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...

What a Monster, Constellation Merger Might Mean and Why Coca-Cola Could Be Key

Text size Monster Beverage display, Indianapolis, IN, November, 2020. Jonathan Weiss/Dreamstime.com Monster Beverage stock climbed early Tuesday as investors weighed up a possible merger between the e...

Lithium Americas Stock Jumps After a Bullish Call

Text size This photo taken on March 12, 2021, shows a worker with car batteries at a factory for Xinwangda Electric Vehicle Battery Co., which makes lithium batteries for electric cars and other uses,...

Nvidia’s Earnings Could Be a Big Win. What to Expect.

Text size Solid performance is expected in the chip maker’s gaming and data center businesses when it reports earnings Wednesday. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Nvidia could be a big winner this e...

Nvidia Is Set Up for a ‘Significant Beat and Raise.’ Here’s Why.

Text size A sign is posted in front of the Nvidia headquarters in Santa Clara, California. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Nvidia could be a big winner this earnings season, with profits driven by solid ...

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...

Intel Agrees to Buy Tower Semiconductor in $5.4 Billion Deal

Text size Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Intel Corp . agreed to buy Israeli company Tower Semiconductor for $5.4 billion as it looks to expand its manufacturing capacity and technology portfolio amid ri...

UBS Says Wealthy Investors Are Hanging On to Cash

Even with inflation rising, many investors are stockpiling cash. UBS polled 900 U.S. investors and 500 business owners during January. Gianluca Colla/Bloomberg That’s an important takeaway from UBS Gl...

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...

How Oil Could Hit $150. It’s Not Just About Russia.

Text size West Texas intermediate crude oil was trading near $94 a barrel on Monday. Spencer Platt/Getty Images By one measure, oil prices could rise to $150 a barrel this year, which would be the hig...

Meta Stock Has Never Been Cheaper Since Its 2012 IPO

Text size Meta Platforms, the former Facebook, has a lower price-to-earnings ratio than other Big Tech companies. Noah Berger/AFP via Getty Images Meta Platforms ‘ stock is as cheap now as it has ever...

Peloton’s New CEO Pours Cold Water on Sale Speculation. The Stock Drops.

Text size A Peloton logo on a dumbbell at the company’s showroom in Dedham, Massachusetts. Adam Glanzman/Bloomberg Peloton Interactive stock fell Monday after the exercise company’s new chief ex...

Splunk Stock Surges on Report of $20 Billion Cisco Buyout Offer

Text size Cisco made an offer to acquire Splunk for more than $20 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Shares of Splunk were rising sharply Monday on a report th...

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...

PayPal Stock Lost 2 Years of Gains. CEO Dan Schulman Bought Up Shares.

Text size PayPal President and CEO Dan Schulman Drew Angerer/Getty Images Nearly two years of gains have been wiped from PayPal Holdings’ market value since the payments company reported a disappointi...

What CEOs Are Saying: ‘We See Inflation Going Up Everywhere’

Here is what some of the world’s corporate leaders said in their quarterly earnings reports this week about inflation, pricing strategy and the pandemic. Coca-Cola Co. KO -1.78% Chief Executive James ...

Inflation Is Everywhere, Including Places You Might Not Expect

Inflation is seeping through American business, hitting companies in unexpected ways beyond higher prices for materials, shipping or wages. It is adding to legal costs for the maker of Marlboro cigare...

Nvidia, Walmart, Airbnb, Shopify, Marriott, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited It’s another busy week of fourth-quarter earnings reports, with close to 60 S&P 500 components scheduled to present to investors. Advance Auto Parts and Vornado Realty Trust w...

Giant Pension Exited Alibaba and Bought Coinbase, Lucid, and Rivian Stock

Text size Alibaba is no longer a holding in a New Jersey pension fund. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images Late in 2021, New Jersey’s state pension bought up newly public stocks that have plunged so far i...

DraftKings Isn’t the Best Way to Play the Online Gambling Boom. Buy These 6 Stocks Instead.

Online sports gambling, once one of the hottest areas of the stock market, has fallen out of favor with investors. Investors worry about fierce competition and steep losses driven by heavy marketing a...

Cathie Wood’s ARK Stays the Course, Betting Big on Innovation

Cathie Wood’s ARK Investment Management LLC is snapping up more shares of largely unprofitable companies, doubling down on a bet that many traders and investors expect to be tested this year by rising...

Gold Rallies on Ukraine War Talk. Why It Could Head Higher

This commentary was issued recently by money managers, research firms, and market newsletter writers and has been edited by Barron’s. Weekly UpdateThe Aden ForecastFeb. 11: Gold is breaking out on the...

Inflation, Interest-Rate Jitters, and Putin Are Brewing a Fierce Storm for the Stock Market

Text size A Ukrainian soldier in the Kharkiv region near the Russian border. Will Putin pull the trigger on an invasion? Sergey Bobok/AFP/Getty Images We were waist deep in the Big Muddy, and the big ...

Buy Synaptics Stock. It’s the Best-Performing Chip Stock.

Synaptics historically made fingerprint sensors and other chips to power touchscreens and has more recently expanded into the Internet of Things business. Illustration by Stuart Briers Text size The s...

These 3 Funds Invest Like ARK But Didn’t Fall as Far

Just one year ago, the innovation-focused exchange-traded funds from Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest were some of the hottest on the market, thanks to their spectacular rise in 2020. Now, they’ve collapsed b...

6 Stocks for a 2022 of Higher Interest Rates and Slower Earnings Growth

Don’t let inflation fears dominate your investment thoughts. Save time to worry about earnings growth, too. Below, some statistical bellyaching and portfolio defeatism, plus one Wall Street bank’s top...

Zillow Is Betting on a Housing Super App. What Wall Street Thinks.

Text size Zillow Group announced plans to shut down its home-flipping business in November. Chris Goodney/Bloomberg Zillow ‘s spectacular decision to shut down its home-flipping business last year has...

Inflation Is Red Hot. How to Protect Your Portfolio and Grow Income.

Income investors—especially those who depend on fixed coupons from bonds—face a hit to their purchasing power as inflation stands above 7%. One strategy to hedge against such big price increases, howe...

3M, T. Rowe, and 7 More Companies That Raised Their Dividends This Week

Text size Dupont said it will increase its quarterly dividend by 10%. Mark Makela/Getty Images Interpublic Group of Companies, Kimco Realty, and DuPont de Nemours were among the larger U.S. companies ...

Investors Bet Ukraine-Russia War Will Be Averted

Russian troops are continuing to build up on the Ukrainian border, but investors are piling into bets that there won’t be a war. The Russian ruble and Ukrainian hryvnia have strengthened against the d...