Broadcom in Talks to Pay About $60 Billion for VMware

Broadcom is in talks to pay around $60 billion for VMware people familiar with the matter said, in what would be one of the biggest takeover deals of the year. The two technology companies are aiming ...

Tesla Stock Has Fallen Below $700. Why $540 Might Be Next.

Text size Tesla stock hit $1,200 early in the year and almost $1,150 in April. Then it started dropping. Mario Tama/Getty Images Tesla stock has been badly battered in recent weeks. It’s breaking key ...

AMD’s New Chips Could Spark a Turnaround for Its Stock

Text size AMD’s Ryzen 7000 chips will be made using a more advanced process than its existing ones. Courtesy of AMD It’s finally here. For the first time in three years, Advanced Micro Devices w...

Sit Out the Next Few Months, Say These Analysts. A Recession Is Unavoidable.

Text size American flags outside the New York Stock Exchange in New York. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg The S&P 500 came close to finishing Friday’s session in a bear market, adding fuel to a rapidly in...

Deere Stock Plunged Friday. Wall Street Thinks Investors Overreacted.

Text size A John Deere autonomous tractor. Courtesy of John Deere Stock of agricultural-machinery giant Deere plummeted 14.1% Friday after the company reported better-than-expected fiscal-second-quart...

NIO Has Good News for Tesla. Production Is Recovering After Covid-19 Lockdowns.

Text size Shares of electric-vehicle maker NIO are down 25% since the end of March. Lintao Zhang/Getty Images Chinese Covid-19 lockdowns have hurt electric-vehicle sales and production since late Marc...

Why Shale Drillers Are Pumping Out Dividends Instead of More Oil and Gas

Shale drillers have been hamstrung by pipeline constraints, rising prices for oil-field supplies and shortages of roughnecks and rigs. But there is another reason the highest oil and gas prices in yea...

How Low Could the S&P 500 Sink? According to History, 3000.

Text size The fall in stock and bond prices has cut household wealth by as much as $8 trillion in 2022. Justin Lane/epa-efe/Shutterstock The stock market had a near-bear experience, which might be the...

Nvidia, Macy’s, Zoom, Costco, Snowflake, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited First-quarter earnings season winds down this week, but with more than a dozen S&P 500 companies left to report. Economists will be watching the latest Federal Reserve meeting...

Cash Buckets Are Earning Their Keep as Markets Slide. Just Don’t Hold Too Much.

Financial advisor Harold Evensky pioneered the cash bucket strategy in 1985 so clients would stay calm during market downturns and wouldn’t be forced to sell depleted shares to fund withdrawals. He or...

Nvidia to Slow Hiring Amid Inflationary Environment

The technology industry has been cutting back as it struggles to deal with rising inflation and a deteriorating global economic environment. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Text size Nvidia (ticker: NVDA...

This Half-Built Ohio Factory Shows How Peloton Mismanaged the Pandemic

In a northwest Ohio industrial park, up the highway from a new Amazon.com Inc. warehouse and a soon-to-open solar-panel plant, Peloton Interactive is building a million-square-foot factory that it wil...

Nvidia, Macy’s, Zoom, Costco, Snowflake, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited First-quarter earnings season winds down this week, but with more than a dozen S&P 500 companies left to report. Economists will be watching the latest Federal Reserve meeting...

15 Ways Consumers Can Deal With—and Even Benefit From—Rising Inflation

We are feeling the squeeze everywhere—from the groceries we buy to the gas we pump into cars. Inflation stood at 8.3% in April, remaining close to a four-decade high of 8.5% reached in March from the ...

3 Off-Price Retailers That Look Like Bargains in the Stock Market’s Wreckage

T.J. Maxx’s parent TJX reported earnings that were above Wall Street expectations. Cindy Ord/Getty Images Text size Two of the three major off-price retailers posted quarterly earnings this week, with...

A Near-Retiree Wants to Maximize His Social Security. Here’s Some Advice.

Noli Cabantug has spent his career going back and forth between the public and private sectors. Now, at age 58, he’s wondering what his retirement income will look like and what he can do over the nex...

$6 a Gallon Gasoline? Here’s How It Could Happen.

Illustration by Elias Stein Text size U.S. gasoline prices are at record highs, averaging more than $4.50 per gallon at the pump, and surpassing $4 in all 50 states for the first time. But, says Natas...

Conditions Are Ripe for a Deep Bear Market

With the S&P 500 briefly on Friday down 20% from its January peak, it is very tempting to start trying to call the end of the selloff. The problem is that only one of the conditions for a rally is...

Corporate Board Diversity Benefits Companies and Stakeholders

Text size It is in the best interest of shareholders for companies to evaluate their board composition regularly, establish policies and processes to ensure board diversity, and disclose the compositi...

Series I Savings Bonds: What Readers Want to Know

A popular investment backed by the U.S. government recently became even more attractive, especially for tax-smart investors who are worried about inflation. I wrote about the tax advantages and other ...

Stock Market Bottom Remains Elusive Despite Deepening Decline

U.S. stocks are in the midst of their longest selloff in decades.  Whether they are close to bottoming is anyone’s guess. Market selloffs have long stumped strategists trying to predict when they were...

Apple Looks to Boost Production Outside China

TOKYO—Apple has told some of its contract manufacturers that it wants to boost production outside China, citing Beijing’s strict anti-Covid policy among other reasons, people involved in the discussio...

Stocks Are Ready for a Bounce Higher After S&P 500 Closes Above Bear Market

Text size Dreamstime The stock market came awfully close to finishing Friday in a bear market, at least 20% off its peak in early January. Many investors would like to see it get there so Wall Street ...

Northrop Grumman and 5 More Companies That Raised Their Dividends This Week

Text size Northrop Grumman said it would raise its stock dividend. Courtesy of Northrop Grumman American Tower , Chubb , and Northrop Grumman were among the U.S. companies this week that announced pla...

The Market Is Melting Down and People Are Feeling It. ‘My Stomach Is Churning All Day.’

The last time Todd Jones heard this kind of panic in his clients’ voices, it was 2008 and the global financial system was on the brink of collapse. Mr. Jones, the chief investment officer at investmen...

The Stock Market Has Avoided a Bear. But the Selloff Isn’t Over

The S&P 500 indexrefuses to fall into a bear market—but that doesn’t mean it’s found a bottom just yet. Not that it wasn’t a painful week. The S&P 500 dropped 3% and has now fallen 18.7% from ...

The Bear Nears and Might Not Exit Stocks Until the S&P Sinks to 3000

Text size The fall in stock and bond prices has cut household wealth by as much as $8 trillion in 2022. Justin Lane/epa-efe/Shutterstock The stock market had a near-bear experience, which might be the...

After Big Pullback, It’s Time to Shop for Walmart Stock

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...

Tesla Stock Falls After Harassment Allegations Against CEO

Text size Tesla’s Shanghai factory. Xiaolu Chu/Getty Images Tesla stock took a beating as investors digested sexual-harassment allegations against CEO Elon Musk. Thursday, Business Insider repor...

Buy Genco Shipping & Trading Stock. The Shipping Company Is About to Pay a 14% Dividend Yield.

The shipping industry is undeniably cyclical, a feature that has kept away legions of investors burned by too many sudden downturns with no clear pattern of recovery. But for Genco Shipping & Trad...

Robinhood and 4 Other Broken IPO Stocks That Could Be Buys

After a bubbly year for initial public offerings, 2022 looks like a bust. Shares of many companies that came public last year are down 80% or more from their peaks. “This is the IPO market’s worst sel...

Meta, Uber and Other Internet Stock to Buy After the Big Market Drop

Text size Uber shares are attractive after a 44% decline this year, an analyst says. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Internet stocks have tumbled worse than the general market as investors have worried a...