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What Is a Poison Pill? Twitter Adopts Defensive Move to Fend Off Elon Musk.

04/15/2022
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Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for $43 billion. He currently has a 9.2% stake in Twitter. Photo by Christian Marquardt – Pool/Getty Images Text size Twitter adopted a so-called poison pill Fri...

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Why Apple’s Stock Buybacks and Its Dividend Could Get a Big Boost

04/12/2022
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Text size Apple stock has faced headwinds in 2022 but is still up 26% from this time a year ago. Dreamstime Apple ’s quarterly earnings reports frequently hog the spotlight on days when they drop. The...

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Stock Surge Validates AT&T’s Move to Spin, not Split, Stake in Warner Bros.

04/11/2022
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Text size AT&T’s spinoff appears to be popular with its legions of retail investors. Chris DELMAS / AFP / Getty Images The 7% gain in AT&T shares Monday offers some validation for the co...

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S&P downgrade indicates Russia headed for historic default

04/10/2022
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The credit ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has downgraded its assessment of Russia’s ability to repay foreign debt, signaling rising prospects that Moscow will soon default on external loans for ...

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Stock Splits Are Popular Again. 5 Companies That Could Split Their Stocks Next

04/09/2022
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Stock splits are back in vogue, and the market is quickly rewarding companies that divide their shares. Google parent Alphabet , Amazon.com , Tesla , and GameStop are among the latest companies to see...

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3 Energy Companies That Should Buy Back Stock: Analyst

04/04/2022
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Text size High oil prices have left producers awash in cash. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Oil-and-gas companies are pumping out billions of dollars in cash because of high commodity prices. Many of them...

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Fed’s Williams says could begin reducing balance sheet as soon as May meeting

04/03/2022
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The Federal Reserve may begin reducing its balance sheet as soon as its May 3-4 policy meeting to address the level of U.S. inflation that have become “particularly acute,” New York Fed chair John Wil...

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Tesla Proposes a Dividend (Not Really). TJX and PNC Announce Payout Hikes (for Real).

04/03/2022
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Tesla’s proposed ‘dividend’ was really a proposed stock split. Here, a Tesla manufacturing plant near Gruenheide, Germany. Sean Gallup/Getty Images Text size Tesla was among the hand...

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Missed the Dip in Stocks? Where to Find Yields of 3% to 6%.

04/03/2022
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I sneezed, and missed the buying opportunity in stocks. The S&P 500 was down 13% at one point this year. It ended the first quarter with a loss of just 4.6%, including dividends. But all of the ba...

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These 3 Energy Companies Should Buy Back Stock, Analyst Says

04/02/2022
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Text size High oil prices have left producers awash in cash. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Oil-and-gas companies are pumping out billions of dollars in cash because of high commodity prices. Many of them...

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Deutsche Bank Must Face Lawsuits Alleging It Enabled Ponzi Scheme

04/02/2022
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Judges in New York and Miami ruled that investor lawsuits could advance against Germany’s Deutsche Bank AG for allegedly ignoring warnings that it was helping finance a real-estate-linked Ponzi scheme...

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These 10 S&P 500 Stocks Have Solid Dividends, Not Just Big Buybacks

04/01/2022
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Last week’s Income Investing column focused on shareholder yield, which combines dividends with stock buybacks, by sector. This week, Barron’s decided to drill down and look at the shareholder yields ...

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Biden Proposed Stock Buyback Restrictions. What Advisors Need to Know.

03/31/2022
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This year has seen plenty of high-profile announcements of stock buybacks. Amazon  enacted a $10 billion repurchase program while General Electric set its own at $3 billion. Later, Alibaba announced t...

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Cannabis company that DEA is allowing to grow for research purposes to list shares on Nasdaq

03/31/2022
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Bright Green Corp., a Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based company with conditional approval from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to produce federally legal cannabis, on Tuesday filed plans to d...

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RH Delivers Mixed Earnings, Announces 3-for-1 Stock Split

03/30/2022
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Text size A staircase at an RH outlet. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for RH RH stock is trading lower Wednesday morning after the home-furnishings retailer reported a mixed fiscal fourth quarter, a...

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Tencent Music Stock Is Soaring After Earnings. It Can Thank Alibaba.

03/24/2022
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Text size A monitor displays Tencent Music Entertainment Group signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Chinese stocks are soaring after Alibaba a...

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Green Startups, Flush With Cash, Face Pressure to Make Climate Advances

03/20/2022
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Green startups hit the lottery last year. Investors have turned cautious since then, putting added pressure on the cash-rich companies to deliver better batteries, more sustainable materials and zippy...

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NerdWallet and SoFi CEOs Bought Up Stock on the Dip

03/20/2022
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Text size NerdWallet’s app Courtesy NerdWallet Shares of companies pointed at the personal-financial space have been pummeled far worse than the broader market, but their chief executives are bu...

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A New Meme-Stock Frenzy Led AMC to Gold Mine Stake

03/16/2022
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Day traders looking to capitalize on commodity price volatility catalyzed a chain reaction that ended with movie theater giant AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc.’s unusual deal to take a stake in a gold-...

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GE Shows Why Stock Buybacks Aren’t Always as Good as Dividends

03/15/2022
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Text size GE’s net debt now amounts to 2.5 times Ebitda, compared with an average of 2 times for industrial companies in the S&P 500. Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images News that General Elec...

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The 8 worst-performing S&P 500 stocks with the highest ratings are expected to rebound by more than 50% over the next year

03/15/2022
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Investors don’t need to be told that stocks have been volatile. There’s a market of extremes as Russia’s war in Ukraine continues and investors wait to see what the Federal Open Market Committee does ...

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8 Companies That Raised Their Stock Dividends This Week

03/14/2022
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Text size Colgate-Palmolive raised its stock dividend this week. Rene Van Den Berg/Dreamstime.com Colgate-Palmolive , Dick’s Sporting Goods , and Applied Materials were among the large U.S. companies ...

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Amazon’s Stock Split Follows Alphabet’s. Here’s Who’s Next.

03/10/2022
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Text size Amazon.com’s share price is likely to go from nearly $3,000 to less than $150 as a result of the split. Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg Amazon . com announced a stock split just over a month...

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Amazon Announces 20-for-1 Stock Split and $10 Billion Buyback Plan

03/09/2022
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Text size Amazon shares are up more than 6% on the news in after-hours trading. Bloomberg Amazon . com shares are moving sharply higher in after-hours trading after the e-commerce and cloud-computing ...

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Intel Is Still Struggling. Here’s Another Way to Play Chips.

03/04/2022
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Text size Intel stock was downgraded by Morgan Stanley. Courtesy Intel Corporation Shares of Intel and GlobalFoundries went in opposite directions Thursday after analysts at Morgan Stanley downgraded ...

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Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Buys Big Block of Occidental Petroleum Stock

03/04/2022
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Text size Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, speaks to the press as he arrives at the 2019 annual shareholders meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, May 4, 2019. Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images Berkshi...

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Verizon Has Plans for Faster Growth. Stock Buybacks Are Coming Closer.

03/03/2022
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Text size Hans Vestberg, Verizon’s CEO. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Verizon Communications could be poised to deliver faster growth in profits and revenue, making possible continued dividend inc...

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Rivian Stock’s Price Target Gets a Cut. There Are Too Many Headwinds.

03/01/2022
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Text size Courtesy of Rivian Electric-truck startup Rivian Automotive reports fourth-quarter earnings in about a week. One analyst cut his price target on the stock ahead of the report because there a...

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Buffett: Berkshire Hathaway Finds ‘Little That Excites Us’ in the Stock Market

02/26/2022
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Berkshire Hathaway finds “little that excites us” in the stock market, CEO Warren Buffett said in his annual shareholder letter released Saturday morning. “That’s largely because of a truism: Long-ter...

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AMD announces $8 billion stock buyback program

02/25/2022
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Shares of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. inched higher in after-hours trading Thursday after the chip company announced a new $8 billion buyback authorization. The new repurchase authorization is in addi...

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My mom cosigned student loans for my now-disabled sister. How can we repay them?

02/25/2022
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How to get out of student loan debt. Getty Images/iStockphoto Question: My mom cosigned my sister’s student loan for her online school, but life got in the way for my sister and because of her mental ...

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Why Barrick Gold’s CEO Is Looking to Boost Its Copper Business

02/21/2022
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Text size Barrick aims to boost its gold production to 4.8 million ounces annually by the end of decade from 4.4 million in 2021. David Gray/AFP via Getty Images Mark Bristow, the CEO of one of the bi...