Biden’s IRS Nominee: Agency Will Increase Audits of Wealthy Taxpayers

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...

Stocks Aren’t Falling When Bond Yields Rise. It’s a Problem.

In the post-Covid world, the stock market is supposed to go down when bond yields go up, but recently, stocks haven’t reacted much to the bond market. Something has to give.  In roughly the past month...

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...

For a better retirement, you should work longer — but is that realistic?

Financial advisers and retirement coaches often have two words for people in their 50s and 60s concerned about retirement: Work longer. Doing so, they say, can boost their savings, help them receive l...

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...

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...

These 8 billionaires have more combined wealth than half of Silicon Valley

Eight billionaires hold more wealth than 50% of households in Silicon Valley, nearly half a million people, according to a new report. While the wealth gap narrowed by about 3% nationwide in 2021, it ...

Shopify stock falls nearly 7% as forecast disappoints amid escalating Amazon rivalry, price increases

Shopify Inc. produced a better holiday quarter than expected according to a Wednesday earnings report, but a forecast for slowing revenue growth hit the stock in after-hours trading. Shopify SHOP, +6....

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...

Trade Desk stock rockets as CEO says company is outperforming like never before

Shares of Trade Desk Inc. surged on Wednesday after the advertising-technology company issued an upbeat outlook that helped quell fears about the digital-ad market. Chief Executive Jeff Green spoke po...

‘Big Short’ Michael Burry Bets on Alibaba and JD.com. And Wall Street Agrees.

Michael Burry, the investor whose bearish wager on the U.S. mortgage market before the 2008-09 financial crisis made him famous in the book and movie “The Big Short,” is betting on beaten-down Chinese...

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...

Taiwan Semiconductor shares drop after Buffett reveals stake sale

Shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. dropped on Wednesday following news that Berkshire Hathaway slashed its stake in the third-party silicon-wafer fabricator late last year. In Taipei, sh...

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...

Avaya Stock Is Worthless. The Company Filed Chapter 11.

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Berkshire Hathaway Slashes Stake in Taiwan Semi. What Else Buffett Sold.

Berkshire Hathaway slashed its stake in Taiwan Semiconductor during the fourth quarter and nearly eliminated what had been a large stake in U.S. Bancorp according to filings late Tuesday. Berkshire Ha...

‘I am trying to feverishly save for retirement’: My fiancé pays $1,700 a month to the IRS and owes student debt. We’re both 57. Should I marry him for his Social Security and pension?

Dear Quentin, My fiancé and I met at age 42 after being recently divorced. We have (now-grown) children from our previous marriages, but none together. We keep our finances separate. Neither one of us...

Palantir Stock Is Still Surging. It’s Not Just Earnings Causing Excitement.

Palantir Technologies stock was surging Tuesday. But a quarterly update from the data-analytics software company was probably not the real reason, with comments from the CEO about M&A more likely ...

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...

Buying bonds now is a smart money move even if the Fed keeps hiking rates. Here’s why.

Bond investors can cheer real interest rates hitting a 15-year high. That’s because bonds historically have performed better in the wake of higher rather than lower real rates. The real interest rate ...

Cleveland-Cliffs Stock Falls After Earnings Beat Estimates. Here’s Why.

Steel maker Cleveland-Cliffs had a tough finish to the year as prices for its products fell. Still, quarterly results came in better than expected, but investors Tuesday weren’t giving the company muc...

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 ...

I’m retired with about $1 million invested. Paying my adviser 1% would cost me $10K a year — no thanks. I’d rather pay someone hourly for help a couple times a year. Is this reasonable?

Getty Images Question: I hold roughly a million dollars in stocks and ETFs, not counting a small IRA and a small 401(k). My holdings are all in a brokerage account at one of the major brokerage houses...

Hedge-fund legend Seth Klarman pounced on Amazon and parent companies of Google and Facebook in the fourth quarter

Seth Klarman, one of the top money managers of all time, quadrupled his firm’s stake in Amazon.com in the fourth quarter, one of several big bets on mega-cap tech companies that were made. A 13-F fili...

George Soros Snapped Up Tesla, Peloton, Crypto Stocks. Dumped Zoom and Twitter.

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...

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...

George Soros loads up on Tesla and these other beaten-down stocks

Even as shares of Tesla Inc. sank last year, billionaire investor George Soros appeared to find something to like in the electric-vehicle maker — and some other beaten-down names — as the year came to...

Palantir Reports First Profitable Quarter. The Stock Is Soaring.

Palantir Technologies shares are soaring in late trading Monday after the company posted better-than-expected results for the fourth quarter, including its first-ever GAAP profit. The data-analytics s...

Palantir posts first profitable quarter, stock soars after earnings

Palantir Technologies Inc. logged its first-ever quarterly profit in the fourth quarter, and the company expects to continue on that trajectory this year. The data-software company reported Monday aft...

Three Oil Stocks Exposed to Natural-Gas Plunge

Natural-gas prices have tumbled this year because of warm weather and high levels of gas in storage in Europe and elsewhere. U.S. prices are down 45% to $2.46 per million British thermal units. The dr...