Monday’s worst-performing stocks in the S&P 500 are down as much as 42% for 2022

Monday’s stock-market decline accelerated, and a closer look at the day’s worst performers highlighted painful double-digit year-to-date drops. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -2.92% was down a...

Can Microsoft acquisition cure Activision Blizzard’s toxic workplace?

Besides concerns about antitrust scrutiny and a record $68.7 billion price tag, Microsoft Corp.’s planned acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc. also raises a key question: How will it deal with the ...

Intel still has a lot to prove to Wall Street one year after Pat Gelsinger came home

Intel Corp. had a rough 2021, and it looks like the chip maker will still face Wall Street criticism in 2022 for its ambitious capital investment plan and the success of competitors amid continuing de...

Opinion: Peloton’s stock price is disconnected from reality, and it will fall below $15 before hitting bottom

We have been recommending that investors short Peloton since October 2020. Even after falling 76% in 2021 and continuing to drop this month, Peloton’s valuation remains disconnected from the reality o...

Weekend reads: Is this the end of the bull market for stocks?

The Federal Reserve is reversing course to fight inflation, but interest rates remain low, which means bond prices remain high. Meanwhile, stock valuations are high relative to earnings, in part becau...

Opinion: On the 1-year anniversary of the big short squeeze, GameStop bulls tried to relive their first attack, and that’s the problem

It has been one year since retail traders began their unprecedented move on GameStop stock GME, +3.59%, sending the price soaring and short sellers scattering, creating both a Wall Street panic and th...

We’re in our 60s, my husband plans to work until he ‘drops dead’ and our medical bills are overwhelming – how can we retire like this?

My husband works for the county making approximately $55,000 a year but before that was in retail with earnings of only about $36,000. In 1996, our daughter was diagnosed with a life threatening incur...

Should I claim Social Security at 70, or take it earlier and invest the money?

Few things are certain, yet Social Security retirement benefits are among the safest sources of retirement income: Inflation-adjusted monthly benefits backed by the federal government for as long as y...

Bitcoin drops below $40,000 as global market selloff spreads to cryptocurrencies

Bitcoin prices were trading at levels not seen since August, pushing below a key support level on Friday, as a selloff of perceived riskier assets spread to cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin BTCUSD, -6.06%, t...

I’m an attorney with more than $200K in student loans. How should I handle this?

Getty Images/iStockphoto Question: I’m an attorney with over $200,000 in federal student loan debt, and I desperately want to file for bankruptcy on these loans. I’m on an income-driven repayment plan...

‘Good luck! We’ll all need it’: U.S. market approaches end of ‘superbubble,’ says Jeremy Grantham

The U.S. is approaching the end of a “superbubble” spanning across stocks, bonds, real estate and commodities following massive stimulus during the COVID pandemic, potentially leading to the largest m...

SoFi stock surge continues on record volume

SoFi Technologies Inc. shares are soaring for the second-straight day on heavy volume as optimism continues to build for the company’s banking ambitions. SoFi’s stock SOFI, +9.41% is up more than 15% ...

Peloton’s stock skids, following report it will pause production of bikes, treadmills

Shares of Peloton Interactive PTON, -17.24% were sinking Thursday afternoon, trading below where it first listed, after a report said the exercise-equipment maker was temporarily pausing production of...

Tesla earnings: News about the Cybertruck and new factories could set the tone for 2022

Tesla Inc. is slated to report fourth-quarter earnings next Wednesday, with investors expecting a return of Chief Executive Elon Musk to the post-results call and bracing for what could be worrying ne...

Johnson & Johnson’s got a new CEO and a plan to split the company in two. Here’s what else to expect out of J&J’s earnings

Johnson & Johnson JNJ, -0.31% has long been viewed as a bellwether stock for other health care companies, given its early slot in the earnings calendar and a business model that spans everything f...

The 60/40 portfolio ‘is in danger’ as Federal Reserve gears up for a rate-hike cycle in coming months

The traditional portfolio mix of 60% stocks and 40% bonds, historically seen as the safest allocation for investors of moderate-risk tolerance, “is in danger” as the Federal Reserve gears up for its f...

Leading Tesla shareholder wants automaker to issue deliveries guidance above Wall Street estimates

You don’t see this very often. Leo KoGuan, who according to Bloomberg is the third-largest individual shareholder at Tesla TSLA, -1.82%, on Wednesday was publicly lobbying the company over Twitter on ...

Microsoft could have just kicked off a Big Tech gold rush, which helps videogame stocks but maybe not gamers

Microsoft Corp.’s agreement to buy Activision Blizzard Inc. would be the largest tech acquisition ever, and the chance it could prompt other Big Tech names to make their own acquisitions sent videogam...

Brace for a volatile 2022, but cling to this tech stalwart when the storm comes, says investment adviser

The pain is piling up for equity investors after the long U.S. holiday weekend, with bond yields at levels not seen since early 2020, and oil prices tapping 2014 highs. The pace of Federal Reserve mon...

Ford to book $8.2 billion fourth-quarter profit on Rivian investment

Ford Motor Co. said late Tuesday it will post an $8.2 billion gain in the fourth quarter related to its investment in Rivian Automotive Inc. following the electric-vehicle maker’s November initial pub...

Global stocks advance with U.S. exchanges shut as traders wait for earnings reports

Global stocks rose and U.S. futures were steady Monday, as investors focused on upcoming corporate earnings and rising interest rates with U.S. exchanges shut in observance of the Martin Luther King J...

Unilever skids after attempt to snag Glaxo’s consumer-health unit, as FTSE 100 climbs

Unilever shares slumped Monday as the consumer products giant suggested it might increase its offer for GlaxoSmithKline’s consumer health unit. Unilever ULVR, -7.02% fell 7% as Glaxo revealed it’s rej...

GlaxoSmithKline shares soar after Unilever bids for its consumer healthcare unit

Shares of GlaxoSmithKline surged on Monday, while Unilever stock tumbled following a failed $68 billion bid by the latter to acquire the pharmaceutical giant’s consumer healthcare arm. Driving the FTS...

First-time home buyers are selling crypto to fund down payments — here’s what to know before you do it

Many Americans are using their tendies to tap into the American Dream — and the trend doesn’t show signs of stopping. Nearly 12% of first-time buyers indicated that selling cryptocurrency holdings con...

Kroger employees are surrounded by food at work — but many struggle to afford food and rent, says a survey of 10,200 workers

Many supermarket workers struggle to put food on the table even as they help feed their communities, according to new research on Kroger KR, -0.73% employees released as the pandemic continues to expo...

‘Not all the money belongs to you’: Self-employed? Avoid these mistakes when filing your 2021 taxes

More Americans are becoming their own boss as the “Great Resignation” continues. Now they’ll have to resign themselves to the fact that their tax situation is likely going to become more complicated. ...

Opinion: ‘Better than a 401(k)’? Scammer blew through more than $5 million of investors’ money earmarked for retirement

According to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Marco “Sully” Perez of Midland, Texas, used to tell his clients that his investment scheme was better than a 401(k). Now the U.S. District Court in...

Navient to cancel $1.7 billion in private student loans as part of settlement with 39 attorneys general

Roughly 66,000 borrowers will see their private student loans canceled — totaling more than $1.7 billion in relief — thanks to a deal between 39 state attorneys general and student-loan giant Navient ...

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...

The No. 1 thing that can improve the retirement security of older workers

Ready for today’s retirement investing pop quiz? What’s the single most consequential thing you can do to improve your chances of not running out of money in retirement? I’ll try answering this questi...

Five overlooked tech stocks poised to be the ‘household names of the future,’ according to this money manager

A much-needed market distraction from the churn of inflation worries is getting under way, but it’s not looking like what investors were hoping for as some big bank names are sliding on disappointing ...

I retired at 50, went back to work at 53, then had a major medical issue that left me unemployed – ‘There’s no such thing as a safe amount of money’ for retirement

I had always said I was going to retire when I was 50. I had worked and saved since I was 16. Retiring without Medicare and Social Security is a scary thing. I wound up retiring then going back to wor...