Warren Buffett Leapfrogs Mark Zuckerberg as Tech Slump Shakes Up Rich List

Text size Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc. Tech stock investors nursing heavy losses so far this year may want to seek solace with a quick glance a...

What ETFs are retail investors loading up amid stock market volatility? Here’s what some are doing (and aren’t).

Hello there! Got volatility? We bet you do as the Federal Reserve signaled on Wednesday that interest rate increases in 2022 are its main priority. There is nothing new there, as investors had expecte...

U.S. Steel’s Earnings Fell Short. That Isn’t the Real Problem.

Text size The price of steel coils is dropping. Ina Fassbender/AFP via Getty Images United States Steel stock is doing nothing after a bad earnings miss. Investors just don’t appear to care about prof...

Apple Stock Rises on Strong iPhone Sales

Text size Once again, the Apple story will be dominated by the strength of iPhone demand. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images Apple reported better-than-expected results for its December quarter late ...

Teradyne Earnings Were Great. The Stock Gets Crushed on Guidance.

Text size Dreamstime Stock in robotics and semiconductor test equipment maker Teradyne was plummeting after the company reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter numbers. The fourth quarter isn’t t...

Blackstone Profits Nearly Double as Total Assets Set Quarterly Record

Text size Signage outside the Blackstone headquarters in New York. Angus Mordant/Bloomberg Shares of Blackstone rose Thursday after total assets at the world’s biggest alternative asset manager rose t...

Nucor stock rallies as profit soars and tops expectations, as steel prices per ton nearly doubles

Shares of Nucor Corp. NUE, -1.22% rallied 2.1% in premarket trading Thursday, to bounce off a six-month closing low in the previous session, after the steel maker fourth-quarter profit that rose above...

Tesla Earnings ‘Disappointed.’ Why Analysts Are Raising Their Price Targets.

Text size The inside of a Tesla car Model 3 is seen at a Tesla shop inside of a shopping Mall in Beijing on May 26, 2021. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images Tesla stock was falling Thursday after re...

Altria tops estimates for latest quarter and offers upbeat guidance

Altria Group Inc. MO, -1.12% posted better-than-expected earnings for the fourth quarter and offered profit guidance that was above consensus. Richmond, Va.-based Altria posted net income of $1.624 bi...

Apple Reports Earnings Today. Here’s What to Expect.

Text size Once again, the Apple story will be dominated by the strength of iPhone demand. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images Apple will report financial results for the December quarter after the clo...

8 tech stocks poised to bounce after Nasdaq plunge, according to AI platform

Nvidia Corp. tops a list of technology stocks that would be expected to bounce back strongly over the next month based on the reaction to past plunges by the Nasdaq Composite, according to an artifici...

Tesla Reports a Record Profit. Its Outperformance Was Below Average.

Text size Tesla earned $2.54 a share in the fourth quarter of 2021. Xiaolu Chu/Getty Images Tesla stock was bobbing around the break even line after the company reported better-than-expected earnings ...

AT&T Earnings Beat Forecasts. The Stock Can’t Get Past Spinoff Uncertainty.

Text size AT&T stock rose despite a “disappointing” earnings outlook. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images AT&T ‘s reported fourth-quarter results on Wednesday that continued a streak of s...

Tesla’s Earnings Day Is Here. This Is the Real Number to Watch.

Text size Wall Street expects Tesla will earn about $2.36 a share for the fourth quarter of 2021. Xiaolu Chu/Getty Images investors expect Tesla to earn more than expected when it reports its fourth-q...

Wells Fargo to raise dividend by 25%

Shares of Wells Fargo & Co. WFC, +0.55% rose 0.4% in afternoon trading Tuesday, after the bank said it will raise its quarterly dividend by 25%. For shareholders of record on Feb. 4, the bank will...

Stocks Are Getting Hammered. Big Money Is Waiting to Buy the Dip.

Text size A scene from the New York Stock Exchange on Monday. NYSE The stock market is down—a lot. The good news is that there is a pile of money waiting in the wings to buy the dip.  The S&P 500 ...

Verizon’s Earnings Were Good Enough. What You Need to Know.

Text size Verizon offered better-than-expected guidance for 2022. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Verizon Communications delivered as-expected results for the 2021 fourth quarter on Tuesday morning, and m...

Raytheon stock drops after profit beats but revenue misses expectations, and full-year outlook disappoints

Shares of Raytheon Technologies Corp. RTX, +1.04% dropped 4.1% in premarket trading Tuesday, after the aerospace and defense company reported fourth-quarter profit that beat expectations but revenue t...

Why the Floor for Bitcoin’s Price Is Zero

Text size What matters for Bitcoin is price momentum. Dreamstime A few thoughts early in the trading week: Recent crypto buyers who are sitting on deep losses surely don’t need me reminding them that ...

As stock market plunges, a star money manager says the Fed is making a mistake by focusing on rates. Here’s what Scott Minerd says it should do instead.

The Federal Reserve is under the gun as the market plunges ahead of its first rate-setting meeting of 2022, and at least one star money manager says that the central bank could be making a policy erro...

Kohl’s soars after takeover offer, but skeptical analysts question the retailer’s real estate value

Kohl’s Corp. stock soared 33% in Monday trading to buck a highly negative market trend, after the department store retailer confirmed that it had received buyout offer. The Wall Street Journal first r...

The S&P 500, Nasdaq just staged a turnaround for the ages, marking their largest comebacks since the 2008 financial crisis

It’s a Wall Street comeback for the history books, one that would make the National Football League’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers signal caller Tom Brady green with envy. The Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, +0....

‘Waiting for the perfect moment may not be the best strategy’: 3 things Americans can do right now as stock markets plunge

Americans woke up Monday morning to a stock market in sharp decline. In many ways, it was a replay of what investors have seen in recent weeks. Last week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -1.57%...

Panic-like selling emerges Monday as stock market tumbles and Dow skids over 1,000 points

Panic-like behavior was starting to set in on Wall Street, at least from a technical perspective. Trading in New York Stock Exchange-listed stocks at midday Monday exhibited panic-like-selling action ...

Monday’s worst-performing stocks in the S&P 500 are down as much as 42% for 2022

Monday’s stock-market decline accelerated, and a closer look at the day’s worst performers highlighted painful double-digit year-to-date drops. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -2.92% was down a...

Dow tumbles over 600 points early Monday as Wall Street extends decline ahead of Fed decision, earnings wave

U.S. stock benchmarks were under pressure early Monday, falling sharply as the downtrend that has pressured stocks this year continues apace. Investors are watching for an important two-day meeting of...

Macy’s, Nordstrom shares move higher after report of Kohl’s takeover offer

Department store shares moved higher during premarket hours on Monday after a Wall Street Journal report that Kohl’s Corp. KSS, -2.60% has received a $9 billion takeover bid from activist hedge ...

Tesla, AT&T, Apple, Microsoft, Visa, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited It will be a packed week of fourth-quarter earnings releases, with more than 100 S&P 500 companies scheduled to report. IBM and  Halliburton are Monday’s highlights, followed ...

Fastenal and 4 More Companies That Raised Their Dividends This Week

Text size Fastenal increased its quarterly dividend by 11%. Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg Fastenal , Consolidated Edison , and J.B. Hunt Transport Services were among the U.S. companies that declared divide...

Is the market crashing? No. Here’s what’s happening to stocks, bonds as the Fed aims to end the days of easy money, analysts say

As the stock market has convulsed lower and yields for bonds have surged in recent weeks, culminating in a so-called correction for the Nasdaq Composite Index, average Americans are wondering what’s a...

Advice and Observations From Investment Newsletters

Text size This commentary was issued recently by money managers, research firms, and market newsletter writers and has been edited by Barron’s. Don’t Rush In Technical Morning Meeting Commentsby...

How a Russian invasion of Ukraine could trigger market shock waves

The threat of a devastating European ground war hasn’t done much to rattle financial markets so far, but investors still appear likely to snap up traditional safe-haven assets should Russia attack Ukr...