Interest rates are surging on the heels of data showing a concerning outlook for inflation — and home buyers are set to pay the price. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 3.45% for the week endin...
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These 14 bank stocks are in the best position to benefit from rising interest rates
What would you say if you were told about a company whose stock was trading much lower to expected earnings per share than the S&P 500 Index? At the same time, it’s also expected to increase EPS n...
Stock Market Today: The Dow Drops 500 Points, Tech Stocks Keep Sinking
Text size Markets see the Federal Reserve first hiking interest rates in March. Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images Stocks continued to slide Monday, with technology stocks getting hit the hardest as bond y...
Tesla EV-Battery Partner Saw Insiders Buy Up Stock
Text size A lithium battery. Piedmont Lithium insiders bought up stock as the year was coming to a close. Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg Piedmont Lithium stock doubled in 2021, and even as the year was clo...
Rio Tinto Is Building Its Lithium Business. The Move to Green Energy Will Boost the Stock.
Diversified miner Rio Tinto is pivoting toward clean-energy products. Courtesy of Rio Tinto Text size A fat dividend and a robust pivot toward clean-energy products should make United Kingdom–based di...
‘The Fed might have to really stop on the brakes’: Mortgage rates surge to highest level in over a year
Mortgage rates rose markedly in the first week of 2022 — potentially setting the tone for a year in which economist expect interest rates to move steadily higher. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage avera...
Tilray expected to grow sales sequentially but remain in the red
Tilray Inc. will likely grow its sales over the previous quarter but it’s expected to post a net loss when it becomes the first major cannabis company to post quarterly results in 2022 on Monday. Tilr...
This ‘cash cow’ value-stock strategy can fatten your portfolio even if you fear the Fed
Value stocks have been outperforming growth stocks over the past six months, in part, because a change in Federal Reserve policy is signaling an extended period of rising interest rates. Within the va...
These are the stocks Wall Street analysts heavily favor for 2022 and also expect to rise the most
As the coronavirus pandemic has stretched out, investors have continued to pour money into stocks, in part because the alternatives have been dismal. Why bother with 10-year U.S. Treasury bonds that y...
These are the best-performing S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 stocks of 2021
The performance of the stock market in 2021 has been nothing short of remarkable, surprising many investors after the dramatic crash-and-recovery cycle of 2020. A continuing recovery for the world eco...
These 3 ETFs let you play the hot semiconductor sector, where Nvidia, Micron, AMD and others are growing sales rapidly
Semiconductor stocks may continue to be an excellent area of the market for investors, even though the prospect of a long period of rising interest rates has put pressure on some high-flying technolog...