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The Fed Is About to Ramp Up Balance-Sheet Shrinkage. It May Get Dicey.
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, shown during a postmeeting press conference late last month, has suggested balance-sheet shrinkage may go on for up to 2½ years. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Text size There i...
How Private equity Won Its Battle Over Carried Interest.
The carried-interest loophole will live to fight another day, a sign that Wall Street’s lobbying prowess remains largely intact in Washington. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz), the last Democratic holdout...
Ex-Advisor Sentenced to 22 Years in Prison for Ponzi Scheme
A former financial advisor was sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison for operating a Ponzi scheme that swindled $9.3 million from investors, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern D...
10 Companies That Would Take a Hit From a 15% Minimum Corporate Tax
Text size Nvidia has had a 4.7% tax rate and average pretax profit of $4.8 billion. Here, a cryptocurrency mining rig is equipped with Nvidia Geforce GPU at the Thailand Crypto Expo 2022. Andre Malerb...
What ‘Dr. Doom’ Says About Today’s Stock Market
For some of us of a certain age, an event from four decades ago often is recalled more vividly than what happened four weeks or even four days ago. Such is the case with Aug. 17, 1982. It arguably mar...
Moderna CEO: No ‘Crazy’ Deals. We’re Giving Cash to Shareholders.
Text size Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel says his company will keep returning cash to investors until it finds a better way of creating value. Jason Alden/Bloomberg Moderna ’s CEO is feeling no pressure ...
Stock Market Today: Dow Futures Slip as Pelosi Goes to Taiwan, BP Stock Surges
Text size House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is set to arrive in Taiwan Tuesday. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Stocks were slipping Tuesday amid rising geopolitical tensions, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is ...
Big Oil Could Pay Up to $25 Billion in New Taxes Under Dems’ Inflation Bill
Text size An oil pumpjack Spencer Platt/Getty Images Oil stocks were poised to open lower Monday as investors reacted to the news that the Democrats’ climate change measure could cost oil companies, b...
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...
The Stock Market Had a Great July. Why August Could Be Tougher.
Text size Expectations for future rate hikes changed, hinging largely on two sentences from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s news conference. Ting Shen/Bloomberg Stocks rallied this past week ...
Want Steady Monthly Income? These Funds Offer It, With Some Risk.
Text size The sharp selloff in the credit markets during the year’s first half has created some attractive opportunities. Dreamstime.com Trickle-down economics lives on for individual investors trying...
The Stock Market Rallied on Hopes That Rate Hikes Will Soon Wind Down
Text size While the markets and many consumers are worried about inflation, other people, like these skaters at Rockefeller Center in New York, are still spending. Richard Levine/Alamy Markets can sta...
The Dollar Will Only Fall When There’s Somewhere Else for Investors to Flee To
Text size It would be difficult to find a currency to dethrone the dollar. Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty Images About the author: Desmond Lachman is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He wa...
Inflation Reduction Act: What to Know About the Democrats’ Latest Economic Package
The bill Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer agreed to aims to address climate change, healthcare, taxes, and more. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Text size Build Back Be...
Senate Reconciliation Bill Would Close Carried Interest Loophole. What It Means for Private Equity.
Text size Sen. Joe Manchin wants to eliminate a provision giving favorable tax treatment to the private-equity industry. Alex Wong/Getty Images In a surprise, Senate Democrats reached a deal on a bill...
Solar Stocks Surge After Energy Bill Gets Backing From Sen. Manchin
Text size Sen. Joe Manchin said he supported a spending package that includes funding for energy and climate programs. Andreas Rentz/Getty Images Solar stocks were surging Thursday after Sen. Joe Manc...
Alibaba Plans to Move Its Stock to Hong Kong. Others Will Follow.
Text size Alibaba says it has filed to change its primary stock listing to Hong Kong rather than the U.S. AFP via Getty Images Alibaba Group Holding on Tuesday said it has filed to change its primary ...
A Fed Rate-Hike Surprise Could Be a Problem for Stocks
Text size The Federal Reserve continues to play catch-up in its fight against inflation, and there’s no doubt that interest rates are headed higher after its meeting ends on Wednesday. Chip Somo...
Microsoft’s Activision Deal Is Likely to Win Approval, Analyst Says
Text size Microsoft has said it plans to release Activision’s Call of Duty videogames on Sony’s PlayStation. Rich Polk/Getty Images for Activision Activision Blizzard stock continues to tr...
Expect Two Recessions, and a Quick End to the Fed’s Interest-Rate Hikes
Forward guidance sounds like a great idea. Central bankers should lay out their longer-term goals to influence financial markets. Just as hockey great Wayne Gretzky would skate where the puck was head...
The Inverted Yield Curve Is Back. What Investors Need to Know.
Text size The Federal Reserve building in Washington. Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg The Treasury yield curve continues to widen, with no signs that the trend is nearing an end. The Federal Reserve raised t...