It has taken a historic selloff, but the bond rout may finally be winding down. Yields are also looking plump enough to be attractive again. A two-year Treasury now gets you 4.1%, a yield not seen sin...
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FedEx Earnings Are Coming. It Shouldn’t Get Any Worse.
Text size FedEx investors will want to hear from management after a disappointing update given a week ago. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Shipping giant FedEx reports its fiscal first-quarter financial resul...
Delta Looks to Improve Margins, Cut Debt as Travel Rebounds
Dan Janki, the finance chief of Delta Air Lines Inc., had to navigate a host of pressures in his first year in the airline industry as travel demand remained below the levels seen before the Covid-19 ...
China’s EV Startups Suffer Widening Losses Despite Sales Boom
Sept. 19, 2022 6:00 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) HONG KONG—China’s electric-vehicle market is booming, but the country’s hottest EV startups are seeing losses grow even as sales rise. Rising ba...
Dow Futures Fall as Wall Street Anticipates Another Big Rate Hike From the Fed
Text size AFP via Getty Images Stock futures traded lower Monday in a week that is expected to see the Federal Reserve raise interest rates by another three-quarters of a point in its effort to stamp ...
Bulls Get Scorched by FedEx. Don’t Expect the Fed to Help.
Text size FedEx’s disappointing earnings and unexpectedly weak guidance were key factors in this past week’s stock market swoon. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg The stock market faces a doubly poisonous c...
The Latest U.S.-China Worry: Another Ramp-Up in the Tech Cold War
Text size Wang Zhao/AFP via Getty Images The already-fractured U.S.-China relationship could worsen as the U.S. rolls out more restrictions aimed at curbing China’s access to technology and investment...
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 ...
The S&P 500 sank 5% in a very bad week for stocks. These 20 lost as much as 24%.
U.S. stocks sputtered Friday to close out the week in the red. The day’s declines of less than 1% for the broad indexes paled against Tuesday’s, when they sank 4% to 5%. For the week, the Dow Jones In...
Why FedEx’s profit warning is such bad news for the U.S. economy
FedEx Corp. has bad news for investors, but what the logistics company’s massive profit warning says about the U.S. economy may be even worse. “The FedEx news was pretty stark. But when I read it, I w...
A further 27% drop in the S&P 500 could be coming if inflation hawks are right, Goldman Sachs team warns
Not exactly TGIF this Friday. What the sellside is slowly realizing is not just that the Fed is going to be aggressive in September after the latest shocking inflation figure, but that the central ban...
FedEx to Close Offices, Park Aircraft After Warning of Sales Shortfall
Updated Sept. 15, 2022 5:42 pm ET Listen to article (2 minutes) FedEx said its quarterly revenue fell below its expectations and it was closing offices and parking aircraft to offset declining volumes...
FedEx stock tanks nearly 15% after company withdraws outlook, says year is about to get worse
FedEx Corp. shares fell nearly 15% in the extended session Thursday after the logistics company pulled its outlook for the year, called for significantly lower quarterly profit and lower revenue, and ...
Taiwan Semiconductor Is a Top Pick in a Weak Chip Market, Says Analyst
Text size The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing building in Taichung, Taiwan. I-Hwa Cheng/Bloomberg Bernstein believes investors should look through any immediate hiccups and focus on Taiwan Semicond...
This superbull at JPMorgan who called the summer rally sees a soft landing ahead. Here’s his advice on stocks and oil.
A fifth-straight win was taken off the table after August CPI numbers surprised on the upside. And it looks like there’s nothing to sway the Fed from a 75-basis-point hike this month. Still, when it d...
Elon Musk Has a Solution for the Energy Grid. And He’s Probably Right.
Text size Tesla sells more than just cars. It sells battery storage solutions to utilities around the globe. Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images Heat, climate change, renewable power, and the grid are al...
UiPath Stock Sinks on Cut to Fiscal-Year Revenue Forecast
Text size UiPath, the robotic-process automation software company, cut its revenue outlook for the fiscal year. Courtesy UiPath UiPath stock was sinking Wednesday after the robotic-process automation ...
12 semiconductor stocks bucking the downcycle trend
Semiconductor stocks have been great outperformers over long periods, but their movement this year underscores how cyclical the industry can be. Here is a look behind the numbers that are driving down...
Dividend yields on preferred stocks have soared. This is how to pick the best ones for your portfolio.
This year nearly every type of security has declined — bad news if you look at your portfolio’s value each day and have difficulty sleeping at night. On the other hand, it’s good news if you’re lookin...