Tesla Stock Is Down. Steering Wheels Are Not the Reason.

Safety matters a great deal in the automotive market. Safety recalls and investigations, paradoxically, don’t matter as much. Investors might not be able to tell that by looking at stocks. Tesla (tick...

Tesla Stock Falls as Elon Musk, Twitter Make Wrong Kind of Healines

Tesla stock is down again in early trading Wednesday, potentially falling for the third consecutive day and the fifth out of the past six. Yes, the company’s investor day sparked the decline, but it p...

CrowdStrike’s Latest Earnings Convince Analyst It’s a Top Cybersecurity Stock

CrowdStrike’s strong fourth-quarter earnings and upbeat guidance underlines its status as one of the top performing software security names, according to one analyst.   D.A. Davidson analyst Rudy Kess...

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Buys More Occidental Stock. How Much It Owns Now.

Berkshire Hathaway bought almost 6 million shares of Occidental Petroleum in recent days, bringing its stake in the big energy company to 200.2 million shares worth $12.2 billion, according to a filin...

United Natural Foods Stock Plunges After Slashing Profit Guidance

United Natural Foods stock plunged more than 23% early Wednesday as the food distributor slashed its profit outlook for 2023 and withdrew long-term financial targets. The company (Ticker: UNFI), which...

Buffett’s Berkshire Buys More Occidental Stock. How Much It Owns Now.

Berkshire Hathaway bought almost 6 million shares of Occidental Petroleum in recent days, bringing its stake in the big energy company to 200.2 million shares worth $12.2 billion, according to a filin...

U.S. Shale Boom Shows Signs of Peaking as Big Oil Wells Disappear

HOUSTON—The boom in oil production that over the last decade made the U.S. the world’s largest producer is waning, suggesting the era of shale growth is nearing its peak. Frackers are hitting fewer bi...

An Offshore Oil Rebound Is Under Way. It’s Lifting These Stocks.

Text size Spending on offshore oil drilling is expected to rise in coming years. Carina Johansen/Bloomberg Offshore oil drilling has been growing slowly in recent years as energy companies have hesita...

CrowdStrike, Stitch Fix, Tesla, Occidental, SoundHound, and More Market Movers

Text size CrowdStrike’s outlook for the fiscal first quarter and year was higher than analysts’ estimates. Dreamstime Stock futures edged higher Wednesday following a session in which stocks sold off ...

CrowdStrike Earnings Show It’s a Top Cybersecurity Stock, Analyst Says

CrowdStrike’s strong fourth quarter earnings and upbeat guidance underlines its status as one of the top performing software security names, according to one analyst.   D.A. Davidson analyst Rudy Kess...

Grayscale Bitcoin Fund Soars as Judges Sound Skeptical of SEC’s Arguments on ETF

Grayscale Investments for years has fruitlessly sought to convert its flagship product—the world’s largest Bitcoin fund at $14 billion—into an exchange-traded fund, most recently suing the Securities ...

Berkshire Buys More Occidental | Barron’s

Berkshire Hathaway bought almost 6 million shares of Occidental Petroleum in recent days, bringing its stake in the big energy company to 200.2 million shares worth $12.2 billion, according to a filin...

Altria May Sell Anheuser-Busch Stake After Juul Deal

A recent deal by Altria Group involving its stake in Juul Labs could pave the way for the sale of the cigarette maker’s $11 billion interest in Anheuser-Busch Inbev Altria (ticker: MO) last week swapp...

BlackBerry Stock Dives on Latest Numbers as Revenue Forecast Disappoints

BlackBerry stock tumbled Tuesday, the morning after the Canadian cybersecurity firm released preliminary fiscal-year figures that disappointed Wall Street. The company said Monday evening that it expe...

Rivian Stock Drops After the EV Start-Up Announced Plans to Raise $1.3 Billion

Electric truck start-up Rivian Automotive is getting into convertibles? Well, yes—but not the kind of convertibles car buyers think of when they hear the word. Rivian (ticker: RIVN) is raising more ca...

Meta Stock Rises After Report of More Layoffs

Shares of Facebook-parent Meta Platforms were rising Tuesday after a report said the company will cut more jobs than previously announced. Meta (ticker: META) is planning another round of layoffs as s...

Berkshire Hathaway Exec Ajit Jain’s Foundation Sells $2 Million of Stock

Berkshire Hathaway stock trounced the market last year, but so far this year, the shares are lagging behind. A foundation established by one of the conglomerate’s executives just sold a substantial am...

GE Stock Hits a New High After an Old Bear Went Into Hibernation

Shares of General Electric hit a new intraday high Monday after an analyst who had been the company’s biggest bear dropped his coverage. J.P. Morgan analyst Stephen Tusa, whose $50 price target on the...

Netflix and Other Stocks to Buy Before the Market Bottom

The stock market hasn’t hit its lows just yet, but there are stocks worth buying before the trough, says Morgan Stanley There is a debate on Wall Street as to whether the stock market is set to rally ...

Altria to Buy Vaping Company NJOY for $2.75 Billion

Altria agreed to buy e-cigarette maker NJOY for $2.75 billion in cash as the Marlboro maker looks to strengthen its portfolio of smoke-free products. The deal for privately held NJOY, one of the few e...

BridgeBio Stock Surges on Dwarfism Drug Data. It’s Bad News for BioMarin.

BridgeBio Pharma stock was soaring after the biopharmaceutical company reported positive results in a Phase two clinical trial for an experimental treatment for achondroplasia, the most common type of...

Rivian, Tesla, and 2 Other EV Makers Are Recalling Vehicles

Monday is looking like recall day for electric-vehicle makers. A few have showed up on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration website. Recalls from the large players don’t look serious. Re...

Hertz Warrants Offer a Good Alternative to the Stock. How to Play It.

Bulls on Hertz Global Holdings should consider the rental car company’s unusual and attractively priced warrants, which offer an alternative to Hertz common shares. First, some details on Hertz Global...

Lordstown Motors’ Sales Were Dreadful. The Stock Is Rising Anyway.

Sales and earnings from electric vehicle start-up Lordstown Motors show just how hard it has been to launch a new electric truck. Results look rough, but the beaten-up stock is rising in early trading...

Tesla, Apple, Ciena, and More Stock Market Movers

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Big Fund Slashes Stakes in Chip Stocks AMD, Intel, Nvidia, and Micron

Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec, Canada’s second-largest public pension, posted a negative annual return in 2022, the first time since the financial crisis. But the pension did beat the market....

Silicon Valley Confronts the End of Growth. It’s a New Era for Tech Stocks.

Silicon Valley could use a reboot. The biggest players aren’t growing, and more than a few are seeing sharp revenue declines. Regulators seem opposed to every proposed merger, while legislators push f...

Apple, Berkshire, Alphabet, and Microsoft Reap Benefit of Higher Rates

Rich corporations are getting richer thanks to higher interest rates. Apple (ticker: AAPL), Alphabet (GOOG), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK/A), and Microsoft (MSFT) have the largest cash positions among Amer...

Buy Boot Barn Stock. Cowboy Chic Is Hot, And It’s No Fad.

There are plenty of pitfalls when it comes to mixing form and function, but the latest wave of “Westerncore” sweeping the U.S. looks to have staying power. The scramble for shearling-collar coats and ...

Stock-Based Compensation Is the Latest Risk for Tech Stocks

For years, the lavish stock grants and options handed out by tech companies went largely ignored by investors. Now, the practice is finally getting attention, and it’s likely going to bring bad news f...

In Tech’s New World, Layoffs and Buybacks Are In, Mergers Are Out

Silicon Valley could use a reboot. The biggest players aren’t growing, and more than a few are seeing sharp revenue declines. Regulators seem opposed to every proposed merger, while legislators push f...

Twitter Reports 40% Drop in Revenue and Adjusted Earnings to Investors: WSJ

Elon Musk’s Twitter told investors its revenue and adjusted earnings fell approximately 40% year-over-year in December, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The Journal, citing people familiar ...