General Motors EV Partner Sees Director Buy More Stock

Text size MP Materials shares have slipped 21% so far this year Joe Buglewicz/Bloomberg MP Materials stock has slipped this year, and director Randall Weisenburger bought more shares of the rare-earth...

Wall Street bear who called stock-market selloff sees S&P 500 up another 7% before turning lower

Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson is one of Wall Street’s most vocal bears. But even he thinks this bear-market rally has more room to run. After the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.20%, S&P 500 ...

Tesla, Rivian and Nio stock price targets cut on supply chain troubles, Shanghai shutdowns

Mizuho analyst Vijay Rakesh became little less bullish on electric vehicle makers Tesla Inc. TSLA, -0.32%, Rivian Automotive Inc. RIVN, -3.59% and China-based NIO Inc. NIO, -4.69% on Monday, citing th...

Energy Stocks Oneok and Chesapeake Energy Are Down. Execs Bought Up Shares.

Text size Energy firms Oneok and Chesapeake Energy saw large insider share purchases. Dreamstime.com Two energy firms caught up in a recent price slump saw large insider share purchases. President Joe...

Buy Starbucks Stock. Shares Could Be Ready to Run.

China’s economic slowdown is among the factors pressuring Starbucks shares. Above, dispensing coffee to customers on the go in Hangzhou. Long Wei/VCG/Getty Images Text size A sequel is seldom as good ...

8 Home-building and Steel Stocks That Offer Substantial Value

Looking for the cheapest stocks in the market now? Two industries stand out: home builders and steel makers. Barron’s screened for the 10 stocks in the S&P 500 index, S&P Midcap 400, and S&...

Altria Shakes Off a Sell Rating and Gets an Upgrade

Text size Rising macroeconomic uncertainty contributed to a downgrade of Altria’s stock in early June. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images Altria Group stock was rising Friday after the tobacc...

Best and Worst Spots in the U.S. Housing Market, According to Lennar

Elias Stein Text size Jersey and Florida are hot. Austin and Seattle are not. On Tuesday, home builder Lennar ’s co-CEO Richard Beckwitt on an earnings call provided a tour of U.S. housing markets. “S...

GM Stock Has Been Hammered, Which Makes Owning a Piece of Its EV Future a Bargain

Text size GM has been showing off its Cadillac Lyriq SUV electric vehicle, priced like Tesla’s Model Y. Courtesy of Cadillac Inflation, rising interest rates, and recession fears have all conspired ag...

EV Newcomer Polestar Stock Has a Big and Wild First Trading Day

Text size Thomas Ingenlath, CEO of Polestar AB, will run the new company. Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg The merger of the special-purpose acquisition company Gores Guggenheim and the electric-vehicle make...

Intel wins latest race in chip uses for the cloud, says KeyBanc Capital Markets

Chip giant Intel Corp. is leading growth in cloud technology, according to new research from KeyBanc Capital Markets. Intel Corp. INTC, +3.21% is the winner in KeyBanc’s latest monthly data tracking s...

Berkshire Hathaway Stock Hit Hard in June. Warren Buffett Is Probably Unfazed.

Text size Berkshire has scaled back its stock repurchase program this year, and that may be sending a message that CEO Warren Buffett doesn’t view the stock as being so cheap. Bill Pugliano/Gett...

Tesla Shanghai to Halt Production Temporarily. It Isn’t Covid.

Text size An aerial view of Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory. Xiaolu Chu/Getty Images Tesla ’s plant near Shanghai is going to shut down temporarily, according to reports. The downtime will add some uncerta...

These dividend stocks yield at least 5% and have plenty of room to raise payouts

This year’s stock price declines make for an increasing number of stocks with high dividend yields of at least 5%. Below is a screen that highlights 29 that appear to be able to raise their payouts co...

Mullen Automotive stock heads for six-day winning streak after company discusses patent applications

Shares of Mullen Automative Inc. MULN, +5.26% were ahead in Wednesday morning trading but had pared back some of their gains after the electric-vehicle company said that it had filed various patents t...

This dividend fund is down 3% vs. S&P’s 20% drop. Here are its top stock picks

By now even the most ardent tech and growth-stock enthusiasts realize the bull market is over. John Kornitzer’s approach to selecting high-quality stocks for the Buffalo Flexible Income Fund is one th...

Boeing Says ‘Drip, Drip’ of Bad News Should Stop. Investors Don’t Believe It.

Text size Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun expects air travel demand to stay. Dreamstime Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun spoke Wednesday at an conference in Qatar arranged by Bloomberg. For investors, there was some g...

Polestar, a New EV Company, Arrives This Week. It’s Worth More Than Rivian.

Text size Polestar expects to ship 50,000 electric vehicles in 2022 and 124,000 in 2023. Courtesy Polestar Polestar, the electric vehicle maker being spun out of Volvo Car , should begin trading on Fr...

Toyota Stock Falls After It Cuts Production Again. Bad News for Car Prices.

Text size Toyota reduced its output forecast, citing parts shortages. Above, a dealership in Houston. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Toyota Motor updated its production plans, unveiling more cuts. Wednesda...

Tesla stock selloff created ‘generational’ investment opportunity, analyst says

The recent selloff in Tesla Inc.’s stock TSLA, +1.16% has created a “generational investment opportunity” in one of the most compelling growth stories, said CFRA analyst Garrett Nels...

Biden Proposes Gas Tax Suspension. That’s Not Why Oil Prices Are Falling.

Text size Crude prices fall as the Biden administration takes more steps to try to lower gasoline prices. Mario Tama/Getty Images Oil prices were falling Wednesday as President Joe Biden prepared to a...

Oil and gas stocks suffer broad, sharp selloff as crude futures drop

The S&P 500’s energy sector was suffering a unanimous selloff, as crude oil CL00, -6.61% and natural gas futures NG00, -1.32% slumped amid growing demand concerns and as the Biden administra...

U.S. stock futures drop as Powell testimony looms, recession worries return to the spotlight

Recession worries were back in the spotlight for Wall Street on Wednesday, with equity futures and oil prices dropping, as investors looked ahead to Congressional testimony from Federal Reserve Chairm...

A New EV Company Arrives This Week. It’s Worth More Than Rivian.

Text size Polestar expects to ship 50,000 electric vehicles in 2022 and 124,000 in 2023. Courtesy Polestar Polestar, the electric vehicle maker being spun out of Volvo Car (ticker: VOLCARB.Sweden), sh...

The stock market’s big Tuesday bounce is likely to fizzle out: Capital Economics

It was Turnaround Tuesday for the stock market as investors returned from a three-day weekend following the S&P 500’s worst weekly tumble since 2020. Skeptics see a bear-market bounce that’s likel...

S&P 500 must fall another 15%-20% to price in recession, says Mike Wilson at Morgan Stanley

The price is not right. That’s the verdict from strategists at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, who each warned as a new week kicked off that the stock market wasn’t fully pricing in a recession. And...

Exxon Stock Has Surged This Year. Why One Analyst Sees More Gains Ahead.

Text size Exxon stock is rising after getting upgraded at Credit Suisse. Dreamstime Exxon Mobil stock is jumping after Credit Suisse upgraded its shares from Neutral to Outperform on Tuesday.  Unlike ...

Tesla Stock Is Jumping Because Elon Musk Says Competition Doesn’t Matter

Text size Tesla stock fell when the company raised the prices on its website earlier this month. Chris Delmas / AFP via Getty Images Tesla stock is starting a new week on solid footing, at least in pa...

GE opens claims process to compensate harmed investors

General Electric Co. GE, -0.38% said Tuesday that it has opened the claims process for the GE Fair Fund, which was established to compensate investors “harmed” by GE’s failure to dis...

Elon Musk joins the growing chorus fearing a U.S. recession. But there are stocks for that.

Look out above, the dip buyers are back in town. Stocks are soaring — for now — as Wall Street returns from a long holiday weekend, with Fed Reserve Chair Jerome Powell testifying in front of Congress...

Kellogg announces plan to split into three separate businesses

Kellogg Co. K, +2.68% shares jumped 8.1% in Tuesday premarket trading after the food company announced a plan to split into three businesses: “Global Snacking Co.,” which will represent ab...

Energy and these 2 other sectors led the S&P 500. Now they’ve tanked. Here’s why that could be good for the stock market.

An unwind of the stock market’s best performing sectors had to happen eventually. And that may be just what this bear market ordered, according to Jonathan Krinsky, chief market technician at BTIG. Si...