Stock Market Today: Overseas Stocks Fall as Russia-Ukraine Tensions Simmer

Text size Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden have agreed in principle to a summit in Europe. AFP via Getty Images Global stocks fell on Monday as tensions remained high over the Russian military buildup on ...

Is the Stock Market Open Today? Here Are the Hours for Presidents Day 2022.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, S.D. features the sculpted heads of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images Text s...

Companies Are Starting to Worry About the Russia Issue

Text size The Alcoa headquarters in Pittsburgh. CEO Roy Harvey said a Russia-Ukraine conflict could affect demand. Justin Merriman/Bloomberg The standoff between Russia and Ukraine has been causing pa...

Energy Vault Stock Is Soaring. The Reason Is Obscure.

Text size An Energy Vault commercial demonstration unit. Business Wire Sometimes the market can be tough to figure out. Shares of energy storage player Energy Vault Holdings (ticker: NRGV) are up 34% ...

How Stocks Perform Just Before and After a Drastic Fed Interest-Rate Increase

Text size Jerome Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve. Graeme Jennings / POOL/AFP via Getty Images The Federal Reserve could implement two interest-rate increases in one fell swoop next month. The sto...

What the threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine means for markets

Fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine are keeping investors on edge. President Joe Biden on Friday said he believed Russian leader Vladimir Putin had made up his mind to invade in coming days but tha...

GM Stock Has Tumbled. Director Patricia Russo Bought Up Shares.

Text size GM director Patricia F. Russo (Photo by Monica Schipper/Getty Images for Women’s Forum of New York) Monica Schipper / Getty Images General Motors stock has tumbled in 2022, and directo...

Ford Stock Is Rising on Reports of an EV Spinoff. Steer Clear of the Rumors.

Text size A Ford Motor plant. Courtesy Ford Ford Motor stock is rising in early Friday trading after Bloomberg reported the company might spin off its electric-vehicle business. This isn’t the first r...

Coke, Walmart, and 8 More Companies That Boosted Their Stock Dividends

Text size Things go better with Coke, as the company’s long-ago jingle proclaimed. Things are also going better for the beverage company’s stockholders, thanks to the news that its dividend will be in...

Albemarle Stock Tanks on Earnings. But Lithium Prices Are Going Up.

Text size Albemarle’s results are being hurt by inflation. Cristobal Olivares/Bloomberg Albemarle stock fell, hard, after the lithium miner reported fourth-quarter numbers late Wednesday. Result...

What Will Stocks Do if War—or Peace—Erupts in Ukraine?

Text size A Ukrainian guard at a checkpoint on the border with Russia. There could be a financial toll, as well as a heavy human one, if the Kremlin launches an invasion. Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy/Ukrinf...

Russia-Ukraine Tensions Mount and Fed Tightening Weighs. There’s Only 1 Certainty for Markets.

U.S. stocks are being bumped around from crisis to crisis as if in a pinball machine. The uncertainty around the Federal Reserve’s policy and the future path of interest rates keeps surfacing on a reg...

Death cross crystallizes in Nasdaq Composite on Friday for first time in 2 years, in a bearish sign for the stock market

The Nasdaq Composite index has produced a “death cross” chart pattern on Friday, a bearish chart pattern for an asset. History suggests this occurrence could weigh on the broader stock market over the...

DraftKings Earnings Beats Estimates. Why the Stock Is Tumbling.

Text size Courtesy of DraftKings DraftKings stock has tumbled 15% Friday despite the sports-betting company beating earnings estimates in the fourth quarter. The company raised its revenue guidance fo...

Presidents Day or Washington’s Birthday? Is the stock market open? Here are trading hours.

U.S. financial markets will be closed on Monday in observance of Presidents Day, or Washington’s Birthday, if you prefer. The Intercontinental Exchange Inc. ICE, -1.96% -owned New York Stock Exchange ...

Coca-Cola’s stock rallies to just shy of a record after dividend hike, plan to resume share repurchases

Shares of Coca-Cola Co. KO, +2.24% rallied 1.7% in afternoon trading Thursday, and are now a nickel shy of the Feb. 8 record close of $62.00, after the beverage giant raised its dividend and said it p...

Stock market faces the most ‘massive misallocation’ of ‘capital in the history of mankind,’ says ARK’s Cathie Wood

Cathie Wood, the star fund manager and chief executive of ARK Invest, took to CNBC to defend the woeful performance of the manager’s suite of disruptive innovation funds. Wood told the business networ...

Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine is authorized in Canada

Shares of Novavax Inc. NVAX, +1.13% gained 1.8% in trading on Thursday after the company said its COVID-19 vaccine has been authorized by Health Canada. Canada has already ordered 52 million doses of ...

QuantumScape Stock Drops After Earnings. It’s Hard to Say Why.

Text size QuantumScape met its 2021 goals and is making progress in commercializing its battery technology. Courtesy QuantumScape Stock in electric vehicle battery technology provider QuantumScape is ...

GE Stock Is Soaring. The Annual Report Has Provided a Boost.

Text size A GE Aviation Test Operations facility. Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg General Electric stock is higher Tuesday. The market is up, as well, and upbeat company-specific Wall Street commentary is als...

QuantumScape Stock Is Down After Reporting Earnings. It’s Hard to Say Why.

Text size A QuantumScape lab. Courtesy QuantumScape Stock in electric vehicle battery technology provider QuantumScape is dropping after the company reported fourth quarter results Wednesday evening. ...

The Trade Desk stock heads higher after upbeat earnings, outlook

Shares of The Trade Desk were up more than 3% in premarket trading Wednesday after the advertising-technology company exceeded expectations with its latest financial results and delivered an upbeat ou...

ViacomCBS Is Changing Its Name. More Subscribers Joined, but at a Cost.

Text size ViacomCBS is changing its name to Paramount Global. Dreamstime ViacomCBS reported a very solid quarter of streaming-subscriber gains on Tuesday, but that growth didn’t come cheaply. The comp...

ViacomCBS Is Changing Its Name. Subscribership Grew, but at a Cost.

Text size ViacomCBS is changing its name to Paramount Global. Dreamstime ViacomCBS reported a very solid quarter of streaming-subscriber gains on Tuesday, but that growth didn’t come cheaply. The comp...

another 12% decline in SPX remains on the table

The S&P 500 index has had a rough start to the year, down 7.0% YTD at present, and Goldman Sachs warns the macroeconomic headwinds could fuel another 12% decline in the benchmark from here. What c...

Virgin Galactic Stock Surges. Reservations for Space Will Open Wednesday.

Text size Reservations for Virgin’s space tourist flights will open Wednesday. Courtesy Virgin Galactic Space tourism pioneer Virgin Galactic is getting closer to commercial operations. The comp...

NIO, XPeng, Li Auto Shares Shake Off Weak Sales Data. The Outlook Seems Bright.

Text size A Nio car. Chinese new-car sales fell in January. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images Chinese new-car sales fell in January. But the shares of Chinese electric-vehicle makers  NIO , Xpeng , ...

Nvidia’s AI Innovation Should Push Stock Higher: Analysts

Text size Chip maker Nvidia has invested heavily in artificial intelligence. Dreamstime Nvidia has invested heavily in artificial intelligence—in cash and culture—and those expenditures should drive u...

AMD’s $49 billion Xilinx deal closes, company names CEO Lisa Su new board chair

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. shares AMD, +3.26% are up nearly 3% in Monday trading after the chipmaker announced that its $49 billion deal for Xilinx has officially closed. AMD also said that Chief Exe...

George Soros Buys a Big Rivian Stake

Text size Soros Fund Management’s stake was worth about $2.1 billion at the end of December. Courtesy Rivian George Soros’ family investment office, Soros Fund Management, revealed a new stake i...

BioDelivery’s stock rockets toward a 2-year high after buyout deal with Collegium at a 54% premium

Shares of BioDelivery Sciences International Inc. BDSI, -1.62% blasted 51.7% higher to pace all premarket gainers Monday, after the specialty pharmaceutical company with a portfolio of pain and neurol...