Here’s What’s Next for Tesla Investors Now That Elon Musk Sold Stock

Text size Tesla is expected to release Photograph by Spencer Platt/Getty Images Only Tesla CEO Elon Musk can make an annual proxy statement exciting. With Tesla’s 2022 proxy statement possibly arrivin...

Apple, IBM, and 14 More Companies That Raised Their Stock Dividends

Text size IBM plans to raise its dividend. Migel Medina/AFP via Getty Images Apple, International Business Machines, and Discover Financial Services were among the large U.S. companies that announced ...

GE Stock Is Overpriced, What Ails Teladoc, and More From Analysts

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...

Europe Inches Closer to a Ban on Russian Oil. Here’s What That Would Mean.

Europe will continue debating a ban on imports of Russian oil over the weekend. While such a deal is far from certain, the New York Times reported Friday that the European Union could approve a phased...

Robinhood Has a Crypto Trading Problem. It Might Soon Be Coinbase’s, Too.

Text size Robinhood reported a significant slowdown in trading volumes in the first three months of 2022. Dennizn/Dreamstime Trading platform Robinhood Markets experienced a stark decline in market ac...

The Stock Market Isn’t Falling Like It Did In the 1970s—It’s Even Worse

Text size By the end of trading on Friday, the selloff had gotten worse and we were staring at the worst start to a year since the Great Depression. Spencer Platt/Getty Images It was the worst first f...

Will Biden Cancel Student Debt? Two Years In, He’s Still Mulling Up to $10,000

Text size President Joe Biden said Thursday he is “considering dealing with some debt reduction.” Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Two years since candidate Joe Biden tweeted that student borr...

AbbVie Shares Drop Amid Missed Sales Expectations for Key Drugs

Text size AbbVie stock is up 15.4% so far this year. Courtesy of AbbVie In a quarterly earnings report out Friday, the drugmaker AbbVie cut its full-year earnings guidance, and a number of its key dru...

Netflix Sent Warner Bros. Discovery Stock for a Dive. Execs Bought Up Shares.

Text size David Zaslav, president and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery. Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg Warner Bros. Discovery stock has tumbled in the short time the company was formed from the merger of AT...

The Cruise Crowd Is Back, Even if Investors Aren’t. Here’s Why It May Be Time to Take a Plunge.

Few sectors absorbed as much pain as the cruise industry during the pandemic, which shut down sailing operations in the U.S. from March 2020 through last June. Shares of the big three cruise operators...

Chevron Earnings Just Miss Expectations, Despite Surging Oil Prices

Text size A Chevron petroleum storage tank Joe Raedle/Getty Images Chevron posted earnings that were slightly below analyst expectations for the first quarter. Chevron (ticker: CVX), the second-bigges...

AMD, Nvidia, and Qualcomm Stocks Fall After Intel Flags Problems Ahead

Text size The surge in demand for chips may now have passed its peak. Courtesy AMD Chip makers including AMD , Nvidia , and Qualcomm fell in early trading after Intel warned that demand for computers ...

Occidental, Devon, and 7 Other Energy Stocks That Look Particularly Cheap

Text size Energy stocks are undervalued, some analysts say. Callaghan O’Hare/Bloomberg Energy stocks were the S&P 500’s top performers last year, rising 48%. They’re leading the pack again i...

Intel’s Revenue Guidance Falls Short. The Stock Drops.

Text size An Intel desktop processor. Courtesy Intel Corporation Intel forecast less revenue than expected for the June quarter, sending the stock lower in after-hours trading. The company cited weake...

Rivian Killed Ford Earnings. Now It’s Crushing Amazon’s.

Text size Rivian’s wild stock swings are distorting earnings at both Ford and Amazon. Courtesy Rivian Ford Motor and Amazon.com were early investors in Rivian Automotive . They still own Rivian ...

Cathie Wood’s ARK Bet Big on Tumbling Teladoc. These Funds Did Too.

Text size A Teladoc member visits virtually with a doctor. Courtesy of Teledoc Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest and other institutional investors were slated to take a steep hit as shares of Teladoc Health pl...

Tesla Stock Is Dropping Like a Stone. There’s No New Reason.

Text size Tesla cars parked in a lot at a Tesla factory. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Tesla shares opened higher Thursday, then promptly fell. It isn’t easy to find anything new spooking investors. Sh...

Not So Easy to Follow the 4% Rule in Retirement

April 26, 2022 12:19 pm ET Photo: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg News “It’s Time to Rethink 4% Retirement Rule” (Personal Journal, April 20) is fascinating, especially the revelation that Bill Bengen, now re...

PayPal Trims 2022 Outlook But Beats Revenue Forecast

PayPal lowered its forecast for adjusted profit for 2022 to a range of $3.81 to $3.93 a share. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Text size PayPal Holdings said its first quarter was a “solid start” but cut...

Ford Posts $3.1 Billion First-Quarter Loss, Maintains 2022 Outlook

Ford Motor Co. F 0.95% swung to a net loss of $3.1 billion in the first quarter, a reversal largely driven by a steep loss in valuation of its stake in electric-vehicle startup Rivian Automotive Inc. ...

Tesla Stock Is Pricing in $37 of Twitter Fear. Here’s How We Know.

Text size CEO of Tesla Motors Elon Musk Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP via Getty Images Tesla and Twitter stocks are linked, for at least a little while, as investors wonder how Tesla CEO Elon Musk will fund th...

Ford’s Earnings Took a Huge Hit From Rivian. Wall Street Is Happy Anyway.

Text size Ford’s shares have moved about 7% or 8%, up or down, on average after the past four quarterly reports. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Ford Motor reported first-quarter earnings that mode...

Beyond Meat Stock Jumps on Hopes McDonald’s Partnership Will Be Permanent

Text size A McDonald’s McPlant Beyond Meat burger. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Beyond Meat stock jumped on Wednesday, following reports that its McPlant partnership with restaurant behemoth McD...

Natural Gas Prices are Holding Up. Here’s Why.

Text size The Yamal-Europe pipeline from Russia has exit points in Wloclawek, Poland. The pipeline is a major source of Europe’s natural gas. Omar Marques/Getty Images Vladimir Putin’s decision ...

Twitter Stock Falls on Fears Musk Might Abandon Deal

Text size One merger arbitrager says the Twitter deal’s conditions are “seller-friendly.” Scott Olson/Getty Images Twitter shares are falling Wednesday as investors worry that Elon M...

Boeing Looked for Flaws in Its Dreamliner and Couldn’t Stop Finding Them

For years, Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration handled 787 Dreamliner deliveries as though the perfect was the enemy of the good. The FAA allowed the plane maker to deliver the wide-body je...

Twitter Stock Offers 9% Return to Musk’s Takeover Price After Tuesday’s Selloff

Text size Shares of Twitter fell about $2, meaning investors stand to make about 9% if Musk’s offer goes through. Scott Olson/Getty Images Twitter stock now offers a 9% return to Elon Musk’s tak...

Facebook Parent Meta Reports Earnings Today. Here’s What to Expect.

Text size For the March quarter, Meta projected revenue of between $27 billion and $29 billion. Noah Berger/AFP via Getty Images Facebook ’s parent Meta Platforms will release its first-quarter financ...

Alphabet Earnings Disappoint. The Stock Is Dropping.

Text size Alphabet’s latest quarterly earnings came in below Wall Street’s expectations. Dreamstime Alphabet shares dipped late Tuesday after the company missed first-quarter earnings expe...

Texas Instruments Stock Is Tanking. Guidance Fell Short.

Text size A Texas Instruments chip. Dreamstime Texas Instruments provided a revenue forecast for the June quarter below expectations, citing lower demand in China. Its shares were falling in after-hou...

QuantumScape Stock Falls. Earnings Aren’t the Problem.

Text size Investors know that significant sales are still years away for QuantumScape. Courtesy QuantumScape Solid-state battery technology company QuantumScape reported a wider-than-expected loss for...

Apple and the Rest of Big Tech Look More Like ‘Value Stocks’

Text size The shadow of a man is cast on the wall of an Apple store as he uses his mobile phone in Beijing Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images Big Tech stocks aren’t so highflying anymore. In fact, they’r...