Home buyers are seeing temporary relief from rising interest rates as markets react to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But in the longer term, inflation remains a serious concern. The 30-year fixed-rate...
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Ukraine Invasion Sends Chill Through TSMC Shares
Text size Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing saw its share slide Tuesday even as those of most other chipmakers rose. Sam Yeh / AFP via Getty Images Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing shares dropped T...
Rio Tinto to Pay Its Highest-Ever Dividend After Posting Record Profit
Text size Rio Tinto says it will pay a total dividend for the year of $10.40 a share, including a special dividend of $2.47. Photograph by Denis Charlet/AFP/Getty Images Rio Tinto ‘s earnings for 2021...
Rio Tinto to Pay $7.7 Billion of Dividends After Posting Record 2021 Profit
Text size Rio Tinto Photograph by Denis Charlet/AFP/Getty Images Rio Tinto ‘s earnings for 2021 jumped 72% as prices of commodities soared and the world’s second-largest miner said it would reward sha...
Home Depot leads the list of 20 worst performers in the S&P 500 on Tuesday
Slightly positive isn’t good enough for this stock market. While market jitters on Feb. 22 were driven by Russia’s movement of troops into Ukraine, the U.S. stock market was also adjusting to the idea...
Online Real Estate Isn’t Worth the Chance
You can make a lot of money on physical real estate right now, but recent results from major online real-estate players show 2022 isn’t the year to play Monopoly in the stock market. The carnage isn’t...
Why Barrick Gold’s CEO Is Looking to Boost Its Copper Business
Text size Barrick aims to boost its gold production to 4.8 million ounces annually by the end of decade from 4.4 million in 2021. David Gray/AFP via Getty Images Mark Bristow, the CEO of one of the bi...
The Gold Rush Is On. It’s Not Too Late to Get In.
Text size Investors can buy a gold exchange-traded fund like SPDR Gold Shares or iShares Gold Trust, which own the precious metal. Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg The chase is on. The chase for gold, that i...
Albemarle Stock Tanks on Earnings. But Lithium Prices Are Going Up.
Text size Albemarle’s results are being hurt by inflation. Cristobal Olivares/Bloomberg Albemarle stock fell, hard, after the lithium miner reported fourth-quarter numbers late Wednesday. Result...
Gold Miner Barrick Unveils Variable Dividend That Could Mean a 3% Yield
Text size Barrick Gold produced 1.2 million ounces of gold in the fourth quarter. David Gray/AFP via Getty Images Barrick Gold, one of the two largest gold mining companies in the world, plans to intr...
Warren Buffett Lieutenant Ted Weschler Makes a Big Score on Dillard’s
Text size Ted Weschler, portfolio manager for Berkshire Hathaway. Photograph by Daniel Acker/Bloomberg Ted Weschler, an investment lieutenant for Warren Buffett, sold out of a hugely successful invest...
Lithium Americas Stock Jumps After a Bullish Call
Text size This photo taken on March 12, 2021, shows a worker with car batteries at a factory for Xinwangda Electric Vehicle Battery Co., which makes lithium batteries for electric cars and other uses,...
Opinion: Why gold isn’t likely to be a safe haven for your money if Russia invades Ukraine
Gold is rallying now but don’t be surprised to see prices fall if Russia invades Ukraine. That’s because the price of gold GC00, +0.17% usually declines in the wake of geopolitical crises. Investors b...
6 Stocks for a 2022 of Higher Interest Rates and Slower Earnings Growth
Don’t let inflation fears dominate your investment thoughts. Save time to worry about earnings growth, too. Below, some statistical bellyaching and portfolio defeatism, plus one Wall Street bank’s top...
Inflation has knocked back the market. Here are the key S&P 500 and tech stock levels one strategist fears.
Investors are still trying to come to grips with that double whammy of nosebleed consumer prices and 100-basis-point increase talk from St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard. Read: Oil is ...
3M, T. Rowe, and 7 More Companies That Raised Their Dividends This Week
Text size Dupont said it will increase its quarterly dividend by 10%. Mark Makela/Getty Images Interpublic Group of Companies, Kimco Realty, and DuPont de Nemours were among the larger U.S. companies ...
Cleveland-Cliffs Stock Is Dropping After Earnings
Text size Prices of hot-rolled steel coil, a benchmark for the market, have dropped to $1,135 a ton from $1,900 at the end of the third quarter. Ina Fassbender/AFP via Getty Images Cleveland-Cliffs st...
DuPont Beat Earnings Expectations and Announced a Dividend Boost
Text size DuPont shares were up 5.6% in recent trading. Mark Makela/Getty Images Materials giant DuPont beat Wall Street’s fourth-quarter earnings estimates and raised its quarterly dividend. But its ...
Beat inflation with 3 stocks that bet against oil in favor of EVs and the renewable-power grid
The likelihood that lingering inflation and other factors lead to persistently higher oil prices leaves this stock picker focused on alternative energy and electric vehicles. Ivana Delevska, founder a...
Stocks’ Rally Looks Nice. Here’s Why You Should Put It on Ice
Text size Dreamstime For the stock market, this past week had the feel of steering out of a spin after hitting an ice patch—and driving away safely. Unfortunately, the road ahead may be even more trea...
Tech Stocks to Buy After a Crazy Week of Earnings
Amazon stock was up almost 14% on Friday after the company reported solid earnings and said it was raising the price of its Prime membership for the first time since 2018. Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images...
Royal Caribbean may finally be confident enough to provide long-term financial guidance
Royal Caribbean Group looks poised to report the first billion-dollar quarter since the pandemic, and may finally be confident enough about the post-pandemic outlook to provide long-term financial tar...
Tesla, GM, and 3 Other Stocks That Could Be Best EV Plays
Text size Tesla stock is a pick for a play on autonomous driving. Jens Schlueter/Getty Images Electric vehicles are taking over. That spells opportunity for investors. The growth of EV sales is great,...
Caterpillar stock suffers biggest selloff in more than a year as margin, cost disappointments offset big earnings beat
Shares of Caterpillar Inc. took a dive Friday, as surging costs and a disappointing outlook on profit margins overshadowed a big quarterly earnings beat. The construction and mining equipment company ...
What’s old is new again — the Dogs of the Dow are outperforming the stock market
The Dogs of the Dow strategy has been around awhile. It’s where investors pick the 10 stocks with the highest dividend yield in the Dow Jones Industrial Average at the end of the year, and invest equa...
Gold suffers worst week since November as prices settle at a more than 6-week low
Gold prices posted their lowest finish in more than six weeks on Friday, as the dollar climbed in a week that has helped solidify opinions among investors that the Federal Reserve is readying for an i...
These 14 Stocks Paused Dividends Early in the Pandemic. Here’s Where Their Payouts Are Now.
Ford Motor is among the dividend payers that have restored their once-suspended payouts at a lower level than before the pandemic. Courtesy of Ford Text size Although there are some large U.S. compani...
Market Volatility Is Creating Opportunities for Stocks. What to Buy Now
The 2022 market was always going to be a tug of war between earnings and interest rates. Corporate profit growth fueled by the reopening has come up against contracting valuations and expectations of ...
Caterpillar Beats Earnings Estimates. Supply-Chain Issues Aren’t a Problem.
Text size A Caterpillar front loader is displayed on a mound of dirt Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Caterpillar shares were lower even after the company reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter numb...
Canadian pot company BC Craft files for bankruptcy protection as market shrinks
BC Craft Supply Co. shares fell sharply on Wednesday after the Vancouver-based cannabis producer filed for protection from its creditors under Canada’s Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act. BC Craft Supply C...
U.S. Steel’s Earnings Fell Short. That Isn’t the Real Problem.
Text size The price of steel coils is dropping. Ina Fassbender/AFP via Getty Images United States Steel stock is doing nothing after a bad earnings miss. Investors just don’t appear to care about prof...
Opinion: These 10 dividend-paying stocks show why cash isn’t trash in a brutal market
The best shareholders love dividend stocks —and anyone concerned about the current global financial market turmoil should consider them. Dividend stocks give shareholders regular cash payouts year aft...