Exxon’s Investments Are Paying Off. Expect Big Dividends, Buybacks.

Text size Exxon has been investing in its refining business while others in the industry have been holding back. Eric Thayer/Getty Images Exxon Mobil has zigged where other giant energy companies have...

Buy GM Shares, But Not Ford or Tesla. Here’s What One Analyst Says.

Text size GM looks to be the preferred U.S. auto maker pick among Wall Street analysts, with about 85% of analysts covering the stock rating it a Buy. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Investors are bearis...

More Bad Times Ahead for These 6 Big Tech Stocks

Text size Amazon stock is down 35% this year. Sebastien Bozon/AFP via Getty Images Not even the high and mighty are immune from the gravitational forces of bear markets. That is the dilemma facing the...

Tesla, Nvidia, and 10 Other Beaten-Up Stocks That Look Like Opportunities

Nvidia qualifies as a growth stock. It trades for about 30 times estimated 2022 earnings. Dreamstime Text size Stocks are struggling. Everything is going down, even stocks with improving outlooks. But...

How Apple Stock Could Save the S&P 500 From a Bear Market

Text size Apple has outperformed the S&P 500 for the entire year. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images The S&P 500 looks like it can fall into bear market territory. There is a good chance that wo...

Apple and Amazon Have Fallen for 6 Straight Weeks. There Could Be More Pain Ahead.

Text size People visit the Apple Store in Grand Central Station in New York. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Apple and Amazon.com kicked off the second week of May looking as if the stocks would exte...

Retirees Face a Whirlwind Market. Here’s What Advisors Say They Should Do.

Given market conditions, retirees can be forgiven if they feel that investing right now is akin to running with scissors. Risks and uncertainties abound: spiking inflation, Federal Reserve rate hikes ...

GE and Boeing Stock Trades Might Be Signs of Market Capitulation

Text size A picture shows helmets with General Electric logos. Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images Monday was a terrible day for stocks. The last few days have been dreadful. With markets reeling, inves...

Exxon, Chevron, and Other Energy Producers Are Exercising Restraint

Text size The U.K. Fawley Refinery, owned by Esso Petroleum, a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil. Daniel Leal/AFP/Getty Images U.S. energy companies are holding the line on capital spending and energy product...

Many EV Startups Need More Cash. Rivian Isn’t One of Them.

Text size Door panels at Rivian’s assembly plant. Courtesy Rivian Trading in shares of electric vehicle start-up Rivian Automotive is starting to make no sense. The stock was down almost 20% Mon...

Palantir Earnings and Outlook Fall Short of Estimates. The Stock Plunges.

Text size Palantir guided to a ‘base case’ of $470 million in revenue for the second quarter. Dreamstime Palantir Technologies posted soft first-quarter results, along with June quarter gu...

Virgin Galactic Stock Is Tumbling. Here’s What’s Troubling Analysts.

Text size Truist Securities downgraded Virgin Galactic stock to Hold from Buy. Courtesy Virgin Galactic Virgin Galactic Holdings Virgin Galactic Holdings stock continues to slide on Monday after Truis...

Bitcoin Keeps Plunging With No Sign of Stopping. Where the Bottom May Be.

Cryptocurrency prices tumbled over the weekend and into Monday, with Bitcoin nearing a yearly low as investors continued to dump risky assets amid a tough stock market and challenging macroeconomic ba...

Is Red-Hot Inflation Cooling Off? 3 Signs That Show It Is.

Text size Expectations for inflation are critical to how fast the Fed raises interest rates. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images Good news about inflation is bubbling up even as the Federal Reserve...

The Stock Market May Look Volatile, but the S&P 500 Has Seen Worse. Way Worse.

One out of every six trading days has closed with a gain or loss of 2% or more for the S&P 500 so far this year. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Text size The stock market is getting jittery in 2022, a...

BioNTech Earnings Top Forecasts on Strong Sales of Covid-19 Vaccine

Text size BioNTech is continuing to work with Pfizer on follow-on Covid-19 vaccines. (Photo by THOMAS LOHNES/AFP via Getty Images) BioNTech , the German biotech company, reported first-quarter earning...

Stock Market Today: Dow Futures Slide, Tech Sells Off, Bond Yields Surge

Text size Stocks have had a tough 2022, with the S&P 500 firmly in correction territory. Dreamstime Stocks slipped on Monday with last week’s selloff resuming, as investors fretted about the econo...

Oil Prices Slip as Saudi Arabia Cuts Prices and China Lockdowns Intensify

Text size Oil prices slip Monday but are still elevated. Pichit Boonhuad/Dreamstime.com Oil prices declined Monday after Saudi Arabia, the biggest exporter, reduced prices for Asia and the northwest o...

Stock Futures Fall as Bond Yields Edge Higher

U.S. stock futures fell to start the week, indicating that major equity indexes could decline again following last week’s big swings.  Futures for the S&P 500 declined 1%. Contracts tied to the te...

3 Signs Red-Hot Inflation Is Cooling Off

Text size Expectations for inflation are critical to how fast the Fed raises interest rates. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images Good news about inflation is bubbling up even as the Federal Reserve...

How S&P 500 Volatility in 2022 Compares to Years Past

Text size Spencer Platt/Getty Images The stock market is getting jittery in 2022, as investors try to figure out where the economy and corporate earnings will go amid higher interest rates, record inf...

2 Stocks to Buy Amid Tech’s Wreckage

Text size Tens of billions of investors’ capital has been vaporized inside some top tech hedge funds. It could be the quickest collapse of dollar value in hedge fund history. Dreamstime Warren Buffett...

There Could Be More Downside Ahead for the Stock Market

It could be very difficult for Powell and the Fed to tame inflation without causing an economic slowdown. Photo illustration by Barron’s staff; (reference) Dreamstime (5) Text size Like Winnie t...

Disney, Occidental, Rivian, Palantir, BioNTech, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week

Text size We’re past the peak of first-quarter earnings season, but with several notable companies still left to report next week. The economic-data highlights of the week will be a pair of inflation ...

U.S. Stocks Poised for Lower Open on Monday

U.S. stocks were set to open lower on Monday, with another week of earnings ahead. Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images Text size U.S. stocks are set to open lower on Monday. On Sunday night, Dow Jones Indus...

Disney, Occidental, Rivian, Palantir, BioNTech, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

Text size We’re past the peak of first-quarter earnings season, but with several notable companies still left to report next week. The economic-data highlights of the week will be a pair of inflation ...

Bitcoin Falls to Half Its Peak as Investors Shun Risk

The cryptocurrency’s market tumble over the weekend echoed the broader stock market’s decline last week as investors moved away from riskier assets. Dreamstime Text size The price of Bitcoin fell 5.3%...

Preferred Stocks Have Plunged This Year. But There Are Opportunities If You Know Where to Look.

The preferred-stock market has suffered one of its worst selloffs in decades as yields on leading bank preferred issues have risen to about 6% from 4%. But with yields now at their highest levels in f...

As Demand for Mental-Health Care Booms, Investors See Opportunities

Psychiatrists and psychologists once ran their own practices. Now the local therapist office could be controlled by a buyout king. Venture capitalists and private-equity firms are pouring billions of ...

Billionaire George Kaiser’s Bank Drills Deeper Into the Oil Patch

Banks all over the U.S. and around the world have curtailed lending to the U.S. oil-and-gas sector. BOK Financial Corp. BOKF 1.09% has doubled down. The Tulsa, Okla.-based bank holding company for the...

Crypto Prices Slump Over the Weekend

The decline of bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, mirrored the slide of the overall stock market. Photo: Kin Cheung/Associated Press The cryptocurrency market fell over the weekend, mirrorin...

Dollar Strength Bucks Inflation Woes

Years ago, high U.S. inflation meant a weak dollar. So far, it is different this time, and many on Wall Street are betting it will stay that way. The dollar is reaching multidecade highs against its t...