If this stock market is shaping up like 2008, here’s where we could be headed next, says strategist

Those looking for a bit of good news to start the week may have to cast the net further out. Stocks are tilting lower as COVID-19 cases flare up in China, threatening more lockdowns. And the plate was...

Bed Bath & Beyond Insiders Scooped Up Stock After an Awful Quarter

Text size Bed Bath and Beyond insiders snapped up shares of the home-goods retailer. Erin Cadigan/Dreamstime.com Everything but the kitchen sink has seemed to go wrong at Bed Bath & Beyond , but t...

Coal Is on Its Way Out, Despite Supreme Court EPA Ruling

Text size A NextEra Energy wind farm in Whitewater, Calif. Bing Guan/Bloomberg The U.S. utility industry’s shift from coal and toward renewables likely will be unaffected by a recent Supreme Court rul...

Big Banks Report Earnings This Week. Here’s What Wall Street is Watching.

Text size CEO Brian Moynihan says Bank of America is always prepared for a recession because it has no choice but to be ready, Davis Turner/Getty Images The big banks start to report their earnings th...

Will earnings season trigger another leg lower for the Dow? Investors hunt for recession clues

Stock-market investors just can’t get off the merry-go-round this summer. A stronger-than-expected U.S. June jobs report on Friday calmed fears that the economy might have already slipped into recessi...

American Weed Stocks Are Cheap and About to Get a Sales Bump

The AdvisorShares Pure US Cannabis ETF is down 25% in the past month, while the S&P 500 dropped 7%. Courtesy of Trulieve Text size However bad the year has been for most stocks, it’s been especial...

Earnings Season Won’t Make or Break the Stock Market

Text size Investors will get the first earnings news from the big banks, which start reporting on July 14. Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg Earnings season is about to begin, and that means the stock market ...

Stock Outlook Brightens as Jobs Stay Strong, Commodities Prices Decline

Text size The jobless rate held steady at 3.6% in June. Above, looking for work at a job fair in Florida. Joe Raedle/Getty Images The economy looks resilient, and inflation is coming down. That combin...

How to Bottom-Pick a Stock

Text size Chewy stock has gained 63% since we made it a pick. That’s every trader’s dream, but it requires getting the timing right—and a whole lot of luck. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Buying winning stoc...

JPMorgan, Delta, Morgan Stanley, TSMC, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

Text size Second-quarter earnings season is here. More than a dozen S&P 500 firms report this week, including several major banks. JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley go first on Thursday, followed ...

GE Stock Gets a Big Cut but Investors Shrug It Off

Text size GE wind turbines. Sebastien Salom-Gomis/AFP via Getty Images The stock market is said to be forward looking. That seems to be the case headed into second-quarter-earnings season. Stocks are ...

Home prices may still rise, but car values are set to fall from pandemic peak: Goldman

Homes and vehicles are two big-ticket items that most American families will require financing to obtain. There’s some good news — and bad news — when looking at both assets in the next two years, acc...

Tesla Stock Stands to Gain if Musk Succeeds in Ending Twitter Deal

Text size Elon Musk announced he his ending his deal to buy Twitter, but the social media company said it plans to enforce the agreement. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images If Elon Musk succeeds in endin...

These 10 stocks from a sector that is a bear-market bulwark have upside potential of up to 30%

During times of uncertainty, it can help to look at what happened during other down cycles for stocks. True, we don’t know when the stock market will hit bottom during this cycle, or if it already has...

The Stock Market Had a Great Week. Can the Good Times Last?

Text size *** ONE-TIME USE *** People attend the Mega Job Fair held at the FLA Live Arena on June 23, 2022 in Sunrise, Florida. The job fair had 8,000 jobs available from 100 different employers and e...

Digital World stock surges after Elon Musk terminates Twitter purchase

Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp. were rocketing 17% in after-hours trading Friday after Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk said he was terminating his $44 billion deal for Twitter Inc. . Di...

Buy Watsco Stock. The Air-Conditioning Stock Is Ready to Heat Up.

Watsco has paid out a dividend for 48 consecutive years and raised it every year since 2013. Dreamstime Text size The temperature is rising, but shares of air-conditioning distributor Watsco have cool...

Berkshire Hathaway Director Ron Olson Scooped Up Shares

Text size Attorney Ron Olson walks to a session at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference in July 2021. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images A longtime director of Berkshire Hathaway snapped up the stock...

Want to Hide Out in Tech? Buy IBM Stock, Morgan Stanley Says.

Text size IBM stock has outperformed the broader market this year. Andreas Arnold/Bloomberg One of the best-performing tech stocks in 2022 has been IBM , as the company continues to show progress on a...

A GE Bear Looks Into 2023. He Doesn’t Like What He Sees.

Text size The General Electric logo is displayed on the outside of jet-engine test tunnels. Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg We are in the second half of the year, and 2022 earnings estimates will start to giv...

Tesla Still Tops the EV List. Here’s Who Makes the Most.

Text size The top five EV makers account for about half of global production. Chris Delmas / AFP via Getty Images More electric cars are being sold around the world, and companies including Volkswagen...

Fisker launches financing arm for vehicle, home-charger purchases

Shares of Fisker Inc. FSR, +4.28% edged up 0.1% in premarket trading Thursday, after the electric vehicle maker unveiled a direct-to-consumer digital financing platform, Fisker Finance, that will offe...

Ford’s F-150 Electric Truck Is Red-Hot. What It Means for the Stock.

Text size Ford F-150 Lightning electric-powered pickups. Courtesy of Ford One day, you’re going to regret letting the current market crisis pass without taking advantage of battered stock prices. You ...

Rivian Electric Trucks Outsell Ford F-150 Lightning, Stock Soars

Text size Rivian delivered 4,467 vehicles in the second quarter, up 264% from the first quarter. Courtesy Rivian Rivian Automotive gave investors an update on production that quickly sent the stock hi...

S&P 500, Nasdaq book 3rd day of gains after Fed minutes point to another big rate increase this month to tackle inflation

U.S. stocks end higher Wednesday after minutes of the Federal Reserve’s June policy meeting signaled another big interest rate-hike is likely later this month despite the risk of slowing economic grow...

U.S. homeownership rate tumbles to 1980s levels

High prices for everything from groceries to gas aren’t the only things making this year feel like a throwback to the 1980s. After almost a decade of gains, homeownership in the U.S. also has slipped ...

Anheuser-Busch InBev Stock Has Had It Tough. Why an Analyst Says It’s a Buy.

Text size Anheuser-Busch InBevh as been seeing ongoing strength in its core Latin American markets. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Investors have had little to cheer when it comes to Anheuser-Busch InBev s...

Ford F-150 Lightning Sales Jump While Mach E Sales Dip.

Text size Sales of Ford’s F-150 Lightning pickup truck increased to about 1,800 units in June. Courtesy Ford Ford Motor released U.S. sales figures for June on Tuesday, and sales of its all-elec...

Alibaba Stock Is Rising Again. Why Chinese Tech Could Keep Outperforming.

Text size Alibaba stock had a tough run in 2021. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images Alibaba  lost almost half of its market value last year while the S&P 500 gained more than 25%, disappointing inves...

Ford U.S. sales jump in June to buck industry declines, but stock falls toward 17-month low

Shares of Ford Motor Co. F, -1.60% dropped 4.6% toward a 17-month low in morning trading Tuesday, even after the automaker reported a year-over-year jump in U.S. vehicles sales for June despite ongoin...

Here’s how far house prices are set to fall as rates go up, according to this forecasting firm

Stocks are veering south post holiday, following earlier optimism over reports President Joe Biden may lower tariffs on some Chinese goods to help ease the inflation sting. There isn’t much to explain...

The Stock Market Is Closed Today. It’s Dropping Anyway.

Text size The stock market roller-coaster ride continued Monday even with trading in the U.S. closed for the Fourth of July holiday. Lie Ma/Xinhua via Getty The stock market is dropping even though it...