Fed Tightening Is Having More Impact Than You Might Think

We’ve learned a lot about the transmission of disease in the past few years. Ideas, good and bad, are spread similarly. Robert Shiller, the Yale University Nobel laureate, wrote in Irrational Exuberan...

Week’s Best: What the Elections Mean for Investors

So, who won? With most of the election drama now resolved, what will the divided legislature mean for tax policy, the health of the markets, and other financial issues? We put those questions to a han...

How a Hot Norwegian Battery Start-Up Beat the SPAC Deep Freeze

Stocks associated with special purpose acquisition companies crashed in 2022—with an exception: Freyr Battery The shares are up some 34%, year to date, despite stumbling this past Monday after releasi...

13 Ways to Invest in India, the World’s Fastest-Growing Major Economy

India, home to more than 1.4 billion people, has long been a country with great promise and owner-led businesses accustomed to generating large amounts of cash. But India’s rise has been fitful, and o...

Zuckerberg Says This Will Be a Sales Driver Before His Big Bet on the Metaverse

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook’s parent company Meta Platforms told employees the company’s WhatsApp messaging service will drive sales sooner than its massive investments in the metaverse. The What...

Why Bitcoin Has Weathered FTX’s Collapse and Why It Isn’t Time to Buy

The bomb that went off this month in the crypto industry has only given Bitcoin a flesh wound. There are good reasons why the largest crypto token has held up despite the disorder that surrounds it, b...

Schwab’s Liz Ann Sonders Sees Trouble Still Ahead. Where to Invest Now.

Though the U.S. stock market looks healthier than it did during its rough patch over the summer, Charles Schwab Chief Investment Strategist Liz Ann Sonders sees potential trouble still ahead, especial...

What’s Stopping Companies from Pulling Supply Chains Out of China

Text size Despite the trade war and Covid-19 lockdowns, China accounts for 35% of total U.S. containerized imports. Mario Tama/Getty Images About the authors: Christopher S. Tang is a University Disti...

They Lived Together, Worked Together and Lost Billions Together: Inside Sam Bankman-Fried’s Doomed FTX Empire

NASSAU, Bahamas—Sam Bankman-Fried’s $32 billion crypto-trading empire collapsed in an incandescent bankruptcy last week, prompting irate customers, crypto acolytes and Silicon Valley bigwigs to ask ho...

Alibaba Gets a Price Target Cut After Strong Earnings

Text size Benchmark analyst Fawne Jiang maintained her Buy rating on Alibaba despite cutting her price target. AFP via Getty Images Alibaba Group Holding stock popped on Thursday, prompting an analyst...

The Stock Market Has Stopped Worrying About the Fed. It’s Time to Worry About Recession.

The stock market is so over the Federal Reserve—but that doesn’t mean it’s out of the woods just yet. Attention is now turning to the U.S. economy—and whether it sinks into recession will determine if...

It’s Been a Rough Year for Stocks and Bonds. What to Do in 2023.

With more than a month to go, 2022 is all but certain to go down as an annus horribilis for both stocks and bonds. The crucial question for investors: What does that portend for the year ahead? The re...

Activision Stock Still Looks Like a Buy. Here’s Why.

Back in July, Barron’s made the case for buying Activision Blizzard stock in anticipation of Microsoft closing its $69 billion acquisition of the company. With Activision shares trading at a significa...

GM Has a New Business: Fixing Tesla EVs.

General Motors said something surprising at its investor day in New York City on Thursday. Fixing Teslas is a growing business for the 114 year-old auto maker. That’s right. GM (ticker: GM) dealers ar...

Intel’s Newest Director Buys Big Block of Stock

On the heels of Intel CEO buying the company’s stock, the chip giant’s newest director also scooped up shares. Lip-Bu Tan, who joined Intel’s (ticker: INTC) board on Sept. 1, paid $1.35 million on Nov...

Elizabeth Holmes Sentencing: A History of the WSJ Theranos Investigation

By Michael Siconolfi Nov. 18, 2022 5:30 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) Elizabeth Holmes’s journey from Silicon Valley superstar to felon is slated to culminate Friday during a hearing in which a ...

Insurer Sees Strong Demand for Preferred Stock With Juicy 9% Yield

Income-oriented investors got a gift when insurer Lincoln Financial Group offered $1 billion of preferred stock this week, including a deal with a 9% annual dividend rate that is accessible to retail ...

Norwegian Cruise Stock Falls After a Rare Double Downgrade

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Sell Tesla Stock on ‘Any Rally to $200’

Tesla has been a remarkable stock for a really long time. Not so much in 2022. Investors could use some good news, and some could be on the way. There’s a big headwind to worry about, though. Tesla (t...

Elon Musk Has the Next Tesla CEO in Mind. There Are a Few Candidates.

Tesla board member James Murdoch said Elon Musk knows who could run  Tesla after him. It might have been a throwaway line said while being questioned in a trial. Still, it’s a chance for investors to ...

The Fisker Ocean Is a Reality. Why It’s Not Just Another EV.

Today is the day, the day when production of the all-electric Fisker (ticker: FSR) Ocean SUV begins. Fisker is not Tesla It’s a small EV start-up that will only deliver a handful of cars in 2022, but ...

Ford Shows That Reshoring U.S. Manufacturing Is Happening

Reshoring is a term industrial investors are becoming as familiar with as outsourcing. Outsourcing manufacturing to the regions of the planet with the cheapest labor to drive lower prices for consumer...

Buy American Tower, Crown Castle, and SBA Communications Stock. The REITs Look Ready to Rebound

Certainty during rocky macroeconomic times deserves a premium. Predictable and dependable profits are exactly what cell-tower real estate investment trusts provide, and yet their stocks are selling at...

Qualcomm, Nvidia Are Top Picks Among Semiconductor Stocks, Analyst Says

Text size For investors looking for near-term protection, Credit Suisse analysts said wireless-device specialist Qualcomm was their top pick. Dreamstime Semiconductor stocks have fallen far enough to ...

Oil Prices Could Rise After Latest EU Sanctions on Russia

The European Union’s ban on seaborne imports of Russian oil, along with the Group of Seven’s plan to cap prices of oil from Russia early next month won’t guarantee that prices for the commodity will s...

Cisco Stock Gains on Earnings. Layoffs Are Coming. 

Cisco Systems shares are trading higher after the networking-infrastructure company posted better-than-expected revenue and profit growth for its fiscal first quarter, ended Oct. 29. The company also ...

ZoomInfo Shares Plunge on Disappointing 2023 Outlook

ZoomInfo Technologies shares hit an air pocket Wednesday after the company issued disappointing guidance for 2023 at an RBC Capital Markets investment conference. ZoomInfo (ticker: ZI) Chief Financial...

Grayscale Bitcoin Trust Has Gotten Too Cheap. ARK’s Cathie Wood Noticed.

The price of Bitcoin has plunged this year but shares of a trust that has been an easy way for investors to get access to the cryptocurrency have fallen even further. Tech investor Cathie Wood has tak...

Cisco’s Earnings Are Today. What to Expect.

Cisco Systems could report a sharp falloff in orders when the networking giant reports October quarter earnings after the close of trading on Wednesday, but its huge backlog should help drive solid fi...

The Stock Market Is on a Tear. It’s Almost Time to Sell the Rally.

The stock market has seen a major rally recently. Another move lower looks likely.  The S&P 500 closed Tuesday about 12% above its lowest close of the year, 3577, hit in early October. The main dr...

Sunrun and Other Solar Stocks With Strong U.S. Presence Are a Buy, Analyst Says

An analyst from Deutsche Bank is bullish on Enphase Energy Sunrun and First Solar due to their strong domestic presence amid new U.S. legislation. Deutsche Bank analyst Corinne Blanchard initiated cov...

Berkshire Bought Taiwan Semi Stock. Here’s What Else It Bought and Sold.

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