Barron’s Trader Stock Picks Had a Better Year Than the Market. What Worked—and What Didn’t.

It was a good year for the Trader column—and we’re not going to let a little thing like a small decline get in the way of our saying it. In any other year, we might have called our picks lackluster or...

Huobi Tensions Sink Tron Token Price

The price of Tron (TRX), the 18th-largest token by market capitalization, tumbled Friday amid tensions at crypto exchange Huobi as the broader crypto market rose. This article originally appeared in C...

Major Retailer Appears Headed For Bankruptcy

The party may be over at Party City. Beloved theme and costume retailer Party City  (PRTY) – Get Free Report is said to be considering bankruptcy within weeks, and is talking to bondholders abou...

Top 3 risk events for FX traders in the second week of January

The second week of the trading year looms as the FX market returns to normal. After weeks when liquidity was low, the trading environment is back to to normal. The week ahead is full of events able to...

Swing Trading Bear Market Survival Guide

One thing investors have to cheer about in the new year: at least 2022 is over. The bear market this past year was tough on investors’ accounts. The indexes don’t completely show the destr...

Wyre limits withdrawals to 90% of funds held in customer accounts

Crypto payment provider Wyre announced a change in rules that will limit customers to withdrawing no more than 90% of the funds currently held in each account. “We are modifying our withdr...

Jack Ma cedes control of Chinese fintech giant Ant Group

Chinese billionaire Jack Ma is ceding control of Alipay owner Ant Group. , the Alibaba-affiliated company announced it would end agreements that had allowed Ma to hold a dominant position within Ant G...

With the housing market ‘fizzled out,’ 2023 is off to the worst start in decades — but here’s why analysts are dreaming of a mild spring

With the housing market ‘fizzled out,’ 2023 is off to the worst start in decades — but here’s why analysts are dreaming of a mild spring Homebuyers hoping for a better climate in 2023 have longer to w...

World Bank to Warn of Global Recession Risk in Economic Outlook

(Bloomberg) — The World Bank is concerned that “further adverse shocks” could push the global economy into recession in 2023, with small states especially vulnerable. Most Read from Bloomberg Th...

US trustee objects to FTX’s planned sale of LedgerX and other units: Reuters

A U.S. trustee  filed an objection to FTX’s plan to sell the company’s LedgerX as well as FTX units in Europe and Japan. FTX filed for bankruptcy protection in November, amid mountin...

Dow surges 700 points Friday, S&P 500 snaps four-week losing streak after employment report shows wage gains cooled in December

U.S. stocks ended sharply higher Friday, with the Dow jumping 700 points, after an employment report showed wage gains slowed in December. The report fueled hopes that the Federal Reserve’s interest r...

The Secret Power of Great Traders

Traders engage in a lifelong quest for the secret to stock market success. They do a tremendous amount of work studying fundamentals and charts. They consider macroeconomics and a host of other issues...

Charles Schwab Stock Is Ready to Put 2022 Behind It. It’s Time to Buy.

It was a tale of two halves for Charles Schwab stock in 2022. This year is looking a whole lot better. Schwab (ticker: SCHW) finished last year off 1%. But there was a lot more action than that minusc...

Semiconductor Stocks Are Struggling. A Bottom Could Be Nearer.

This commentary was issued recently by money managers, research firms, and market newsletter writers and has been edited by Barron’s. The Chips Are Really Down UBS House View—Daily U.S. UBSJan. ...

Coinbase Has Been on a Wild Ride This Week Thanks to a ‘Short Squeeze’

Coinbase Global and other beaten-down cryptocurrency stocks ripped higher on Wednesday, only to fall sharply on Thursday. Analysis of the wild ride suggests that “short squeeze” dynamics in a volatile...

Dollar Slides as Wall Street Weighs Fed’s Likely Policy Path

(Bloomberg) — The dollar plunged by the most in more than three weeks as US data prompted some traders to bet on smaller Federal Reserve interest-rate hikes ahead. Most Read from Bloomberg The B...

Dividends Versus Interest Income | Barron’s

To the Editor:There are many, many choices (“Barron’s 12 Best Income Investments for the New Year, Cover Story, Dec. 30). Two things to remember: 1) reward equals risk (there’s no such thing as a free...

Trader Joe’s sued over lead and cadmium in dark chocolate

Trader Joe’s customers in New York filed two separate class-action lawsuits against the company this week, alleging that the grocery store chain failed to warn customers about heavy metals found...

The New EV Tax Credits Don’t Make Sense

Finally something the left and the right can agree on. The U.S. government electric-vehicle new purchase tax credits don’t make sense. At least the government is now accepting ideas on how to fix the ...

Top Growth Stocks In Retail To Keep An Eye On| Investor’s Business Daily

Six retail stocks in the IBD 50 list of top growth stocks are showing strength, mocking the major stock market indexes, which are looking for a sustainable rally. A couple of the retailers are enticin...

China Is Open Again. 13 Ways to Tap Into Its Recovery Right Now.

Chinese stocks look poised to keep bouncing into the Year of the Rabbit. As authorities peel back some of the last Covid restrictions this weekend and policy makers prioritize reviving the world’s sec...

Bond Rally Gives Early Win to Wall Street’s 2023 Yield-Curve Bet

(Bloomberg) — Bond-market bulls are getting an early taste of what they expect to be a winning trade of 2023. Most Read from Bloomberg On Friday, shorter-dated Treasuries led a broad market rall...

Bank Earnings Among First Q4 Results As Profit Outlook Deteriorates

With JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Wells Fargo (WFC) and other major bank earnings due Friday, fourth-quarter earnings season sets off as Wall Street girds itself for the first decline in earnings in nine qua...

The Stock Market Had a Great Start to 2023. Earnings Season Could Be a Problem.

Text size This coming Friday marks the start of fourth-quarter earnings season, with Jamie Dimon’s JPMorgan Chase helping to kick off the festivities. Ting Shen/Bloomberg Investors got their Goldilock...

Impatient Investors Need to Remember the Lessons of the Dot-Com Bubble

Text size Pedestrians pass in front of the New York Stock Exchange in New York. Growth and value tend to take turns leading the market, but the cycles often last years, not days, writes Michael Kops. ...

From Color Changing Cars To Self-Driving Strollers

BMW i Vision Dee color-changing concept car at CES 2023 BMW After three long years of pandemic, one of the world’s largest tech shows made a stunning come back this week as CES lit up Las Vegas with a...

Treasury yields plunge on raft of U.S. data, handing 30-year rate biggest weekly decline since March 2020

Treasury yields plummeted on Friday after U.S. economic data pointed to signs of slowing wage growth and broadening weakness in the economy, sending the policy-sensitive 2-year rate into its biggest o...

Another Year, Another Layoff—SupreRare Sacking off 30% Workforce

The world is moving slowly towards recession? Is an economic slowdown down the road? No one spared thought for the issues until some news came and trembled. One such crucial factor is layoffs—ending u...

Four more stores shuttered in latest round. Here’s the list.

Macy’s has announced another round of store closures, including locations in Colorado, Maryland, Hawaii and California. The stores, all located inside malls, will shut their doors in January. Th...

Here are potential impacts of China’s reopening on markets, Goldman Sachs says

China, the world’s second-largest economy behind the U.S., is set to reopen in just a few days and one major Wall Street firm has boiled down the likely impact on financial markets. In a note released...

Today’s Wordle #568 Hints, Clues And Answer For Sunday, January 8th

How to solve today’s Wordle. NurPhoto via Getty Images Two interesting things happened on this day, January 8th, in American history. In 1790, the very first President of the United States of Am...

I Want to Retire by 59. How Can I Do It?

Retire at 59 The 60s are probably the most common age that Americans retire during. Retiring at age 59 is a possibility, though, with some proper planning. For most people, once they’ve turned 59.5, t...