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Where Six Meme Stock Investors Are Now
Some regret their exuberance. Others value the lessons they learned. Still others are convinced big profits lie ahead. Months after interviewing them in 2021, we checked back in with some of the inves...
Here are the odds you’ll outlive your money
What year was the worst possible time in U.S. history to retire, from an investment point of view? To put this question another way: What year’s U.S. retirees had the greatest difficulty sustaining th...
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...
Blackstone Profits Nearly Double as Total Assets Set Quarterly Record
Text size Signage outside the Blackstone headquarters in New York. Angus Mordant/Bloomberg Shares of Blackstone rose Thursday after total assets at the world’s biggest alternative asset manager rose t...
Tesla Earnings ‘Disappointed.’ Why Analysts Are Raising Their Price Targets.
Text size The inside of a Tesla car Model 3 is seen at a Tesla shop inside of a shopping Mall in Beijing on May 26, 2021. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images Tesla stock was falling Thursday after re...
Tesla’s Earnings Beat Was Better Than You Think. Here’s Why.
Text size Joe Raedle/Getty Images Tesla’s quarterly earnings call had everything: Robots, self-driving car claims, production updates and more. All that might have distracted investors from an importa...
8 tech stocks poised to bounce after Nasdaq plunge, according to AI platform
Nvidia Corp. tops a list of technology stocks that would be expected to bounce back strongly over the next month based on the reaction to past plunges by the Nasdaq Composite, according to an artifici...
Opinion: Warren Buffett’s advice for a volatile market: patience pays
Certainly you’ve been watching the stock market over the past few days. It would be hard not to. Even the most hands-off investor has likely noticed the scare headlines popping up on the evening news,...
Older Investors Have a Lot of Money in Stocks. How to Check if It’s Too Much.
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 ...
Dividend Aristocrats Lose AT&T but Gain Church & Dwight and Brown & Brown
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Text size The S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Index, a benchmark for longevity of dividend increases, is welcoming two members while losing longtime member AT&T. S&am...
Opinion: It’s safe to dip your toes in the stock market — here are three companies to consider, including one disrupter
Yes, it’s safe to buy this pullback in stocks. And if you got frightened Monday and sold, which was admittedly a scary day for many investors, get back in. Here are three reasons why, followed by thre...
Fed will raise its policy interest rate above the inflation rate ‘sooner rather than later,’ says ex-governor Quarles who resigned last month
Former Federal Reserve Governor Randal Quarles said Tuesday that he thinks the Fed will move swiftly to raise its policy interest rate above the inflation rate because that is the only way to defeat i...
Stocks Are Getting Hammered. Big Money Is Waiting to Buy the Dip.
Text size A scene from the New York Stock Exchange on Monday. NYSE The stock market is down—a lot. The good news is that there is a pile of money waiting in the wings to buy the dip. The S&P 500 ...
Opinion: Thankfully, the Fed has decided to stop digging, but it has a lot of work to do before it gets us out of hole we’re in
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (Project Syndicate)—The Federal Reserve has turned on a dime, an uncharacteristic about-face for an institution long noted for slow and deliberate shifts in monetary policy. While the...
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...
Opinion: Retirees in the U.S. do not live on ‘fixed incomes’
As inflation has gained traction in the last year, commentators constantly remark about how it is particularly hard on retirees who live on a “fixed income.” Please stop. Retirees do not live on fixe...
The S&P 500, Nasdaq just staged a turnaround for the ages, marking their largest comebacks since the 2008 financial crisis
It’s a Wall Street comeback for the history books, one that would make the National Football League’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers signal caller Tom Brady green with envy. The Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, +0....
Odell Beckham Jr. took his $750K salary in bitcoin — how much did it cost him?
Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. made headlines last November when he announced he would be converting his 2021 salary into bitcoin. The problem for Beckham: that bitcoin BTCUSD, -0.41...
‘Waiting for the perfect moment may not be the best strategy’: 3 things Americans can do right now as stock markets plunge
Americans woke up Monday morning to a stock market in sharp decline. In many ways, it was a replay of what investors have seen in recent weeks. Last week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -1.57%...
Panic-like selling emerges Monday as stock market tumbles and Dow skids over 1,000 points
Panic-like behavior was starting to set in on Wall Street, at least from a technical perspective. Trading in New York Stock Exchange-listed stocks at midday Monday exhibited panic-like-selling action ...
Dow tumbles over 600 points early Monday as Wall Street extends decline ahead of Fed decision, earnings wave
U.S. stock benchmarks were under pressure early Monday, falling sharply as the downtrend that has pressured stocks this year continues apace. Investors are watching for an important two-day meeting of...
AMD is about to wander into a minefield
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. earnings will serve as an important indicator on whether the semiconductor outlook is truly weak in early 2022, or whether it’s just weak for certain companies. AMD AMD, +2...