The unexpected demise of Signature Bank over the weekend, on the heels of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank, ignited a shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later reaction among regional-bank investors as cu...
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First Republic Bank gets funding boost from Fed, JPMorgan
First Republic Bank FRC, -14.84% said Sunday it had bolstered its financial position through “additional liquidity” from the Federal Reserve and JPMorgan Chase & Co. JPM, +2.54%. In a statement, t...
First Republic Says Everything Is Fine. Why the Stock Market Is Worried.
First Republic Bank worked to reassure clients about the safety of its business Sunday evening after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank last week sparked fears of contagion in the banking industry. “...
What happened to Silvergate Capital? And why does it matter?
Silvergate Capital SI, -11.27% served as one of the main banks for the crypto industry, prior to its collapse earlier this week. The news came just a week after the firm delayed its annual report to t...
Bank Stocks Take a Beating. Why Charles Schwab Also Is Getting Slammed.
On Thursday, bank stocks got hammered, and so did shares of brokerage firm Charles Schwab, which dropped 13%. On Friday the pain continued, with Schwab suffering another 6% decline by midday. Wait, wh...
Morgan Stanley, Charles Schwab, and the Recruiting Move That Went Off the Rails
Morgan Stanley lost a multimillion dollar arbitration case last week involving several parties and which centered on a recruiting move that went off the rails nearly four years ago. To understand how...
Stock market could ‘take it hard’ as expectations grow for a 6% fed funds rate
U.S. stock investors are clearly not too happy with what Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has said in the past two days. And there’s reason to think they’ll get even more dissatisfied in the wee...
I’m 57 and will soon have more than $3 million from a business sale. My rich boss trusts his financial adviser, but he inherited his millions. Still, should I try his adviser?
Have a question about your financial adviser or looking for a new one? Email [email protected]. Getty Images/iStockphoto Question: I am 57 years old, have $450,000 saved for retirement and will so...
How investors can learn to live with inflation: BlackRock
Growth stocks may have led the early 2023 rally, but stubbornly high inflation means that won’t last. That’s the main message from the BlackRock Investment Institute on Monday, as U.S. stocks attempte...
Moving in Retirement to Cut Tax Costs? Consider These 4 Factors First.
When an affluent suburban Chicago couple came to John Campbell, senior wealth strategist at U.S. Bank Private Wealth Management, planning to retire in New Mexico because of its weather and lower incom...
The Only 401(k) Savers Who Didn’t Lose Money in The Past Year
The only workers whose 401(k) balances grew in 2022 were the Gen Z savers still decades away from retirement, according to new data from Fidelity Investments. While the average nest egg among Fidelit...
Nearing retirement? Here’s how to shift your portfolio from growth to income.
Over the decades, perhaps you’ve been very good at saving your money and investing it for long-term growth. But when the time comes for you to stop working or to step back to a part-time job, you migh...
Already worth $19 billion, Ray Dalio will be paid ‘billions’ more after retiring from Bridgewater: report
Ray Dalio, founder of the world’s biggest hedge fund, is to be paid billions of dollars via an exit package he secured upon retiring from Bridgewater Associates last year, according to a report by the...
Wall Street Expects Brutal Coinbase Earnings. Why an Analyst Upgraded the Stock.
Wall Street is mostly muted ahead of earnings from Coinbase Global expecting to see deep losses and the lowest quarterly sales in two years from the cryptocurrency broker when the group reports earnin...
Al Gore’s Firm Sells Alibaba Stock, TSMC, and Shopify. It Bought TI.
Generation Investment Management, chaired by former Vice President Al Gore, recently made big changes in its portfolio, reshuffling its holdings in the semiconductor business as its money managers cit...
Cathie Wood’s ARK Swoops In to Buy Shopify Stock After Recent Slump
High-profile fund manager Cathie Wood’s ARK Investment Management has increased holdings of e-commerce company Shopify and shed chip maker Nvidia the group said in a statement. ARK snapped up about $3...
A potential stock-market catastrophe in the making: Risky option bets put Wall Street on edge
Professional and amateur traders are flocking to a risky type of equity option that some have likened to lottery tickets, drawn by the opportunity to reap massive returns in the span of just a few hou...
George Soros Snapped Up Tesla, Peloton, Crypto Stocks. What He Dumped.
Tesla and Peloton were on George Soros’s shopping list in the fourth quarter of last year, as he also took new positions in Carvana General Motors and crypto names, while dumping Zoom and Twitter Sor...
The hunt for stocks with rising dividends: These fund managers have a strategy to keep your payouts growing
The broad stock-market rally so far in 2023 might make it easy to forget what a rough ride investors faced last year. It was a time when some active strategies focused on dividends, good cash-flow tre...
ChatGPT Has Sparked an AI Craze. How to Build a Long-Term AI Portfolio.
Artificial intelligence has sparked new competition in internet search—for the first time in decades. Here’s how to build an AI portfolio. Feb. 10, 2023 6:06 pm ET It has been more than 70 years...
‘Cash is the cool kid on the block’: High-yield savings accounts, Treasury Bills, money market funds, and CDs — here’s where your cash can earn up to 4.5%
Cash isn’t just the dollar bills you put in your pocket — in this market, it might seem to be a patch of steady ground. There are multiple options: People can put their money in high-yield savings acc...
‘Is my financial planner crazy?’ We’re 55 and 60, five years from retirement and were told we should invest more aggressively
Dear MarketWatch, Is my financial planner crazy? I recently saw a MarketWatch article that recommended that one’s retirement portfolio should be 100 minus their age in stocks or perhaps even more co...
Disney Plans to Reinstate Its Dividend and Cut 7,000 Jobs. Nelson Peltz Declares Victory.
Walt Disney stock jumped after the entertainment company topped earnings expectations, while also announcing it was planning to cut jobs and reinstate its its dividend. Disney (ticker: DIS) reported n...
Crypto tumble as concerns over regulation intensifies
Bitcoin tumbled to a three-week low Thursday, as crypto exchange Kraken halted its staking program and agreed to pay $30 million to settle charges brought by the US Securities and Exchange Commission....
KBW recommends buying these 11 financial stocks, including First Republic, following federal backstop for banks
On a Monday following high-profile bank failures on Friday and Sunday, it may seem to be a strange time to recommend buying stocks of banks and other financial services companies, but Keefe, Bruyette ...