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Text size Bitcoin’s drop isn’t much of a surprise. Interest rates have risen in the past few weeks as markets worry that the Federal Reserve would keep lifting rates to combat high inflation. Risk ass...

California Sets the Pace on Zero Emissions. Car Makers, Old and New, Are Cheering.

Text size California is set to prohibit the sale of new gasoline-powered cars in the state by 2035. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images California announced this week that it will ban sales of new gasoline-p...

Novartis Looks Appealing, Based on Drug Pipeline and Planned Spinoff

Text size These reports, excerpted and edited by Barron’s, were issued recently by investment and research firms. The reports are a sampling of analysts’ thinking; they should not be considered the vi...

Week’s Best: Fee Hike at Vanguard

Vanguard has long maintained two platforms—a legacy mutual-fund-only offering and a brokerage—but it is now pressuring longstanding mutual-fund customers to switch over to the brokerage wing or incur ...

Danaher and 5 Other Stocks for the Water Crisis

Water is harder to pump than crude oil. It’s harder to invest in, too. Water, believe it or not, is denser than crude oil, which makes transporting it a feat. In fact, while energy is a sector, water ...

Best of Barron’s: Social Security Claiming, Retiring on Dividends, Info on RMDs

Barron’s Retirement’s 10 most read stories of the year include items on retiring abroad and retiring on dividends. Apologies to David Letterman and his Top 10 List segment on the ‘La...

Investors Ramp Up Bets Against Stock Market as Summer Rally Fizzles

Investors are stepping up bets on a market downturn, a sign of waning sentiment that analysts say could presage a return to the volatile trading of the first half of 2022. Net short positions against ...

The Federal Reserve Can’t Back Down on Inflation in the Face of Recession

Text size The prospect of recession is raising alarm among households, firms, and investors alike. Spencer Platt/Getty Images About the author: Carl Tannenbaum is the executive vice president and chie...

Fed Chief Talks Tough on Inflation. There’s More Pain Ahead for the Stock Market.

From left: Fed officials Jerome Powell, Lael Brainard, and John Williams ponder the great outdoors during a break at the economic symposium at Jackson Hole. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Text size Grand...

Alcoa Has a Plan for Zero Emissions. Buy the Stock While It’s a Bargain.

The outlook for aluminum is brightening, and so are the prospects for Alcoa, probably the best pure play on the versatile and light metal—and a cheap one. Alcoa stock (ticker: AA) looks like a bargain...

FedEx Sues Ground Contractor, Cancels His Routes

FedEx sued one of its largest delivery contractors in the U.S. and canceled his routes, saying the businessman has orchestrated a campaign to promote his own consulting firm by disparaging the deliver...

2 Companies That Boosted Their Stock Dividends This Week

Text size Altria Group said it plans to boost its quarterly disbursement to 94 cents a share. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images Altria Group and Lam Research declared dividend increases this week ...

Stocks in September Have Often Struggled. The Good News: The Selloff May Have Already Begun.

Illustration by Elias Stein Text size The stock market’s worst month—September—will soon be upon us. The S&P 500 index has averaged a 1% loss in September dating back to 1928, says Dow Jones Marke...

Why Did the Stock Market Drop Today? It Finally Heard Jerome Powell’s Message Loud And Clear.

Text size Stocks sank as Jerome Powell gave a short and clear message that rates will stay high for some time. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Jackson Hole has come and gone, and the only surprise may be that...

3M Is Denied Bankruptcy Shield Against Mass Earplug Claims

A bankruptcy judge declined on Friday to shield 3M Co. from continued litigation involving its military earplugs, a setback for the conglomerate’s attempt to shift the mass injury claims to a friendli...

As Intel Shares Slide, CEO Gelsinger Doubles Down

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Alex Wong/Getty Images Text size Shares of Intel have shed a third of their value so far in 2022. And Pat Gelsinger just made his largest open-market purchase since becoming th...

Nvidia Stock Is Down 40% This Year. Don’t Expect a Quick Turnaround.

Text size Even after its 40% share price stumble this year, Nvidia’s valuation looks expensive. Sam Yeh/AFP via Getty Images Nvidia, the most valuable U.S. semiconductor company, is in a big rut. This...

Porsche Could Be Worth as Much as All of Volkswagen in an IPO

Text size An IPO of the Volkswagen-controlled Porsche brand could come in September. Porsche Porsche’s initial public offering is getting close. It’s going to be big. Friday, Bloomberg reported that P...

Interest Rates Are Going Up. These 11 Banks Will Benefit.

Text size Bank of America is among the lenders that RBC says are especially well positioned for the current environment. Dominick Reuter/AFP via Getty Images Bank stocks—one of the few immediate benef...

Merck Looks Attractive, With or Without Seagen

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Stock Market Today: Dow Futures Slip as Jackson Hole Speech From Fed’s Powell Looms

Text size Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s speech scheduled for Friday has hung over markets all week. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Stocks were heading for losses Friday as a major catalyst loomed, wit...

6 Water Stocks for an Increasingly Thirsty World

How the Stock Market Performs After Jackson Hole, According to History

Text size The stock market’s traditional September swoon has been less pronounced in recent years. Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images The stock market usually performs well just after th...

T-Mobile Has Replaced Verizon Atop the Wireless World. It’s Time to Buy the Stock.

It used to be Verizon Communication ’s world, but wireless now belongs to T-Mobile US —and its stock will continue to benefit. Verizon (ticker: VZ) was the undisputed winner of the 4G era, investing h...

Nvidia Stock Sees Price Targets Lowered After Results

Text size Nvidia stock has declined by about 40% this year. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Wall Street analysts aren’t ready to give up on Nvidia yet—even after the company has reduced its outlook versu...

Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Refunds Borrowers Who Paid During Pause

The few Americans who continued to make student loan payments during a federal pause enacted at the beginning of the pandemic will now be eligible for a refund. On Wednesday, President Biden announced...

How Jackson Hole Could Revive the Stock Market Rally

Text size The market will be listening carefully to Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s speech in Jackson Hole, Wy. Graeme Jennings-Pool/Getty Images The stock market has gotten itself into a better pl...

Alibaba, JD.com Rising on Report of Resolution to SEC Delisting Issue

Text size Alibaba stock rose more than 8% following the report. AFP/Getty Images Stock in Alibaba Group and Tencent Holdings took off on Thursday after The Wall Street Journal reported that security r...

U.S., China Near Deal to Allow Audit Inspection of N.Y.-Listed Chinese Companies

SINGAPORE—The U.S. and China are nearing an agreement that would allow American accounting regulators to travel to Hong Kong to inspect the audit records of Chinese companies listed in New York, accor...

EV Charging-Station Operators Set to Battle for Ad Dollars

The next battleground in the fight for U.S. marketers’ advertising dollars may be charging stations used by the growing number of Americans who own electric or hybrid plug-in vehicles. ChargePoint Hol...

IRS Waives $1.2 Billion in Late-Filing Penalties for Income-Tax Returns