Tesla Shares Head for Worst Year Ever as Elon Musk Focuses on Twitter

Listen to article (2 minutes) Tesla Inc. is on pace for its worst annual stock performance on record as investors bristle at Elon Musk’s Twitter Inc. ownership, as well as declining demand for the car...

Are Warren Buffett’s Investment Aides Beating the Stock Market?

Todd and Ted may be having a tough year in the stock market. Todd Combs and Ted Weschler each were hired by Berkshire Hathaway (ticker: BRK/A, BRK/B) CEO Warren Buffett more than a decade ago to manag...

Buy Costco Stock. Share Are on Sale.

Selling cheap gas and groceries hasn’t been enough to keep Costco Wholesale stock in the black in 2022. But next year looks better for the warehouse-store giant, whose loyal customers continue to snap...

I Changed My Investment Strategy This Year and Prepared for How It Went

Barron’s Staff Illustration Text size In recent weeks, I’ve gone from passive investor to a sort of living room corporate treasurer, scrounging for ways to boost the yields of my portfolio by a few ba...

Tesla, AMC, Energy Stocks, and More Stock Market Movers Friday

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Cheap? Maybe. But These Stocks Have Been Dead Money for Decades.

Cheesecake Factory appears to be “running the same play,” wrote J.P. Morgan analyst John Ivankoe in a recent restaurant industry outlook. I don’t think he meant it as a compliment—the stock, he noted,...

Six Ways to Protect Your Money in 2023

The highest inflation in four decades. A bear market in stocks. Fears of a recession. A crypto implosion. The past year was a trying one for American households. It strained their budgets, reduced the...

Stocks Limp Toward 2023 as the Data Show Few Signs of a Clear Direction

Stocks limped on the low volumes of the pre-Christmas week, battered by conflicting data and leaving investors with a muddled outlook going into 2023. It’s a dynamic in which good news and bad news te...

Caroline Ellison Apologizes for Misconduct in FTX Collapse

Caroline Ellison, a close associate of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, apologized in court this week as she pleaded guilty to fraud and other offenses, telling a judge that she and others conspired to ...

Inflation Is Slowing Down, PCE Data, the Fed’s Preferred Measure, Shows

Inflation is slowing, but consumers aren’t spending as much as hoped this holiday season, data showed Friday. The core personal-consumption expenditures price index, or PCE deflator, was up 0.2% in No...

Self-Driving Startup TuSimple Slashes Staff in Bid to Right the Ship.

Autonomous driving technology company TuSimple is cutting staff in a bid to save money, preserve cash, and refocus the company headed into more difficult economic times. The company (ticker: TSP) anno...

The Secure Act Will Change Retirement Policy. 6 Big Changes That Will Soon Become Law.

Now that the Senate has passed a sweeping spending bill to fund the federal government into next year and avert a shutdown, advisors are cheering a major overhaul of the rules around retirement saving...

6 Big Changes to Your Retirement That Are Coming

Now that the Senate has passed a sweeping spending bill to fund the federal government into next year and avert a shutdown, advisors are cheering a major overhaul of the rules around retirement saving...

A Tesla Bull Sees Demand Softening. The Price Target Is Cut Again.

Elon Musk’s actions with Twitter aren’t the only thing concerning Tesla fans as the electric-vehicle stock heads for its worst-ever quarter. Tesla (ticker: TSLA) is now facing competitive headwinds in...

Is the U.S. Economy Headed for a Recession? What to Expect in 2023.

If 2022 was the year U.S. investors came around to the reality of entrenched inflation and a reactionary Federal Reserve, 2023 will be the year they learn to live with both. Neither is likely to fade ...

Is the Stock Market Open Today? Here Are the Trading Hours for Christmas.

This holiday season hasn’t exactly been filled with cheer for investors: Companies have been battling inflation and market volatility—and a recession seems to be looming ahead. On Thursday, the market...

Rivian, Lucid Shares Fall. It’s Not Only Affordability. It’s Cash Flow.

It’s the car stock version of demolition derby on the Thursday before Christmas. The carnage indicates three things: Investors are deeply worried about the economy in 2023, investor are worried about ...

Billionaire David Tepper Is Betting Against the Stock Market Because of the Fed

Text size David Tepper, co-founder of the hedge fund Appaloosa Management. Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg Appaloosa Management’s David Tepper says he is worried further tightening of monetary policies from g...

Tesla’s $7,500 Discount Is Great for Buyers. Less So for Investors.

Tesla is upping the discount car buyers can get if they take delivery of a new electric vehicle by the end of the year. It’s great for car buyers. It’s a test for investors. Tesla ‘s U.S. website now ...

Nvidia, AMD, and Other Chip Stocks Slip After Micron Disappoints

Chip stocks were down early Thursday after Micron Technology reported weak results and said demand for semiconductors had softened. Nvidia (ticker: NVDA) declined 0.7% in premarket trading. Advanced M...

Your Retirement Plans Will Change With the $1.7 Trillion Federal Spending Bill

Congress is poised to approve a $1.7 trillion spending bill this week that seeks to avert a government shutdown and boost the savings of Americans by making significant changes to their retirement pla...

Secure 2.0 Act Nears the Finish Line. What to Know About the Retirement Bill.

Legislation that would encourage saving for retirement and increase the age for taking required minimum distributions is nearing passage on Capitol Hill as part of an omnibus spending bill lawmakers a...

Costco Stock Is on Sale. It’s a Good Time to Buy.

Selling cheap gas and groceries hasn’t been enough to keep Costco Wholesale stock in the black in 2022. But next year looks better for the warehouse-store giant, whose loyal customers continue to snap...

6 Defensive Healthcare Stocks for 2023

As investors face another uncertain year for public equities, large-cap healthcare stocks remain an attractive defensive play. They offer a shot at insulating capital from the downturn many still expe...

Bill Miller Is Still Bullish on Bitcoin—and a Lot More

Professional athletes like to retire after a good run. Legendary value investor Bill Miller is taking a different route. Miller, 72, is sticking with the plan he announced in January to hang up his in...

Micron Sees Late ’23 Memory Rebound. But It’s Cutting Staff And Trimming CapEx.

Micron Technology posted soft results for its fiscal first quarter ended Dec. 1, but the chip maker projected a sharp improvement in conditions for the memory market in the second half of the company’...

GE HealthCare Stock Is Trading. We Were Wrong.

The GE HealthCare spinoff General Electric is going to be a big event for the company, and investors, in the new year. Shares begin trading, officially, on Jan. 4. Some are trading now too and the pri...

AT&T Stung Investors by Spinning Off Warner Bros. Discovery

AT&T ‘s April decision to parcel out its big interest in Warner Bros. Discovery to all shareholders, rather than giving them the option of receiving an equivalent amount of the phone company’s sto...

Disney, Amazon May Join an Unenviable Club of 44 Stocks

Amazon com was trading lower on Tuesday, putting it within a hair’s breadth of closing below its pandemic low. Walt Disney waffling between small gains and losses, is in the same territory. With the S...

REIT Preferred is Overlooked and Offers 6% to 8% Yields

Higher rates are attracting more individual investors to the preferred stock market because yields have risen nearly two percentage points this year to a range of 6% to 8%. Most investors focus on ban...

Tesla Stock Just Keeps Falling. The ‘Chart’ Is in Control.

Tesla stock was weak again despite the likelihood CEO Elon Musk will step down as head of Twitter, and earnings estimates for 2023 are staying remarkably stable. Investors are scrambling. They can’t, ...

Big Changes to 401(k) Retirement Plans Move Ahead in Congress

Listen to article (2 minutes) Congress is on the verge of passing a bill that aims to help Americans save more for retirement and leave their retirement savings untouched and untaxed for longer. The b...