‘We need to increase oil & gas output immediately,’ Elon Musk says as Ukraine crisis jolts U.S. crude to 2008 high

Elon Musk voiced an unusual stance for an electric-vehicle executive on Friday. Tesla Inc.’s TSLA, -0.12% chief executive said the U.S. needs to immediately increase production of oil and gas in a twe...

Tesla May Have a Path to a $4 Trillion Market Value. Here’s Why.

Text size A Tesla dealership David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Tesla investor Gary Black tweeted out some interesting math Friday. He laid out his case for Tesla’s market capitalization to climb to a whoppi...

Tesla Finally Gets German Plant Approval. The Stock Is Falling.

Text size In this aerial view, the new Tesla Giga factory stands near Gruenheide just outside Berlin. Sean Gallup/Getty Images Tesla investors woke to a bit of good news Thursday but the stock isn’t h...

Rivian Stock Is Falling Because EV Prices Are Rising. Investors Aren’t Happy.

Text size Prices for some Rivian vehicles and trim levels are rising up to 20%. Courtesy Rivian Prices for new electric vehicles from electric truck maker Rivian Automotive are rising to help the star...

Rivian Stock’s Price Target Gets a Cut. There Are Too Many Headwinds.

Text size Courtesy of Rivian Electric-truck startup Rivian Automotive reports fourth-quarter earnings in about a week. One analyst cut his price target on the stock ahead of the report because there a...

Ford CEO Shuts Down EV Spinoff Rumors. The Ford Family Won’t Let It Happen.

Ford Motor CEO Jim Farley told investors Wednesday there were no plans to spin off his company’s electric vehicle business. That shouldn’t be a surprise. The Ford family is unlikely to ever let an EV ...

Dow surges nearly 800 points and aims for best day in over a year as Nasdaq, S&P 500 erase weekly losses and angst over Russia-Ukraine clash gives way to buying

U.S. stock benchmarks were trading sharply higher Friday as investors who were cautious about buying at the onset of the military clash in Eastern Europe were turning eager to hunt down bargains. The ...

Tesla Stock Is Plunging. It’s Probably Musk’s Twitter This Time.

Text size Shares of Tesla have dropped more than 17% this week. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Recent declines in Tesla stock have deviated from market-related trading patterns, leavin...

Lucid Stock Falls on First Recall. This One Isn’t Fixed With Software.

Text size The Lucid Air electric sedans will have to go to the shop for a fix. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Electric-vehicle start-up Lucid has its first recall listed on the National Highway Traffic S...

Home Depot leads the list of 20 worst performers in the S&P 500 on Tuesday

Slightly positive isn’t good enough for this stock market. While market jitters on Feb. 22 were driven by Russia’s movement of troops into Ukraine, the U.S. stock market was also adjusting to the idea...

GM Stock Has Tumbled. Director Patricia Russo Bought Up Shares.

Text size GM director Patricia F. Russo (Photo by Monica Schipper/Getty Images for Women’s Forum of New York) Monica Schipper / Getty Images General Motors stock has tumbled in 2022, and directo...

Ford Stock Is Rising on Reports of an EV Spinoff. Steer Clear of the Rumors.

Text size A Ford Motor plant. Courtesy Ford Ford Motor stock is rising in early Friday trading after Bloomberg reported the company might spin off its electric-vehicle business. This isn’t the first r...

Russia-Ukraine Tensions Mount and Fed Tightening Weighs. There’s Only 1 Certainty for Markets.

U.S. stocks are being bumped around from crisis to crisis as if in a pinball machine. The uncertainty around the Federal Reserve’s policy and the future path of interest rates keeps surfacing on a reg...

Walmart May Soon Become The Largest Primary Care Provider In The Country

Over the years, Walmart has proven time and again its deep-rooted resilience, ability to adapt, and commitment to innovation. For decades now, the company has been known as a retail powerhouse, consis...

Elon Musk gave 5 million Tesla shares to charity after teasing possible donation to fight world hunger

Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk donated more than 5 million Tesla shares in November, days after the U.N. World Food Program outlined a plan to potentially use a $6 billion donation from the worl...

Nio stock falls after downbeat China auto sales data, Tesla shares also take a hit

Share of China-based electric vehicle maker Nio Inc. NIO, -4.93% sank 3.5% in premarket trading Monday, after data showing that China’s car sales fell for the eighth straight month in January. t...

These 3 Funds Invest Like ARK But Didn’t Fall as Far

Just one year ago, the innovation-focused exchange-traded funds from Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest were some of the hottest on the market, thanks to their spectacular rise in 2020. Now, they’ve collapsed b...

Ford Stock’s Rally Is Fizzling. Why Its Stock Is Still a Buy.

Text size A Ford Mustang at a charging station during the Washington Auto Show in January. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg Al Drago/Bloomberg Wall Street is starting to act like this is as good as it...

Tesla Finally Gets a Mention as Biden Talks Up Electric Vehicles

Text size President Joe Biden spoke in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images President Joe Biden just publicly said the T-word— Tesla —seeming to extend an olive branch to ...

Crypto is volatile, but KPMG Canada just added bitcoin and ether to its balance sheet. Here’s why

KPMG in Canada has added an unknown amount of bitcoin and ether to its corporate balance sheet.  The firm declined to disclose the amount of cryptocurrencies it purchased, but Kunal Bhasin, blockchain...

Tesla ($TSLA) Suffers $101 Million Impairment Losses on Bitcoin Holdings in 2021

Tesla, the electric car maker, revealed that it suffered a loss of around $101 million of impairment losses from changes in the value of its bitcoin holdings in 2021. Tesla is reported to have investe...

A Big Tech Trade Is Losing Its Luster

The stock market’s popular FAANG trade is starting to show cracks. Investors say they are reconsidering their approach to trading big technology stocks after a week marked by giant swings in share pri...

Tax season: does the IRS know if you trade crypto? Is your NFT sale or mining income taxable?

Hello! Welcome back to Distributed Ledger, our weekly crypto newsletter that reaches your inbox every Thursday. I’m Frances Yue, crypto reporter at MarketWatch. It is tax season in the U.S., and I’ll ...

Cathie Wood Is Sticking With ARK’s “Super Growth” Stocks–and Avoiding the FAANGs

Opinions on Cathie Wood run strong. “She knows nothing more than anyone else,” one reader all-capped me in an email this past week. I think value investors have been waiting so long for a momentum-sto...

Nio Deliveries Fell Last Month. What That Means for Tesla Stock.

Text size Deliveries for XPeng, Li, and NIO combined were down in January, snapping a two-month streak of gains. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images Electric-vehicle deliveries at NIO , XPeng , and Li...

Tesla, GM, and 3 Other Stocks That Could Be Best EV Plays

Text size Tesla stock is a pick for a play on autonomous driving. Jens Schlueter/Getty Images Electric vehicles are taking over. That spells opportunity for investors. The growth of EV sales is great,...

This Is What a Stock-Market Earnings Slowdown Looks Like. Things Could Take a Turn for the Worse.

Text size It’s been a painful time for investors hoping that earnings could drive stocks higher. Even the rallies are stomach-churning. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Stop me if you’ve heard this one before:...

Market Volatility Is Creating Opportunities for Stocks. What to Buy Now

The 2022 market was always going to be a tug of war between earnings and interest rates. Corporate profit growth fueled by the reopening has come up against contracting valuations and expectations of ...

Tesla Reported Record Profits. Its Stock Was Punished. It’s a Better Buy Than GM or Ford.

Text size The reaction to Tesla’s fourth-quarter earnings report was the worst to an earnings beat in its history. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg What the heck just happened to Tesla stock? Its shares go...

Warren Buffett Leapfrogs Mark Zuckerberg as Tech Slump Shakes Up Rich List

Text size Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc. Tech stock investors nursing heavy losses so far this year may want to seek solace with a quick glance a...

Tesla Stock Sinks and Cathie Wood’s ARK Gets Back to Buying the Stock

Text size The inside of a Tesla Model 3. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images Exchange-traded funds under the umbrella of Cathie Wood’s ARK Investment purchased 33,482 shares of electric-vehicle compa...

Tesla Earnings ‘Disappointed.’ Why Analysts Are Raising Their Price Targets.

Text size The inside of a Tesla car Model 3 is seen at a Tesla shop inside of a shopping Mall in Beijing on May 26, 2021. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images Tesla stock was falling Thursday after re...