I’m the COO of a mortgage company that’s funded more than $100 billion in loans. Here are the 3 things you need to know about the housing market now

Steve Reich Mortgage rates climbed above 6% last week, according to Bankrate data, with some pros saying they may go higher. (You can see the lowest mortgage rates you may qualify for here.) On top of...

Pornhub Parent Company’s CEO, COO Are Departing as Scrutiny Builds Over Alleged Nonconsensual Content

Two top executives at the parent company of major pornography site Pornhub have resigned, the company said Tuesday, amid scrutiny of alleged nonconsensual sexually explicit videos hosted on the site. ...

A New EV Company Arrives This Week. It’s Worth More Than Rivian.

Text size Polestar expects to ship 50,000 electric vehicles in 2022 and 124,000 in 2023. Courtesy Polestar Polestar, the electric vehicle maker being spun out of Volvo Car (ticker: VOLCARB.Sweden), sh...

The 7 Worst Housing Markets in America, According to Lennar

Text size Rising mortgage rates are dragging on the housing market. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Jersey and Florida are hot. Housing in Austin and Seattle is not, according to the co-CEO of the U.S.’s...

Diamondback Stock Jumps. Its Dividend Increase Is ‘Hard to Ignore.’

Diamondback Energy stock gained after announcing a dividend increase. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Text size Diamondback Energy surged on Tuesday after the oil explorer said it would increase its base d...

These software companies are unsung winners in the semiconductor industry

Mention semiconductors and chip giants such as Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and NVIDIA Corp. spring to mind, but there are other, less high-profile companies, operating in the space that d...

Palantir Technologies Stock Gains on Buy Rating From BofA

Text size Palantir stock has lost about half of its value so far this year. Dreamstime Palantir Technologies shares got a boost as BofA Global Research analyst Mariana Perez Mora began coverage of the...

Tesla stock has ‘gone on sale,’ according to one analyst. Here’s what investors should do

Tesla Inc. stock is caught up in the tech selloff as well as some company and industry headwinds, but that doesn’t mean investors should shy away from the “highly attractive entry point” the pullback ...

NIO Stock Is a Cautionary Tale for Tesla Shareholders

Electric vehicle maker NIO has been stuck in a range of roughly 10,000 monthly deliveries for almost a year. Courtesy Nio Text size Chinese electric vehicle maker NIO offers a cautionary tale for Tesl...

Kellogg Plans to Split Into 3 Companies. The Stock Is Spiking.

Text size Kellogg’s Global Snacking business will be the largest of the three companies, with net sales of about $11.4 billion. Gabby Jones/Bloomberg Kellogg stock was rising on Tuesday after th...

Nearly one-third of older Americans have less than $10,000 saved for retirement

Many older Americans are willing to work during their retirement years — and they may have to be — because they aren’t financially prepared for their old age.  Almost three in 10 people between 55 and...

Exxon Stock Has Surged This Year. Why One Analyst Sees More Gains Ahead.

Text size Exxon stock is rising after getting upgraded at Credit Suisse. Dreamstime Exxon Mobil stock is jumping after Credit Suisse upgraded its shares from Neutral to Outperform on Tuesday.  Unlike ...

Supreme Court dismisses case against SEC’s ‘no admit, no deny’ policy backed by Musk, Cuban

The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday rejected a challenge brought against the Securities and Exchange Commission by a former Xerox executive, and backed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, against the Securities and Ex...

Tesla Sued for Employee Layoffs. Musk Calls Suit Trivial.

Text size Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Getty Images Employees laid off by Tesla have sued in response, giving investors in the electric-vehicle company one more issue to worry about. Employment has been on th...

Symbotic Stock: Walmart Discloses It Holds a Stake in AI Company

Text size Walmart owns a stake in AI company Symbotic. Photo by George Frey/Getty Images Symbotic shares finished lower Tuesday after Walmart disclosed it holds a stake of 11.1% in the artificial inte...

Elon Musk joins the growing chorus fearing a U.S. recession. But there are stocks for that.

Look out above, the dip buyers are back in town. Stocks are soaring — for now — as Wall Street returns from a long holiday weekend, with Fed Reserve Chair Jerome Powell testifying in front of Congress...

U.S. Natural-Gas Exporter Completes First Deal With German Buyer

Venture Global LNG Inc. has struck the first binding deals by a U.S. natural-gas exporter to supply natural gas to a German company, as the European nation turns to America to help replace supplies fr...

JetBlue Sweetens Its Offer for Spirit Airlines

Text size The Spirit board has already approved the Frontier cash and stock offer. Daniel Slim/AFP via Getty Images JetBlue further sweetened its offer for Spirit Airlines to $33.50 per share on Monda...

Buying From Mark Cuban’s Pharmacy Could Save Medicare Billions, Study Says

Medicare’s prescription-drug program could save billions of dollars annually if it purchased generic acid-reflux, cancer and other drugs from a new pharmacy backed by investor Mark Cuban, according to...

XELS Positions NFT-Based Platform as Future of Corporate Climate Action Disclosure

Last Updated on Jun 20, 2022 at 15:23 June 20th, 2022, Tokyo, Japan – Eco-technology platform Xels is positioning itself as the future of decentralized climate action disclosure for corporations seeki...

The 60/40 Stock and Bond Strategy’s Time Has Come Again

Text size Dreamstime It may be time for investors to return to one of the oldest of portfolio management tools to cope with the new bear market. That would be the traditional combination of 60% stocks...

Bitcoin rallies back above $20,000 on Sunday, after hitting 18-month low

Bitcoin prices rallied Sunday, topping the $20,000 level again after falling to an 18-month low Saturday amid a weeks-long cryptocurrency rout. Bitcoin BTCUSD, +0.48% surged about 16% in the past 24 h...

The ‘Crypto Winter’ Could Become a ‘Crypto Hell.’ What to Know.

When a traditional bank fails, a SWAT team of regulators swoops in, winding it down in secret and preventing a panic that could spread throughout the financial system. In cryptocurrency banking, the d...

Stock Market Closed for Juneteenth, June Economic Data, and More to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed on Monday in observance of Juneteenth. There will be a handful of earnings reports, annual shareholders meetings, and economic-data rele...

FedEx’s Dividend Hike Stands Out

Text size FedEx trucks at a sorting facility Justin Sullivan/Getty Images FedEx grabbed the headlines this week for dividend announcements, declaring an increase of more than 50% to its quarterly payo...

What the Fed’s biggest rate hike in decades means for the bear market in bonds

Historically bad. That’s how the mammoth $53 trillion U.S. fixed-income market has performed this year as the Federal Reserve works to curtail high inflation threatening to wreck the economy. To turbo...

Germany Steps Up Measures to Conserve Gas as Russia Slows Supply to Europe

BERLIN—Germany will restart coal-fired power plants and offer incentives for companies to curb natural gas consumption, marking a new step in the economic war between Europe and Russia. Berlin unveile...

Stock Market Today: The Dow Edged Higher, While Tech Stocks Rallied

Text size A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Spencer Platt/Getty Images The stock market largely gained on Friday, closing out a volatile week of trading. Stability in the bon...

These money and investing tips can help you be smarter in a bear market that might not be average

Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Sign up here to get MarketWatch’s best mutual funds and ETF stories emailed to you weekly! INVESTING NEWS & TRENDS Why bonds haven’t performed be...

Why stock-market investors are ‘nervous’ that an earnings recession may be looming

Investors are anxious the stock market may be facing an earnings recession, potentially leading to deeper losses after the S&P 500 index just suffered its worst week since March 2020.  “It’s prett...

Revlon Has Declared Bankruptcy. More Defaults Could Be on the Way.

Text size Cosmetics company Revlon has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. There could be more defaults on the way for U.S. companies. Dreamstime With fears that a recession is looming, there could be mo...