Fidelity Launches First Liquid Alt Funds as Stock and Bond Strategies Falter

Fidelity isn’t known for macro hedge funds that make bets on entire markets. The Boston-based mutual fund company with $4.3 trillion under management originally made its name by having the best indivi...

Caterpillar’s Earnings Are Good and Sales Top Estimates. But the Stock Falls.

Text size Caterpillar’s earnings and sales in the second quarter beat Wall Street expectations. Bernd Lauter / AFP via Getty Images Caterpillar reported second-quarter numbers that beat Wall Str...

‘I have watched my accounts drop by 22%.’ My financial adviser has usually ‘done well’ but now it feels like he’s not making enough adjustments in this tough market given that I’m losing ‘large chunks’ of money. What’s my move?

How to know if your financial adviser is doing a good job. Getty Images/iStockphoto  Question: I have had a financial advisor with a national firm for more than a decade. We have done well and his fee...

BP raises dividend and buyback after profit surge

BP PLC BP, +3.29% on Tuesday reported that its profits rose further in the second quarter of the year, and increased both the dividend and the quarterly share buyback. The multinational energy group m...

BP Stock Surges After Energy Giant Records $8.5 Billion Quarterly Profit

Text size BP reported second-quarter adjusted profit of $8.5 billion as it benefited from soaring energy prices. Getty Images BP is the latest oil supermajor to post its most profitable quarter in yea...

PayPal Shares Have Taken a Beating. Why They’re Worth a Look.

Text size As of the close of the first quarter, PayPal had 429 million active accounts, marking a 9% year-over-year increase. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Cautious optimism is the approach analysts ar...

Cathie Wood’s Ark Bought More Roku Stock. This Analyst Sees 24% Downside.

Text size Cathie Wood of ARK Invest has Roku as one of the biggest investments in her funds. Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg Roku’s earnings report last week sent shares into a free fall, but Cathie Woo...

Pinterest Stock Soars After Earnings Report

Text size Pinterest said Monday that the company was growing revenue despite a difficult environment for advertising. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Pinterest stock was surging in extended trading Monda...

Intel Stock Could Be Worth More Dead Than Alive. Why This Analyst Sees 50% Upside.

Text size Intel was once the most valuable chip maker in the U.S. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg While badly wounded, Intel isn’t dead yet. And at least one analyst thinks there could be considerably mor...

Opinion: The FAANMGs have been whittled down to the fantastic four

The anticipation of second-quarter Big Tech earnings was palpable. With a broad set of indicators pointing to a slowdown in the global economy, the highest inflation in four decades and a big jump in ...

Apple Borrows Money to Buy Back Stock. What That May Say About the Bond Market.

Text size A new Apple store in London, shown in late July. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Apple is gearing up for a four-part bond sale to fund stock buybacks. Apple (ticker: AAPL ) is planning to use the p...

Far from Putin’s claims of resilience, Russian economy is being hammered by sanctions and exodus of international companies, Yale report finds

Media reports trumpeting the resilience of the Russian economy in the face of the international response to its invasion of neighboring Ukraine are based on misunderstandings that don’t reflect what’s...

FAA Boeing 787 approval could spell good news for these stocks

The companies that supply components for the 787 Dreamliner could benefit from the FAA’s reported approval of a Boeing Co. process for validating fixes to each plane before they are shipped to custome...

My boyfriend, 68, has almost no ‘mad money’ for fun activities and trips. He lives with his father, 95, and expects to inherit his house. Is it unreasonable to expect him to get a part-time job?

I am a 65-year-old retired woman with modest Social Security and annuity payments. I also own my own home and have savings. I’ve been seeing a 68-year-old retiree since just before the pandemic. He li...

Royal Caribbean Stock Tumbles on $900 Million Notes Offering

Text size Cruise lines had to to take out significant debt during the pandemic to stay afloat. Pau Barrena/AFP via Getty Images Royal Caribbean Group stock tumbled after the company said it had starte...

Roku stock bounces sharply in wake of record decline

Roku Inc. shares plunged a record 23.1% in Friday’s session following a downbeat earnings report, but were looking to take back at some of those losses Monday with a double-digit gain. The stock ROKU,...

Boeing Stock Rises as Strike Temporarily Averted, 787 Cleared for Deliveries

Text size The Federal Aviation Administration gave clearance to Boeing to begin deliveries of the 787 Dreamliner after approving the company’s plan to correct production problems with the aircra...

Nikola to Buy Battery Maker Romeo Power for $144 Million

Listen to article (2 minutes) Electric-truck startup Nikola said it has agreed to buy battery-technology company Romeo Power in an all-stock deal that values Romeo at roughly $144 million. Nikola said...

Amazon Stock ‘Needs’ to Be Owned. This Analyst Explains Why.

Text size Amazon workers sort packages for delivery in New York. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Amazon.com is a must-have stock for investors following the company’s second-quarter earnings beat, ac...

What Stocks Are Moving Monday? Alibaba, Boeing, NIO and More.

Text size Alibaba stock rises early Monday. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images Stock futures were trading lower Monday as recession fears remained at the forefront of investors’ minds as a new trading mo...

NIO, XPeng, and Li Auto Deliveries Cool Off in July. The Stocks Jump Anyway.

Text size NIO delivered more cars year over year in July. But deliveries fell from June. Odin Jaeger/Bloomberg Demand for Chinese electric vehicles cooled off in July. Falling EV sales in the world’s ...

‘It has me questioning if we are in the right relationship.’ Our financial adviser is a ‘top performer’ but she costs well over $20K a year — even when we lose money. Should we get a new one?

How to know if your financial adviser is worth the money. Getty Images/iStockphoto Question: After our first financial adviser retired, we picked a new one recommended by her to continue our relations...

Alibaba Stock Rises as E-Commerce Giant Resolves to Maintain U.S. Listing

Text size Alibaba faces renewed regulatory scrutiny in the U.S. from the Securities and Exchange Commission. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images Chinese tech giant Alibaba ’s stock price was on a roller c...

Giant Pension Bought Apple Stock. It Sold Tesla, Microsoft and AT&T.

Text size An Apple store. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Oregon’s public pension recently made big changes in some of its biggest stock investments. The Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund bought more s...

AMD, PayPal, Starbucks, Uber, Paramount, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week

It’s the peak stretch of second-quarter earnings season, with roughly 150 S&P 500 firms scheduled to report this week. The highlights on the economic calendar will be a pair of purchasing managers...

Corporate Attempts at Creating the Metaverse Going Nowhere: Vitalik Buterin

On July 31, Vitalik Buterin commented in response to Dialectic’s Dean Eigenmann’s thoughts on the future of the Metaverse and the way venture capital firms think it will play out. The Ethereum co-foun...

Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin Criticizes Corporate Metaverse Attempts — ‘Anything Facebook Creates Now Will Misfire’ – Metaverse Bitcoin News

On Saturday, the co-founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, took to Twitter and gave his perspective on the “existing corporate attempts to create the metaverse.” Buterin noted that a metaverse will hap...

Alibaba shares keep sliding in Hong Kong following delisting threat from SEC

Hong Kong-listed shares of Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd. continued to sink overnight, after U.S. regulators last week added the e-commerce giant to a list of Chinese-owned companies that could be delist...

U.S. Stocks Poised to Fall on Monday

Stocks are set to open lower on Monday ahead of another busy earnings week. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Text size U.S. stocks are se...

Alex Jones Puts Infowars’ Parent Company Into Bankruptcy During Texas Defamation Trial

Alex Jones put the company behind his Infowars conspiracy site into bankruptcy on Friday as the broadcast host stands trial in Texas to determine how much he owes the families of Sandy Hook victims fo...

Opinion: Energy stocks have a sustainable future: it’s in their dividends

One of the few numbers growing faster than energy stock dividends is the size of crowds convinced they are not sustainable. I’ve never witnessed a consensus opinion as negative on an entire sector as ...

Small-Cap Stocks Have Been Big Winners. Why They Can Keep Outperforming.

Text size Yeti cooler sales are expected to grow, and the company has added drinkware products to its line. Sergio Flores/Bloomberg Good things are supposed to come in small packages, but that hasn’t ...