I ruined my family’s finances by withdrawing from my 401(k) to buy a house – I regret it

I recently made a panic decision to withdraw all my money from one retirement account and I am now closing on a house in February (about $200,000). I am 36 years old, married and have a 1-year-old. Ha...

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...

Sell Microsoft Stock. The Software Giant Is Facing a Bad Economy, Says Analyst.

Guggenheim is getting more pessimistic about Microsoft stock on the risk of a slowing global economy. On Tuesday, analyst John DiFucci lowered his rating on software giant Microsoft (ticker: MSFT ) to...

Coinbase Stock Is Soaring. It Might Be a Haven in a Wild Crypto Market.

Coinbase Global stock continued its winning streak on Tuesday, rising alongside the price of Bitcoin and on the back of a strong analyst endorsement. Coinbase (ticker: COIN) has already had a busy sta...

10 simple investments that can turn your portfolio into an income dynamo

Many people are good at saving up money for retirement. They manage expenses and build up their nest eggs steadily. But when it comes time to begin drawing income from an investment portfolio, they mi...

Carvana Adopts a ‘Poison Pill’ to Ward Off a Hostile Takeover. Stock Bounces.

Carvana stock rose Tuesday after the used-car retailer announced it is adopting a net-operating-loss poison pill. Net operating losses, or NOLs carryforwards, are a tax provision allowing businesses t...

Buy Apple and IBM Stock Ahead of Earnings, Says Analyst

With tech earnings season now dead ahead, investors are tweaking their portfolios ahead of what could be a tumultuous period for the group, with the Street anticipating generally weak guidance for 202...

Alibaba a Target of GameStop’s Ryan Cohen. Why the Stock Market Shrugged.

Investor Ryan Cohen, who has found fame with activist campaigns at meme stocks such as GameStop and Bed Bath & Beyond is now targeting Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba   The billionaire co-founder...

How a ‘triple-barreled buy signal’ and other green flags could send the S&P 500 20% higher, says this money manager

A holiday-shortened week is looking like it will get off to a lower start, as China landed some weak growth numbers and more earnings roll out. That’s after two positive weeks to start 2023. But there...

‘It feels like way too much to lose.’ We had $550K invested and told our adviser we wanted a ‘conservative approach.’ Since then we’ve lost $88K. I know the market is bad, but should we fire him? 

Question: Two years ago my husband took an early retirement when offered by his company.  At that time we had a 401(k) with about $550,000 that we gave to a big financial services firm rep to handle. ...

Alibaba, XPeng, Goldman Sachs, and More Stock Market Movers Tuesday

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What JPMorgan and Other Banking Giants Are Saying About a Possible Recession

America’s banking giants are looking into their economic crystal balls, and not all of them like what they see. JPMorgan , Bank of America , and other top U.S. banks recently offered economic outlooks...

Tesla’s Profits Are at Risk From Price Cuts. It Could Get Bad.

Tesla is cutting its prices, so Wall Street is lowering its forecasts for earnings, fearing profit margins will be decimated. That makes 2023 a scary time for investors in the electric-vehicle company...

Alibaba and Other Chinese Stocks Are Soaring as Clampdown Eases

Chinese stocks are soaring this month with Hong Kong-listed shares in e-commerce giant Alibaba up 31% amid signs China’s regulatory crackdown is thawing and strict Covid-19 controls are being relaxed....

Crossover Hedge Funds Lost Big in 2022. They’re Still Launching in 2023.

Hedge funds investing in fast-growing public and private companies lost tens of billions of clients’ money last year. That isn’t stopping more “crossover” funds from launching. Mala Gaonkar, 53 years ...

Former FTX US head denies participation in fraud involving the company

Brett Harrison, former head of the U.S. arm of FTX, distanced himself from the crypto exchange co-founded by Sam Bankman-Fried, which filed for bankruptcy back in November. Harrison, who resigned as F...

Martin Marietta Stock Can Thrive in Both Inflation and Deflation

Despite a solid start to 2023, the stock market could still get rocky. That’s where sand and gravel supplier Martin Marietta Materials comes in. Martin Marietta (ticker: MLM) is a producer of aggregat...

These money and investing tips give you tools for the stock market’s ‘January Defect’

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Endava Stock Is a Buy. Even a Recession Won’t Stop It.

Software is in a slump, but people are in short supply. That’s the kind of environment that could be good for information-technology consultant Endava With recession concerns rising, corporate spendin...

Samsung Knocks Longtime Patent Leader IBM Off Its Perch

In a year when the U.S. issued the smallest number of patents since 2018, Korean electronics giant Samsung Electronics nosed past IBM with the most new patents, the first time in 29 years that IBM fai...

Citigroup, Target, Lennar, and 2 More Companies Keeping Their Dividends Steady

PPL, a utility based in Allentown, Pa., said this week that it plans to raise its next quarterly dividend by 7%. It was an otherwise light stretch for such announcements among large U.S. companies. PP...

Bed Bath & Beyond, Virgin Galactic, Ford, and More Stock Market Movers Friday

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Where Are the Stock Market and Economy Headed? Barron’s Roundtable Pros Weigh In.

Bullish or bearish, our 10 panelists help make sense of increasingly complicated market dynamics. Plus: nine stock picks. Jan. 13, 2023 8:40 pm ET The optimist sees bubbles and thinks champagne. The p...

Caterpillar stock rises to 4th straight record after BofA analyst becomes top bull on Wall Street

Shares of Caterpillar Inc. rallied Friday to a fourth straight record close, after BofA Securities analyst Michael Feniger turned bullish on the belief that the construction- and mining-equipment make...

Google Warns Pending Supreme Court Case Could Wreck the Internet

Next month, the U.S. Supreme Court will hold two days of hearings on a pair of cases that directly challenge the scope of Section 230, a provision of the 1996 Communications Decency Act that establish...

For All His Criticisms of Disney, Peltz and Iger Probably Agree: Streaming Has to Be Fixed

“Great news: Nelson Peltz made a slide deck about me,” said no CEO ever. But maybe Walt Disney Bob Iger had mixed feelings about the 35-pager that dropped this past week. One one hand, it says that he...

Airline stocks fall after Delta’s weaker-than-expected guidance

Airline stocks fell before market open Friday after Delta Air Lines Inc. gave weaker-than-expected guidance for the first quarter. The carrier’s fourth-quarter results beat analysts’ top and bottom li...

Bank of America’s Subramanian says S&P 500 earnings risk a 10% drop in 2023

“ ‘We are likely to see some downward revisions [to earnings] and our forecast for profits growth for 2023 is $200 for the S&P 500. That would mean about a 10% decline in earnings peak to trough.’...

Here Are the Best Tech ETFs for 2023

For the first time in three years, it’s dead easy to pick a basket of tech stocks for the year ahead. After giant double-digit gains from 2019 through 2021, the Nasdaq Composite Index ended 2022 down ...

JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, Bank of America and Citi beat earnings expectations, but worries about headwinds remain

JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc. and Wells Fargo & Co. managed to beat Wall Street’s reduced expectations for their fourth-quarter profits as higher interest rates b...

Bitcoin spikes above $21,000: is the crypto bear market over ?

Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, spiked above the $21,000 mark on Saturday. The move has encouraged crypto investors who have been shaken by the collapse of several high-p...

Bed Bath & Beyond Ponders Bankruptcy, Exciting the Meme Crowd

What were shareholders thinking? Shares of retailer Bed Bath & Beyond zoomed 179%, to $3.49 this past week, despite the retailer warning of a possible bankruptcy. One explanation: Meme stock mania...