A year after the Nasdaq peak, why stocks could rally from here.

This weekend a year ago the Nasdaq Composite hit a record high. And why not. The Fed Funds rate was then effectively zero, while the central bank continued to buy assets, pumping liquidity into the ma...

Opinion: Bonds aren’t more attractive than stocks even as yields register a 15-year high

How much competition do stocks face from bonds? For the first time in years, investors are beginning to ask this question, given the dramatic rise in bond yields to a 15-year high. For nearly a decade...

The Stock Market Has Stopped Worrying About the Fed. It’s Time to Worry About Recession.

The stock market is so over the Federal Reserve—but that doesn’t mean it’s out of the woods just yet. Attention is now turning to the U.S. economy—and whether it sinks into recession will determine if...

Fed must keep raising rates until it is certain inflation has stopped climbing, Kashkari says

The Federal Reserve needs to keep raising interest rates until it is sure inflation has hit a ceiling, said Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari on Thursday. The central bank can’t be overly persua...

The latest rally in stocks may be almost over, Bank of America warns

Investors hoping to squeeze some more gains out of the stock market’s latest bear-market bounce might be too late, according to a team of strategists at Bank of America. According to a Friday note sen...

Did Bullard undershoot? Stifel economists say fed funds rate may need to go to 8% or even 9%.

A day after a Federal Reserve official’s market-moving admission that interest rates may need to go to as high as 7%, analysts came up with an even more surprising conclusion: that 7% still won’t be h...

More than $2 trillion in stock options expire Friday with put-call ratio near levels unseen since 2001

Equity options worth $2.1 trillion in notional value are set to expire on Friday in the latest monthly event where weekly and monthly options tied to single stocks, equity indexes and exchange-traded ...

Veteran manager offers 5 ‘cheap, quality, dividend’ stocks that will let you play one of tech’s biggest themes.

2022 may be remembered as the year investors fell out of love with tech stocks. While the Nasdaq Composite COMP, -3.91% is up about 5.3% this quarter, that’s after three dismal ones, and a 28% loss fo...

Opinion: Opinion: What Bullard got wrong about a 7% fed funds (and why he said it anyway)

An influential Federal Reserve official briefly spooked the stock SPX, -0.31% and bond TMUBMUSD10Y, 3.769% markets on Thursday by warning that the central bank may have to raise interest rates much fu...

This is the chart that rattled U.S. financial markets on Thursday

One chart is all it took to move financial markets on Thursday. That chart was presented by St. Louis Fed President James Bullard as part of a presentation in Louisville, Ky., and it shows where he se...

Opinion: Three seasonal effects in the stock market begin around Thanksgiving

The stock market started what appeared to be another leg up in the past week, as the benchmark S&P 500 broke out over resistance at 3900 points. In fact, the index rose to 4020 but then ran into t...

18 semiconductor stocks that shine when compared with Nvidia this earnings season

Nvidia Corp., which said yesterday that quarterly sales slumped, exemplifies the cyclical nature of the semiconductor industry despite the company’s inroads into fast-growing markets. Still, many chip...

Opinion: The new bull market will be led by stocks in these three industries.

We don’t know yet if the recent rally kicks off a new bull market in stocks. But here’s a safe bet: Once the new bull market is here, entirely different groups will lead. It’ll be out with the old — t...

Carnival stock dives after private sale of $1 billion in convertible debt

Shares of Carnival Corp. pulled back sharply on heavy volume Wednesday, after the cruise operator took advantage of a recent big rally to commence a private offering of debt that can be converted into...

The Stock Market Is on a Tear. It’s Almost Time to Sell the Rally.

The stock market has seen a major rally recently. Another move lower looks likely.  The S&P 500 closed Tuesday about 12% above its lowest close of the year, 3577, hit in early October. The main dr...

Warren Buffett’s chip-stock purchase is a classic example of why you want to be ‘greedy only when others are fearful’

This has been quite a year for Berkshire Hathaway and CEO Warren Buffett. The conglomerate just disclosed its investments in other companies as of the end of the third quarter, and one name — and one ...

Icahn loads up on Twitter, oil and gas in third quarter, dumps Welbilt

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn acquired more than 12.5 million shares of Twitter Inc. during the third quarter, ahead of Elon Musk’s takeover of the company, while also boosting his holdings in Occid...

Berkshire Hathaway discloses stakes in TSMC, Jefferies, Louisiana-Pacific, sending those stocks higher

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. added positions in materials manufacturer Louisiana-Pacific Corp., investment bank Jefferies Financial Group and chip manufacturer Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. d...

‘Embarrassed’ Tyson Foods CFO apologizes to investors for arrest

Tyson Foods Inc. reported mixed fourth-quarter results Monday as chicken prices soared while beef slumped — but perhaps the most interesting part of the post-earnings conference call was Chief Financi...

Markets are getting a wake-up call in 2023, says Morgan Stanley, which offers a plan for investors to get ready.

According to Fed Reserve Gov. Christopher Waller and several strategists, last week’s softer-than-expected October CPI that sent the S&P 500 to its best level in five months was overdone. His word...

These money and investing tips can help you see this bear market more clearly

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Opinion: Pain and losses in crypto will clear out the losers and strengthen the case for bitcoin

Cryptocurrency is a mess right now. And rightly so. I wrote about buying bitcoin for MarketWatch in 2013 when it was trading for $100, but I’ve spent the past year or so warning that most newer crypto...

Stocks Surged on an Inflation Reading. But the Bear Market Isn’t Over.

Investors finally got the inflation reading they were looking for, and are likely to get a split government for the next two years. That combination propelled stocks to their best weekly showing since...

What the Stock Market and the Midterm Elections Have Common.

Investing and politics go together about as well as mango chutney and burned hair, and we prefer to focus on the stocks and leave the pontificating about the state of the nation to the Beltway pundits...

Investors may be whistling past the graveyard of a recession with latest rally in stocks

Investors feeling giddy about last week’s sharp rally for stocks might want to give a listen to Tom Waits’ song, “Whistlin’ Past the Graveyard” from 1978, to sober up for the dangers that still lurk a...

Should I do a Roth conversion to offset stock losses?

Q.: Dear Dan, We have roughly $45,000 in short-term & long-term losses this year from our brokerage accounts. Is the best move to sell some of our positive stock positions in our brokerage account...

Pension problems, caregiver burnout, saying ‘no’ to nursing homes and more retirement news

From MarketWatch Retirement:  Here’s why you should be worried about state and local pensions. About 26 million people are relying on state and local pension plans to take care of them in their retire...

Brokered CDs pay more than traditional CDs — should you buy them now?

When market volatility and inflation persist, retirees or those who are near retirement might be wondering where to put their money now. There are a variety of alternatives with a range of risks, so t...

FTX’s stunning collapse nothing like Theranos, says venture investor and crypto bull Tim Draper

Tim Draper, founder and managing partner of Draper Associates and Draper University, balked at comparing the stunning implosion of crypto trading platform FTX to the notorious biotech startup Theranos...

Stocks Rallied Dramatically. It’s Still a Bear Market

This commentary was issued recently by money managers, research firms, and market newsletter writers and has been edited by Barron’s. Bear-Market Rallies Technical Strategy BTIGNov. 11: Thursday...

You need to understand the FTX debacle even if you have no investments in crypto

The sudden collapse of FTX, the world’s third-largest cryptocurrency exchange, underlines how important it is for any investor to learn about the risks they take when they park their money with a ligh...

U.S. stocks could rally another 25% now that Fed no longer has ‘back against the wall’ in inflation fight

One of Wall Street’s most implacable bulls has laid out his argument for why he thinks U.S. stocks can continue to rally into the year’s end after Thursday’s game-changing October inflation data. Tom ...