An American Helped Build a Business Inside China. Clients Want Him to Leave.

It took Jacob Rothman two decades to build a Chinese manufacturing business with his friends and family. Now the 49-year-old American executive says customers want him to make some of his grilling too...

As China-U.S. Relations Cool, Reshoring Heats Up. Honeywell and Other Stocks That Should Benefit.

The gulf between the U.S. and China is widening, which could be good news for stocks benefiting from the reshoring of industries that migrated over the past 40 years. If President Xi Jinping’s consoli...

Why retirement calculators fail the people who need them most — and what to do about it

Or were you so overwhelmed by the steps and questions that you only increased the amount you were saving by a little bit — or not at all? If you fall into the latter category, don’t feel bad. A new st...

IRS has been missing out on $500 billion in taxes owed annually — and the gap between what’s owed and paid is projected to widen

There’s a difference between the amount of taxes that people and businesses owe the Internal Revenue Service and the amount they actually pay. From 2014 to 2016, that multibillion-dollar gap widened, ...

Volkswagen and Porsche’s Earnings Don’t Make a Lot of Sense. The Numbers, Explained.

Text size Investors should ask themselves why Volkswagen is worth nothing when its stake in Porsche is backed out. AFP via Getty Images European auto makers Volkswagen and Porsche both reported third ...

Opinion: Your HSA can be an extra retirement savings — how to make smart choices during open enrollment

It’s open enrollment season, which means it’s time for most workers to choose benefits for the year ahead. Health insurance is one of the most popular benefits that workers review yearly, but there is...

Technology stocks tumble — this is how you will know when to buy them again

This has been a brutal year for Big Tech, as you can see in the chart below, with Meta Platforms META, +1.29% leading the way. Shares of the Facebook holding company plunged 26% on Oct. 27, bringing t...

Dogecoin Is Surging on Hopes of a New Life on Twitter

Twitter shareholders can breathe easy now that Elon Musk has taken the company private. Dogecoin owners may be even more thrilled since the cryptocurrency could get a new lease on life through the soc...

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...

Meta’s Problems Could Be Fixed but First Mark Zuckerberg Needs a Reality Check

One thing that became clear in this past week’s terrible tech earnings is that Mark Zuckerberg already lives in the metaverse. At the very least, it seems that the Meta Platforms CEO has established r...

Ford Expects a Profit Rebound. What Wall Street Is Saying.

Ford Motor expects a big fourth quarter, bouncing back from supply-chain-induced challenges experienced in the third quarter. Wall Street isn’t so sure things will turn as well as the company expects....

Stocks usually do well after the midterms. Not this time, forecasts BlackRock

So much for the safety of the tech behemoths, those supposedly friendly giants who may be relatively richly valued but you could still count on to buttress your portfolio. Poorly received results from...

Buffett’s Berkshire Chases Musk’s Tesla on Market Value

Watch out, Elon, Warren is catching up. With the drop in shares of Tesla this year, the market value of Berkshire Hathaway is hot on the heels of the electric-vehicle leader. Berkshire, led by longtim...

Intel stock up 20% to best trading day since COVID-19 pandemic’s first days

Intel Corp. shares on Friday scored their best one-day rally since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic after the chip maker’s planned cost cuts and layoffs encouraged investors that have withstood shri...

Dialysis company DaVita stock suffering worst day in 22 years after big profit miss, disappointing outlook

Shares of DaVita Inc. plummeted in active trading Friday, toward their worst performance in more than two decades, after the dialysis company reported third-quarter that fell well below expectations a...

XPeng Stock Plunges After Rare Double-Downgrade

Shares for Chinese electric vehicle maker XPeng have just been hammered in 2022—and they dropped even more Friday after a once-bullish analyst said to sell the stock. Citi analyst Jeff Chung doubled-d...

Why the Dow is having a killer month as it heads for best October ever

The Dow Jones Industrial Average has been criticized by some market watchers for being a poor barometer of equity-market performance given its relatively small sample size of just 30 stocks. But this ...

‘When we dated for 5 years, he implied he was financially secure’: My husband was always hesitant about his finances. Now I know why.

Dear Quentin, My husband and I make about the same salary, and live modestly. Six months after we married, I found out my husband’s net worth is virtually zero. He owes more money than he has assets (...

AbbVie Stock Slips as Sales Miss Expectations And Bigger Challenges Await.

Stock in AbbVie slipped after the drug company reported a higher profit than expected, while sales fell short. The revenue shortfall may have reminded investors of a challenge AbbVie (ticker: ABBV) fa...

Apple Is the Winner of a Gruesome Earnings Season. Maybe Buffett Was Right.

The tech earnings season has been full of ups and downs. Sure, it’s seen more downs than ups, but the ups have been notable. Amazon was the latest stock to tank after reporting third-quarter results. ...

‘Pretty much Google 2.0’ — Amazon price targets reduced by analysts, though they say the long-term story is intact

Analysts downgraded their price targets for Amazon.com after it reported missing its third quarter sales expectations alongside a weak sales forecast for the upcoming festive season. Amazon AMZN, -10....

Medtronic Is Doing a Spinoff. What It Means for Our Stock Pick.

Medical device maker Medtronic is spinning off two business units to try to drive higher growth. The market isn’t impressed.  In theory, it should be. Spinoffs are supposed to streamline operations of...

Elon Musk on the hook to pay more than $200 million to 3 fired Twitter execs

This story was updated with a more current tally of shares from Twitter’s most recent proxy statement.  When Twitter Inc.’s top executives walked out of its San Francisco headquarters Thursday, they m...

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...

Amazon stock sinks after holiday forecast and cloud growth, profit disappoint; $150 billion in market cap at risk

Amazon.com Inc. predicted Thursday that holiday sales and profit would come in well lower than analysts expected as cloud growth slowed and Amazon Web Services profit missed expectations by nearly $1 ...

Intel stock rises on earnings beat, plans for layoffs, billions in cost cuts planned

Intel Corp. shares rose after hours Thursday after the chip maker topped Wall Street earnings estimates for the quarter and PC-chip sales came in slightly higher than expected, while the company trimm...

Intel Stock Gains as Guidance Disappoints. Layoffs Are Coming.

Intel plans significant cost cuts , including a “meaningful number” of layoffs, its CFO said as the chip maker detailed its financial results and forecast revenue that was much lower than Wall Street ...

‘We are facing a retirement crisis in our country,’ says head of TIAA, as ‘40% of Americans run the risk of running out of money’

“ ‘We are facing a retirement crisis in our country’” — Thasunda Brown Duckett, president and CEO of TIAA That’s CEO of TIAA Thasunda Brown Duckett, who oversees some $1.2 trillion of retirement asset...

Americans think they need $1.25 million to retire. Is that even enough?

Americans think they need $1.25 million to retire comfortably, new research suggests, but while that number may seem hefty — it still may not be enough. A study from Northwestern Mutual released this ...

Millions of working Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck — and running out of cash as another recession looms

Inflation is taking its toll on people’s emergency funds. The share of workers who say they are living paycheck-to-paycheck has surged among middle- to high-income earners — 63% and 49%, respectively ...

Apple Reports Earnings Today. What to Expect.

Apple shares have been remarkably resilient in the face of this year’s tech stock selloff, falling less than 15% since the end of December, and sharply outperforming rivals Microsoft Alphabet and Amaz...