Moderna’s Earnings Are Wednesday. Here’s What to Expect.

Text size Moderna is developing two vaccines for the fall, one for the U.S. and the other for international markets. Sean Gallup/Getty Images As the U.S. prepares for a broad Covid-19 booster campaign...

Occidental Petroleum Tops Profit Estimates, Pays Down Debt

Text size Occidental stock has doubled this year and is the top performer in the S&P 500, Callaghan O’Hare/Bloomberg Warren Buffett probably liked Occidental Petroleum ’s second-quarter earn...

Chip Maker AMD Prospers as Rival Intel Struggles

Advanced Micro Devices reported a sharp increase in quarterly sales, driven by strength in its data-center business where rival Intel has been stumbling, but issued a muted outlook for the current per...

Airbnb Stock Falls. Wall Street Hoped for More From Earnings.

Text size Airbnb earned $379 million in the second quarter, reversing a loss of $19 million in the first quarter. Dreamstime Airbnb shares are trading sharply lower in late trading Tuesday after the s...

AMD Stock Drops After Earnings

Text size AMD shares are down 31% so far this year. Dreamstime Advanced Micro Devices reported better-than- expected earnings results Tuesday afternoon. But the company forecast less revenue than expe...

Pfizer, Cisco, and 5 Other Stocks With the Cash Flow to Raise Their Dividends

A company’s free cash is a lifeline for dividends, buybacks and other uses of capital. If that well runs dry or even slows down, a company can be forced to dial down its spending. For this screen, Bar...

Tesla Stock Falls After a Blowout July as Vote on Stock Split Looms

Text size Tesla’s shareholder meeting is on Thursday. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images Tesla stock was slipping back Tuesday amid a wider dip in stock markets as a crucial shareholder meetin...

Pelosi’s Trip to Taiwan Is a Risk to More Than Just the Chip Industry

Asian stocks worked out early there is no good outcome from Nancy Pelosi’s current tour of the region. By landing in Taiwan Tuesday or Wednesday, the speaker of the House risks Chinese military retali...

Fidelity Launches First Liquid Alt Funds as Stock and Bond Strategies Falter

Fidelity isn’t known for macro hedge funds that make bets on entire markets. The Boston-based mutual fund company with $4.3 trillion under management originally made its name by having the best indivi...

Caterpillar’s Earnings Are Good and Sales Top Estimates. But the Stock Falls.

Text size Caterpillar’s earnings and sales in the second quarter beat Wall Street expectations. Bernd Lauter / AFP via Getty Images Caterpillar reported second-quarter numbers that beat Wall Str...

Stock Market Today: Dow Futures Slip as Pelosi Goes to Taiwan, BP Stock Surges

Text size House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is set to arrive in Taiwan Tuesday. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Stocks were slipping Tuesday amid rising geopolitical tensions, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is ...

BP Stock Surges After Energy Giant Records $8.5 Billion Quarterly Profit

Text size BP reported second-quarter adjusted profit of $8.5 billion as it benefited from soaring energy prices. Getty Images BP is the latest oil supermajor to post its most profitable quarter in yea...

PayPal Shares Have Taken a Beating. Why They’re Worth a Look.

Text size As of the close of the first quarter, PayPal had 429 million active accounts, marking a 9% year-over-year increase. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Cautious optimism is the approach analysts ar...

Cathie Wood’s Ark Bought More Roku Stock. This Analyst Sees 24% Downside.

Text size Cathie Wood of ARK Invest has Roku as one of the biggest investments in her funds. Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg Roku’s earnings report last week sent shares into a free fall, but Cathie Woo...

Pinterest Stock Soars After Earnings Report

Text size Pinterest said Monday that the company was growing revenue despite a difficult environment for advertising. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Pinterest stock was surging in extended trading Monda...

Intel Stock Could Be Worth More Dead Than Alive. Why This Analyst Sees 50% Upside.

Text size Intel was once the most valuable chip maker in the U.S. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg While badly wounded, Intel isn’t dead yet. And at least one analyst thinks there could be considerably mor...

Apple Borrows Money to Buy Back Stock. What That May Say About the Bond Market.

Text size A new Apple store in London, shown in late July. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Apple is gearing up for a four-part bond sale to fund stock buybacks. Apple (ticker: AAPL ) is planning to use the p...

Royal Caribbean Stock Tumbles on $900 Million Notes Offering

Text size Cruise lines had to to take out significant debt during the pandemic to stay afloat. Pau Barrena/AFP via Getty Images Royal Caribbean Group stock tumbled after the company said it had starte...

Boeing Stock Rises as Strike Temporarily Averted, 787 Cleared for Deliveries

Text size The Federal Aviation Administration gave clearance to Boeing to begin deliveries of the 787 Dreamliner after approving the company’s plan to correct production problems with the aircra...

Nikola to Buy Battery Maker Romeo Power for $144 Million

Listen to article (2 minutes) Electric-truck startup Nikola said it has agreed to buy battery-technology company Romeo Power in an all-stock deal that values Romeo at roughly $144 million. Nikola said...

Amazon Stock ‘Needs’ to Be Owned. This Analyst Explains Why.

Text size Amazon workers sort packages for delivery in New York. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Amazon.com is a must-have stock for investors following the company’s second-quarter earnings beat, ac...

IRS Changes Guidelines for Inherited IRAs, Causing Confusion and Pushback

Figuring out the most efficient way to navigate the tax impact of inheriting individual retirement accounts has become more complicated since the Internal Revenue Service issued proposed new rules in ...

What Stocks Are Moving Monday? Alibaba, Boeing, NIO and More.

Text size Alibaba stock rises early Monday. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images Stock futures were trading lower Monday as recession fears remained at the forefront of investors’ minds as a new trading mo...

NIO, XPeng, and Li Auto Deliveries Cool Off in July. The Stocks Jump Anyway.

Text size NIO delivered more cars year over year in July. But deliveries fell from June. Odin Jaeger/Bloomberg Demand for Chinese electric vehicles cooled off in July. Falling EV sales in the world’s ...

Big Oil Could Pay Up to $25 Billion in New Taxes Under Dems’ Inflation Bill

Text size An oil pumpjack Spencer Platt/Getty Images Oil stocks were poised to open lower Monday as investors reacted to the news that the Democrats’ climate change measure could cost oil companies, b...

Alibaba Stock Rises as E-Commerce Giant Resolves to Maintain U.S. Listing

Text size Alibaba faces renewed regulatory scrutiny in the U.S. from the Securities and Exchange Commission. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images Chinese tech giant Alibaba ’s stock price was on a roller c...

Giant Pension Bought Apple Stock. It Sold Tesla, Microsoft and AT&T.

Text size An Apple store. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Oregon’s public pension recently made big changes in some of its biggest stock investments. The Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund bought more s...

The Stock Market Is Rallying. Here’s What Could Make it Tumble Again.

Text size A worse than expected CPI results could derail stocks. Scott Olson/Getty Images While the stock market has enjoyed an impressive run of late, the party could end when the next inflation resu...

AMD, PayPal, Starbucks, Uber, Paramount, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week

It’s the peak stretch of second-quarter earnings season, with roughly 150 S&P 500 firms scheduled to report this week. The highlights on the economic calendar will be a pair of purchasing managers...

U.S. Stocks Poised to Fall on Monday

Stocks are set to open lower on Monday ahead of another busy earnings week. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Text size U.S. stocks are se...

The Stock Market Had a Great July. Why August Could Be Tougher.

Text size Expectations for future rate hikes changed, hinging largely on two sentences from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s news conference. Ting Shen/Bloomberg Stocks rallied this past week ...