Tax investigators identify potential $1 billion crypto Ponzi scheme, reports say

International tax officials have identified more than 50 leads to potential crypto tax crimes that may lead to official investigations in the coming weeks, including one case that could be a $1 billio...

Walmart, Moderna, Target, Deere, Home Depot, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

Text size It’s the tail end of first-quarter earnings season, with mostly retailers left to report this week. Government data on U.S. retail sales will also be released. Home Depot and Walmart report ...

The SEC Just Raised the Fees Investors Pay on Every Transaction

Text size The fees aren’t big enough to change most traders’ plans. Getty Images After this weekend, U.S. government fees on securities sales will quadruple. Don’t panic. The charges are s...

Can I turn my posttax 401(k) into a Roth?

Q.: I’m 74 and taking out the required withdrawals. Can I turn the post- tax 401(k) into a Roth so I don’t have to pay taxes? A.: Yes, sort of. How to do that varies. Though a Roth 401(k) account is a...

Walmart Can’t Find Enough Store Managers, Even at $200,000 a Year

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Largest U.S. Pension Bought AMC, AMD, and Block Stock. It Sold Netflix.

Text size An AMC box office. Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg The largest public pension in America loaded up a high-profile meme stock, and tech stocks, and cut back on a streaming giant before the shares went ...

The Challenges for Blockchain Technology and Corporate Adoption

There are current technological problems that are preventing more widespread adoption of blockchain technology, as well as potential solutions to these issues. Though blockchain offers numerous benefi...

Are SPACs That Bad? Study Find Similar Returns for Blank Checks and IPOs

Text size A wheel loader moves ore at MP Materials’ mine in Mountain Pass, Calif. Joe Buglewicz/Bloomberg Special-purpose acquisition companies have lost their luster this year. But recent data ...

CEO Pay Packages Rose to Median $14.7 Million in 2021, a New High

The median pay package for chief executives of the biggest U.S. companies reached $14.7 million in 2021, setting a sixth-straight annual record as strong profits and robust markets boosted performance...

The Companies Cutting Staff, Freezing Hiring or Slashing Costs: See the List

Companies which saw substantial growth during the Covid-19 pandemic are starting to take a more cautious approach toward hiring and spending. From Peloton Interactive Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. to T...

Opinion: Elon Musk is likely trying to get a lower price for Twitter

Is Elon Musk’s $44 billion bid for Twitter actually a $1 billion joke by the world’s richest man? That’s a possibility that cannot be ignored, as investors scramble to make sense of Musk’s latest shen...

Princeton University Discloses Large Stake in Lithium Miner

Text size Students walk on campus at Princeton University. William Thomas Cain/Getty Images Princeton University disclosed that it owned a large stake in an early-stage lithium miner. In fact, Princet...

Buy Shell Stock. The Energy Giant Looks Like a Bargain.

Shell has some of the most attractive assets in the global energy business, including the biggest network of service stations. Konstantinos Tsakalidis/Bloomberg Text size Investors have piled into ene...

Phillips 66, Electronic Arts, and 5 More Companies That Raised Their Dividend

Text size Phillips 66 raised its stock dividend this week. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Phillips 66 , Cardinal Health , and Electronic Arts were among the U.S. companies that declared dividend increase...

Buy Citizens Financial Stock. Its Shares Could Gain 29%.

Bigger is better in banking—and Citizens Financial Group has been taking steps that should allow it to play with the bigger boys. Its stock looks like a winner. These days, it’s nearly impossible for ...

Stocks Are Way Down. They’re Still Expensive.

U.S. stocks are off to their worst start to a year in more than a half-century. By some measures, they still look expensive. Wall Street often uses the ratio of a company’s share price to its earnings...

Shell Stock Looks LIke a Bargain Among Energy Giants

Shell has some of the most attractive assets in the global energy business, including the biggest network of service stations. Konstantinos Tsakalidis/Bloomberg Text size Investors have piled into ene...

Soros fund doubles down on Rivian bet, buys stakes in Lucid, Nio

Billionaire George Soros’s investment fund has doubled down on its bet on Rivian Automotive Inc. and taken new positions on EV makers Nio Inc. and Lucid Motors Inc., according to a filing late Friday....

2 Tech Stocks That Now Look Impossibly Cheap

Text size Memory chips from Micron Technology are increasingly vital in the cloud, as well as in the automotive, industrial, and networking markets. Jeremy Erickson/Bloomberg Historically, companies l...

Microsoft Stock Pullback ‘Major Buying Opportunity,’ Analyst Says

Text size Tigress Financial’s Ivan Feinseth says Microsoft stock has plenty of potential to gain. Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images Investors are missing the point on Microsoft as growth in the c...

Opinion: This giant pension scandal is hiding in plain sight

Hard working Americans, many on low wages, are losing pension dollars they earned. It affects millions. And it’s legal. In a nutshell: Some of America’s biggest companies run their shop floors so that...

Starbucks’ CEO Howard Schultz Bought $10 Million of Stock

Text size Howard Schultz has halted Starbucks’ buybacks of its stock. Getty Images Howard Schultz, now on his third stint as Starbucks ‘ top executive, just bought millions of dollars of the cof...

The beginning of the end of the stock market’s correction could be near

The end of the U.S. stock market’s correction is looking a lot closer. That’s the conclusion of a contrarian analysis of market timer sentiment. It’s encouraging, from a contrarian perspective, that t...

‘Rebalancing during this pullback is a great idea’: 6 questions to ask your financial adviser right now as stocks continue to tumble

First, consider this general guide on investing: it’s about playing the long game instead of hyperventilating over headlines and doing something drastic, financial advisers say. Now file that statemen...

Apple Stock Has Broken Down. That’s Bad for the Market.

Text size Apple’s flagship store in Beijing is closed to prevent the spread of Covid-19. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images Apple stock has broken below a key level. That’s an ominous sign for the broade...

Fisker and Foxconn confirm compact EV will be built at Lordstown plant

Fisker Inc. confirmed Thursday that Foxconn will build its second car, a compact EV, at a newly acquired plant in Lordstown, Ohio. The Fisker FSR, +12.55% Pear will enter production in 2024 and cost a...

GM and Ford Get Double Downgrades to Sell. Wells Fargo Sours on EVs.

Text size Ford F-150 Lightning electric truck Courtesy of Ford The auto industry is all-in on electric vehicles. Wells Fargo isn’t so sure that’s a great idea. Wednesday evening, analyst Colin Langan ...

Opinion: Our student-loan system needs fixing — and this change would be smarter than just forgiving debt

Most of the recent discussion of student debt has focused on the prospect of forgiving that debt—telling borrowers that they don’t have to repay the funds the federal government provided to help them ...

We want to retire in a few years, and have about $1 million saved. Should I move my money to a Roth, and pay off my $200,000 mortgage while I’m at it?

Dear MarketWatch,  I’m 64 and my husband is 62. We plan to work until he is at least 65, so three or four more years. We have about $1 million total in various accounts, but my own IRA has $400,000 in...

Why the Fed wants corporate America to have a hiring freeze: Morning Brief

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Today’s newsletter is by Ethan Wolff-Mann, a...

Affirm Faces Competition. J.P. Morgan Starts Coverage With Neutral Rating.

Text size Affirm is set to report its quarterly earnings after the closing bell Thursday Courtesy Affirm “Buy now pay later” company Affirm is poised to continue its growth, fueled by an increase in c...

EVgo Misses Estimates. The Beaten-Up Stock Rises Anyway.

Text size Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Electric-vehicle charging company EVgo reported first-quarter results that missed Wall Street expectations. Shares were rising anyway. They have been beaten u...