6 Dividend Growth Stocks That Beat Commodities for Fighting Inflation

Text size Verizon Communications has a towering yield of 4.8%. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Is there such a thing as a meme metal? Humble nickel, used mainly to make stainless steel more workable, rece...

Scared of investing during the Ukraine invasion? Try this IRA maneuver

Moe, Larry and Curly have been watching stock markets plunge in the past two weeks in response to the Ukraine invasion. Each wants to invest, say, $100,000 in European stocks—for example through Vangu...

Oil Stocks Are Nearing New Heights. It’s Time to Be Careful.

Text size An Exxon Mobil oil refinery in Rotterdam. Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images Oil stocks are approaching levels not seen in years as the price of the fuel surges and shows little sign of backin...

Nearly All Russian ETFs Halted in the U.S.

Exchange-traded funds had been one of the last ways to trade Russian stocks. NYSE Text size Don’t try to invest in Russian stocks with an exchange-traded fund. It appears all have been halted. It star...

The Commodities Boom Is Here. How to Invest With Funds.

Global supply-chain constraints have led to worldwide shortages, abnormal weather is hurting crop yields in major agricultural regions, and inflation has made real assets like commodities an attractiv...

Tesla May Have a Path to a $4 Trillion Market Value. Here’s Why.

Text size A Tesla dealership David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Tesla investor Gary Black tweeted out some interesting math Friday. He laid out his case for Tesla’s market capitalization to climb to a whoppi...

Russia stock ETFs trading in U.S. plunge this week with some halted for trading

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchangeon March 04, 2022 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Exchange traded funds that track Russian stocks fell dramatically this week and...

These BDC Stocks Offer High Yields in a Low-Rate World

BDCs are a public play on private credit. They raise capital from investors and lend to small and midsize businesses. Illustration by Benedetto Cristofani Text size In a low interest-rate world, the p...

A new BlackRock shareholder vote that may rule future proxy battles

Laurence “Larry” Fink, chairman and chief executive officer of BlackRock Inc., pauses as he speaks during the BlackRock Asia Media Forum in Hong Kong, China. Justin Chin | Bloomberg | Gett...

Look to the Energy Patch for a Dividend Bonanza. Devon Energy and Pioneer Natural Resources Look Good.

What was already going to be a challenging year for investors was further disrupted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But in a market that has been lacking in certainty, income investors may want to ta...

Oil Is Surging. Why Oil Stocks Are Down.

Text size Oil prices are higher, but concerns about economic growth are weighing on oil stocks. Mario Tama/Getty Images Oil prices soared on Thursday after Russia invaded Ukraine. But oil stocks were ...

‘Reflation’ trades are resurfacing. Here’s where the money’s going

“Reflation” trades are resurfacing. Travel and leisure stocks have picked up steam this month, with exchange-traded funds such as Invesco’s Dynamic Leisure and Entertainment ETF (PEJ...

8 Biotech Stocks So Cheap That Their Technology Is Effectively Free

Text size A number of biotechs have market values that are less than the cash on their balance sheets. Dreamstime It’s mid-February, and the beleaguered biotech sector is showing no real signs of reco...

10 tech value stocks that at least 75% of analysts rate as a ‘buy’ right now

So far, 2022 is a year of value stocks. But some tech stocks fit that definition. Below is a high-conviction list of technology stocks among the S&P 500 SPX, +0.05% that have low valuations to ear...

Cathie Wood’s ARK Stays the Course, Betting Big on Innovation

Cathie Wood’s ARK Investment Management LLC is snapping up more shares of largely unprofitable companies, doubling down on a bet that many traders and investors expect to be tested this year by rising...

These 3 Funds Invest Like ARK But Didn’t Fall as Far

Just one year ago, the innovation-focused exchange-traded funds from Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest were some of the hottest on the market, thanks to their spectacular rise in 2020. Now, they’ve collapsed b...

Inflation Is Red Hot. How to Protect Your Portfolio and Grow Income.

Income investors—especially those who depend on fixed coupons from bonds—face a hit to their purchasing power as inflation stands above 7%. One strategy to hedge against such big price increases, howe...

Oil is the hottest sector, and Wall Street analysts see upside of up to 48% for favored stocks

Energy is the best-performing stock-market sector this year. Given today’s strong economic growth and inflation, many believe oil prices could remain at current levels for years or maybe even move hig...

Beat inflation with 3 stocks that bet against oil in favor of EVs and the renewable-power grid

The likelihood that lingering inflation and other factors lead to persistently higher oil prices leaves this stock picker focused on alternative energy and electric vehicles. Ivana Delevska, founder a...

California, Florida, and Inflation Are Sinking Solar

Text size Ethan Miller/Getty Images The solar power industry is destined to grow many times over in the coming decades, and several companies will undoubtedly become behemoths. But the current picture...

Opinion: ARK investors have lost $4 billion — ‘We believe we’re going to see the turn sooner rather than later,’ Cathie Wood says

Four billion dollars would provide for a lot of retirements. It would, for example, pay for about 80,000 of these popular recreational vehicles. Or about 40,000 of these popular boats. Or, more prosai...

Jim Cramer likes most of top holdings in Cathie Wood’s Ark Innovation ETF

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Tuesday broke down the top holdings in star money manager Cathie Wood’s Ark Innovation ETF, saying he likes the setup in most of the closely followed fund’s larg...

“Challenging Year” Ahead For Wall Street Investors — CFRA

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – DECEMBER 19: Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) as … [+] the Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell holds a news conference on Decem...

Fidelity Wants a Piece of the Crowded Field of Metaverse ETFs

Text size Dreamstime Fidelity is trying to make a push into the metaverse. The fund giant filed an application with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday for an exchange-traded fund called ...

Cathie Wood’s ARK Faces Loyalty Test After Tech-Stock Rout

Cathie Wood says the high-risk stocks in the exchange-traded funds sold by ARK Investment Management LLC are so cheap that they will inevitably rise. A surprising number of investors are willing to gi...

What to expect from markets in the next six weeks, before the Federal Reserve revamps its easy-money stance

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell fired a warning shot across Wall Street last week, telling investors the time has come for financial markets to stand on their own feet, while he works to tame i...

What ETFs are retail investors loading up amid stock market volatility? Here’s what some are doing (and aren’t).

Hello there! Got volatility? We bet you do as the Federal Reserve signaled on Wednesday that interest rate increases in 2022 are its main priority. There is nothing new there, as investors had expecte...

Tesla Stock Sinks and Cathie Wood’s ARK Gets Back to Buying the Stock

Text size The inside of a Tesla Model 3. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images Exchange-traded funds under the umbrella of Cathie Wood’s ARK Investment purchased 33,482 shares of electric-vehicle compa...

Jim Cramer literally drowns Cathie Wood’s ARK as flagship fund falters

Jim Cramer has never been shy to use buzzers and bells to make the occasionally esoteric world of finance more interesting. But the host of CNBC’s Mad Money got even the Twitterverse to take notice at...

Cash Pours Into Anti-ARK ETF as Cathie Wood Struggles

Text size Catherine Wood’s innovation-focused ETFs have been falling. PATRICK T. FALLON/ AFP / Getty Images As Cathie Wood’s innovation-focused exchange-traded funds have tumbled amid the latest...

Opinion: Whenever the Dow and the S&P 500 fall below this key support level, stocks typically come roaring back

Breaking the 200-day moving average is not the kiss of death for U.S. stocks, which might explain why the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.76% on Jan. 24 recovered from a 1,000-point plunge and f...

Tech Stocks Got Hit Hard. Where to Find Bargains Now.

The technology sector may not be on sale, but it certainly has gotten cheaper lately. Major technology stocks like Apple (ticker: AAPL), Alphabet (GOOGL), Microsoft (MSFT), and Meta Platforms (FB) are...