A suddenly sliding stock market is sending a wake-up call to older Americans that maybe they shouldn’t invest like they used to. Many are likely to ignore that call. Thanks to a long bull market that ...
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Kohl’s Stock Surges as Retailer Feels Pressure From 2 Possible Suitors
Text size Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Kohl’s shares surged more than 28% in premarket trading Monday following reports the retailer could be fielding takeover offers from two suitors. The Wall Street...
Starboard-Backed Acacia Research Makes $9 Billion Bid for Kohl’s. What to Know.
Text size Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images Activist hedge fund Starboard Value is behind a group that made a $9 billion bid for department-store operator Kohl’s , according to a report. The bidding...
How a Russian invasion of Ukraine could trigger market shock waves
The threat of a devastating European ground war hasn’t done much to rattle financial markets so far, but investors still appear likely to snap up traditional safe-haven assets should Russia attack Ukr...
The Huge Tax Bills That Came Out of Nowhere at Vanguard
It’s easy for a small investor to make big mistakes. It would be even easier for giant investment firms to help prevent them—but, sadly, the asset-management industry seems to have other priorities. J...
Virgin Galactic Stock Is Worth Just $10, Analyst Says
Text size Virgin Galactic stock closed on Tuesday down 85% from an all-time high of almost $63 set back in February 2020. Courtesy Virgin Galactic Investors in space tourism pioneer Virgin Galactic Ho...
Brace for a volatile 2022, but cling to this tech stalwart when the storm comes, says investment adviser
The pain is piling up for equity investors after the long U.S. holiday weekend, with bond yields at levels not seen since early 2020, and oil prices tapping 2014 highs. The pace of Federal Reserve mon...
Roaring U.S. housing market may cool, keep climbing as Fed ends emergency support
U.S. home prices roared almost 20% higher in the past year, giving families who own properties a major boost to their finances during the pandemic. But Wall Street, a key source of home mortgage finan...
How to buy a car from the factory and save money
With vehicles in short supply at the dealership, more shoppers are ordering cars from the factory. In return for a wait of a few weeks — or months — you get exactly what you want. In the current marke...
How a Flood of Money Swamped Cathie Wood’s ARK
Fund manager Cathie Wood became a superstar in 2020, after her ARK exchange-traded funds earned some of the highest returns in history. So far this year, ARK Innovation, the largest of Ms. Wood’s ETFs...
Here are the ETFs to buy on persistently higher inflation in 2022 and beyond, says BlackRock’s head of iShares strategy
Given an outlook for high U.S. inflation that’s likely to persist beyond 2022, Gargi Chaudhuri of BlackRock Inc., the world’s biggest asset manager, says investors should continue to hedge their portf...
Opinion: Four reasons why value stocks are poised to outperform growth in 2022 — and 14 stocks to consider
Investing is all about being in tune with the trends. Here’s one to be aware of for 2022: Value stocks will most likely beat their growth counterparts. The trend is already under way. Consider: * The ...
Opinion: Citadel’s $1.15 billion cash infusion isn’t a bailout but the final test of Ken Griffin’s ‘Death Star’
When you add more than a billion dollars’ worth of liquidity to a market maker that already executed more than one of every four trades in the U.S. markets on a daily basis, while simultaneously givin...
Cathie Wood is expecting a ‘bloodbath’ in this segment of the market: ‘autos are one example of…many disturbances out there in the world order’
Cathie Wood, the star fund manager and chief executive of ARK Invest, in a Tuesday monthly market update said that the used car market is where she is expecting possible losses after a surge in values...
Opinion: A 27-year-old truck driver just became Robinhood’s first big headache of 2022
Less than a week into the new year, a 27-year-old truck driver from Connecticut might have given Robinhood HOOD, -1.76% a whole new thing to be worried about in 2022. On January 6, an arbitrator for t...
These Two Fund Pros Think Dividend Stocks Are Primed to Prosper
For dividend investors who’ve been jarred by the pandemic, the new year brings a clean slate and hope for a brighter future. While many companies that cut their payouts early in the global health cris...
Three signs you’re ready to retire
Many people don’t have much choice about when they retire. Illness, job loss or caretaking responsibilities push them out of the labor force, ready or not. But some people have the opposite problem: T...
20 cheap value stocks that Wall Street expects to rise up to 58%
There are plenty of arguments for why the bull market for U.S. stocks will continue in 2022. But investors’ focus appears to have shifted recently in favor of value stocks, rather than the growth stoc...
Goldman Sachs Stock Is a Buy—Even After a Disappointing Quarter
The lobby of the Goldman Sachs headquarters building in lower Manhattan. Goldman had a strong 2021, although trading slowed in the fourth quarter. Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg Text size Goldman Sachs Grou...