Apple Stock Has Dropped 25%. This Analyst Says It’s Still the Best Bet in Tech.

Text size Morgan Stanley cut its price target on Apple stock. Dreamstime Morgan Stanley is preparing for a slowdown in consumer spending on tech hardware, slashing target prices on stocks across the s...

Dow futures slump over 500 points as post-Fed meeting gains evaporate

U.S. stock index futures slumped early Thursday, as the gains seen after the Federal Reserve’s biggest interest rate hike since 1994 quickly faded. What’s happening Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial...

Wholesale prices rose 10.8% in May, near a record annual pace

Wholesale prices rose at a brisk pace in May as inflation pressures mounted on the U.S. economy, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday. The producer price index, a measure of the prices paid...

New car prices rose again, everyone’s paying over sticker; when will the squeeze start to ease?

The average new car sold for $47,148 in May. That’s not quite the record high prices hit last December. But it’s close — May saw the second-highest prices on record. The average sale price increased b...

Earnings Are Under Threat, Another Blow to Sagging Stock Market

Stocks have tumbled this year in the face of rising interest rates. But with inflation showing little sign of cooling, many investors fear corporate earnings could be the market’s next support to fall...

Costco, Home Depot, and 3 Other Retail Stocks to Scoop Up Now—and 1 to Avoid

Home Depot is one of the retail stocks that are worth buying after the sector’s latest selloff. Stefani Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images Text size Tolstoy wrote that all happy families are alike. The same co...

Costco’s Cheap Gas Prices Are a Big Hit

Costco Wholesale is doing a booming business in gasoline by offering its members material savings that one Wall Street analyst has put at 37 cents a gallon. This comes at a time when prices have soare...

‘I respect every profession equally, but I feel like so many people look down on me for being a waitress’: Americans are tipping less. Should we step up to the plate?

I read your article about tipping. I’ve been serving and bartending for almost 16 years now, since I was 18. Waiting tables is so hard on your body, and a lot of people don’t appreciate all of the wor...

These 19 large-cap stocks have now dropped at least 60% from their 52-week highs

The latest inflation figures on June 10 were worse than expected and the effect on stock prices was brutal. A list of stocks in the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq-100 Index that have fallen at least 60% f...

Target, Caterpillar, and 3 More Stocks Getting Higher Dividends

Text size Target is raising its quarterly dividend by 20%. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Target and Caterpillar were among the U.S. companies that declared dividend increases this week. Target (ticker:...

In a shaky economy, cash is king — and these S&P 500 companies have it, says Barclays

Show investors the money, but make it cold hard cash. That’s the message from U.S. equity strategists at Barclays, who highlighted more than a dozen S&P 500 SPX, -2.48% companies with the best cas...

Yellen and Biden Wonder Why People Are Down on the Economy. Here’s the Reason.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said yesterday that “it’s amazing how pessimistic” Americans are about the economy, “given that we have the strongest labor market we’ve had in the entire postwar perio...

5 Retail Stocks Worth a Look, and 1 to Avoid

Home Depot is one of the retail stocks that are worth buying after the sector’s latest selloff. Stefani Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images Text size Tolstoy wrote that all happy families are alike. The same co...

Alibaba shares decline in Hong Kong, extending Wall Street’s selloff

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. fell in Hong Kong morning trading, extending a selloff overnight on Wall Street after its fintech arm Ant Group Co. denied reports about a revival of its initial public offe...

Oil prices could go ‘parabolic,’ putting global economy in ‘critical situation,’ says Trafigura chief

“‘We have got a critical situation. I really think we have a problem for the next six months. … [O]nce it gets to these parabolic states, markets can move and they can spike quite a lot.’” — Jeremy We...

Novavax’s New Covid-19 Vaccine Might Be Late to the Party

It’s one thing to arrive fashionably late to a party, it’s another thing to waltz in when the last guests are stumbling out the door. For Novavax , which on Tuesday cleared a key step toward U.S. Food...

Kohl’s Suitor Wants to Buy the Chain by Selling Kohl’s Properties

Kohl’s beat back activists and is in talks to be sold for around $8 billion. But its suitor could bring a new set of challenges for the department-store chain. Franchise Group which owns the Vitamin S...

Alibaba Stock Headed for Highest Close Since February. Thank Videogames.

Text size Alibaba and other Chinese tech stocks have been beaten down amid regulatory pressures. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images Alibaba and other Chinese tech stocks roared higher on Wednesday as a w...

Apple is offering ‘buy now, pay later.’ 4 reasons to think twice before signing up

After months of speculation, Apple AAPL, -0.45% finally unveiled its buy now, pay later offering this week, wading into an industry that’s experienced explosive growth. But consumers should be wary of...

Costco discussing membership rate hikes after renewals hit 90%

Costco Wholesale Corp. is talking over membership fee hikes after reporting an all-time renewal rate high of 90%. The last time Costco raised its membership fee was in June 2017. Historically, fees ri...

Short sellers raise bets against GameStop and AMC to highest level in a year as Wall Street sees more pain ahead

Investors are once again working up the fortitude to bet against GameStop and AMC roughly 18 months after last January’s infamous “meme stock” short squeeze sent GameStop shares surging more than 1,00...

Target Inventory Warning Portends Retail Bloodbath

Target ’s inventory problem is turning out even worse than it expected just a short time ago. Its latest warning could portend a promotional bloodbath among retailers this summer. The retailer on Tues...

Apple Needs to Show Some Spark as Shoppers Favor Services Over Stuff

Customers at the Apple Store in Grand Central Terminal in New York City earlier this year. Getty Images Text size As Apple prepares to upgrade its products, there are two distinct trends hitting the e...

Best Buy Founder Richard Schulze Bought a Big Block of Stock

Text size People shopping in a Best Buy store. Richard Schulze, Best Buy’s founder, bought $20 million in shares of the electronics retailer. Valentin M Armianu/Dreamstime.com Best Buy stock has tumbl...

Kohl’s Stock Rises on Takeover Bids. The Offers Show Scars of the Retail Rout.

Text size *** ONE-TIME USE *** The Kohl’s logo is displayed on the exterior of a Kohl’s store on Jan. 24, 2022 in San Rafael, California. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Kohl’s stock rose Fri...

Biden open to canceling $10,000 in student loans per borrower — what that means for your budget, credit score and tax bill

If $10,000 vanishes from your student debt, you may want to celebrate. This is a question millions of student loan holders may be facing soon if President Joe Biden proceeds with a controversial plan ...

Relief at the Pump Could Come Soon. Thank Saudi Arabia.

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Text size Oil prices fell Thursday after the Financial Times reported that Saudi Arabia was ready to increase output as more sanctions on Russia threaten global oil supply...

Elon Musk says workers should return to the office or quit. It’s a big gamble: ‘Tesla is kick-starting its own local Great Resignation’

Elon Musk is giving his employees an ultimatum. Tesla’s  TSLA, -2.36% chief executive officer and founder responded Thursday to an apparent leaked email that called on employees to return to the offic...

Amazon’s Stock Split Is Coming. Watch Tesla and Google for More.

Text size Amazon stock was at $2,423.06, or a little over $121 on a post-split basis, on Wednesday. Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images It could be a stock-split summer on Wall Street. Some of a flu...

GameStop, Salesforce, Netflix, Alphabet, Nvidia, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed Monday for Memorial Day. A handful of major companies report later this week, with the economic-data highlight being jobs Friday. HP and...

Why Costco Won’t Raise the Price of Its Hot Dogs

Text size Costco’s membership renewal rate for the U.S. and Canada stood at 92.3% last quarter. David Pail Morris/Bloomberg Costco Wholesale takes care of its more than 64 million members. The s...