Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo Boost Shareholder Payouts

The largest U.S. banks said they would increase payouts to shareholders after the Federal Reserve said the banks are able to keep lending in a severe hypothetical recession. Four of the six biggest ba...

Vanguard Sues UHNW Advisor Over Alleged Client Solicitation

The Vanguard Group is suing one of its former ultrahigh-net-worth financial advisors for allegedly violating a one-year nonsolicitation agreement he signed while an employee. The financial services gi...

Digital World Acquisition Discloses Federal Subpoenas as Director Resigns

Digital World Acquisition the special-purpose acquisition company that plans to merge with former President Donald Trump’s social-media company, said a federal grand jury in the Southern District of N...

Axsome Therapeutics Stock Soars on Proposed FDA Labeling for Depression Drug

Text size Axsome is reviewing the proposed labeling from the FDA. Dreamstime Shares of Axsome Therapeutics were soaring Monday after the biopharmaceutical company announced some good news in an attemp...

The Russian Default Is Less Worrisome Than It Appears. Keep Watching Oil.

A general view of the Kremlin, Red Square and St. Basil’s Cathedral in central Moscow. AFP via Getty Images Text size Russia’s first default on its foreign debt in more than 100 years is the lat...

Russian Gas Cuts Threaten World’s Largest Chemicals Hub

LUDWIGSHAFEN, Germany—For years, BASF SE one of the world’s largest chemicals companies, built its business model around cheap and plentiful Russian natural gas, which it uses to generate power and as...

Bosses Swear by the 90-Day Rule to Keep Workers Long Term

In the quest to retain workers, companies are sharpening their focus on a very specific common goal: 90 days. Hold on to an employee for three months, executives and human-resources specialists say, a...

Cruise Lines Can’t Duck Their Debt

Cruise ships, it seems, are like ducks—elegant and effortless above the water, fighting like crazy to stay afloat beneath. On the surface, the industry is finally steaming ahead after over a year at b...

G-7 to Ban Russian Gold, Adding to Sanctions Over Ukraine

Russia exports roughly $19 billion of gold a year, and cutting off that revenue source will add to pressure on the Russian economy, according to Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Dreamstime Text size...

Sanctions Push Russia Near First Foreign Default Since Revolution

Russia was poised to default on its foreign debt for the first time since 1918, pushed into delinquency not for lack of money but because of punishing Western sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine. R...

Energy Stocks Oneok and Chesapeake Energy Are Down. Execs Bought Up Shares.

Text size Energy firms Oneok and Chesapeake Energy saw large insider share purchases. Dreamstime.com Two energy firms caught up in a recent price slump saw large insider share purchases. President Joe...

U.S. Paying More to Borrow as Fed Raises Rates, Inflation Stays Elevated

Yields on U.S. Treasurys are rising as the Federal Reserve lifts interest rates to try to cool inflation, a development that could increase the federal government’s borrowing costs over time to levels...

Carvana Sought to Disrupt Auto Sales. It Delivered Undriveable Cars.

Terri Burton wanted to do something special to mark her son’s high school graduation, so she bought him the car of his youthful dreams: a Volkswagen Golf GTI. But the purchase was the start of a night...

Apollo’s Stock Is Expected to Rise. Here’s Why.

Apollo Global Management is the most misunderstood of the publicly traded alternative asset managers. But the stock could represent significant upside for those who wish to take a look, according to R...

Employees Scrambled to Keep Robinhood Afloat in January 2021 Meme-Stock Frenzy, House Report Finds

Robinhood Markets struggled to handle huge volumes of stock trading and sparred with its principal customer, market maker Citadel Securities, during the week in January 2021 when meme stocks exploded,...

Buy Starbucks Stock. Shares Could Be Ready to Run.

China’s economic slowdown is among the factors pressuring Starbucks shares. Above, dispensing coffee to customers on the go in Hangzhou. Long Wei/VCG/Getty Images Text size A sequel is seldom as good ...

Gas-Tax Holiday Is a Gimmick. Here Are Some Better Ideas.

President Biden’s proposed gas-tax holiday is both a gimmick and dead on arrival. Yet, it is attracting inordinate attention across Washington and on Wall Street. There are viable ways to improve ener...

8 Home-building and Steel Stocks That Offer Substantial Value

Looking for the cheapest stocks in the market now? Two industries stand out: home builders and steel makers. Barron’s screened for the 10 stocks in the S&P 500 index, S&P Midcap 400, and S&...

Altria Shakes Off a Sell Rating and Gets an Upgrade

Text size Rising macroeconomic uncertainty contributed to a downgrade of Altria’s stock in early June. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images Altria Group stock was rising Friday after the tobacc...

Merck Pushes Forward With Potential Deal for Seagen

Merck & Co. is pushing forward with a potential deal for biotech Seagen Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be one of the largest takeovers of the year. The Wall Stre...

Spirit Airlines Sticks With Frontier Deal After Sweetened Offer

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Best and Worst Spots in the U.S. Housing Market, According to Lennar

Elias Stein Text size Jersey and Florida are hot. Austin and Seattle are not. On Tuesday, home builder Lennar ’s co-CEO Richard Beckwitt on an earnings call provided a tour of U.S. housing markets. “S...

High-Yield Bonds Are Looking Like Bargains After an Awful First Half

There are no bad bonds, only bad prices. So Dan Fuss, Loomis Sayles’ vice chairman, has often observed—a lesson gleaned from more than six decades of experience managing corporate bond portfolios. Aft...

Dow Jumps More Than 800 Points as Fears of Interest-Rate Hikes Subside

Stocks rallied on Friday after fresh economic data tempered investors’ expectations of steep Federal Reserve interest-rate hikes, as major market indexes notched their first weekly gains after three c...

GM Stock Has Been Hammered, Which Makes Owning a Piece of Its EV Future a Bargain

Text size GM has been showing off its Cadillac Lyriq SUV electric vehicle, priced like Tesla’s Model Y. Courtesy of Cadillac Inflation, rising interest rates, and recession fears have all conspired ag...

Polestar Shares Rise in Electric-Vehicle Maker’s Market Debut

Updated June 24, 2022 5:12 pm ET Listen to article (2 minutes) Shares in Polestar Automotive Holding UK PLC jumped 16% on their first day of trading Friday, after the Swedish electric-vehicle maker co...

EV Newcomer Polestar Stock Has a Big and Wild First Trading Day

Text size Thomas Ingenlath, CEO of Polestar AB, will run the new company. Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg The merger of the special-purpose acquisition company Gores Guggenheim and the electric-vehicle make...

Carnival Stock Surges as Second-Quarter Revenue Rises Sharply

Text size A large Carnival cruise ship docked at port in turquoise blue water. Dreamstine Shares of Carnival were rising Friday after the cruise line posted second-quarter revenue that rose sharply fr...

6 Oil Stocks That Can Buck Increased Bearishness

Text size An oil pumpjack pulls oil from the Permian Basin oil field in Odessa, Texas. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Oil prices have fallen 10% this month, and stocks have been sinking with them. In fact, s...

Berkshire Hathaway Stock Hit Hard in June. Warren Buffett Is Probably Unfazed.

Text size Berkshire has scaled back its stock repurchase program this year, and that may be sending a message that CEO Warren Buffett doesn’t view the stock as being so cheap. Bill Pugliano/Gett...

IPOs From 2021 Have Crashed. It May Be Time to Buy Some of Them.

Text size A view of the Fearless Girl statue wearing an F45 Training hat. Noam Galai/Getty Images Most initial public offerings from 2021 have performed badly, and Jefferies suggests that 13 from that...

Tesla Shanghai to Halt Production Temporarily. It Isn’t Covid.

Text size An aerial view of Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory. Xiaolu Chu/Getty Images Tesla ’s plant near Shanghai is going to shut down temporarily, according to reports. The downtime will add some uncerta...