Text size Only 30% of the indicators that typically light up before market bottoms are triggered today, according to Bank of America. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images The S&P 500’s 15% summer bou...
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Stocks Could Keep Rising If the Fed Shows Restraint
Text size As the market rebounds, speculative stocks are stirring. For proof, consider Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation ETF, up about 40% since mid-June. David Swanson/Reuters/Alamy What bear market? Stoc...
Why stock market bulls are cheering the S&P 500’s close above 4,231
The S&P 500 index on Friday finished above a chart level that delivered a dose of encouragement to stock-market bulls arguing that the U.S. bear-market bottom is in, though technical analysts warn...
Rivian Keeps 2022 Production Guidance Intact. The Stock Is Still Falling.
Text size The Rivian R1S should start shipping to customers in just a few months. Courtesy of Rivian Electric-truck maker Rivian Automotive reported a wider-than-expected quarterly loss, but more impo...
Have stocks bottomed? Not until this ‘gorilla’ in equity markets budges, warns BofA
Households, not hedge funds or major corporations, represent the biggest class of owners of the U.S. stock market. That matters because households, the “placid gorilla” in U.S. stocks, haven’t cut and...
Don’t Trust This Stock Rally. Strategists See More Trouble Ahead for S&P 500.
Text size Only 30% of the indicators that typically light up before market bottoms are triggered today, according to Bank of America. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images The S&P 500’s 15% summer bou...
Ford Raises Price for F-150 Lightning Electric Pickup Truck
Text size Ford’s F-150 Lightning truck previously cost around $40,000 to $90,000. It now ranges up to $96,874. Courtesy of Ford Ford Motor has increased the price of its electric F-150 Lightning...
Rivian Earnings Are Today. Production Is What Really Matters.
Text size The Rivian R1S should start shipping to customers in just a few months. Courtesy of Rivian Electric-truck maker Rivian Automotive is expected to report second-quarter numbers after the marke...
Why home prices can stay high, complicating the Fed’s battle against inflation
Sky-high housing prices still threaten to complicate the Federal Reserve’s inflation fight, even as America’s market for single-family homes shows signs of cooling in response to sharply higher intere...
The Nasdaq Just Entered a New Bull Market. Will It Last?
Text size The Nasdaq Composite is in a bull market, but still about 20% below its peak. Dreamstime After lagging behind the other major indexes for much of the first half of the year, the tech-heavy N...
GE Is Worth More in Pieces. Wall Street’s Math Shows Why.
Text size GE management is breaking up the company. Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg General Electric will soon be breaking into three parts, so Wall Street is starting to value the company on a sum-of-the par...
Tesla 500 mile range Semi truck to start shipping this year, followed by the Cybertruck next year, Elon Musk tweets
An earlier version of thisreport had an errant million in the headline. It has been corrected. Tesla Inc. TSLA, +3.76% CEO Elon Musk tweeted Wednesday that a Tesla 500 mile range Semi truck will start...
Rivian: ‘Zombie’ company or charging down a path to EV success?
This a crucial time for car maker Rivian Automotive Inc., as it battles for its place in the competitive electric vehicle market. Rivian Automotive Inc.’s RIVN, +2.48% stock price has fallen 64.6% thi...
Occidental Petroleum stock surges after Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway boosts stake by $390 million
Shares of Occidental Petroleum Corp. OXY, +3.95% rallied 3.6% in afternoon trading Tuesday, enough to pace the S&P 500’s SPX, -0.42% energy sector gainers, after the oil and natural gas comp...
Don’t be fooled by a drop in U.S. headline inflation. Markets will be attuned to another figure on Wednesday.
Traders, investors and economists are all counting on Wednesday’s consumer-price index report to show a decline in the annual headline U.S. inflation rate for July. But there’s another figure buried i...
Norwegian Stock Sinks as It Predicts Losses to Continue
Text size The cruise company predicted it would continue to be unprofitable in the third quarter. Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters/Alamy Shares of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings fell sharply Tuesday after ...
Why the S&P 500’s ‘bounce within a bear market’ could fizzle before it hits 4,200
Add another voice to the growing chorus of naysayers about the staying power of the recent rally in U.S. equities. The stock market’s rally since the Federal Reserve’s last jumbo rate hike in late Jul...
Lemonade stock pops after earnings as insurance company plans to slow spending growth
Shares of Lemonade Inc. LMND, +4.32% were up more than 8% in after-hours trading Monday after the company, which provides renters’ insurance, car insurance, and more, posted a narrower loss than...
Clover Health stock drops after mixed earnings, announcement of impending CEO change
Shares of Clover Health Investments Corp. CLOV, +4.29%, which offers insurance plans to Medicare Advantage members, were off more than 6% in after-hours trading Monday after the company delivered a mi...
A surging stock market is on the verge of signaling a ‘huge’ move — but there’s a catch
The pace of the stock market’s rise as it continues a bounce off the June lows is nearing a magnitude that’s preceded “huge” moves in the past. The dilemma for investors is that those moves can be in ...
Tesla unveils timing of 3-for-1 stock split, stock up 1.7% premarket
Tesla Inc. TSLA, +5.16% said it will conduct a 3-for-1 stock split that will give shareholders of record as of Aug. 17 a dividend of two additional shares of common stock on Aug. 24. Trading will begi...
What Stocks Are Moving Monday? Tesla, Palantir, First Solar and More.
Text size Tesla shares rise early Monday. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Stock futures were trading higher Monday with investors assessing how aggressive the Federal Reserve will be in its ef...
Stock-market investors wrestle with ‘boomflation’ after hot July jobs report
The worry instead turned to what a rip-roaring labor market and surging costs for everything means for stocks and bond portfolios, particularly if it turns into a mix of higher growth and inflation wi...
The Math Behind GE’s Breakup. It’s a Sum-of-the-Parts Party.
Once the mightiest of industrial conglomerates, General Electric is breaking into three pieces and it is time to value each of the businesses. That means doing a sum-of-the-parts, or SOTP, valuation. ...
The red flag that preceded a halving of global equities in 2000 and 2007 is back, warns Citi
We are a day away from data that could prove a turning point for markets. If Wednesday’s CPI doesn’t reveal some slowing in prices, expectations will rise for a bigger Fed rate hike in September, poss...