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Gas prices are up roughly 40% from just a year ago. So you may want to try this method to get ‘basically free money’ for gas — but there’s a catch
Is a gas credit card right for you? Getty Images Amid high inflation, rising prices of crude oil and the war in Ukraine, gas prices have jumped from an average of about $2.88 per gallon a year ago, to...
Apple, IBM, and 14 More Companies That Raised Their Stock Dividends
Text size IBM plans to raise its dividend. Migel Medina/AFP via Getty Images Apple, International Business Machines, and Discover Financial Services were among the large U.S. companies that announced ...
Robinhood Has a Crypto Trading Problem. It Might Soon Be Coinbase’s, Too.
Text size Robinhood reported a significant slowdown in trading volumes in the first three months of 2022. Dennizn/Dreamstime Trading platform Robinhood Markets experienced a stark decline in market ac...
‘So bad, it’s good.’ This beleaguered stock market has one big asset on its side, say strategists.
A rough month for stocks is drawing to a close, and many investors likely won’t be sad to see the back of it. And the last day of April trade is looking weak as Apple and Amazon failed to raise the ba...
PayPal Trims 2022 Outlook But Beats Revenue Forecast
PayPal lowered its forecast for adjusted profit for 2022 to a range of $3.81 to $3.93 a share. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Text size PayPal Holdings said its first quarter was a “solid start” but cut...
Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway are once again outperforming the stock market. Apple is one big reason but these other 10 stocks also helped
During the long, tech-driven bull market, you may have seen more than one article suggesting Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett’s investing style was no longer valid. With Buffett leading the congl...
‘I’m spending a fortune on home maintenance. I realize my second husband is essentially living in my house for free’: What is a fair way to split costs?
I am a retired 62-year-old woman. I was widowed in 2006 at the age of 46 and raised my two children (now 24 and 27) on my own. I used my husband’s life insurance money (about $500,000) to maintain our...
Opinion: Why I don’t want bitcoin in my 401(k)
Hooray! At long last, the company managing my 401(k) plan will allow me to bet up to 20% of my retirement funds on a digital Ponzi scheme that generates no income and has no practical use. Fidelity In...
Annaly Capital to Sell Middle- Market Lending Portfolio to Ares for About $2.4 Billion
Text size Ares currently has $314 billion assets under management, up from $25 billion in 2008. Dreamstime Ares Management Corp said Monday that it agreed to buy the middle-market lending portfolio of...
When Will Coinbase Stock Hit Bottom? JPMorgan Sees Bigger Losses Ahead
Text size Some analysts are getting more bearish on Coinbase stock. Tiffany Hagler-Geard/Bloomberg When will Coinbase stock finally hit bottom? Investors in the crypto exchange have been riding a slid...
PayPal has been cut in half by Wall Street, but ‘uncertainty’ still looms as earnings approach
After losing more than half its value so far this year, PayPal Holdings Inc. still faces ‘uncertainty’ from Wall Street. PayPal PYPL, +2.03% was an investor darling in the early days of the COVID-19 c...
Bitcoin Prices Fall as Crypto Market Slammed by Hawkish Fed Expectations
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies dropped Monday as expectations that the Federal Reserve will move aggressively to tighten monetary policy continued to rock the digital asset space. Bitcoin fell mor...
Surging Fertilizer Costs Are Pushing Food Prices Higher
Fertilizer costs have roughly doubled from a year ago as the war in Ukraine disrupted the flow of supplies from Russia, the world’s largest exporter of the commodity. That has contributed to higher gl...
‘The issues with the IRS are still present and very real’: Millions of Americans are racing to file their tax returns, and filing extensions
Tax Day came and went earlier this week, so if your upcoming weekend plans are just chilling after the last-minute tax time bustle, you might have company. April 18 marked the deadline in most states ...
Cathie Wood’s Flagship Fund Is Down 45% This Year. Money Is Still Flowing In.
Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation exchange-traded fund keeps falling, but investors aren’t jumping ship. Shares of the popular ETF, which is known by its ticker ARKK, have declined 45% so far in 2022—inclu...
What’s next for stock market as Federal Reserve moves toward ‘peak hawkishness’
Investors will watch for another gauge of U.S. inflation in the week ahead after the stock market was rattled by the Federal Reserve ramping up its hawkish tone and suggesting large interest rate hike...
Weekend reads: How to position your investments before the Federal Reserve causes a bear market
Do you remember all the times Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell was quoted as saying inflation in the U.S. was “transitory”? With the Fed now ready to fight inflation, the bond market has quickly...
Investors just pulled a massive $17.5 billion out of global equities. They’re just getting started, says Bank of America.
Are the bears just getting started? That’s a question posed by strategists at Bank of America, who noted Friday that investors pulled $17.5 billion out of global equities over the past week, making fo...
Opinion: This will be a year for stock market traders — here are 12 companies to favor, says 40-year investing veteran Bob Doll
If you’re relatively new to investing, and you think 2022 has been a year from hell, imagine being in the stock market for over 40 years. That would’ve put you through the Great Financial Crisis in 20...
GE Stock Is Overpriced, What Ails Teladoc, and More From Analysts
Text size These reports, excerpted and edited by Barron’s, were issued recently by investment and research firms. The reports are a sampling of analysts’ thinking; they should not be considered the vi...