Dow ends nearly 350 points lower after strong economic data, bearish comments by David Tepper fuel worry about rate hikes

U.S. stocks ended well off session lows but still fell sharply, after a round of upbeat economic data and a warning from hedge-fund titan David Tepper that he was “leaning short” against both stocks a...

Billionaire David Tepper Is Betting Against the Stock Market Because of the Fed

Text size David Tepper, co-founder of the hedge fund Appaloosa Management. Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg Appaloosa Management’s David Tepper says he is worried further tightening of monetary policies from g...

 Individual Investors Hang On in Wild Year for Stocks While Pros Sell 

During the wildest year for global markets since 2008, individual investors have been doubling down on stocks. Many professionals, on the other hand, appear to have bailed out.   U.S. equity mutual an...

Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Buys Up More Howard Hughes Stock

These disclosures are from 13Ds filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. 13Ds are filed within 10 days of an entity’s attaining more than 5% in any class of a company’s securities. Subsequen...

This one great idea can make everyone better with money, older Americans say

Surveys regularly show that older Americans have regrets about lots of things — working too much, choosing the wrong partner, not taking care of their health, etc. There are often financial regrets to...

Starwood REIT, Like BREIT, Limits Investor Redemptions From Real Estate Fund

Another big nontraded real estate fund is limiting investor redemptions.        Starwood Real Estate Income Trust, a nontraded real estate investment trust, is curbing redemptions after investor withd...

These money and investing tips can help you know when the bull market has come back to stay

Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Sign up here to get MarketWatch’s best mutual funds and ETF stories emailed to you weekly! INVESTING NEWS & TRENDS There’s a strong possibility t...

FTX fiasco one of the most egregious cases of ‘gross negligence,’ says Ackman

Hedge-fund titan Bill Ackman appears to be walking back comments he made via Twitter last week about Sam Bankman-Fried that some interpreted as implicit support for the 30-something who presided over ...

BDCs Sport Lofty Yields, But the Risks Are Growing

Business development companies lend to midsize private companies at high interest rates. They have proven popular with retail investors in recent years by offering dividend yields of around 10%. Total...

Blackstone’s Breit Retail Real Estate Fund Suffers First Significant Outflows

Blackstone ‘s big retail real estate fund experienced sizable net redemptions for the first time, in a potentially worrisome development for what has become one of the firm’s most important products a...

How a Hot Norwegian Battery Start-Up Beat the SPAC Deep Freeze

Stocks associated with special purpose acquisition companies crashed in 2022—with an exception: Freyr Battery The shares are up some 34%, year to date, despite stumbling this past Monday after releasi...

Intel’s Newest Director Buys Big Block of Stock

On the heels of Intel CEO buying the company’s stock, the chip giant’s newest director also scooped up shares. Lip-Bu Tan, who joined Intel’s (ticker: INTC) board on Sept. 1, paid $1.35 million on Nov...

I retired at 62, am living on a pension and Social Security, and have an IRA but haven’t withdrawn from it. For my whole life, I did all my investing on my own. But with so much at stake now, do I need professional help?

Do you need a financial planner? Getty Images Question: I retired at 62, and I’m living on a pension and Social Security. I have an IRA but haven’t withdrawn from it. I’ve been my own planner up to th...

Ray Dalio, Founder of Hedge Fund Giant Bridgewater, Sees More Pain Ahead

Ray Dalio founded Bridgewater Associates in his Manhattan apartment in 1975 and grew it into a hedge fund colossus—with about $150 billion in assets—through astute analysis of macroeconomic trends. Al...

German Family Office Lennertz Raises Third European Private-Equity Fund-of-Funds

Family office Lennertz & Co. is raising a new fund to take advantage of investment opportunities created by recent market volatility and depressed valuations. Lennertz, which was founded by former...

Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Holdings Looks Invitingly Cheap

Billionaire investor Bill Ackman has a flair for the dramatic and often makes bold moves. This year has been no exception. Ackman made about $1.7 billion from a bet on higher interest rates and incurr...

Hedge fund giant Elliott warns looming hyperinflation could lead to ‘global societal collapse’

“Investors should not assume they have ‘seen everything’” That was from executives at leading hedge fund Elliott Management, who warned that the world is heading towards the worst financial crisis sin...

This hedge fund manager who made winning bets in 2020, says investors should brace for a decades-long bear market

On the heels of last week’s bullish turn for stocks, the setup is looking slightly less positive for Monday. Hong Kong stocks may be affecting the mood with a giant slump after China’s leader cemented...

How Alternative Investments Saved the Day for Big University Endowments

University endowments, battered by stock-market losses, posted their worst fiscal year since the financial crisis. The largest funds, however, were helped by higher allocations to alternative investme...

Airline Stocks Have Struggled. Here Are a Few Highfliers.

Some airline stocks trade at five times projected earnings. Why so expensive, you might be wondering. The group’s reputation on capital preservation at the moment ranks somewhere between damaged and U...

Ray Dalio expects ‘negative or poor real returns’ in markets for next five years

When MarketWatch first started publishing financial news and data 25 years ago, Bridgewater Associates was a little-known hedge fund firm that was overshadowed by other macro investing trading operati...

Bond markets facing historic losses grow anxious of Fed that ‘isn’t blinking yet’

The Federal Reserve has been showing no signs of letting up on aggressive rate hikes, even as its policies fuel carnage for the ages across the roughly $53 trillion U.S. bond market. As a result, borr...

The stock market is wrong: the economy isn’t going to ‘blow a gasket’ just yet, warns economist

While this year’s sharp selloff in stocks might feel brutal, particularly after the carnage of September, the S&P 500 remains about 17.1% above year-end 2019 levels, according to Dow Jones Market ...

DXC Stock Surges on News of Potential Sale

DXC Technology shares jumped Tuesday after the information-technology consulting firm said management had been approached by a financial sponsor regarding a potential acquisition of the company. “Cons...

Opinion: This 401(k) bill opens the door to risky assets

Senators Pat Toomey, Tim Scott and Peter Meijer have just proposed a bill in Congress that would allow 401(k) plans to stretch beyond traditional investments like stocks and bonds. And when we say “be...

Bank of America clients are buying the dip in U.S. stocks, shifting from cyclicals to defensive

In light of the recent U.S. stock market losses, Bank of America (BofA) saw more buying of equities among its clients during last week’s selloff, and there was a shift in who was buying and what they ...

Morgan Stanley says investors should consider this port in the market storm right now

The great British pound selloff, credited with exacerbating a global rout for markets last week, looks set to continue wreaking some havoc on Monday. Economic woes in Old Blighty are adding to the mar...

Tumbling Markets Imperil Tech, the Dollar, and Private Equity

Text size Japan has had to intervene to support the sliding yen for the first time since 1998, even as it tries to keep its interest rates low. Akio Kon/Bloomberg The world has been hooked on cheap mo...

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...