Electric vehicle stocks have stalled—and many won’t get started again. Yes, things are that bad for EV start-ups as they try to become the next Tesla (ticker: TSLA). The blame starts with rising inter...
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As China-U.S. Relations Cool, Reshoring Heats Up. Honeywell and Other Stocks That Should Benefit.
The gulf between the U.S. and China is widening, which could be good news for stocks benefiting from the reshoring of industries that migrated over the past 40 years. If President Xi Jinping’s consoli...
The Stock Market Had a Great Week, but It Hasn’t Gone Anywhere in a Month. Inside a Very Volatile Market.
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Coca-Cola and 4 Other Quality Stocks to Bolster Your Portfolio
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The Stock Market Rebound Fizzled. Why a Real Bottom Could Be Forming Soon.
Investors seemingly can’t stop trying to pick a stock market bottom, no matter how bad the news—and it continues to backfire. The day for a real bounce, however, may be coming soon. Consider: This pas...
Bank Stocks Have Gotten Slammed. Here Are 4 Worth a Look Ahead of Earnings.
Another bank earnings season is coming upon us, and no one is feeling too excited. Yet excitement isn’t what makes stocks like Citizens Financial Group and M&T Bank attractive. Make no mistake, ba...
Brazil’s Election Is Almost Here. Get Ready to Buy Petrobras Stock.
Chocolate and peanut butter go together; falling oil prices and Brazilian political uncertainty most certainly do not. Yet Petrobras stock may still be worth buying. Yes, that sounds like a terrible i...
How Low Will the Stock Market Go? S&P 3300 Might Just Be the Start.
The stock market desperately wants to put in a low. The Federal Reserve won’t let it. You wouldn’t know that from looking at the market this past week. On the one hand, U.S. economic data remains stro...
September Was Bad for Investors. October Could Be Worse.
Text size Market chaos has hit stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, and futures. It’s hard to see it ending soon. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images It’s a bumpy, volatile, no good, very bad market o...
Costco Earnings Underwhelmed and the Stock Is Falling. It’s Time to Buy the Dip.
Text size Costco earnings rarely disappoint. Mario Tama/Getty Images Costco Wholesale isn’t the kind of company that delivers much in the way of bad news and Thursday’s earnings report wasn’t anything...
Why Is the Stock Market Down? It Knows the Worst Is Yet to Come.
Text size NYSE From a certain point onward, there is no turning back. The stock market reached that point this past week. Oh, the market was hopeful, entering the week, that inflation had reached its ...
IHS Is a Play on Emerging Market Cellphones. Why the Stock Looks Like a Buy.
Text size IHS’s organic revenue growth has been 18% a year over the past half-decade. Dreamstime IHS Holding is the new kid on the block in the cell-tower world—and its stock may be worth buying. Runn...
The Stock Market Had a Crazy Good Week. One Way to Make Sense of It All.
Text size Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Traders prefer a volatile market, and they’ve gotten one in 2022. Stocks have declined, rallied, and dropped again, driven by ever-evolving expectations for ...
Retail Stocks Got an Earnings Boost. Why There’s No Comfort in That.
Text size Many retailers are still struggling with the high inventories, with profits dragged down by pricier supply-chain and transport costs. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Investors breathed a sigh of ...
The Stock Market Looked Ready to Recover Before Falling Apart. What Went Wrong.
Text size Jonathan Alpeyrie/Bloomberg August’s payrolls data was greeted with chants of “Goldilocks” for being not too hot and not too cold. Investors, however, forgot that “Goldilocks and the Three B...
Juniper Networks Had Lousy Earnings. It’s AI Strategy Could Push the Stock Higher.
Text size Juniper Networks’ shares look ready to break out.. Brendan McDermid/REUTERS/Alamy One month ago, Juniper Networks stock looked as good as dead. Now, it’s rallying, and it may just be getting...
California Sets the Pace on Zero Emissions. Car Makers, Old and New, Are Cheering.
Text size California is set to prohibit the sale of new gasoline-powered cars in the state by 2035. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images California announced this week that it will ban sales of new gasoline-p...
The Bulls Still Own This Market. But Cracks Are Starting to Show.
Text size Riskier and more speculative pockets of the market have led the rally, which has coincided with a decline in bond yields. NYSE If it looks like a bull market and acts like a bull market, it’...
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 ...
Small-Cap Stocks Have Been Big Winners. Why They Can Keep Outperforming.
Text size Yeti cooler sales are expected to grow, and the company has added drinkware products to its line. Sergio Flores/Bloomberg Good things are supposed to come in small packages, but that hasn’t ...
Stocks Are Under Pressure. Add This Accounting Entry to the Risks.
Text size ADT recently valued its intangible assets at more than 200% of its market capitalization. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Weakening demand, inflation, and higher interest rates aren’t the only risks...
Is the Stock Market Going Up? It Depends on the Definition of Recession.
Text size Tradersat the New York Stock Exchange. Seth Wenig/AP Not since Bill Clinton testified about the meaning of the word “is” has so much hinged on the meaning of one simple word. The word is “re...
Wall Street Analysts Rate Stocks With a Variety of Labels. Here’s How to Read Them.
Text size Wall Street analysts slap Buy, Strong Buy, Sell, Underperform, Neutral or other labels on stocks Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Ratings can be confusing. Analysts slap Buy, Strong Buy, Sell, Underp...