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...

‘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 ...

J&J Kenvue spinoff adds slew of banks to its initial public offering roster

Kenvue Inc., the consumer products spinoff from Johnson & Johnson JNJ, +1.00%, has grown the roster of banks underwriting its initial public offering beyond the two original leads . Goldman Sachs ...

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...

Tupperware stock slammed after earnings as company swings to a loss

Tupperware Brands Corp. TUP shares were tumbling 28% in premarket trading Wednesday after the maker of kitchen products posted a surprise loss and disclosed that it has identified misstatements in its...

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...

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is the largest investor in these 8 stocks 

As 2022 wrapped, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway was the largest shareholder of eight stocks that include traditional oil companies and financial-services giants. “Berkshire now enjoys major owner...

3M stock sinks toward 10-year closing low, and longest losing streak in nearly 4 months

Shares of 3M Co. MMM, -1.02% fell 1.6% in afternoon trading Friday, putting them on track for a 10-year closing low, as the maker of Scotch adhesives, Command hooks, N95 masks and Post-it Notes, conti...

‘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...

My fiancé and I are 60. His adult daughter is opposed to our marriage — and insists on inheriting her father’s $3.2 million estate. How should we handle her?

What advice would you give to a widow and widower considering marriage on how to manage finances — and deal with adult children? We are both 60 years old and plan to work a few more years, mostly for ...

I’ll inherit $40,000 from my grandmother. Should my husband and I boost our kids’ college savings accounts, or pay off credit cards and student loans?

After a terrible battle with dementia, my grandmother died a few weeks ago. She did not leave much, but I will — along with my siblings — receive about $40,000 in life insurance. I am trying to figure...

The hunt for stocks with rising dividends: These fund managers have a strategy to keep your payouts growing

The broad stock-market rally so far in 2023 might make it easy to forget what a rough ride investors faced last year. It was a time when some active strategies focused on dividends, good cash-flow tre...

‘And then 2022 happened’: I borrowed $500,000 from friends and family to invest in the stock market, foolishly promising a 10% return. Can I avoid legal action?

Dear Quentin, I am a budding options/futures trader with my own sole proprietor investment business.  Heading into 2022, I took on a large cash infusion of $500,000 from friends and family under the g...

‘I am watching my inheritance evaporate’: My brother and sister constantly hit our parents up for money. What can I do to stop this?

I am 46 and single. I have a good job and own my own home but live modestly. I have been fortunate not to have had to ask my parents for anything over the years. My brother and sister, by contrast, ha...

Market strategist David Rosenberg: U.S. stocks will drop 30%. Wait to buy them.

David Rosenberg, the former chief North American economist at Merrill Lynch, has been saying for almost a year that the Fed means business and investors should take the U.S. central bank’s effort to f...

Stanley Black & Decker dives after Q4 results beat expectations, but 2023 outlook is well below forecasts

Shares of Stanley Black & Decker SWK dove 4.6% in premarket trading Thursday, after the tools maker reported fourth-quarter results that beat expectations but provided a full-year profit outlook t...

‘My stepmother has been less than ethical’: I suspect my stepmom removed me as beneficiary from my late father’s life-insurance policy. What can I do?

Dear Quentin, My dad passed away in March 2019. My stepmom told me I had an inheritance from my dad.  She ceased communication with me after my dad passed away. I reached out to the Department of Fina...

What will the Fed and Jerome Powell do next week?

Jittery U.S. investors are still in “bad news is good news” mode because they want to see interest rates decline. And they expect to get what they want, as shown by the inverse yield curve. Two-year U...

Colgate-Palmolive reports Q4 beat, despite ‘challenging macroeconomic conditions’

Colgate-Palmolive Co.’s CL, -5.31% fourth-quarter results beat analysts’ top and bottom-line expectations before market open Friday. The company earned 1 cents a share, compared with 18 cents a share ...

If the stock market crashes in 2023 it will be the fault of the Fed and U.S. banks. Here’s what could go wrong.

Wall Street is in the red after a slew of early earnings and as Microsoft results await. That’s a day after soft-economic landing hopes fueled fresh 2023 highs for the S&P 500 SPX, -0.07% and Nasd...

Hellbiz hires same company used by Genius Group to combat illegal short selling

Shares of Hellbiz Inc. HLBZ, +109.13% soared 41.3% in midday trading Monday, and have more than doubled in two days, after the e-scooters and e-bicycles provider said it hired Shareholder Intelligence...

Don’t let the ‘bear market house of mirrors’ fool you, Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson warns of the stock market

An important week for earnings is straight ahead, with the spotlight on updates from the tech space, which has been laying off thousands of workers. Among those not expecting good news in the earnings...

Hellbiz stock skyrockets after following Genius Group’s example of investigating illegal short selling

Shares of Hellbiz Inc. HLBZ, +70.76% skyrocketed 143.3% toward a three-month high on massive volume in morning trading Friday, after the New York-based e-scooters and e-bicycles provider said it was e...

House prices slumped by 10% in San Francisco, Redfin says — and prices are also falling in these cities

Even as mortgage rates come off of recent highs, buyer demand remains constrained. And that’s affecting home-list prices, according to a new report. The report by Redfin RDFN, +8.45%, which tracked ho...

Households earning $100,000 or more are cutting spending more aggressively. What’s going on?

We want to hear from readers who have stories to share about the effects of increasing costs and a changing economy. If you’d like to share your experience, write to [email protected]. Ple...

P&G earnings: Sales are set to fall for the first time in 5 years as higher prices take a toll

Procter & Gamble Co. can be expected to beat expectations, as it usually does, when it reports fiscal second-quarter earnings later this week, but investors can assume that continued price increas...

SmileDirectClub stock rallies on cost cuts, workforce ‘realignment’

Shares of SmileDirectClub Inc. rallied after hours on Tuesday after the oral-care company said it planned a round of cost cuts and a “realignment” of its workforce — even as its sales forecasts came u...

Apple CEO Tim Cook’s Pay Cut in Half

Times are tough in tech.  The sector was wiped out on the stock market last year as fears about the health of the economy intensified and the covid-19 pandemic took off again in China. That’s wh...

Apple Gets Ready to Storm a Big Promising Market

Apple has one remedy for the gloom in the technology sector.  The manufacturer of the iPhone and the iPad has not been spared by the global economic uncertainty, which has obliterated technology-stock...

‘Our kids say our small house is embarrassing’: My husband and I earn $160K, have $1 million in retirement savings, cook at home and drive an old Honda. Are we missing out? 

I’m a pretty fortunate person who lives a pretty fortunate life, and our annual household income at $160,000 is high compared to the rest of the world. However, we are still pretty frugal — we cook at...

These 15 Dividend Aristocrat stocks have been the best income builders

The S&P Dividend Aristocrats deserve more coverage. Those are companies that have raised their dividend payouts consistently over the years — they’re dividend royalty, as it were. As a group, they...