President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Internal Revenue Service pledged to increase scrutiny of certain wealthy taxpayers at his confirmation hearing Wednesday before the U.S. Senate Committee on F...
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Want to play the lottery? These are the most speculative stocks of the year, by one measure
It’s 13-F season, which means the world gets to find out most of what the world’s top fund managers have been up, on a tape-delay basis. The likes of Warren Buffett and Carl Icahn it is fair to say ar...
Michael Burry and David Tepper snapped up Alibaba during the fourth quarter
High-profile investors Michael Burry and David Tepper were buying Alibaba during the fourth quarter, potentially putting them in a position to profit from the reopening of the Chinese economy. Scion A...
Bed Bath & Beyond’s $1 Billion Stock Deal: What to Know
It has been a whirlwind for Bed Bath & Beyond Inc.’s meme-stock investors, marked by a credit default, store closings and a last-gasp financing deal that saved the company from chapter 11. The tur...
Cisco Stock Rallies on Earnings and Guidance Beat
Cisco Systems shares are trading sharply higher in late trading Wednesday after the networking equipment provider posted solid results for its fiscal second quarter ended Jan. 28, while sharply increa...
I’ll inherit $40,000 from my grandmother. Should my husband and I boost our kids’ college savings accounts, or pay off credit cards and student loans?
After a terrible battle with dementia, my grandmother died a few weeks ago. She did not leave much, but I will — along with my siblings — receive about $40,000 in life insurance. I am trying to figure...
The 6-Month T-Bill Breaches 5%. It Hasn’t Been This High Since 2007.
Text size The yield on six-month Treasurys reached the highest level in about 16 years. Al Drago/Bloomberg The rate on U.S. six-month Treasury bills surpassed 5% on Tuesday, reaching its highest level...
George Soros Snapped Up Tesla, Peloton, Crypto Stocks. What He Dumped.
Tesla and Peloton were on George Soros’s shopping list in the fourth quarter of last year, as he also took new positions in Carvana General Motors and crypto names, while dumping Zoom and Twitter Sor...
The peak of this market rally is almost here, says JPMorgan. Time to ditch U.S. stocks, and buy these instead, says Wall Street giant.
Roses are red, violets are blue, will CPI turn into the stock market’s Waterloo? The inflation data showed higher prices remain sticky, even if overall pressure eased a bit. The stock market seems to ...
Berkshire Hathaway’s Buy in Truck-Stop Operator Pays Off
Berkshire Hathaway investors may soon get a read on one of the company’s better deals in the past decade—a 2017 purchase for nearly $3 billion of a 38.6% interest in Pilot Flying J, the country’s lead...
Microsoft has a long path of earnings growth ahead, says Morgan Stanley
Microsoft Corp. has been a bit of an artificial-intelligence story lately, thanks to the company’s investment in and partnership with OpenAI, the creator of the hot ChatGPT chatbot. But Microsoft MSFT...
Credo stock plunges toward record loss after largest customer cuts purchases
Shares of Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd. plummeted toward a record one-day selloff after the data infrastructure networking company disclosed that its largest customer cut demand for its products...