PacWest Bancorp insiders have lost more than $500,000 after buying stock as it tumbled last week

A handful PacWest Bancorp insiders, including Chief Executive Paul Taylor, bought the bank’s stock late last week after it started to tumble, as SVB Financial Group’s Silicon Valley Bank’s troubles be...

KBW recommends buying these 11 financial stocks, including First Republic, following federal backstop for banks

On a Monday following high-profile bank failures on Friday and Sunday, it may seem to be a strange time to recommend buying stocks of banks and other financial services companies, but Keefe, Bruyette ...

Silicon Valley Bank CEO Greg Becker cashed out $2 million just before the collapse

The chief executive of Silicon Valley Bank SIVB, -60.41% cashed out stock and options for a $2.27 million net gain in the weeks before Friday’s collapse, public filings show. CEO Greg Becker exercised...

Opinion: The only market forecast that should matter to stock investors: When does the Fed decide that higher inflation is OK?

By this time last year, every stock market forecast made for 2022 was wrong. The U.S. stock market peaked on the first trading day of 2022 and went downhill from there. This year, every forecast made ...

Silicon Valley Bank failed for one simple reason: its key startup clients lost faith.

Silicon Valley Bank SIVB, -60.41%, a 40-year-old bank at the heart of the valley’s ecosystem, was forced to shutter Friday after its core depositors — many of them startup companies — took out $42 bil...

SoFi CEO Noto makes ‘opportunistic’ million-dollar stock purchase as SVB crisis fuels selloff

As SoFi Technologies Inc. shares fell Friday amid the fallout over Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse, the financial-technology company’s chief executive bought up stock. SoFi Chief Executive Anthony Noto...

Silicon Valley Bank collapse: What should you do if your bank closes down?

Silicon Valley Bank, which helps fund technology startups backed by venture-capital firms, has closed its doors. The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation made the decision to c...

20 banks that are sitting on huge potential securities losses—as was SVB

Silicon Valley Bank has failed following a run on deposits, after its parent company’s share price crashed a record 60% on Thursday. Trading of SVB Financial Group’s SIVB, -60.41% stock was halted ear...

Opinion: The stock market is telling you loud and clear: Now is not the time to fight the Fed or stand up to the bears.

The S&P 500 Index SPX, -1.85% hit resistance this week when an oversold rally failed near the 4080 level. This continues to support the idea that the index’s rise above 4100 in early February was ...

10 banks that may face trouble in the wake of the SVB Financial Group debacle

As interest rates have risen, many banks have become more profitable because the spreads between what they earn on loans and investments and what they pay for funding has widened. But there are always...

This stock strategy is attracting lots of money. Here are its top 10 picks.

Following a year in which a rapid rise in interest rates caused stock and bond prices to tumble, investors are focusing on quality. One way to do this is to look at free cash flow — and doing so might...

AMC asks NYSE and FINRA to ‘look closely’ at the trading of its stock

AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. has asked the New York Stock Exchange and FINRA to look closely at the trading of its stock, according to CEO Adam Aron. “Many of you, and we, are aware that AMC Entert...

‘I’m not at rock bottom yet’: I have a serious gambling addiction. I’ve maxed out my credit cards and racked up $100K in debt. Can you help?

I’ve gotten to a point where I need serious help for my gambling addiction, though I’m not at rock bottom yet. I am a journeyman-level employee with about 20 years’ experience at my current job. I am ...

Opinion: At last — somebody is trying to ‘save’ Social Security

Rude Europeans used to tell stories, possibly apocryphal, about American tourists who would ask for directions to a famous landmark while actually standing right in front of it. The Parisian would loo...

Opinion: Powell will have to push rates even higher for the Fed to get inflation to 2%

Inflation is proving tougher to curb than Federal Reserve Chairman Powell anticipated, and despite indicators that a recession could be coming, consumers and businesses apparently haven’t gotten the m...

20 income-building stocks that numbers say may become elite Dividend Aristocrats

Back in January, we took a deep look into three groups of Dividend Aristocrat stocks to show which ones had increased their payouts most significantly over the past five years. Now it is time for a fo...

Okta’s stock jumps more than 14% as earnings forecast doubles expectations

Okta Inc. shares rallied in the extended session Wednesday after the identity-management software company topped estimates by a wide margin, and executives predicted adjusted earnings that were more t...

3M’s stock surges after company says 90% of earplug plaintiffs had ‘normal’ hearing

Shares of 3M Co. surged Wednesday after the maker of consumer, industrial and healthcare products said the U.S. Department of Defense’s records show that the “vast majority” of claimants in litigation...

Opinion: Marc Benioff’s Salesforce fairy tale is crumbling down around him

Salesforce Inc. has been a unique tech company, able to sell itself as a “family” that has higher ideals than just profit to its employees while generating near-universal praise from Wall Street as we...

The 20 worst U.S. stocks in February: the biggest loser dropped 35%

Updated with month-end prices. The euphoria of January reversed in February, with broad declines for stocks across the board as interest rates continued to rise. Bond interest rates are more attractiv...

Novavax stock shedding a quarter of its value as vaccine maker’s business in ‘substantial doubt’

Novavax Inc. shares shares sank in the extended session Tuesday after the biotech drug maker posted more than double the loss that analysts expected, and reorganized with concerns it may not be in bus...

Opinion: Ford’s pact with Chinese EV battery maker is a sucker punch to American taxpayers

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin made national headlines recently when he rejected a Ford Motor F, +1.30% factory in a struggling part of the state, owning to Ford’s partnership with Contemporary Ampe...

Warner Bros. Discovery sues Paramount over $500 million ‘South Park’ deal

NEW YORK — Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. WBD, -1.14% is suing Paramount Global PARA, -4.86%, saying its competitor aired new episodes of the popular animated comedy series “South Park” after Warner paid...

Opinion: Where’s the bull market? Stock-market investors aren’t buying it.

Have Joe and Joanna Q. Public been buying the stock-market rally of the past five months? Not according to our data. Instead, they show that ordinary investors have been bailing out of stock funds for...

Nearing retirement? Here’s how to shift your portfolio from growth to income.

Over the decades, perhaps you’ve been very good at saving your money and investing it for long-term growth. But when the time comes for you to stop working or to step back to a part-time job, you migh...

Biden taps former Mastercard executive Banga to lead World Bank

The White House announced Thursday that President Joe Biden has decided to nominate Ajay Banga, a former CEO of MasterCard, to lead the World Bank In a statement, Biden said that Banga will be able to...

Opinion: No ‘soft landing’ is in the cards from Fed rate hikes. Look for recession and a buying opportunity once stock prices decline.

Is the bear market of 2022 over? Are we already in the early innings of the next great bull market? The S&P 500 SPX, -0.16% finished 2022 with a 19% decline (its biggest pullback since 2008). Mean...

Intel’s dividend cut shows the need for quality. Here are 20 dividend stocks screened by UBS.

Stocks that pay high dividends can provide comfort during times of market turmoil. It is much easier to be patient if money is rolling in, and a strategy of reinvesting dividends may outperform when t...

PayPal CEO’s ‘unusual’ $2 million stock purchase is ‘certainly a positive’ signal

PayPal Holdings Inc. Chief Executive Dan Schulman just did something “unusual” for a departing executive. Often, executives and other insiders begin to trim their company stock exposure when they’re p...

Tesla shareholders seek to void Elon Musk’s $55 billion pay package

WILMINGTON, Del. — Attorneys for a Tesla shareholder urged a Delaware judge on Tuesday to invalidate a 2018 compensation package awarded by the company’s board of directors to CEO Elon Musk that is po...

‘I don’t use cash’: I’m 70 and my home is paid off. I live off Social Security, and I use a credit card for all my spending. Is that risky?

I am now 70 years old and partially disabled. I am fully retired, living on Social Security and Supplemental Security Income. Obviously, I have limited income. I am financially stable. I have no debts...