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...

Berkshire Hathaway Holds 16.3% of Occidental Petroleum After Recent Buys

Text size Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Berkshire Hathaway purchased more than $500 million of Occidental Petroleum stock recently and now holds a ...

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...

This dividend fund is down 3% vs. S&P’s 20% drop. Here are its top stock picks

By now even the most ardent tech and growth-stock enthusiasts realize the bull market is over. John Kornitzer’s approach to selecting high-quality stocks for the Buffalo Flexible Income Fund is one th...

U.S. stock futures drop as Powell testimony looms, recession worries return to the spotlight

Recession worries were back in the spotlight for Wall Street on Wednesday, with equity futures and oil prices dropping, as investors looked ahead to Congressional testimony from Federal Reserve Chairm...

These software companies are unsung winners in the semiconductor industry

Mention semiconductors and chip giants such as Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and NVIDIA Corp. spring to mind, but there are other, less high-profile companies, operating in the space that d...

Elon Musk joins the growing chorus fearing a U.S. recession. But there are stocks for that.

Look out above, the dip buyers are back in town. Stocks are soaring — for now — as Wall Street returns from a long holiday weekend, with Fed Reserve Chair Jerome Powell testifying in front of Congress...

What the Fed’s biggest rate hike in decades means for the bear market in bonds

Historically bad. That’s how the mammoth $53 trillion U.S. fixed-income market has performed this year as the Federal Reserve works to curtail high inflation threatening to wreck the economy. To turbo...

Markets Won’t Sink Forever. Asset Manager Stocks Are a Cheap Play on a Rebound.

Asset-management stocks have been hit hard this year in the market selloff, with some down 35% to 45%, almost double the decline in the S&P 500 index. No industry is more directly tied to stock an...

‘I feel bad that I’ll be taking most of his income’: I make twice what my boyfriend does. He pays me $300 in rent, but I want him to pay $800. Is that fair?

Dear Quentin, My boyfriend and I have been together seven years, and in that time I bought a house. I used my own savings and spent about $10,000 on renovations. My house is a three-bedroom family hom...

The Days of Big Pharma Are Over. Big Biotech Is on Its Way.

W hen GlaxoSmithKline spins off its enormous division selling drugstore staples like Advil and Tums next month, it will represent more than just the latest shuffling of assets among corporate giants. ...

Bitcoin crash: These three metrics show how bad the carnage is, and what to expect next

Hello! Welcome back to Distributed Ledger, our weekly crypto newsletter that reaches your inbox every Thursday. I’ll walk you through what’s going on in the current bear market. As usual, find me on T...

Buffett Filing Indicates Berkshire Was a Light Buyer of Its Shares This Quarter

Text size Warren Buffett has slowed stock repurchases as Berkshire’s share price has risen. Steve Pope/Getty Images A filing Wednesday by Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett indicates the comp...

EV-startup Electric Last Mile Solutions files for bankruptcy

Electric vehicle-startup Electric Last Mile Solutions Inc. filed chapter 7 bankruptcy Tuesday. The Troy, Mich.-based vehicle maker listed assets and liabilities each of between $50 million and $100 mi...

3 crucial financial moves to make now after the Fed’s biggest rate hike since 1994

In a matter of months, it’s become more expensive to carry a credit card balance, a car loan or a mortgage as the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes have seeped into borrowing costs. It’s tough med...

Fed’s biggest rate hike since 1994 means millions more homebuyers may be priced out of the housing market

Pity those first-time house buyers. On Wednesday, the U.S. Federal Reserve raised the benchmark interest rate by 75 basis points to a 1.5% to 1.75% range, the biggest increase since 1994 as it tries t...

Warren Buffett gives away $4 billion in Berkshire Hathaway stock as bidding for his last ever luncheon hits $3 million

As bidding for the last-ever chance to lunch with Berkshire Hathaway’s chairman and CEO Warren Buffett reached the $3 million mark, the investing legend himself announced a $4 billion giveaway in stoc...

Opinion: ‘The stock market is not going to zero’: How this individual investor with 70 years of experience is trading the bear market

Not many investors can claim a lifetime of stock-market success. Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway BRK.A, -1.94% BRK.B, -1.39% comes to mind, of course, but what about Warren Kaplan? Who? Kaplan is...

Strategist who nailed the recent S&P 500 top says three things are needed for a market bottom

Wariness is in order after the S&P 500’s bear-market finish and a potential 75 basis-point Fed hike just one day away. Gains for stock futures and a potential bounce are fading fast. Morgan Stanle...

Berkshire Hathaway’s Equity Portfolio Is Down An Estimated $65 Billion So Far in This Quarter

Text size Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway wasn’t a buyer of its own stock in April, but that might have changed with the market’s recent drop. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortun...

Why IBM is one of few tech giants that are actually gaining through the selloff

International Business Machines Corp., unlike many other tech giants, has been able to buck the sector’s selloff in recent months. Shares of IBM IBM, -0.79% are up 1.60% year-to-date, compared to 12.5...

Opinion: As tech melts down, a truth remains: Semiconductors are eating the world

Everyone’s favorite trade in the stock market, technology, has gone the way of the dodo. Oil and value stocks are all the rage. But one part of technology — semiconductors — is vital not only to the t...

Crypto crash FOMO? ‘I missed the bus on Bitcoin, but now feel like my time has come. Is it time to go big or go home? I have another 25 years of a boring 9-to-5 job, and I just want out.’

I read a letter from a reader last year who was suffering from crypto FOMO, and I have been following the crypto markets ever since. I felt like I missed the bus on Bitcoin, but now feel like my time ...

The S&P 500 is clinging to a key support level after Friday’s meltdown, here’s what happens if that fails

Last week’s shock U.S. inflation number continues to tear through markets, with dip buyers seemingly in hiding. The Nasdaq is in the lead with a 3% drop as trading gets underway. Investors are now foc...

‘The goal is never to seek the top’: The wild, hair-raising ride of a 30-something investor who battled against NFT hackers and dodged the crypto crash

Vinny Zane has a taste for life — and an appetite for risk. The 38-year-old teacher and father of a 2-year-old son on Brooklyn’s Coney Island got into crypto in 2017 with $4,000 worth of Bitcoin, and ...

‘I respect every profession equally, but I feel like so many people look down on me for being a waitress’: Americans are tipping less. Should we step up to the plate?

I read your article about tipping. I’ve been serving and bartending for almost 16 years now, since I was 18. Waiting tables is so hard on your body, and a lot of people don’t appreciate all of the wor...

These 19 large-cap stocks have now dropped at least 60% from their 52-week highs

The latest inflation figures on June 10 were worse than expected and the effect on stock prices was brutal. A list of stocks in the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq-100 Index that have fallen at least 60% f...

Debt and Dividends Can Co-Exist. Here Are 5 Stocks That Shouldn’t Wilt.

Despite a hefty debt load, Deere has a healthy dividend-payout ratio that should allow its disbursements to continue. Courtesy of John Deere Text size Although a heavy debt load can sometimes crimp or...

Apple Looks to Cars and Banking for Its Next Big Thing

Text size At its recent developer event, Apple showed plans to dramatically expand its CarPlay platform to include every screen in the driver cockpit. Courtesy of Apple Apple needs to think big these ...

Cosmetics Maker Revlon Nears Chapter 11 Filing

Revlon Inc. is preparing to file for chapter 11 protection as soon as next week after struggling for years with too much debt, stiff competition in the cosmetics business and more recent inflation and...