explains jitters over ‘bull-market’ head fakes

The U.S. stock market swoon that took hold in late August is demonstrating why last month’s declarations of the start of a new bull market for the beaten-down Nasdaq Composite were treated as suspect....

Penn National dropped from S&P 500 for one of America’s largest institutional landlords

The S&P 500 index will ditch part of its bet on sports gambling in favor of a different business: renting houses. S&P Dow Jones Indices announced late Friday that it will replace Penn Entertai...

U.K. Tobacco Company Imperial Brands Is a Good Bet Against Inflation

Tobacco companies as a whole have historically been one of the most recession-resistant industries. Dreamstime Text size Stockholders have had a rough time this year, with surging inflation and fears ...

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. ...

3M’s Next Problem For Investors Could Be The Dividend.

Text size 3M’s CEO says the dividend is a high priority for the company. Chona Kasinger/Bloomberg 3M investors have had to endure a lot lately, with a slowing economy, rising inflation, and toug...

Where Is the Stock Market Going? It Could Have a Messy Fall.

If 2022 were to end tomorrow, or the day after, it would enter the books as a dismal one for investors. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 13% year to date, the S&P 500 index is off 17%, and...

Bull Market or Bear Market. Investors Are Trying to Decide

GMO’s Jeremy Grantham has warned of a ‘superbubble’ that’s about to burst. Lane Turner/The Boston Globe/Getty Images Text size Unlike traders, the most stressful part of my day comes at 4 p.m., just a...

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 ...

Tesla Stock May Slip, but an Analyst Sees a Buying Opportunity

Text size Analysts have raised Tesla price targets since a stock split at the end of August. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images Piper Sandler analyst Alexander Potter sees “crosscurrents” that cou...

Why a Bearish Money Manager Likes Gambling Stocks and Is Ready to Dump Apple

Dan Niles thinks the stock market is headed lower. Maybe a lot lower. A Stanford University–trained electrical engineer who once worked at the old minicomputer giant Digital Equipment, Niles has focus...

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...

3M Plans Job Cuts to Rein in Expenses as Legal Troubles Grow

Text size 3M suffered a legal setback last week when a judge denied a motion that would have limited payouts. Alamy 3M , the maker of Post-it notes and Scotch tape, plans to eliminate jobs in a cost-c...

The bear market in stocks has a long way to go, this money manager warns. Here are the 2 strategic moves he’s making.

As if everyone isn’t tense enough, bubble expert Jeremy Grantham is warning that we’re in the last throes of a superbubble that’s about to burst. (In fairness, he’s been crash calling for roughly a de...

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...