Vodafone Group PLC 1H Net Pft EUR986M

By Kyle Morris Vodafone Group PLC on Tuesday reported a rise in pretax profit and revenue for the first half of fiscal 2023 despite the challenging macroeconomic environment. The U.K.-based telecommun...

Palantir Stock Is Sliding. One of Its Investments Just Went Bankrupt.

Palantir stock is coming under selling pressure amid concerns about the implications of a chapter 11 bankruptcy filing last week by Fast Radius a provider of cloud-based manufacturing and supply chain...

Elon Musk Complains of High Workload After Twitter Takeover

Elon Musk said he has “too much work” as the chief executive of both Twitter and Tesla as he undertakes mass layoffs and grapples with an advertising backlash at the social-media company.   “I am real...

As Pandemic Aid Dries Up, Businesses Chase Covid Tax Credit

A temporary tax break for small businesses has spawned a cottage industry of advisory firms tapping into federal pandemic aid, raising alarms at the Internal Revenue Service that some claims are going...

Ray Dalio, Founder of Hedge Fund Giant Bridgewater, Sees More Pain Ahead

Ray Dalio founded Bridgewater Associates in his Manhattan apartment in 1975 and grew it into a hedge fund colossus—with about $150 billion in assets—through astute analysis of macroeconomic trends. Al...

Largest U.S. Pension Buys Up Apple, Intel, Microsoft, and GE Stock

America’s largest public pension fund by assets increased positions in some of its largest stock investments in the third quarter. California Public Employees’ Retirement System bought more shares of ...

D.R. Horton and 7 More Companies That Raised Their Stock Dividends

Text size D.R. Horton plans to boost its quarterly payout by 11% to 25 cents a share. Caitlin O’Hara/Bloomberg It was a busy week for dividend increases among large U.S. companies across a varie...

Bankrupt Voyager Digital Looks for New Buyer After FTX Goes Under

Bankrupt cryptocurrency broker and lender Voyager Digital Ltd. said it has resumed its search for a buyer in light of the collapse of crypto exchange FTX, the firm founded by wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fr...

Genius or Jackass, Musk Stirs the Pot

To the Editor:Your timely analysis of Elon Musk’s Twitter purchase doesn’t consider one important factor: the millions of potential users who will enthusiastically embrace a free-speech platform uncon...

Walmart Is Flexing Its Muscle Again

America’s biggest retailer has a new message for its suppliers: We’re not going to pay higher prices anymore. Walmart Inc. Chief Executive Doug McMillon delivered the warning in person last month in a...

Disney Stock Has a Tough Year Ahead. Investors Have Already Been Burned.

Walt Disney stock is an orphan. It’s too pricey for value investors, not expected to grow fast enough for growth investors, and ditched its dividend in 2020, putting it out of reach of income funds.  ...

3Q Earnings Weren’t Bad. But 2023 Estimates Could Be Ugly.

Wall Street expected 2023 earnings forecasts to drop after third-quarter results came in. That time has come. With companies that account for some 90% of the S&P 500’s market capitalization having...

Buy Bumble Stock. The Dating App’s Shares Haven’t Met Their Match.

Bumble has been getting the cold shoulder from investors, who are worried that singles have cooled on its dating apps. The company, though scruffy, remains attractive—and its stock could be just the t...

A Berkshire Hathaway Bright Spot: Energy. Here Are the Numbers.

Warren Buffett likes energy. Berkshire Hathaway now owns some $58 billion of Chevron and Occidental Petroleum securities. It isn’t Berkshire’s largest holding; that would be insurance, led by auto ins...

How FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried Went From Crypto Golden Boy to Villain

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Cisco Shares Slip Ahead Of Next Week’s Earnings Amid Demand Worries

Cisco Systems shares were sagging ahead of the company’s earnings report next week amid concerns about softening demand, among other factors. Cisco (ticker: CSCO) shares on Friday were down 2.2%, to $...

Stocks Surged on an Inflation Reading. But the Bear Market Isn’t Over.

Investors finally got the inflation reading they were looking for, and are likely to get a split government for the next two years. That combination propelled stocks to their best weekly showing since...

What the Stock Market and the Midterm Elections Have Common.

Investing and politics go together about as well as mango chutney and burned hair, and we prefer to focus on the stocks and leave the pontificating about the state of the nation to the Beltway pundits...

Ray Dalio Sees More Pain Ahead in This Debt Cycle

Ray Dalio founded Bridgewater Associates in his Manhattan apartment in 1975 and grew it into a hedge fund colossus—with about $150 billion in assets—through astute analysis of macroeconomic trends. Al...

Preferred Dividends Are Part Stock, Part Bond. How They Can Provide Income.

We won’t know for a while if the recent rally in bonds has legs. Yields tumbled Thursday, pushing up prices, after a relatively tame inflation reading, as investors bet that the Federal Reserve will e...

Sell Intel Stock, Analyst Says. Market Share Losses Are the Concern.

An analyst at J.P. Morgan says sell Intel stock, citing concerns about the company’s loss of market share amid ongoing competition and softening PC demand. Following a period of restriction, J.P Morga...

Oil Prices Could Jump in December. Energy Stocks Should Get a Jolt.

Oil prices have had a quiet November, holding steady around $90 per barrel. There’s a good chance the calm won’t last. A new set of sanctions from Europe will ratchet up the pressure against Russia an...

Stocks Rallied Dramatically. It’s Still a Bear Market

This commentary was issued recently by money managers, research firms, and market newsletter writers and has been edited by Barron’s. Bear-Market Rallies Technical Strategy BTIGNov. 11: Thursday...

Tesla Makes Out Better Than Musk If Twitter Files Bankruptcy

What a potential Twitter bankruptcy would mean for Elon Musk isn’t easy to figure out, and it’s harder to sort out how Tesla shareholders would be affected. When running through the likely consequence...

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Buys Up Intel, Mobileye Stock

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger recently has been buying up shares of the chip giant that he helms, but he has spent far more for shares of recently spun-off Mobileye which is developing autonomous driving te...

Judge Blocks Student Debt Relief Program. What That Means for Navient.

A federal judge from Texas blocked President Joe Biden’s student debt relief program on Thursday. This could be good news for lenders like Navient In August, Biden announced his student loan debt plan...

Nvidia Can Outperform Its Peers, Analyst Says. Earnings Are Coming.

Restrictions on chip sales to China and falling demand for PCs are problems for Nvidia right now, but Piper Sandler wants investors to focus on growth in its key data center business in 2023. The chip...

Big Pharma Stocks Are Breaking Out. Here Are Some Winners.

Big pharma stocks are trying to break out to new heights. They have reported more-than-satisfactory earnings and are expecting further progress on new pipelines of drugs.   These stocks had been outpe...

Bonds Look Attractive Now. Why Warren Buffett Doesn’t Like Them.

Text size Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett. Alex Wong/Getty Images Bonds don’t excite Warren Buffett even after the sharp rise in yields this year. The Berkshire Hathaway (ticker: BRK/A, BRK/B) C...

Elon Musk Made Unusual Request in Falling Out With Top Tesla Lieutenant

Last year, Elon Musk parted ways with one of his top deputies at Tesla Inc., a French auto-industry executive named Jerome Guillen. Mr. Guillen worked at Tesla for roughly a decade, rising to oversee ...

EV Stocks Face a Reckoning. Not All of Them Will Make It.

Electric vehicle stocks have stalled—and many won’t get started again. Yes, things are that bad for EV start-ups as they try to become the next Tesla (ticker: TSLA). The blame starts with rising inter...