Buffett and Berkshire added big to their bets on Ally, Occidental, Paramount and Activision. But these other 6 stocks also got a vote of confidence.

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. added to nine stock holdings during the second quarter, reduced holdings of four and sold two outright. That’s according to Berkshire Hathaway’s BRK.B, +1.26% ...

Biden will sign the Inflation Reduction Act today. Here’s MarketWatch’s rundown of how it will affect your energy bills, investments and drug costs.

President Joe Biden on Tuesday is scheduled to sign into law the Inflation Reduction Act — the Democrats’ big economic package aimed at addressing climate change, capping drug costs and raising hundre...

Apple wants workers back in the office 3 days a week starting Sept. 5: reports

More than a year after its new hybrid work schedule was announced, Apple Inc. will require its employees to return to the office at least three days a week starting Sept. 5, according to reports Monda...

Stock-buyback tax to be signed into law under Democrats’ climate change and health care bill

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats have pulled off a quiet first in their just-passed legislation addressing climate change and health care: the creation of a tax on stock buybacks, a cherished tool of Corpo...

What’s the best way to invest in tech stocks right now? This strategy is working well for one fund manager.

Technology stocks have been rallying for weeks. But there are plenty of arguments that we’re in the midst of a bear-market rally and that more volatility lies ahead, especially for the rapidly growing...

Paulson’s fund sells off Exxon Mobil, SPDR Gold ETF stakes

Hedge fund Paulson & Co. has sold off of its Exxon Mobil Corp. XOM, -1.79% holdings, according to a filing late Monday. The fund, led by John Paulson, who famously bet against the housing market b...

‘I’m in a very lucky position’: I will receive a $300,000 inheritance. Should I pay off my mortgage or invest the money?

I currently owe $300,000 on my house with a 2.5%, 30-year mortgage. I am maxing out my retirement accounts — IRA and 401(k) — and looking to retire in less than 10 years. I will receive an inheritance...

Berkshire Hathaway boosts Apple, Amazon stakes

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. BRK.A, +0.55% BRK.B, +0.42% added to its positions of Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, -0.26% and Apple Inc. AAPL, +0.63% over the past quarter, according to a filing wit...

Gilead’s stock is up about 4% after sharing new data for cancer drug

Shares of Gilead Sciences Inc. GILD, +5.16% were up 4.9% in trading on Monday after the company said in a news release that Trodelvy improved overall survival rates in people with HR+/HER2- metastatic...

WeWork’s Adam Neumann secures millions in funding for his new company Flow

Adam Neumann is back. The billionaire businessman who founded office-sharing company WeWork Inc. WE, -4.70% is back with another company called Flow, a residential real estate company attempting to ad...

Why BlackRock says the stock market’s big summer rally isn’t worth chasing

With U.S. stocks briefly sputtering to start the new week, strategists at the research arm of the world’s largest money manager are weighing in with words of caution. In a note released on Monday by t...

AMMO stock tumbles after plan to separate into 2 publicly traded companies

Shares of AMMO Inc. POWW, -13.80% tumbled 10.1% in morning trading Monday, after the online guns seller announced a plan to separate into two publicly traded companies, one that includes its firearms ...

Bed Bath & Beyond stock soars again, heads for 13th gain in 14 days

Shares of Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. BBBY, +12.90% shot up 17.6% in premarket trading Monday toward a four-month high, putting the meme stock on track for a fourth-straight gain. The stock had run up ...

Wells Fargo reportedly planning retreat in mortgage business

Wells Fargo is planning a retreat in its mortgage activities, according to a published report. Bloomberg News, citing unnamed sources, reported the number-one mortgage originator of commercial banks i...

Oil futures slide 4% as China growth worries dominate

Oil prices fell sharply on Monday after weak economic data from China raised fears that a slowing global economy will reduced demand for energy products. Price action West Texas Intermediate crude for...

Ready to cash out some gains on this stock market run? An exit path is about to emerge, says this strategist

Welcome to moody Monday, with stock futures down and oil prices getting hit hard after a batch of downbeat data from China, alongside a surprise rate cut. Some say that the global growth engine’s econ...

‘I fear that between the two of us, that’s not enough.’ We want to quit working in 10 years, but only have about $175K saved. Do we need professional help?

Some things to consider if you’re thinking about hiring a financial adviser. Getty Images/iStockphoto Question: I’m 54 years old and have an IRA account with $27,000 in it, but it’s been decreasing ov...

If you really want to be rich, you need to do this, says Mark Cuban

Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for Advertising Week New York Uncredited Recently, we came across a simple piece of money advice from billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban on his Maverick blog that we felt r...

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, billionaire investor dubbed India’s Warren Buffett, dies at 62

NEW DELHI — Veteran stock market investor and Indian billionaire Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, nicknamed India’s own Warren Buffett, died Sunday in Mumbai city, Press Trust of India news agency reported. He wa...

These money and investing tips can protect you if the bears take a swipe at this stock market rally

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 These small-cap stocks will le...

Inflation Reduction Act would send $80 billion to the IRS. Tax experts say it may not be enough to help the backlogged agency.

For roughly a year, Jonathan Baer watched a paper folder full of tax-related paperwork slowly grow as he chronicled his effort to claim his 2020 tax refund. The attempts included upwards of 40 phone c...

Anshu Jain, former Deutsche Bank CEO in its trading heyday, dies at 59

Anshu Jain, Cantor Fitzgerald’s president and former CEO of Deutsche Bank from 2012 to 2015, died Saturday five years after being diagnosed with duodenal cancer, Bloomberg and Reuters reported. He was...

Nasdaq bull market? A history of head fakes says it’s too early to celebrate.

Before passing out cigars in celebration of the birth of a baby bull market for the Nasdaq Composite, investors might want to take a look back at history. Sure, the tech-heavy gauge ended Wednesday up...

‘Irrational expectations’ are keeping commodity prices unsustainably low, warns Goldman

A previous version of this report incorrectly spelled the name of Jefferie Curry of Goldman Sachs. It has been corrected. A combine harvesters of Astarta-Kyiv agri-industrial holding harvests wheat on...

Rivian shares rise on second-quarter results: ‘The ball is finally rolling’ for the EV maker, says analyst

Shares of Rivian Automotive Inc. RIVN, -0.13% gained more than 3% in morning trading Friday, as analysts were generally upbeat about the electric vehicle maker’s second-quarter results. Late Thursday,...

How to feel rich and get more out of life

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The ‘crying CEO’ says, ‘I’m just a small business owner.’

The “crying CEO” said he never intended to become a viral phenomenon. Braden Wallake’s emotional LinkedIn post about having to lay off employees at his Ohio-based marketing-services company became the...

Sinema took Wall Street money while killing tax on investors

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the Arizona Democrat who single-handedly thwarted her party’s longtime goal of raising taxes on wealthy investors, received nearly $1 million over the past year from private equit...

House passes Inflation Reduction Act: What Democrats’ bill does for climate, drug prices and taxes

Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act passed the House of Representatives in a 220-207 vote on Friday after clearing the Senate last weekend, and with it, some big changes could be coming to key sectors ...

An investor’s guide to the Inflation Reduction Act — and what the bill means for your portfolio

If investors thought they were finding their footing in a volatile stock market, a new tax, climate and healthcare spending bill from Capitol Hill might have them trying again to regain their stabilit...

Why stock market bulls are cheering the S&P 500’s close above 4,231

The S&P 500 index on Friday finished above a chart level that delivered a dose of encouragement to stock-market bulls arguing that the U.S. bear-market bottom is in, though technical analysts warn...

Tesla, Ford attract new investments from Soros’s fund

Billionaire investor George Soros’s investment fund has bought stakes in Tesla Inc. and Ford Motor Co. and added to existing stakes in EV makers Lucid Group Inc. and Nio Inc., according to a filing la...