These money and investing tips can be keys to success when stock and bond markets fail

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Cathie Wood’s Flagship Fund Is Down 45% This Year. Money Is Still Flowing In.

Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation exchange-traded fund keeps falling, but investors aren’t jumping ship. Shares of the popular ETF, which is known by its ticker ARKK, have declined 45% so far in 2022—inclu...

Six Dividend Stocks to Help Beat Inflation

The hot new investment theme isn’t socially nuanced crypto space finance or metaverse charging networks for virtual vehicles. It’s dividends—cash payments to shareholders. This year, U.S. equity divid...

‘The Fed always screws up.’ This forecaster sees inflation peaking and U.S. stocks in a bear market by summer

Keith McCullough, founder and CEO of Hedgeye Risk Management, has been bullish on gold, silver and utilities since the start of the year, when his investment-research firm’s economic models turned bea...

AbbVie, Gilead and 4 Other Defensive Healthcare Stocks With Big Dividend Yields

Text size An AbbVie bio safety hood Courtesy of AbbVie Deep into the second quarter of the year, stocks have yet to recover, and investors are seeking safety in defensive plays. One sector that’s bene...

These money and investing tips are what you need when markets aren’t giving what you want

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This is how much you made if you bought into the oil crash 2 years ago

If you want to retire rich, the late, great Dan Bunting has some advice for you. “Always buy the market (i.e., stocks or even just the index) after a spectacular bankruptcy,” my old friend Bunting, a ...

ARK’s Cathie Wood: ‘Private markets get it,’ but disruptive tech is beaten-up in the stock market

When it comes to valuing disruptive innovation, private markets seem to understand the opportunity better than the stock market, according to Cathie Wood, founder and chief executive of ARK Investment...

‘Calamity’ may be coming, stock-market setup similar to 1999: Jeffrey Gundlach

 A “calamity” may be coming for markets, potentially in 2023, Jeffrey Gundlach, chief executive officer and chief investment officer of DoubleLine, warned Tuesday on stage at the Exchange ETF conferen...

General Dynamics Stock: Why It’s Time to Buy

Text size General Dynamics M1 Abrams battle tanks. Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg Russia’s war in Ukraine shows no sign of ending, and the news of civilian deaths in places like Kramatorsk, Bucha, and Irpi...

These income strategies can help protect your stock investments from inflation and a recession

There is always uncertainty in the stock market, but the deflationary cycle that helped feed tremendous gains over the past several decades has ended. Two related strategies can give you downside prot...

Cathie Wood’s ARK Snaps Up Nearly $20 Million of UiPath Stock

Text size Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation ETF purchased 867,331 shares of UiPath on Monday. Courtesy of ARK Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation exchange-traded fund purchased 867,331 shares of UiPath , th...

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 ...

Value Investing Is Back. But How Do You Choose the Right ETF?

Value investing is coming back. Over the past decade, growth stocks have outpaced value shares, which usually have lots of tangible assets relative to their market value. In those 10 years, the S&...

Missed the Dip in Stocks? Where to Find Yields of 3% to 6%.

I sneezed, and missed the buying opportunity in stocks. The S&P 500 was down 13% at one point this year. It ended the first quarter with a loss of just 4.6%, including dividends. But all of the ba...

Cathie Wood Sold Tesla Stock. She Is as Bullish as Ever.

Text size Tesla stock remains the biggest position in Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation ETF. Courtesy of ARK Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation ETF sold about 22,000 Tesla shares Thursday, according to her...

Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation Has Had a Bad Year. Why It Could Get Even Worse.

Text size Cathie Wood’s success in 2020 made her one of the most high-profile fund managers. Alex Flynn/Bloomberg Investors in ARK Innovation ETF, Cathie Wood’s flagship exchange-traded fund, sh...

Investing may be too complex for retail investors and brokers

As more cutting-edge investment products work their way into the marketplace, there’s growing fear retail investors and even professional brokers are getting in over their heads. Former SEC atto...

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...

These money and investing tips can help you read the stock market’s changing signs

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The Riskiest Bets in the Stock Market Are the Most Popular

When technology stocks tumbled for a fourth straight day in January, Evan Fetter, a 25-year-old in the U.S. military, saw an opportunity to swing for the fences.  The trade has been underwater at time...

Weekend reads: the slowing housing market and inverted yield curve signal a coming recession

It is human nature to fear missing out as prices skyrocket, But all bubbles burst eventually. Ian Shepherdson of Pantheon Macroeconomics predicts a 25% decline in U.S. home sales. What will that do to...

Treasuries Are Selling Off. Blame Powell’s Comments on Half-Point Rate Hikes.

Fed chief Jerome Powell, shown Monday at a conference in Washington, D.C., said ‘nothing’ would prevent the central bank from raising rates by a half-point at a coming meeting if needed. S...

These money and investing tips can help you build a proactive ‘all-weather’ portfolio

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The Biggest Bitcoin Fund Trades at a Discount to Its Bitcoin Holdings. Why Only the SEC Can Solve This Problem.

SEC Chairman Gary Gensler Evelyn Hockstein-Pool/Getty Images Text size The world’s largest Bitcoin fund is trading at 73 cents on the dollar. That may look like a bargain if you want crypto in your po...

More than 70% of savers are worried that inflation will affect their ability to retire

Inflation just hit its highest level in 40 years. Future inflation expectations have risen by a third in 12 months. And the federal government’s own “inflation protected” bonds, which were designed to...

Apple and Nvidia Are Picked by Robot Trader That Dumped Google and Meta

Text size The robot trader likes Apple and Nvidia stock. Fresco/Evening Standard/Getty Images Apple and Nvidia were two stocks singled out for gains in March by a fund with holdings picked by artifici...

Alibaba and JD.com Stocks Fall Back After Historic Gains. What Comes Next?

Text size Alibaba stock notched its best-ever one-day gains on Wednesday. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg Investors in Chinese stocks, long-accustomed to pain, have just seen an astonishing turnaround. What come...

Opinion: Top investors dump stocks — why that might mean you should buy

Well, here’s some cheerful news for all of us with a retirement portfolio: The geniuses running the world’s biggest investment funds have panicked and have bailed out of the market. If that’s not a go...

Could The Russian Oil Ban Turn The World Toward Renewable Energy?

Getty Images Key Takeaways The EU may not be in a position to follow suit on President Joe Biden’s ban on Russian oil imports The world, at large, has growing opportunities to turn to clean tech On Tu...

Oracle stock drops after earnings fall short of Wall Street’s forecast

Oracle Corp. shares fell in the extended session Thursday after the database-software company’s earnings missed Wall Street estimates. Oracle  ORCL, +0.72% shares fell as much as 8% after hours, follo...

Should You Buy the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust Fund? It’s on Sale—and That Could Be a Trap.

In closed-end funds, anything trading around 70 cents on the dollar might seem too good to pass up. Investors can get that kind of bargain now in the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust . But this may be a case w...