3 big problems with Congress’ new retirement reforms

A new set of reforms to America’s retirement tax and savings plans passed a key hurdle in Congress last week. Variously known as the SECURE Act 2.0, the EARN Act and the RISE & SHINE Act, the meas...

Oaktree’s Howard Marks is finding bargains: ‘I am starting to behave aggressively’

Stocks are mostly higher on Tuesday, with China to thank for some of that as the country announced the biggest easing in COVID travel requirements since about March 2020. China’s news may add to the s...

Roivant, Pfizer unveil Priovant Therapeutics focused on autoimmune disease treatments, Roivant stock surges

Shares of Roivant Sciences Ltd. ROIV, -2.30% shot up 10.0% in premarket trading Tuesday, after the biopharmaceutical company and drug giant Pfizer Inc. PFE, +0.56% unveiled Priovant Therapeutics, a bi...

JPMorgan raises capital buffers after stress test and keeps third-quarter dividend of $1 a share

JPMorgan Chase & Co. JPM, -0.80% shares rose 0.3% in aftermarket trading on Monday after the bank said it will keep its third-quarter dividend at $1 a share as it channels more capital to complete...

Wells Fargo plans to increase dividend

Wells Fargo & Co. WFC, -1.28% said late Monday it expects to increase its third quarter dividend to 30 cents a share, from 25 cents a share, subject to approval by the company’s board at its...

Ceragon stock surges on acquisition offer from Aviat

Ceragon Networks Ltd. CRNT, -5.43% shares surged in the extended session Monday after Aviat Networks Inc. AVNW, -2.08% offered to acquire the wireless telecom equipment company and shake up its board....

Citigroup cuts S&P 500 target to reflect blend of recession, ‘soft landing’ scenarios

Citigroup analysts have cut their S&P 500 target for this year by 500 points to 4,200, after stubbornly high inflation spurred the Federal Reserve to aggressively raise interest rates. “Fed hawkis...

Wall Street bear who called stock-market selloff sees S&P 500 up another 7% before turning lower

Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson is one of Wall Street’s most vocal bears. But even he thinks this bear-market rally has more room to run. After the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.20%, S&P 500 ...

Crypto broker Voyager Digital shares plunge 13% after issuing default notice to hedge fund Three Arrows, which missed $667 million payment

Voyager Digital’s VYGVF, -21.54% shares fell about 13% on Monday to around $0.50, after the crypto broker said it issued a notice of default to Three Arrows, formerly one of the most active cryp...

Office workers in San Francisco, Manhattan and Chicago are not returning to the office in significant numbers, research shows

Companies are trying to bring back employees into the office. Early data suggests that workers still aren’t that keen. According to a new report by Placer.ai, visits to office buildings have yet to ca...

Gensler labels bitcoin a ‘commodity’ as crypto prices stabilize

Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler said Monday that bitcoin BTCUSD, -0.24% was the only cryptocurrency he was prepared to publicly label a commodity, rather than a security, in a...

Tesla, Rivian and Nio stock price targets cut on supply chain troubles, Shanghai shutdowns

Mizuho analyst Vijay Rakesh became little less bullish on electric vehicle makers Tesla Inc. TSLA, -0.32%, Rivian Automotive Inc. RIVN, -3.59% and China-based NIO Inc. NIO, -4.69% on Monday, citing th...

NIO’s Hong Kong, Singapore shares hit new highs as outlook brightens

NIO Inc.’s shares in Hong Kong and Singapore have climbed to fresh record highs as the global outlook for electric-vehicle demand brightens. The electric-car manufacturer’s Singapore-listed shares NIO...

Gold prices down a second week as recession fears drive copper to biggest weekly loss in a year

Gold and silver prices edged up for the session on Friday, but end lower for a second straight week, as copper posted its biggest weekly percentage loss in a year. What are prices doing? August gold  ...

Smith & Wesson stock soars as Supreme Court ruling boosts ‘pretty big’ part of gun maker’s business

Shares of Smith & Wesson Brands Inc. rallied again Friday, as better-than-expected earnings and a dividend hike followed a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States to strike down a New Y...

How retirees should navigate this bear market

Here’s how best to play the market for the rest of 2022: Don’t look. I offer this advice not because I believe the bear market will continue—though of course it could. I would offer the same advice if...

Analysts see lowest grades for Bank of America and JPMorgan in Fed’s stress test

Bank of America Corp. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. emerged with the lowest marks among the overall passing grade for banks in the Fed’s annual stress test, analysts at Jefferies and Citigroup said Fri...

Pessimism on chip stocks is hitting a new high, and the money seems to be flowing toward software

The outlook for the semiconductor sector is moving from bad to worse, and investors appear to be moving their money into the software sector as a result. Pessimism about the future of the chip sector ...

Intel wins latest race in chip uses for the cloud, says KeyBanc Capital Markets

Chip giant Intel Corp. is leading growth in cloud technology, according to new research from KeyBanc Capital Markets. Intel Corp. INTC, +3.21% is the winner in KeyBanc’s latest monthly data tracking s...

Bed Bath & Beyond is reducing store hours and turning down the air conditioning to cut costs, analysts say

Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. is turning down the air conditioning at its stores in order to save cash, according to Bank of America analysts who conducted channel checks and store visits. Other measures...

The stock market’s return will be minus 3.3% a year over the next decade, says this ‘single greatest predictor’

This month we’ve received both good and bad news from the “single greatest predictor of future stock market returns.” I’m referring to the indicator, first proposed by the Philosophical Economics blog...

You’ll know the bear market is nearing an end when anxious investors push the ‘panic’ button

The end of the bear market is not close. That’s according to a contrarian analysis of stock market sentiment: the U.S. stock market hasn’t yet experienced the extreme pessimism seen at major bottoms. ...

Snowflake has catapulted into ‘elite territory,’ JPMorgan says in upgrade

Snowflake Inc. is winning big praise from those in charge of tech spending, and that’s cause for an upgrade of its stock at JPMorgan. The bank’s recent survey of chief information officers found stron...

These ‘zombie’ companies could feel the cash burn, warns New Constructs

Carvana Co., Freshpet Inc. and Peloton Interactive Inc. could feel the cash burn as the Fed raises interest rates, according to independent equity research firm New Constructs. The research firm, whic...

Bowman backs steep rate hikes and wants to ‘get the Fed out’ of housing market

Federal Reserve Gov. Michelle Bowman said she supports an aggressive series of interest-rate increases to try to tame inflation and eventually wants the central bank to stop intervening in the U.S. ho...

Here’s how you can compound dividend stocks to double the S&P 500’s return

Companies announce dividend increases all the time, but here’s one that points to a simple investing strategy that can lower your risk and make you a lot of money over the years. Maybe it isn’t so exc...

These dividend stocks yield at least 5% and have plenty of room to raise payouts

This year’s stock price declines make for an increasing number of stocks with high dividend yields of at least 5%. Below is a screen that highlights 29 that appear to be able to raise their payouts co...

Mullen Automotive stock heads for six-day winning streak after company discusses patent applications

Shares of Mullen Automative Inc. MULN, +5.26% were ahead in Wednesday morning trading but had pared back some of their gains after the electric-vehicle company said that it had filed various patents t...

Polestar shares expected to debut Friday on Nasdaq after SPAC deal approved

Shares of electric vehicle company Polestar are expected to debut on the Nasdaq on June 24, after shareholders of special purpose acquisition company Gores Guggenheim Inc. GGPI, +11.87% approved the p...

Here’s how much the average working boomer has saved for retirement

Three news items that say a lot about the retirement crisis facing Americans and what we can do about it—if we want to. The first is a survey of 1,000 working Americans conducted recently showing much...

The U.S. housing market is teetering on recession. Will the economy soon follow?

The last time the housing market suffered a major meltdown in 2006, it took the entire U.S. economy with it. But history never follows the exact same script twice. The weakening housing market is undo...

Stock market nosedive, recession and your 401(k). Here’s what to do.

Even some of the most aggressive retirement savers and investors might find themselves a bit nervous these days with talks of a recession and a market downturn, so the best strategy for those in it fo...