Battered SPACs and Closed-End Funds Finally Look Tempting. How Investors Can Play Them.

With apologies to the Bard, SPACs are now in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, along with other excesses, such as meme stocks and nonfungible tokens. But some special purpose acquisition companies...

Opinion: Opinion: High debts and stagflation will bring mother of all financial crises

NEW YORK (Project Syndicate)— The world economy is lurching toward an unprecedented confluence of economic, financial, and debt crises, following the explosion of deficits, borrowing, and leverage in ...

‘The outflows have basically stopped.’ Credit Suisse chairman says stock-price volatility to end after capital increase is completed

“The outflows basically have stopped. What we saw is two or three weeks in October, voom, and since then a flattening out. They have started gradually coming back, particularly in Switzerland.” That’s...

Second-Largest U.S. Pension Buys Up Rivian, Snowflake, Airbnb, and Noble Stock

America’s second-largest public pension by assets recently increased its investments in some of the market’s more volatile stocks. The California State Teachers’ Retirement System doubled its stakes i...

‘Most economists are predicting a recession in 2023’: I own a rental property. Is it a good time to take out a bank loan and renovate — or should I wait?

Dear MarketWatch, Along with a sibling, I own a rental property of more than 40 rooms in the Caribbean, where we do weekly rentals.  It’s near downtown but in need of repairs and renovation.  Is this ...

Palo Alto Networks stock rallies on yet another beat-and-raise quarter

Palo Alto Networks Inc. shares rallied in the extended session Thursday after the cybersecurity company added another consecutive beat-and-raise quarter to its collection, and possibly renewed its M&a...

FTX victims are setting up GoFundMe fundraisers to try to get their money back

People who say they have lost money in the collapse of crypto exchange FTX are turning to strangers to cover their losses by setting up GoFundMe fundraising pages. They include a man who says that he ...

Qualcomm, Nvidia Are Top Picks Among Semiconductor Stocks, Analyst Says

Text size For investors looking for near-term protection, Credit Suisse analysts said wireless-device specialist Qualcomm was their top pick. Dreamstime Semiconductor stocks have fallen far enough to ...

As Pandemic Aid Dries Up, Businesses Chase Covid Tax Credit

A temporary tax break for small businesses has spawned a cottage industry of advisory firms tapping into federal pandemic aid, raising alarms at the Internal Revenue Service that some claims are going...

German Family Office Lennertz Raises Third European Private-Equity Fund-of-Funds

Family office Lennertz & Co. is raising a new fund to take advantage of investment opportunities created by recent market volatility and depressed valuations. Lennertz, which was founded by former...

Credit carnage spurs bargains on bonds tied to $16 trillion pile of U.S. household debt

Big bargains have made a roaring comeback on bonds tied to the $16.2 trillion pile of U.S. consumer debt. Higher borrowing costs, tighter credit conditions and sharp losses have been defining forces o...

Berkshire Hathaway’s Earnings Are Saturday. Here’s What to Watch.

When Berkshire Hathaway reports its third-quarter earnings on Saturday, investors won’t be spending a lot of time looking at the bottom line. The conglomerate’s stock buybacks, equity purchases, and l...

India-Focused Payments Company Ebix Races to Raise Cash Against Debt Deadline

Payments and software company Ebix Inc. is seeking to raise cash to pay back some $600 million in debt due early next year, but time is running short as it awaits regulatory approval for a public offe...

Twitter Has a Lot of Debt. It’s Not an Issue for Tesla—Yet.

Twitter has a new, consolidated debt of $18.5 billion. Win McNamee/Getty Images Text size Elon Musk had a bad weekend and that could pose problems for Twitter—and, by extension, Tesla stock.  Musk’s f...

Argo Blockchain shares collapse as planned fundraising falls through

Argo Blockchain PLC shares fell Monday after it said it no longer expects to carry out a share subscription with a strategic investor, and warned it would need to complete further financing to avoid c...

Adidas Bails From Yeezy. Why That Packs a Punch.

Times are tough at Adidas The German company has too much inventory and falling China sales. It’s slashed guidance, and earnings ran about half what Wall Street expected. The stock is down by more tha...

Lockheed’s Stock Has Soared. One Director Scooped Up More Shares.

Lockheed Martin stock has trounced the market this year, and director John Donovan just bought some more shares of the aerospace and defense giant. Lockheed (ticker: LMT) stock sports a 36% year-to-da...

Apple’s Stock Buyback Pace Hits Record $25.2 Billion

Text size Apple has been astonishingly aggressive in buying back its own stock. Getty Images Almost five year ago, Apple Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri said on an earnings conference call that t...

Municipal bond yields are attractive now — here’s how to figure out if they are right for you

This has been an unusual year for financial markets, with stocks and bonds falling in tandem. For bonds, the declines mean yields have become viable again for income investors who over the previous de...

Mobileye Prices IPO At $21, Just Above the Expected Range

Mobileye Global priced its initial public offering at $21 a share late Tuesday, raising about $800 million. The offering values the maker of self-driving car systems at about $17 billion. The $21 deal...

Mobileye prices IPO above targeted range to raise nearly $1 billion, and most of it will go to Intel

Mobileye Global Inc. priced its initial public offering higher than its targeted range late Tuesday to raise nearly $1 billion, most of which will go to Intel Corp. Mobileye priced its initial public ...

Intel earnings: Layoffs and margin pressure could overshadow Mobileye IPO

Intel Corp. must contend this week with an earnings report that notably lacked a formal pre-announcement, a bleaker-than-expected PC market and rumored layoffs, which will likely overshadow the initia...

Stock-market selloff may mean another 20% drop for S&P 500, says Wall Street veteran

“‘I generally believe that rates are going to continue to go higher and inflation is not going to come down as much as expected.’” — Thomas Peterffy, chairman and founder of Interactive Brokers Thomas...

Elon Musk teases massive Tesla stock buyback as CFO trims forecast for annual deliveries and stock falls

Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk suggested the electric-vehicle maker could repurchase up to $10 billion worth of its stock Wednesday, as shares declined following a third-quarter revenue miss and...

A Big Tesla Stock Sale Is Coming. We Don’t Know How Big.

It’s looking increasingly likely that Tesla investors will have to deal with their CEO Elon Musk buying social media platform Twitter In the long run, the issue for Tesla (ticker: TSLA) investors is m...

Goldman CEO Frustrated by Stock Price, Says Most Staff in Office Every Day

Goldman Sachs Group CEO David Solomon expressed some frustration with the valuation of the company’s stock, noting that it generally has traded a premium to book value since its IPO in 1999. “Would I ...

Kroger Pauses Buybacks to Prioritize Debt Reduction After Albertsons Deal Closes

Grocery giant Kroger Co. is pausing share buybacks ahead of its planned acquisition of rival Albertsons Cos. Inc., aiming to use the additional cash to reduce its debt as it closes one of the biggest ...

Tesla Stock Is Too Cheap. It Should Start Buying Back Its Own Shares.

Future Fund Active ETF co-founder Gary Black sent a letter to Tesla board of directors with a recommendation on how to spend some of the company’s growing cash hoard. He wants them to buy back Tesla (...

Stocks could fall ‘another easy 20%’ and next drop will be ‘much more painful than the first’, Jamie Dimon says

JPMorgan Chase & Co. JPM, -0.92% CEO Jamie Dimon warned investors on Monday that he expects markets to remain volatile for the foreseeable future, and that the S&P 500 could easily fall anothe...

Electric-Vehicle Makers and Suppliers Drive Into a Stormy IPO Market

Updated Oct. 8, 2022 5:33 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) Electric-vehicle makers in Asia and the companies that supply them are rushing to capital markets to raise money, as they try to take adva...

Bank of America to Pay $1.84 Billion to Settle Last Major Mortgage-Crisis Suit

Bank of America closed the door on its last major litigation over mortgage bonds that were at the heart of the financial crisis of 2008. The Charlotte, N.C., bank said Friday it would pay $1.84 billio...

Porsche stock continues to climb after IPO

Shares in luxury automaker Porsche rose as much as 6% on Thursday, taking its gains to nearly 13% since its launch on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in Germany last week. Porsche’s P911, +3.37% preferen...