The Stock Market Isn’t Falling Like It Did In the 1970s—It’s Even Worse

Text size By the end of trading on Friday, the selloff had gotten worse and we were staring at the worst start to a year since the Great Depression. Spencer Platt/Getty Images It was the worst first f...

A rough 4 months for stocks: S&P 500 books the worst start to a year since 1939. Here’s what pros say you should do now.

To say that it has been a perilous stretch for bullish stock investors on Wall Street lately is a bit of an understatement. Marked by stomach-churning volatility and bruising losses in once-popular te...

Dow tumbles more than 900 points Friday, Nasdaq books worst month since 2008 crash

Stocks tumbled into the closing bell Friday, with all three major equity indexes shedding more than 2.7% to end an ugly week and month on Wall Street. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -2.77% fel...

‘So bad, it’s good.’ This beleaguered stock market has one big asset on its side, say strategists.

A rough month for stocks is drawing to a close, and many investors likely won’t be sad to see the back of it. And the last day of April trade is looking weak as Apple and Amazon failed to raise the ba...

AbbVie Shares Drop Amid Missed Sales Expectations for Key Drugs

Text size AbbVie stock is up 15.4% so far this year. Courtesy of AbbVie In a quarterly earnings report out Friday, the drugmaker AbbVie cut its full-year earnings guidance, and a number of its key dru...

Netflix Sent Warner Bros. Discovery Stock for a Dive. Execs Bought Up Shares.

Text size David Zaslav, president and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery. Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg Warner Bros. Discovery stock has tumbled in the short time the company was formed from the merger of AT...

Occidental, Devon, and 7 Other Energy Stocks That Look Particularly Cheap

Text size Energy stocks are undervalued, some analysts say. Callaghan O’Hare/Bloomberg Energy stocks were the S&P 500’s top performers last year, rising 48%. They’re leading the pack again i...

Rivian Killed Ford Earnings. Now It’s Crushing Amazon’s.

Text size Rivian’s wild stock swings are distorting earnings at both Ford and Amazon. Courtesy Rivian Ford Motor and Amazon.com were early investors in Rivian Automotive . They still own Rivian ...

Tesla Stock Is Dropping Like a Stone. There’s No New Reason.

Text size Tesla cars parked in a lot at a Tesla factory. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Tesla shares opened higher Thursday, then promptly fell. It isn’t easy to find anything new spooking investors. Sh...

Boomers are leaving the stock market. Here’s what comes next, says this strategist.

Stocks are in the green for Thursday, with Facebook parent Meta Platforms in the driver’s seat after less disastrous than feared results. Gains are a bit less than what stock futures were promising th...

PayPal Trims 2022 Outlook But Beats Revenue Forecast

PayPal lowered its forecast for adjusted profit for 2022 to a range of $3.81 to $3.93 a share. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Text size PayPal Holdings said its first quarter was a “solid start” but cut...

Tesla Stock Is Pricing in $37 of Twitter Fear. Here’s How We Know.

Text size CEO of Tesla Motors Elon Musk Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP via Getty Images Tesla and Twitter stocks are linked, for at least a little while, as investors wonder how Tesla CEO Elon Musk will fund th...

Ford’s Earnings Took a Huge Hit From Rivian. Wall Street Is Happy Anyway.

Text size Ford’s shares have moved about 7% or 8%, up or down, on average after the past four quarterly reports. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Ford Motor reported first-quarter earnings that mode...

Beyond Meat Stock Jumps on Hopes McDonald’s Partnership Will Be Permanent

Text size A McDonald’s McPlant Beyond Meat burger. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Beyond Meat stock jumped on Wednesday, following reports that its McPlant partnership with restaurant behemoth McD...

Here’s how far the S&P 500 has to fall to enter another stock-market correction

Stocks finished mostly higher Wednesday as an early bounce fizzled, providing a bit of breathing room for the S&P 500 after it came close to entering its second market correction of 2022. The larg...

Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway are once again outperforming the stock market. Apple is one big reason but these other 10 stocks also helped

During the long, tech-driven bull market, you may have seen more than one article suggesting Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett’s investing style was no longer valid. With Buffett leading the congl...

QuantumScape Stock Falls. Earnings Aren’t the Problem.

Text size Investors know that significant sales are still years away for QuantumScape. Courtesy QuantumScape Solid-state battery technology company QuantumScape reported a wider-than-expected loss for...

These 21 large-cap stocks have now crashed at least 50%

Stocks soured on April 26, with major declines for broad indexes that underlined what a difficult year it has been, so far, for technology stocks. Below is a list of 21 large-cap stocks that have drop...

Apple and the Rest of Big Tech Look More Like ‘Value Stocks’

Text size The shadow of a man is cast on the wall of an Apple store as he uses his mobile phone in Beijing Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images Big Tech stocks aren’t so highflying anymore. In fact, they’r...

Occidental, Hess, and 3 Other Oil Companies With Big Earnings Momentum

Marathon Petroleum’s refinery in Los Angeles. The oil company has benefited from the increase in demand for petroleum products like diesel fuel. Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images Text size Some energy...

A secular bear market is here, says this money manager. These are the key steps for investors to take now.

Turnaround Tuesday is looking wobbly, as stock futures slip ahead of big earnings from Microsoft MSFT, -2.70% and Alphabet GOOGL, -2.86%, after the market close. Those results could provide a fresh ca...

Tesla Stock Dropped After Elon Musk’s Deal for Twitter. Blame Margin Borrowing.

Text size Elon Musk is taking Twitter private. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Twitter shares are rising and Tesla stock is down in response to news that the Twitter board of directors accepted Tesla CEO...

Twitter Sale to Musk Is Another Sign the Stock Market Is in Trouble

Twitter accepted an offer from Elon Musk to go private. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Text size Twitter is getting bought out by Elon Musk—and for a price that looks too low. It could be a sign that the...

Market ‘not seeing a low yet,’ says Morgan Stanley’s Wilson after ‘ominous’ signal late last week

“‘Unfortunately, we’re just not seeing the low here yet. We’re students of the market, we respect what the markets are telling us. As we’ve said many times, the best strategist in the world is the int...

Boeing Stock Falls. Its New 777X Jet Is Likely to Be Delayed.

Text size A demonstration flight for the Boeing 777X at the 2021 Dubai Airshow. Giuseppe Cacace/AFP via Getty Images Boeing’s newest model twin-aisle jet—the 777X—probably won’t be in service until 20...

Deere’s stock sinks toward 5th-straight loss after BofA downgrade on order concerns

Shares of Deere & Co. DE, -4.48% dropped 4.6% in morning trading Monday, putting them on track for a fifth-straight loss, after BofA Securities downgraded the agricultural and construction equipme...

Stock of SPAC buying Trump’s Truth Social extends plunge after reports Twitter buyout deal is close

Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp. DWAC, -12.90% tumbled 9.5% toward a six-month low in morning trading Monday, in the wake of reports that Twitter Inc. TWTR, +5.66% may be close to a deal to b...

AMD stock gains after Raymond James upgrades, citing ‘strong confidence’ in datacenter business

Shares of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. AMD, +2.89% rose 0.5% in premarket trading, to buck the selloff in its semiconductor peers and the broader stock market, after an upgrade at Raymond James. AMD...

The Fed’s Interest Rate Hikes Could Be Even Worse Than Feared

Text size Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Tom Williams/Pool/Getty Images Don’t fight the Fed has long been a Wall Street motto. But the nation’s central bank thus far has been a reluctant figh...

The 10-Year Treasury Yield Is Nearing 3%. That’s a Bad Omen for the Stock Market.

Interest rates may finally be getting real. To investors with a sense of history, the near-zero and even negative interest rates of recent years might have seemed unreal, and indeed were unprecedented...

Yes, You Can Get Dividend Yields Around 5%. Here’s How.

If a stock’s yield is around 5%, it could foreshadow a dividend cut or worse. A yield that high, however, doesn’t have to spell doom. Several investors Barron’s spoke to say they can find good opportu...

Carvana to offer $2.275 billion in 8-year junk bonds to fund acquisition of Adesa’s auction business

Car selling platform Carvana Co. CVNA, -6.76% said Monday it is offering $2.275 billion in senior unsecured high-yield bonds that mature in 2030. The company will use the proceeds, along with $1 billi...