Insurer Sees Strong Demand for Preferred Stock With Juicy 9% Yield

Income-oriented investors got a gift when insurer Lincoln Financial Group offered $1 billion of preferred stock this week, including a deal with a 9% annual dividend rate that is accessible to retail ...

Veteran manager offers 5 ‘cheap, quality, dividend’ stocks that will let you play one of tech’s biggest themes.

2022 may be remembered as the year investors fell out of love with tech stocks. While the Nasdaq Composite COMP, -3.91% is up about 5.3% this quarter, that’s after three dismal ones, and a 28% loss fo...

Trump Organization CFO Weisselberg chokes up on witness stand, claims his ‘personal greed’ drove $1.7 million tax-avoidance scheme

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s longtime finance chief choked up on the witness stand Thursday, saying he betrayed the Trump family’s trust by scheming to dodge taxes on $1.7 million in company-paid pe...

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...

Norwegian Cruise Stock Falls After a Rare Double Downgrade

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Sell Tesla Stock on ‘Any Rally to $200’

Tesla has been a remarkable stock for a really long time. Not so much in 2022. Investors could use some good news, and some could be on the way. There’s a big headwind to worry about, though. Tesla (t...

AT&T exec says ‘it’s only a matter of time’ before people ‘really’ feel inflation

AT&T Inc. Chief Financial Officer Pascal Desroches says “it’s only a matter of time” before consumers start to “really” feel the impact of inflation, but he thinks the wireless business will prove...

Elon Musk testifies in shareholder lawsuit over Tesla compensation package

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Tesla TSLA, -2.01% CEO Elon Musk took the witness stand Wednesday to defend himself in a shareholder lawsuit challenging a compensation package he was awarded by the company’s ...

Opinion: Three seasonal effects in the stock market begin around Thanksgiving

The stock market started what appeared to be another leg up in the past week, as the benchmark S&P 500 broke out over resistance at 3900 points. In fact, the index rose to 4020 but then ran into t...

18 semiconductor stocks that shine when compared with Nvidia this earnings season

Nvidia Corp., which said yesterday that quarterly sales slumped, exemplifies the cyclical nature of the semiconductor industry despite the company’s inroads into fast-growing markets. Still, many chip...

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 ...

Black Friday surprise: Jeff Bezos tells people not to buy cars, refrigerators and other big-ticket items. Critics call him out.

Billionaire Jeff Bezos, who founded the e-tail behemoth Amazon, has some spending tips as Americans gear up for the holiday shopping season — amid four-decade-high inflation and recession worries. Her...

10 crazy things detailed in FTX’s bankruptcy filing

On Thursday, John Ray, III, the new CEO of FTX, dropped a long-awaited declaration in U.S. bankruptcy court, giving a sober assessment of the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire. The bankrup...

An auditor in the metaverse. No proper tracking of cash or employees. New FTX CEO describes Sam Bankman-Fried’s haphazard management.

“Never in my career have I seen such a complete failure of corporate controls and such a complete absence of trustworthy financial information as occurred here. From compromised systems integrity and ...

Elon Musk Has the Next Tesla CEO in Mind. There Are a Few Candidates.

Tesla board member James Murdoch said Elon Musk knows who could run  Tesla after him. It might have been a throwaway line said while being questioned in a trial. Still, it’s a chance for investors to ...

The Fisker Ocean Is a Reality. Why It’s Not Just Another EV.

Today is the day, the day when production of the all-electric Fisker (ticker: FSR) Ocean SUV begins. Fisker is not Tesla It’s a small EV start-up that will only deliver a handful of cars in 2022, but ...

Ford Shows That Reshoring U.S. Manufacturing Is Happening

Reshoring is a term industrial investors are becoming as familiar with as outsourcing. Outsourcing manufacturing to the regions of the planet with the cheapest labor to drive lower prices for consumer...

The secret to a happier retirement might be in your ‘retirement quotient’

You know all about IQ (intelligence quotient) and probably EQ (emotional quotient or emotional intelligence). But if you’re getting close to retirement or in retirement, you might also want to know ab...

Muddy Waters takes short position against U.S.-listed Uruguayan payments company

Short seller Muddy Waters Capital announced it has taken out a short bet against Uruguayan payments firm dLocal, calling the company “likely a fraud,” which caused its shares to dramatically drop on W...

Buy American Tower, Crown Castle, and SBA Communications Stock. The REITs Look Ready to Rebound

Certainty during rocky macroeconomic times deserves a premium. Predictable and dependable profits are exactly what cell-tower real estate investment trusts provide, and yet their stocks are selling at...

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 ...

Oil Prices Could Rise After Latest EU Sanctions on Russia

The European Union’s ban on seaborne imports of Russian oil, along with the Group of Seven’s plan to cap prices of oil from Russia early next month won’t guarantee that prices for the commodity will s...

Opinion: This record number in Nvidia earnings is a scary sight

Nvidia Corp.’s financial results had a bit of a surprise for investors, and not on the good side — product inventories doubled to a record high as the chip company gears up for a questionable holiday ...

Cisco Stock Gains on Earnings. Layoffs Are Coming. 

Cisco Systems shares are trading higher after the networking-infrastructure company posted better-than-expected revenue and profit growth for its fiscal first quarter, ended Oct. 29. The company also ...

Nvidia earnings chopped in half, but tweaked servers to China offset earlier $400 million warning

Nvidia Corp. shares ticked higher in the extended session Wednesday after the chip maker said modified servers to China mostly made up for an expected $400 million shortfall due to a U.S. ban on certa...

ZoomInfo Shares Plunge on Disappointing 2023 Outlook

ZoomInfo Technologies shares hit an air pocket Wednesday after the company issued disappointing guidance for 2023 at an RBC Capital Markets investment conference. ZoomInfo (ticker: ZI) Chief Financial...

Sam Bankman-Fried, Tom Brady and Steph Curry named in lawsuit over FTX collapse

Sam Bankman-Fried, former CEO of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, has not had a good couple of weeks. The crypto maven known as SBF has seen his company go bankrupt and his net worth drop by billions of ...

Grayscale Bitcoin Trust Has Gotten Too Cheap. ARK’s Cathie Wood Noticed.

The price of Bitcoin has plunged this year but shares of a trust that has been an easy way for investors to get access to the cryptocurrency have fallen even further. Tech investor Cathie Wood has tak...

Opinion: The new bull market will be led by stocks in these three industries.

We don’t know yet if the recent rally kicks off a new bull market in stocks. But here’s a safe bet: Once the new bull market is here, entirely different groups will lead. It’ll be out with the old — t...

Carnival stock dives after private sale of $1 billion in convertible debt

Shares of Carnival Corp. pulled back sharply on heavy volume Wednesday, after the cruise operator took advantage of a recent big rally to commence a private offering of debt that can be converted into...

They pulled money out of FTX at last minute: ‘Thank God I dodged it twice’

As the FTX debacle started to unravel last week, a 26-year-old customer of FTX.US who lived in the New York City area faced a thorny dilemma. While he was concerned about the situation that was unfold...

Nouriel Roubini attacks Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao and says Kevin O’Leary should lose his role at CNBC over ties to FTX

“What are the 7 C’s of crypto? Concealed. Corrupt. Crooks. Criminals. Conmen. Carnival barkers. And finally, CZ.” That was famed economist Nouriel Roubini, a longtime critic of cryptocurrencies, attac...