Apple’s cash position is plunging, and that’s positive for both the business and the company’s shareholders. Yet many investors and Wall Street analysts see signs of trouble that Apple’s AAPL, -0.14% ...
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The Inverted Yield Curve Is Back. What Investors Need to Know.
Text size The Federal Reserve building in Washington. Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg The Treasury yield curve continues to widen, with no signs that the trend is nearing an end. The Federal Reserve raised t...
Block’s Earnings Beat Estimates but the Stock Drops. Here’s Why.
Text size Jack Dorsey co-founded Block and remains its chair but is no longer CEO. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Block said Thursday that Bitcoin revenue at its Cash App unit dropped 34% in the second quart...
Why Mark Mobius thinks U.S. stocks haven’t bottomed — and where he sees emerging-market opportunities
U.S. markets have provided plenty of excitement this year to keep investors on their toes. But as badly as U.S. and European stocks have performed since the start of the 2022, emerging-market equities...
Why the U.S. stock rally looks more like a new bull market than a bear bounce to these analysts
Broader is better when it comes to the stock market rally and some analysts see technical signs that gains may be signaling the end of the 2022 bear market, though it’s too early to say for sure. “The...
Why an Arkansas town could provide a grim road map for America if car repos blow up
As recession worries loom over America, a debt crisis already bearing down on wage workers in northwest Arkansas could foreshadow bigger problem for a nation on high alert for a flood of car repossess...
Moderna’s Earnings Are Wednesday. Here’s What to Expect.
Text size Moderna is developing two vaccines for the fall, one for the U.S. and the other for international markets. Sean Gallup/Getty Images As the U.S. prepares for a broad Covid-19 booster campaign...
Caterpillar’s Earnings Are Good and Sales Top Estimates. But the Stock Falls.
Text size Caterpillar’s earnings and sales in the second quarter beat Wall Street expectations. Bernd Lauter / AFP via Getty Images Caterpillar reported second-quarter numbers that beat Wall Str...
Stock Market Today: Dow Futures Slip as Pelosi Goes to Taiwan, BP Stock Surges
Text size House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is set to arrive in Taiwan Tuesday. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Stocks were slipping Tuesday amid rising geopolitical tensions, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is ...
Will the stock-market rally turn into a selloff? This bond-market gauge could tip investors off
Now that the Federal Reserve appears to have abandoned its forward guidance tool in favor of being “data dependent” to help inform its future path for rates, investors should keep an eye on this gauge...
U.S. Stocks Poised to Fall on Monday
Stocks are set to open lower on Monday ahead of another busy earnings week. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Text size U.S. stocks are se...
The Stock Market Had a Great July. Why August Could Be Tougher.
Text size Expectations for future rate hikes changed, hinging largely on two sentences from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s news conference. Ting Shen/Bloomberg Stocks rallied this past week ...
Opinion: Energy stocks have a sustainable future: it’s in their dividends
One of the few numbers growing faster than energy stock dividends is the size of crowds convinced they are not sustainable. I’ve never witnessed a consensus opinion as negative on an entire sector as ...
Crypto Prices Crashed, but True Believers Are Holding On
Crypto prices plunged this year, but Drew Larsen says that is no concern. Over the past two years, Mr. Larsen, 54, has poured about 10% of his savings into cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, Ethereum and ...
Small-Cap Stocks Have Been Big Winners. Why They Can Keep Outperforming.
Text size Yeti cooler sales are expected to grow, and the company has added drinkware products to its line. Sergio Flores/Bloomberg Good things are supposed to come in small packages, but that hasn’t ...
Want Steady Monthly Income? These Funds Offer It, With Some Risk.
Text size The sharp selloff in the credit markets during the year’s first half has created some attractive opportunities. Dreamstime.com Trickle-down economics lives on for individual investors trying...
The Stock Market Rallied on Hopes That Rate Hikes Will Soon Wind Down
Text size While the markets and many consumers are worried about inflation, other people, like these skaters at Rockefeller Center in New York, are still spending. Richard Levine/Alamy Markets can sta...
Is the crypto bear market over? Here’s what to watch.
Bitcoin and ether are on track to record their best month since last October, prompting some investors to ask if the crypto bear market is over. The No.1 cryptocurrency BTCUSD, -0.90% on Friday reache...
Opinion: Fidelity’s bitcoin move getting all the wrong publicity
What would Ned Johnson do? The late, great Fidelity Investments honcho built his family’s Boston-based money management firm into one of the biggest in the world over the course of a long career. John...
This strategist said hold on to stocks at the June lows. Now he says it’s time to cut exposure.
July has been a sensational month for stocks — the S&P 500 SPX, +1.42%, Nasdaq Composite COMP, +1.88%, even the beleaguered small-caps in the Russell 2000 RUT, +0.65%, are each on track for their ...
Stocks may have been rallying, but the bear market isn’t over for two reasons
The bear market is not over, according to a contrarian analysis of stock market timer sentiment. That’s for two contrarian-related reasons. First, since the mid-June low, stock market timers have been...