The producer price index showed surging prices for meat and fish categories, costs that tend to crop up in the grocery store. Here, a market in Monterey Park, Calif., on a recent day. Frederic J. BROW...
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Selling Your Stocks in May and Go Away Could Be the Best Strategy This Year
Text size A trader at the New York Stock Exchange. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images This could be the year to follow the adage: Sell in May and go away. It was a pretty lousy holiday-shortened week. T...
Warren Tells IRS to Focus Audits on the Rich, Not Low-Income Taxpayers
Lawmakers are calling on the IRS to stop disproportionately auditing low-income taxpayers, who they say are far more likely than other taxpayers to face IRS scrutiny, with audit rates for poorer filer...
Why a Yield Curve Inversion Might Actually Be Good News for Investors
Text size Dreamstime About the author: Ashwin Alankar is the head of Global Asset Allocation at Janus Henderson Investors. The recent trend by the market to frame new developments in a negative light ...
How to Handle the Taxes on the AT&T Spinoff of Warner Bros.
Text size The Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, Calif. AT&T shareholders have received a 0.242 share of Warner Bros. Discovery for each AT&T share. Photographer: Bing Guan/Bloomberg Bing Guan/B...
U.S. Stocks Poised to Open Slightly Higher on Monday
It will be an abbreviated trading week, with U.S. markets closed on Friday. ANGELA WEISS/AFP/Getty Images Text size U.S. stocks are set to open Monday slightly higher. On Sunday night, Dow Jones Indus...
Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Delta, TSMC, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week
Text size Uncredited First-quarter earnings season begins this week, kicked off as always by results from several big banks. JPMorgan Chase reports on Wednesday, followed by Wells Fargo , Goldman Sach...
Housing Crisis: Why 40-Year Mortgages Might Help Delinquent Borrowers
Text size Illustration by Laurent Duvoux About the author: Patrick Harker is the president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. The Covid-19 pandemic is not over. But many of the pande...
FinTech Looks Like a $1.5 Trillion Growth Market
Illustration by Elias Stein Text size Wells Fargo ’s Jeff Cantwell says the time to buy fintech stocks is now—14 of them. Cantwell has started coverage of the group with Overweight ratings for all. Th...
Why P&G Just Gained a New Fan
Text size P&G’s products were popular earlier in the Covid-19 pandemic. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Investors have been wary of consumer staples stocks lately, given worries about high inflation...
Inflation Is Here to Stay. How to Adjust Your Portfolio.
Inflation is rampant and ubiquitous today, from the gas pump to the grocery store. The U.S. consumer price index has quadrupled in the past year, from a 1.7% annual rate in February 2021 to 7.9% this ...
Recession Warning Bells Are Ringing. These Banks Look Strong.
Text size Truist identified several banks that would likely be hurt less than their rivals in a mild recession. Dreamstime Concern that the economy could be about to shrink is growing, so bank analyst...
Why Was the Stock Market Down Today? A Fed Official’s Speech Tanked the Market.
Text size Federal Reserve Gov. Lael Brainard said she expects policy to return “to a more neutral position later this year.” Drew Angerer/Getty Images Tech stocks and bond markets both sold off on Tue...
China Revises Delisting Rule. But Investors May Want to Sell on the Rally.
Text size The probability of a mass delisting of Chinese stocks like Alibaba may have ticked lower with revised rules from China’s regulators. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images The probability of ...
A Mom Who Died Still Needs Taxes Filed. Here’s How to Handle the Tricky Process
Dreamstime.com Text size Have a question about saving for retirement or your personal financial situation? Whatever the question, Barron’s Retirement can try to help. Email [email protected], and...
Discovery, Merck, Carnival, Broadcom, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week
Text size Uncredited It’s a full week of annual shareholder meetings, investor days, and earnings reports. Broadcom hosts its annual meeting on Monday, followed by investor events from Merck, Analog D...
Real Yields Show Where the Stock Market Is Really Headed
Text size No one knows if even an accelerated pace of rate increases is enough to eliminate inflation—or what it will do to stocks. Spencer Platt/Getty Images The stock market’s greatest fear is comin...
Discovery, Merck, Carnival, Broadcom, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week
Text size Uncredited It’s a full week of annual shareholder meetings, investor days, and earnings reports. Broadcom hosts its annual meeting on Monday, followed by investor events from Merck, Analog D...
U.S. Stocks Poised to Open Slightly Lower on Monday
U.S. stocks are poised to open slightly lower on Monday. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Spencer Platt/Getty Images Text size U.S. stocks are set to open Monday slightly lower. On Sunday night, ...
Defense Stocks Rose With the Ukraine War. Then a Tight Proposed Budget Set Them Back.
Elias Stein Text size Defense stocks took a surprising blow after a proposed defense budget was released last week. The Biden administration asked Congress for $773 billion to fund defense for fiscal ...
Nice Surprise: The IRS May Want to Give You Money This Year
If you paid for daycare, health insurance, or your kid’s college tuition in 2021, you may be eligible for a fat credit on your 2021 taxes—even if you haven’t qualified in past years. A number of credi...
Inverted Yield Curve Could Be Sending a Bogus Recession Warning
No topic has dominated the investment conversation lately as much as the yield curve. While it’s an arcane matter to most folks, we in the financial sphere have been thrown into a tizzy by this indica...
Stocks for the Recession That May—or May Not—Be Coming
Text size Exelon stock offers a little bit of offense to go with its defense. Dreamstime The yield curve briefly inverted this past week—and that’s a recession signal that is either like Paul Revere’s...
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...
Municipal Bonds Are Down So Much That They’re Buys Again
Text size Al Drago/Bloomberg A funny thing happened in the past week, as news emerged of inflation hitting a four-decade high. A few strategists started looking a bit more positively on bonds, or at l...