China’s Bet on Sending Its Exports Through Russia Hits Setback

Sanctions imposed on Russia are disrupting China’s ambitions to move more exports to Europe, a setback for the $4 trillion effort championed by Chinese leader Xi Jinping to cement his country as the w...

Micron Deserves Better. Why the Stock Is a Buy

Micron Technology gets no respect on Wall Street. Investors tend to think of Micron, and memory chip makers generally, as providers of interchangeable commodity parts, tech’s version of wheat or froze...

Deutsche Bank Must Face Lawsuits Alleging It Enabled Ponzi Scheme

Judges in New York and Miami ruled that investor lawsuits could advance against Germany’s Deutsche Bank AG for allegedly ignoring warnings that it was helping finance a real-estate-linked Ponzi scheme...

Florida Gov. DeSantis Wants To Punish Disney—But Won’t Go After Its Corporate Tax Breaks

Topline Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) continued to go after Disney on Friday over its opposition to the state’s Parental Rights In Education Act (known to critics as the “Don’t Say Gay” law), saying h...

Opinion: I’ve always pounded the table on revolutionary companies. Now I’ve found myself buying Intel’s stock

This may be a surprise for those of you who have been following me on MarketWatch, as I have focused on finding Revolutionary companies early on and holding on to them, usually forever. Intel is a com...

I’m 67 and retired with $57,000 left on my mortgage and $600,000 saved for retirement — should I pay off my home now?

I am 67 years old, single and retired at 66. After taxes, I receive $3,100 per month from a pension. After taxes and my Part B Medicare payment, I receive $2,100 per month from Social Security. I have...

What’s Holding Back Actively Managed ETFs

Text size Dreamstime Fidelity and T. Rowe Price run some excellent actively managed mutual funds. Chances are you will never see them in ETF form. Many new active exchange-traded funds have launched s...

Here’s What a 3M Breakup Could Look Like

Text size PFAS problems, product liability litigation tied to earplugs, and slowing growth have caused 3M stock to languish. Dreamstime What would 3M look like if it went down a General Electric -like...

‘We’re headed for a family feud’: My father offered his 3 kids equal monetary gifts. My siblings took cash. I took stock. It’s soared in value — now they’re crying foul

Dear Quentin, Several years before my father’s death, he offered me and my two siblings each an early “cash gift” from his estate in the amount of whatever the maximum non-taxable amount was at the ti...

Why a ‘1970s-style’ inflation spiral is a growing threat, according to a major hedge fund

One of the world’s largest macro hedge funds sees a rising risk of a 1970s-type wage-price spiral, according to a Thursday news report. “This combination of high inflation, tight labour markets, and u...

These 10 S&P 500 Stocks Have Solid Dividends, Not Just Big Buybacks

Last week’s Income Investing column focused on shareholder yield, which combines dividends with stock buybacks, by sector. This week, Barron’s decided to drill down and look at the shareholder yields ...

Walgreens Earnings Top Estimates but Its Outlook Crushes the Stock.

Text size Walgreens delivers a second-quarter earnings beat. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Walgreens Boots Alliance tumbled Thursday after investors were disappo...

Warren Buffett Has Amassed Over 90% of His Wealth Since He Turned 65

Text size Warren Buffett Drew Angerer/Getty Images Who says you can’t get really rich when you’re old? One of the Warren Buffett’s remarkable achievements is that he has generated over 90% of his weal...

Intel CEO Gelsinger’s reaps near-$180 million windfall from ‘significant magnitude’ of new-hire awards

Pat Gelsinger had a very, very good year in 2021. He started the year as VMware Inc.’s VMW, -2.00% chief executive officer, where he took in total compensation of $16.5 million during the fiscal year ...

Biden says latest Strategic Petroleum Reserve release could cut gas prices 10 to 35 cents per gallon — but some experts worry about long-term costs

President Joe Biden announced Thursday the daily release of 1 million barrels of oil from the country’s reserves for the next six months as a way to bring down gas prices that have been breaking recor...

Kremlin demands rubles for gas, leaves currency loophole

Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a decree Thursday demanding payment for natural gas in rubles but appeared to temper the order by allowing dollar and euro payments through a designated bank, t...

These 10 stocks have fallen at least 20% this year, but are expected to soar up to 66% from here

It sure has been a wild ride for investors over the past few weeks, with the benchmark S&P 500 rising 10% from March 8 through March 30. But the broader stock market is still down for 2022. Below ...

Mortgage rates zoom past 4.5% — here’s what home buyers need to know

Mortgages rates keep climbing, and that poses a major challenge for families looking to score a deal during the busy spring home-buying season. The benchmark 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 4.67%...

Occidental Petroleum CEO Vicki Hollub Buys Stock After Warren Buffett Did

Text size Vicki Hollub, CEO of Occidental Petroleum. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Occidental Petroleum has had quite a year, and CEO Vicki Hollub just bought shares of the energy explorer on the open mar...

Baidu Stock Drops. It’s One of 5 Stocks Added to the SEC’s Delisting Watchlist.

Text size LIU JIN/AFP via Getty Images Baidu stock was dropping Thursday after U.S. regulators added the Chinese search giant to its growing list of companies that could be removed from American stock...

Costco Stock Is Near Record Highs. Why It Could Keep Climbing.

Text size Costco stock currently trades at more than 41 times forward earnings. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images While many retailers have floundered in 2022 on fears that inflation will cut into consumer...

Apple reportedly wants to handle its own financial services, and partners’ stocks paid the price

Apple Inc. has increasing ambitions in financial technology as it explores ways to participate in the financial-services industry more directly, according to a Wednesday report. The company is develop...

Biden Proposed Stock Buyback Restrictions. What Advisors Need to Know.

This year has seen plenty of high-profile announcements of stock buybacks. Amazon  enacted a $10 billion repurchase program while General Electric set its own at $3 billion. Later, Alibaba announced t...

Cannabis company that DEA is allowing to grow for research purposes to list shares on Nasdaq

Bright Green Corp., a Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based company with conditional approval from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to produce federally legal cannabis, on Tuesday filed plans to d...

UiPath stock drops 20% after outlook falls short of Wall Street expectations

UiPath Inc. shares dropped in the extended session Wednesday after the “software robot” provider’s weaker-than-expected outlook overshadowed a beat of Wall Street’s quarterly results estimates. UiPath...

MicroStrategy to borrow against its bitcoin holdings to buy more of the cryptocurrency

MicroStrategy has been conducting a strategy for some time of using its data analytics business to fund the purchase of bitcoin. Now it’s taking that strategy one step further — it’s borrowing, agains...

Opinion: The Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq have now suffered a ‘death cross’ — here’s why this could resurrect them

Reports of the U.S. stock market’s death appear to be greatly exaggerated. I’m referring to the dreaded “death cross” that has now appeared in the price charts of the three major U.S. stock market ave...

RH Delivers Mixed Earnings, Announces 3-for-1 Stock Split

Text size A staircase at an RH outlet. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for RH RH stock is trading lower Wednesday morning after the home-furnishings retailer reported a mixed fiscal fourth quarter, a...

Micron Stock Is Rallying. Earnings and the Outlook Were Strong.

Text size Shares of memory-chip maker Micron were up nearly 3% on Tuesday, in advance of the earnings report. Dreamstime Memory-chip maker Micron Technology posted better-than-expected results for its...

Russia Built Parallel Payments System That Escaped Western Sanctions

Western sanctions have disrupted nearly every part of Russia’s financial system, but there is one big exception. The domestic-payments system continued to work smoothly after Visa Inc. and Mastercard ...