Will Social Security Run Out? No, but It Will Hit a Breaking Point. What It Means for You.

Will Bowron doesn’t give much thought to retirement. The 32-year-old from Birmingham, Ala., is busy with his job at his family’s coffee and tea roaster, his wife and young child, and a side career wri...

Inflation Could Be Harder to Tame Than the Fed Anticipates

Text size Another 75-basis-point hike in the federal-funds target is looking very, very likely. Ting Shen/Bloomberg Market participants returned from their summer holidays apparently undaunted by the ...

The Stock Market Had a Crazy Good Week. One Way to Make Sense of It All.

Text size Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Traders prefer a volatile market, and they’ve gotten one in 2022. Stocks have declined, rallied, and dropped again, driven by ever-evolving expectations for ...

Europe’s Unfolding Crises Could Impact U.S. Stocks. Here’s How.

U.S. investors are watching the Federal Reserve but the European Central Bank is likely to keep hiking rates to pull down prices, and those moves deserve more attention. Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg Text si...

Volkswagen Is One of the Cheapest Stocks. A Porsche IPO Could Change That.

A successful Porsche IPO could unlock value at Volkswagen, an emerging Tesla rival. Here, a 2022 Porsche Taycan GTS Hockenheimring edition is being painted. Porsche Text size With the exception of Tes...

Trump Media SPAC Extends Merger Deadline, Paying Nearly $3 Million for Three Months

Updated Sept. 9, 2022 4:26 pm ET Listen to article (2 minutes) The special-purpose acquisition company trying to take Trump Media & Technology Group public will pay nearly $3 million to get three ...

Why Guggenheim’s Scott Minerd Sees Stocks Falling Another 20% by Mid-October

Text size Scott Minerd says ‘we should see a really sharp adjustment in prices very fast.’ Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images Guggenheim Securities Chief Investment Officer Scott Miner...

Tesla Is Planning a New Business

Text size Tesla has new plans to lower its lithium-ion battery costs. Ronny Hartmann/AFP via Getty Images Auto makers around the world are scrambling to secure raw materials to expand battery capacity...

Shopify Announces Changes in Top Leadership

Text size The company announced a 10% cut to its workforce in July. Dreamstime Shopify announced a new chief financial officer and chief operating officer on Thursday, a little less than two months af...

Spirit AeroSystems Catches Rare Double Downgrade. It’s Good for Boeing.

Text size Spirit AeroSystems generates roughly 60% of its sales from Boeing Scott Barbour/Getty Images A key Boeing  supplier is facing some headwinds, and the reason why could be good news for Boeing...

Tesla’s Planning a New Business. It’s a License to Print Money, Says Musk.

Text size Tesla has new plans to lower its lithium-ion battery costs. Ronny Hartmann/AFP via Getty Images Auto makers around the world are scrambling to secure raw materials to expand battery capacity...

T-Mobile Stock Buyback Is Here. There’s More Where That Came From.

Text size T-Mobile management has said the company could direct some $60 billion toward share repurchases between 2023 and 2025. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg T-Mobile US announced a $14 billion share r...

DocuSign Stock Surges on Earnings Beat, Boost to Billings Forecast

Text size Courtesy DocuSign Shares of DocuSign were surging Friday after the e-signature company posted quarterly earnings and revenue that topped analysts’ estimates and raised its forecast for fisca...

Globalstar Sinks on Apple Deal. ‘Buy the Rumor; Sell the News.’

Text size Globalstar will be a big winner as Apple needs satellite connectivity for its iPhone 14. VINCENZO PINTO/AFP/Getty Images Apple ’s iPhone 14 will have some satellite connectivity. It’s a big ...

AT&T’s Dividend-Loving Investors Are Dialing the Wrong Number

AT&T income-hungry shareholders should have seen it coming. In April last year, a month before announcing the spinoff of its media division to shareholders in the form of shares of a 71% stake in ...

AMD Is the Chip Stock to Buy Over Nvidia and Intel, Says Analyst. Here’s Why.

Text size AMD releases its next-generation Ryzen 7000 series chips on Sept. 27. Dreamstime Advanced Micro Devices is the best bet out of the three major U.S. computer chip companies, according to Stif...

Rivian Stock Jumps. It Will Make All-Electric Commercial Vehicles With Mercedes.

Text size Rivian makes electric delivery vans for Amazon. Mustafa Hussain/Getty Images Rivian Automotive and Mercedes-Benz will partner to build all-electric commercial vehicles. Investors didn’t expe...

FuelCell Reports Strongest Quarterly Revenue in 5 Years. The Stock Still Falls.

Text size FuelCell reported revenue of $43.1 million for its fiscal third quarter. Jung Yeon-je /AFP via Getty Images FuelCell Energy shares traded lower Thursday as the producer of units that make el...

Crude Oil Prices Tick Higher After Putin Threatens to Let Europe ‘Freeze’

Text size Russian President Vladimir Putin Mikhail Klimentyev/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images Oil prices inched up on Thursday after Russian President Vladimir Putin hinted that he might tear up supply c...

Exxon Mobile and 3 Other Energy Stocks Whose Dividends Look Resilient

Many energy company’s stocks—and their dividends—took a big hit earlier in the pandemic, even those of large firms. The global economy contracted along with oil and gas prices, forcing many companies ...

Asana Stock Spikes on Forecast Boost and Share Sale to CEO

Text size Chief Executive Dustin Moskovitz purchased $350 million Asana shares in a private placement. (Photo courtesy of Asana) Shares of Asana rose sharply Thursday after the work-management platfor...

Oil Prices Tick Higher After Putin Threatens to Let Europe ‘Freeze’

Text size Russian President Vladimir Putin Mikhail Klimentyev/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images Oil prices inched up on Thursday after Russian President Vladimir Putin hinted that he might tear up supply c...

Dividends for Tough Times: 4 Energy Stocks That Raised Payouts During Covid

Many energy company’s stocks—and their dividends—took a big hit earlier in the pandemic, even those of large firms. The global economy contracted along with oil and gas prices, forcing many companies ...

Snap CEO Sees Challenges in Executing Turnaround Drive

Sept. 8, 2022 12:14 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) Snap Chief Executive Evan Spiegel said he’s bracing for a challenging turnaround period as the company tries to revamp itself and rekindle sales...

Fed on Path for Another 0.75-Point Interest-Rate Lift After Powell’s Inflation Pledge

Updated Sept. 7, 2022 10:29 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) The Federal Reserve appears to be on a path to raise interest rates by another 0.75 percentage point this month in the wake of Chairman ...

Why Natural Gas Won’t Hyper-Inflate in the U.S. as It Has in Europe

Text size Natural gas is flared off in the Permian Basin in Andrews, Texas. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Natural-gas prices soared 35% in Europe over the weekend, as Russia cut off flows from a key pipelin...

UiPath Stock Sinks on Cut to Fiscal-Year Revenue Forecast

Text size UiPath, the robotic-process automation software company, cut its revenue outlook for the fiscal year. Courtesy UiPath UiPath stock was sinking Wednesday after the robotic-process automation ...

Verizon Stock Is at a 10-Year Low. It’s Now Worth Less than T-Mobile.

Text size T-Mobile stock is now worth more than Verizon’s. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg There’s a new top dog in the U.S. telecom industry. T-Mobile US now has a larger market capitalization than...

Verizon Hikes Its Dividend for the 16th Straight Year

Text size Verizon stock’s yield of around 6.2% far exceeds that of the broader market. Scott Olson/Getty Images Verizon Communications already offered a very big yield. The company sweetened the...

When It Pays to Have a Mortgage in Retirement—and When It Doesn’t

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Al Gore’s Firm Bought Up Microsoft, Shopify Stock

Text size Al Gore’s investment firm, Generation Investment Management, made big bets on Microsoft and Shopify stock. Ian Forsyth/Getty Images Al Gore’s investment firm recently made some big cha...

Ernst & Young Leaders Expected to Approve Plan to Split Accounting Company

Ernst & Young’s leaders are expected this week to give the green light to splitting its auditing and consulting businesses, paving the way for the biggest shake-up in the accounting profession in ...