7 Things You Can Do Now to Shave Your Tax Bill Next Year

The 2023 tax year has only just begun, and the tax-filing deadline for 2023 taxes is more than a year away. But if you get a jump on planning, you can lock in big tax savings. With stock prices still ...

The IRS Has New Tax Rules for State Payments. What They Could Mean for You.

The Internal Revenue Service on Friday gave the green light to taxpayers in 21 states who had been waiting for the agency to clarify the taxability of certain state payments before filing their federa...

Gambling on Biotechs—and Pfizer | Barron’s

To the Editor: Pfizer has a lot of good and bad points, as mentioned in your cover story “Pfizer Is Moving Beyond Covid. Why Its Stock Is a Buy.” (Feb. 3). But the hardest one to deal with for all bio...

Coinbase Warns of ‘Staking’ Crackdown. The Stock Is Tumbling.

Text size Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images The CEO of Coinbase Global warned the Securities and Exchange Commission might be considering cracking down on a process ...

Disney, CVS, Uber, Chipotle, PayPal, and More Stocks to Watch This Week

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Job Numbers Keep Climbing, Sinking Chances of Rate Cuts

What did you know and when did you know it? If one were to pose that Watergate-era question to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, on the issue of whether he gets an advance peak at key economic d...

The Stock Market Is in the Mood to Rally, Even if It Defies Logic

Text size John Taggart/Bloomberg Oh, what a difference a few simple words can make. “The disinflationary process has started,” said Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell at Wednesday’s press conferen...

Richer Than Elon Musk, He Bought Tiffany at a Tough Time. He’s Got a Gem Now.

There’s a reason Bernard Arnault is the world’s richest person. The chairman, CEO, and controlling shareholder of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton the world’s largest luxury-goods merchant, knows how ...

Ford Mach-E Sales Fall 45%. The Reasons: High Prices, Incentive Confusion.

Text size Ford sold 2,626 Mustang Mach-E electric vehicles in January, down from 4,775 in December. Scott Olson/Getty Images Electric-vehicle sales at Ford Motor dipped to start the new year, showing ...

The Stock Market Wants an Easy Fed. Powell Has Other Plans.

Traders have placed a near definite chance for the Federal Reserve to slow down its pace of interest rate hikes once again on Wednesday, when it finishes its February meeting, and then perhaps a cut l...

‘Timing Couldn’t Be Worse’: Inflation Is Easing, but More People Are Using Credit Cards for Unexpected Expenses Amid Climbing Interest Rates

A record number of people say they would need to pay for an unplanned $1,000 expense by using their credit card, according to a new survey showing the burden of high prices even as inflation rates ebb...

The Fed’s Interest-Rate Hikes Seem to Be Working. Here’s How You Can Tell.

The Federal Reserve faces another big decision this coming week. Markets expect it to hike rates by a quarter of a percentage point, a marked slowdown as inflation cools. But another metric also sugge...

A Barron’s Roundtable Primer | Barron’s

To the Editor:Regarding “Primed to Prosper” (Roundtable Part II, Jan. 20), my advice is to listen to the macro suggestions and not always the micro. Decide which themes and industries discussed best a...

Gas Prices Are Rising. Refiner Stocks Are Riding the Wave—for Now.

Gasoline prices have risen 41 cents a gallon in the past month to an average national price of $3.51. Summer driving could be pricier than many expect, though it’s unlikely to be as bad as last year, ...

An Unstoppable Stock Market Is About to Meet the Immovable Fed

The stock market has acted as if the Federal Reserve doesn’t exist as it jumps out to a quick start to the year. Expect Fed Chairman Jerome Powell to remind it when the central bank hikes interest rat...

China’s Big Comeback Is Just Getting Started. How to Play It.

Talk about a comeback. As China abandons policies that stifled economic growth for the past three years, investors have sent the country’s stocks soaring—up more than 50% since October. The rally migh...

The Next PCE Report Lands Today. What It Will Say About Inflation.

The Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of rising prices is set to show that inflation continues to trend downward, supporting the narrative that the central bank could soon ease up in its battle agai...

Redfin and Zillow Stock Slide Shows Possible Shift in Home Listings Landscape

Text size Redfin’s stock fell 8.5% on Wednesday. Stephen Brashear/Getty Images for Redfin Shares of real estate companies Redfin and Zillow Group fell on Wednesday after news of a potential shakeup in...

The Fed’s Impossible Choice: Eliminate Jobs or Accept Higher Inflation

Text size The Fed may opt to wait in the first half of 2023 rather than keep raising rates, Sonia Meskin writes. Alex Wong/Getty Images About the author: Sonia Meskin is the head of U.S. Macro at BNY ...

Powell Says the Fed Isn’t a ‘Climate Policy Maker.’ What That Really Means.

Text size Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the Fed is not “and will not be, a ‘climate policy maker.’” Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images About the authors: David Arkush is director of Public Citiz...

Tesla, AT&T, Visa, Chevron, Microsoft, and More Stocks to Watch This Week

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Tesla, AT&T, Visa, Chevron, Microsoft, and More Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

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Debt-Ceiling Crisis: What Could Happen, According to History

The White House and Congress are locked in a standoff, once again, over whether to raise the debt ceiling—the legislative limit on the total amount of money the federal government is authorized to bor...

Stocks and Bonds Are Sending Different Messages. One of Them Is Wrong.

Stocks have embraced the concept of a soft landing so far in 2023. Bonds are trading like a recession is nigh. Only one can be right. What soft landing, we can hear you say? The Dow Jones Industrial A...

The Meme Stock Frenzy Is Back. A Brokerage Chairman Says They’re ‘Horrendous.’

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The Fed Says It Won’t Cut Rates in 2023. Markets Disagree. Who’s Right?

Text size The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building in Washington, DC. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images About the author: Christopher Smart is chief global strategist and head of the Barings Inv...

The Window to Capture a $7,500 Electric-Vehicle Tax Credit May Be Closing. How to Snag It.

Americans are flocking to electric vehicles, pushing sales up 127% over the past two years. To sweeten the deal, the federal government is offering a tax credit of up to $7,500 for EVs and other “clea...

Carvana Adopts a ‘Poison Pill’ to Ward Off a Hostile Takeover. Stock Bounces.

Carvana stock rose Tuesday after the used-car retailer announced it is adopting a net-operating-loss poison pill. Net operating losses, or NOLs carryforwards, are a tax provision allowing businesses t...

What JPMorgan and Other Banking Giants Are Saying About a Possible Recession

America’s banking giants are looking into their economic crystal balls, and not all of them like what they see. JPMorgan , Bank of America , and other top U.S. banks recently offered economic outlooks...

Netflix, Goldman Sachs, United Airlines, Morgan Stanley, and More Stocks to Watch This Week

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Netflix, Goldman Sachs, United Airlines, Morgan Stanley, and More Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

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