Investors Have Lost Faith in Crypto Exchanges. JPMorgan Sees an Opportunity.

A string of crypto business failures has stranded millions of dollars in customer funds this year, underscoring the level of trust needed for groups that are custodians of digital assets. JPMorgan Cha...

U.S. Natural-Gas Pioneer Struggles in His Second Act

Charif Souki has played a starring role in transforming America into an energy powerhouse, but his second attempt at exporting natural gas is foundering. Mr. Souki’s new firm, Tellurian Inc., is strug...

TJX, Lowe’s, and Home Depot Stocks Have Soared. Further Gains Might Have to Wait.

Retail stocks—and earnings—are showing signs of life. But even though it is retail’s busiest season, this isn’t a great time to buy.  Shares in retail companies, as measured by the VanEck Retail excha...

Binance U.S. Arm to Bid for Bankrupt Voyager Digital’s Assets After FTX Collapse

The U.S. arm of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, will make a bid for bankrupt lender Voyager Digital  following the collapse of FTX, which in September won an auction for the comp...

6 Preferred Stocks That Offer Safety and High Yields

There still is plenty of yield in the depressed preferred-stock market—even after the recent half-point yield decline in the Treasury 10-year note to 3.7%. Many preferred issues yield 6% or more and o...

Mega-Companies Messed Up America’s Job Market. They’re Doing it Again.

Part of what has made America’s job market so tight is that big, publicly traded companies hired like crazy after the pandemic struck. Now that many are slamming into reverse, it seems like there is a...

Apple’s iPhone Issues Could Hit Revenue. Why Analysts Say Not to Worry.

Apple is facing delivery problems for some iPhones as issues at a critical factory in China continue. But analysts are playing down the potential long-term impact on the company. Apple (ticker: AAPL) ...

The Disney CFO Who Raised Concerns About Bob Chapek Has Respect on the Street

Christine McCarthy, Walt Disney Co. ’s longtime finance chief, took an unusual step when she expressed a lack of confidence in the chief executive to directors of the entertainment giant.  Finance chi...

Activision Stock Falls on Report FTC Might Block Microsoft Deal

Activision Blizzard stock dropped Friday after a Politico report suggested that the Federal Trade Commission will file an antitrust lawsuit to prevent Microsoft ‘s takeover of the videogame maker. An ...

‘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 ...

Bear markets come in three stages; and we’ve only just started the second, says veteran analyst.

Stocks will start the Black Friday half-session near 10-week highs, having rebounded partly on hopes the Federal Reserve will be slowing the pace of interest rate rises as it waits to see how much pre...

The Next U.S. Energy Revolution Is Here

Until now, the U.S. clean-energy revolution has been imported. Other countries make almost all of the batteries, solar panels, and critical chemicals used in America. But the revolution is starting to...

Gas Prices May Fall Further, Latest Data Show

Drivers are likely to get a gift heading into the holidays—quickly falling gasoline prices. The latest stats released on Wednesday by the Energy Information Administration show that gasoline is buildi...

Amazon Stock Looks Like a Buy With E-Commerce Set to Rebound

Back in July, I wrote a Barron’s cover story that made a bullish case for Amazon.com tied to the enormous long-term value of the company’s cloud-computing arm, Amazon Web Services. Mea culpa. Amazon s...

Apple iPhone wait times have doubled in 4 weeks to 38 days, UBS says

It’s too late to buy an Apple iPhone 14 Pro or Pro Max in time for Christmas, as supply disruptions have caused wait times to double over the past four weeks, according to UBS research. As a result, i...

New-Home Sales Surge. It’s Still a Mixed Picture for Housing.

Text size Sales of new homes rose in October. Here: completed and under construction new homes in Trappe, Maryland. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Sales of new homes unexpectedly rose in October, pai...

Genesis meltdown: Why investors are worried about bigger problems for crypto

Investors are worried that liquidity problems for crypto financial-services firm Genesis could spill over to its parent company, Digital Currency Group, and damage the already battered crypto market e...

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao: ‘No amount of other people’s tweets would cause problems’ if an exchange holds customer assets

Perhaps it’s one last dagger, but Binance CEO Changpeng Zhou just could not resist a little dig at the fallen FTX chief executive Sam Bankman-Fried. That’s a reference to the role the cryptocurrency t...

New CIO Wants Cisco to Be a Model for Hybrid Work

Fletcher Previn, Cisco Systems Inc.’s new chief information officer, said he is working to help position the networking-equipment maker as a leader in hybrid work. “Everybody being remote in the pande...

Spotlight on layoffs: Cuts at Amazon, Cisco, Roku, Meta, Twitter, Intel and more

From HP, Amazon, Roku and Beyond Meat to Meta and Twitter, big names across a number of sectors have announced major layoffs in October and November. Alphabet Inc. GOOGL, +1.45% GOOG, +1.53% is consid...

I got laid off by a big tech company. What’s my next career move? 

Being let go from a job is hard, especially at a moment when the cost of living is rising and a recession is looming. This Thanksgiving, tens of thousands of recently laid-off tech workers will be ask...

$740 million in crypto assets recovered so far in FTX bankruptcy

NEW YORK — The company tasked with locking down the assets of the failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX says it has managed to recover and secure $740 million in assets so far, a fraction of the potentia...

Google looks to shed 10,000 ‘poor performing’ workers: report

Another major tech titan is bracing for thousands of layoffs. Alphabet Inc.’s GOOGL, +1.45% GOOG, +1.53% Google is considering 10,000 layoffs — or 6% of its worldwide workforce — based on a ranking sy...

‘My elderly relative determined she could no longer care for herself’: Are her assisted-living facility costs tax deductible?

I have an elderly relative in an assisted-living arrangement in Indiana. She was basically directed to go there from a rehabilitation post-surgery, because they determined that she could no longer car...

Blackstone’s Breit Retail Real Estate Fund Suffers First Significant Outflows

Blackstone ‘s big retail real estate fund experienced sizable net redemptions for the first time, in a potentially worrisome development for what has become one of the firm’s most important products a...

Berkshire Scores Big With Japanese Investments. Currency Hedge Is Key.

One of Berkshire Hathaway ‘s bigger investment scores in recent years was the purchase of a group of five Japanese trading companies that now are showing an estimated profit of about $4 billion on an ...

Stocks Have Already Bottomed. How We Know.

The ride upward won’t be easy, but there are mounting signals that the stock market has already hit its low point.  For starters, the S&P 500 is down 17% from its all-time high of 4796 hit in earl...

Most retirees and near-retirees are worried about the stock market and inflation. Here’s what they’re doing about it. 

The declines in the stock market, surging inflation and rising interest rates have eroded investors’ confidence about their retirement, according to a new report by Janus Henderson Investors. A total ...

Tesla Stock Has Cost Musk $200 Billion. Here’s Who, and What, to Blame.

The drop in Tesla stock has cost investors and CEO Elon Musk a huge amount of money. As the end of the year approaches, investors—and maybe even Musk—should consider how it happened. On Monday, Tesla ...

Why ‘work longer’ isn’t great retirement advice

Financial planners typically advise you to work for as long as you can, so you can juice up your retirement savings while holding out for a fatter Social Security check. But such advice presumes that ...

Baidu Beats Revenue Expectations Despite Continued Covid Worries

Baidu on Tuesday became the latest Chinese technology company to report a return to annual growth, as it beat expectations for its third-quarter revenue.  Baidu (ticker: BIDU)—often referred to as Chi...

These stocks are burning cash fast and might need to raise capital soon, Goldman Sachs flags

Equity strategists at Goldman Sachs GS, +0.27% point out the cost of money is no longer next to nothing. The weighted average cost of capital for U.S. companies has gone from near the lowest level in ...