One of the few numbers growing faster than energy stock dividends is the size of crowds convinced they are not sustainable. I’ve never witnessed a consensus opinion as negative on an entire sector as ...
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The Stock Market Rallied on Hopes That Rate Hikes Will Soon Wind Down
Text size While the markets and many consumers are worried about inflation, other people, like these skaters at Rockefeller Center in New York, are still spending. Richard Levine/Alamy Markets can sta...
The Dollar Will Only Fall When There’s Somewhere Else for Investors to Flee To
Text size It would be difficult to find a currency to dethrone the dollar. Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty Images About the author: Desmond Lachman is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He wa...
Opinion: Fidelity’s bitcoin move getting all the wrong publicity
What would Ned Johnson do? The late, great Fidelity Investments honcho built his family’s Boston-based money management firm into one of the biggest in the world over the course of a long career. John...
Opinion: Which Intel CEO is to blame for the current woes? Or is it actually AMD’s CEO?
As Intel Corp. investors try to parse through the wreckage of its disastrous second quarter, one nagging question will not go away: Which chief executive is to blame for the debacle — current CEO Pat ...
Have retirement savers been fooled by the bull market?
Today in Weird Retirement News: 75% of those currently saving through a workplace plan, such as a 401(k), are apparently expecting to make it through their entire golden years without even having to t...
Opinion: The Fed vowed to crush inflation with higher rates. Then the stock market rallied. Here’s why. (It’s not good news.)
‘‘We are now at levels broadly in line with our estimates of neutral interest rates, and after front-loading our hiking cycle until now we will be much more data-dependent going forward.’’ The Federal...
15 quality dividend stocks that you can buy on sale right now
John Buckingham, editor of the Prudent Speculator newsletter, paraphrases Warren Buffett when he says “whether it is socks or stocks, we like to buy quality merchandise that is marked down.” And 2022 ...
Commentary: Bitfinex Market Analysts On BTC Retreating To $21,000
The top cryptocurrency has fallen to a new low today as investors grew anxious about the anticipated Fed reserve interest-rate hike and stricter regulation imposed in the crypto industry. Bitcoin was ...
Semiconductor stocks have been hit hard, but many are poised for rapid growth. Here are 15 expected to shine through 2024
In December, we listed analysts’ favorite semiconductor stocks for 2022. That hasn’t turned out well. But after chipmakers’ stocks have been hammered, the group is now trading at “normal-level valuati...
‘We get hundreds of thousands of dollars in royalties’: My late father left his investments to me and my sister, but gave me more than 50%. My sister wants half. What should I do?
Dear Quentin, My sister is two years older than me. We both are married and have incomes in the low six figures, and our husbands have similar earnings. When she was in her 20s, my sister and her husb...
Commentary on Tesla’s Sale of Digital Assets
July 20, 2022, 8:59PM EDT • 2 min read Quick Take Today Tesla announced it had sold off ~83% of its digital assets Elon Musk cited the COVID shutdowns in China as the catalyst behind the sale Tesla cl...
Opinion: The cloud boom is coming back to earth, and that could be scary for tech stocks
Cloud computing is widely viewed as a recession-resistant business, but the theory has not really been tested since cloud-service providers have not experienced a major economic downturn since becomin...
A psychologist’s 5 steps to stop panicking about your 401(k)
In the fall of 2008, when global stock markets were imploding, I happened to be in New York. I switched on the TV in my hotel room and saw financial commentator Suze Orman on Larry King Live. She took...
A Double-Dip Recession Is Coming. It Will Be Worse if the Fed Caves on Inflation
A double-dip recession like the one experienced in the early 1980s is likely, writes Robert Heller. Above, a line of people waiting to apply for jobs at a hotel in Tampa Bay, Fla., in 1982. AP/Shutter...
These 10 stocks from a sector that is a bear-market bulwark have upside potential of up to 30%
During times of uncertainty, it can help to look at what happened during other down cycles for stocks. True, we don’t know when the stock market will hit bottom during this cycle, or if it already has...
Your retirement portfolio is fundamentally flawed: GMO
All across America, retirees and near-retirees are reeling. They were assured by simplistic “McMoney” financial advisers that bonds were “safe,” that bond returns were steady and predictable, and that...
When Will the Recession Start? Sooner Than Investors Think.
About the author: Larry Hatheway is a co-founder of Jackson Hole Economics and the former chief economist of UBS . Economists and pundits who expect recession but not until 2023 may soon be surprised ...
Opinion: It’s time to buy the selloff in energy stocks, starting with these 4 names
It’s never really a bear market until all the stragglers get taken out and shot. So it was just a matter of time before energy stocks, the big winners for much of the first half of this year, got nail...
Commentary: Bitfinex Market Analysts On Virtu’s and Goldman’s Move In Crypto
About a month ago, Virtu Financial, a high-frequency trading and marketing firm along with venture capital firms Paradigm and Sequoia Capital, collaborated with Citadel Securities, a U.S. electronic t...
Watch out — this one mistake could cost you thousands when you rollover your 401(k) to an IRA
Here’s a pro tip that can hardly be said often enough. When you change jobs and you think about rolling over your old company’s 401(k) to an IRA…watch out for all the extra fees. “Thousands of dollars...
Commentary: Bitfinex Market Analysts On Bitcoin Reaching $19,000
On Thursday, Bitcoin recorded a new low for the year as it reached $19,000 amid the collapse of Three Arrows, a cryptocurrency hedge fund, and the high risk of an economic recession. For the uninitiat...
Opinion: The chip boom likely over, as Micron says it’s in a ‘downturn’
The semiconductor boom of the past two years appears to be ending. Memory-chip maker Micron Technology Inc. MU, -1.32% gave a downbeat forecast for its next fiscal quarter Thursday, predicting a massi...
My boyfriend, 68, has almost no ‘mad money’ for fun activities and trips. He lives with his father, 95, and expects to inherit his house. Is it unreasonable to expect him to get a part-time job?
I am a 65-year-old retired woman with modest Social Security and annuity payments. I also own my own home and have savings. I’ve been seeing a 68-year-old retiree since just before the pandemic. He li...