Katy Barnato

London

Markets Editor, Europe at The Wall Street Journal

Markets Editor for Europe at The Wall Street Journal. Previously at CNBC. Views are my own.

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Ford, Marriott, Mattel: A Look at Companies That Pulled or Cut Guidance This Week

5 days ago | wsj.com | Katy Barnato

A batch of big-name companies have sliced or withdrawn their financial guidance this earnings season, citing global trade uncertainty and the impact on consumers. Others have provided weak or cautious forecasts, in part due to the macroeconomic environment. Here's a look at the companies who weighed in this week:WK Kellogg: The Corn Flakes maker cut its guidance to account for tariff impacts and a weaker-than-expected start to the year.
Stocks to Watch Friday: Expedia, Pinterest, Coinbase

5 days ago | wsj.com | Katy Barnato

↗️ Pinterest (PINS): The social-media company swung to a profit and guided for higher-than-expected revenue this quarter. That helped soothe concerns that trade policy would hurt spending on digital advertising. Shares jumped 12% in premarket trading.
Federal Payrolls Shrink for a Third Straight Month

1 week ago | wsj.com | Katy Barnato

The jobs market held up better-than-feared last month, despite the tumult from the Trump administration's April 2 tariff unveiling. Employment rose in fields including healthcare, transport and warehousing, finance and social assistance. The outlier was the federal government. Employment dropped by 9,000 in April, and is down by 26,000 since January, according to the Labor Department's nonfarm payrolls report. Those figures don't include staff on paid leave, or still receiving severance pay.
Retail Sales Likely Rose in March, With Shoppers Trying to Get Ahead of Tariffs

4 weeks ago | wsj.com | Katy Barnato

Retail sales probably jumped last month, economists project, as consumers pulled forward big-ticket purchases to beat tariff-fueled price increases. Sales likely rose by 1.2% in March from February, according to a consensus of economists polled by The Wall Street Journal. The data is seasonally adjusted. The retail-sales report is due at 8:30 a.m. ET today from the Commerce Department. It will show purchases made in the run-up to President Trump's unveiling of sweeping levies on April 2.
Stocks to Watch Monday: Apple, Dell, Nvidia, Goldman Sachs

1 month ago | wsj.com | Katy Barnato

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Carmax Stock Heads for Worst Day Since 2022

1 month ago | wsj.com | Katherine Hamilton |Katy Barnato

CarMax shares slid after the used-car retailer missed earnings expectations and said it could no longer give a time frame for financial goals it has been working toward for years. Shares sank about 20% as of about midday Thursday, on pace for their biggest one-day drop since September 2022. The stock rose 9% Wednesday amid a broad-based tariff-pause rally. It has been volatile this year on trade news. Quarterly earnings per share came in at 58 cents, while used-car sales rose to $4.84 billion.
Stocks to Watch Wednesday: Apple, Alibaba, Novo Nordisk

1 month ago | wsj.com | Katy Barnato

↗️ Apple (AAPL): Shares rose nearly 3% Wednesday morning. The stock had dropped Tuesday, helping Microsoft (MSFT) overtake Apple as the world's most valuable company, after the White House said President Trump wants iPhones to be made in the U.S.🔎 Alibaba (BABA); Semiconductor Manufacturing International (HK:981): Hong-Kong-listed tech stocks rallied Wednesday, despite the U.S. unveiling 104% tariffs on China. Alibaba's U.S.-listed shares advanced about 2%.
Chances of U.S. Recession Have Risen to 45%, Goldman Sachs Says

1 month ago | wsj.com | Katy Barnato

The probability of a U.S. recession in the next 12 months has risen, said a team at Goldman Sachs, citing policy uncertainty, foreign consumer boycotts and tighter financial conditions. The bank's economists raised the odds on a recession to 45% from 35%, noting the tariffs unveiled Wednesday by the Trump administration were tougher than expected, and were quickly followed by retaliatory tariffs by China. This is Goldman's second uptick in its recession odds in two weeks.
美国商务部长建议公众购买特斯拉股票

1 month ago | cn.wsj.com | Katy Barnato

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Stocks to Watch Thursday: PDD, Accenture, Nvidia, Nike

1 month ago | wsj.com | Katy Barnato

ð Tesla (TSLA): The EV maker is recalling more than 46,000 Cybertrucks, due to the potential for an exterior panel to fall off. And late Wednesday, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told Fox viewers to buy Tesla stock, saying: "It'll never be this cheap again."âï¸ QXO (QXO): The building-products distributor agreed to buy Beacon Roofing Supply (BECN), in a deal worth about $11 billion including debt. Shares of both companies rallied Thursday morning.