Giant Stock Swings Kick Off 2022

U.S. stocks are off to a rocky start in 2022. Under the surface, things are even more volatile. More than 220 U.S.-listed companies with market capitalizations above $10 billion are down at least 20% ...

Is the stock market open today? Here are the trading hours on Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Stock and bond markets in the U.S. will be closed Monday, January 17 in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, offering traders a rest after a volatile start to the year. The Securities Industry a...

Global stocks advance with U.S. exchanges shut as traders wait for earnings reports

Global stocks rose and U.S. futures were steady Monday, as investors focused on upcoming corporate earnings and rising interest rates with U.S. exchanges shut in observance of the Martin Luther King J...

Stock Market Today: Global Shares Rise as U.S. Markets Pause for M.L.K. Jr. Day

Text size Wall Street trading will return in force Tuesday. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images Global stocks moved slightly Monday in what is expected to be a quiet trading session, with U.S. markets c...

Unilever skids after attempt to snag Glaxo’s consumer-health unit, as FTSE 100 climbs

Unilever shares slumped Monday as the consumer products giant suggested it might increase its offer for GlaxoSmithKline’s consumer health unit. Unilever ULVR, -7.02% fell 7% as Glaxo revealed it’s rej...

GlaxoSmithKline shares soar after Unilever bids for its consumer healthcare unit

Shares of GlaxoSmithKline surged on Monday, while Unilever stock tumbled following a failed $68 billion bid by the latter to acquire the pharmaceutical giant’s consumer healthcare arm. Driving the FTS...

First-time home buyers are selling crypto to fund down payments — here’s what to know before you do it

Many Americans are using their tendies to tap into the American Dream — and the trend doesn’t show signs of stopping. Nearly 12% of first-time buyers indicated that selling cryptocurrency holdings con...

Is the Stock Market Open Today? These Are the Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2022 Hours.

Text size Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Investors looking for a brief respite from two weeks of volatile trading on Wall Street may get one on Mo...

Fed needs to ‘shock and awe’ the market with one big rate hike, Bill Ackman says

Billionaire hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman said the Federal Reserve needs to deliver old-fashioned “shock and awe” to financial markets by delivering a much larger onetime increase to benchmark intere...

Russia-Ukraine Conflict Could Disrupt the Prices of These Commodities. What to Know.

The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in Russia would carry natural gas to Europe if approved by legislators. Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg Text size Tensions between Russia and Ukraine are on the rise, and trade...

Wells Fargo Rally Shows Warren Buffett’s Mistake in Selling Big Stake in Bank

Text size Warren Buffett Drew Angerer/Getty Images One of Warren Buffett’s worst investment moves in an otherwise fabulous career was Berkshire Hathaway ‘s sale in 2020 of a big stake in Wells Fargo a...

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...

Variable Dividends Are a Growing Trend in Resources and Energy. How to Play the Stocks.

For companies that pump out cash, dividends are a popular way to share some of it with their shareholders. But that cash-generation power may fluctuate, so many companies in the energy and resources s...

Get ready for the climb. Here’s what history says about stock-market returns during Fed rate-hike cycles.

Bond yields are rising again so far in 2022. The U.S. stock market seems vulnerable to a bona fide correction. But what can you really tell from a mere two weeks into a new year? Not much and quite a ...

Why a falling dollar signals ‘markets are in wonderland’ over inflation and Fed

The U.S. dollar is offering up an early 2022 head scratcher: Why does the currency keep falling even as traders aggressively pencil in as many as four interest rate increases by the Federal Reserve th...

‘We absolutely believe Ether’ surpassing bitcoin’s total market value ‘can happen this year,’ says ETF expert: ‘The bull case is an Etherum ETF in 2022’

Hello there! The Invesco QQQ Trust QQQ is up over 2% so far this week. That is not where many investors would have bet that the popular exchange-traded fund would be trading now based on the wild acti...

Value Gets Its Moment. Consider These Stocks and ETFs.

Buy the dip, wrote J.P. Morgan’s strategists early this past week. As calls to courage go, it wasn’t exactly Churchill during the Blitz. The dip in this case was a 2% decline, year to date, in the S&a...

These 3 ETFs let you play the hot semiconductor sector, where Nvidia, Micron, AMD and others are growing sales rapidly

Semiconductor stocks may continue to be an excellent area of the market for investors, even though the prospect of a long period of rising interest rates has put pressure on some high-flying technolog...

The No. 1 thing that can improve the retirement security of older workers

Ready for today’s retirement investing pop quiz? What’s the single most consequential thing you can do to improve your chances of not running out of money in retirement? I’ll try answering this questi...

Here’s what a Russian invasion of Ukraine would mean for markets

Fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine are on the rise, prompting analysts and traders to weigh the potential financial-market shock waves. “If Russia invades Ukraine, the trade is buy TY,” wrote Bren...

Five overlooked tech stocks poised to be the ‘household names of the future,’ according to this money manager

A much-needed market distraction from the churn of inflation worries is getting under way, but it’s not looking like what investors were hoping for as some big bank names are sliding on disappointing ...

The IRS will ask every taxpayer about crypto transactions this tax season — here’s how to report them

Cryptocurrencies, also known as virtual currencies, have gone mainstream. That’s for sure. For example, you can use bitcoin BTCUSD, -0.21% to buy a Tesla TSLA, -6.75% and to buy or pay for lots of oth...

These S&P 500 stocks have cratered, but analysts think 12 can turn it around with rebounds of up to 70%

A period of high inflation and rising interest rates has taken out shares of companies with rich valuations. Then there’s the stubborn coronavirus, with variants raising infection rates and causing st...

‘There’s no way the stock market goes up this year — it probably goes down pretty aggressively,’ says hedge-fund honcho Kyle Bass

Don’t expect stock-market gains in 2022 if the Federal Reserve sticks to its guns on rate hikes and tightening overall financial conditions, says Kyle Bass, founder and chief investment officer of Hay...

Opinion: Nasdaq near a 10% correction isn’t the sell signal you probably think it is

There’s nothing magical about a stock index hitting the 10% decline that constitutes what Wall Street considers to be a correction. So we need to stop treating this 10% mark as meaningful. It isn’t. T...

One of the World’s Dirtiest Oil Patches Is Pumping More Than Ever

TORONTO—Major oil companies, under pressure from investors and environmentalists, are fleeing Canada’s oil sands, the fourth-largest oil reserve in the world and by some measures one of the most envir...

Wall Street’s Favorite Oil Stocks for 2022—Including an Obscure One

Text size Bing Guan/Bloomberg Several analysts and strategists expect energy stocks to outperform the broader market in 2022, as they did in 2021. Energy tends to do well in inflationary environments,...

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...

The yield curve is no longer sending a don’t-worry-be-happy signal, warns bond king Jeffrey Gundlach

The S&P 500 SPX, +0.28% snapped a five-session losing streak on Tuesday, after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell vowed the central bank would use its “tools” to get inflation under control wi...

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 ...

Fed has to be ‘far more aggressive…than the Street thinks,’ says academic who called Dow 20,000: ‘This is too much money chasing too few goods’

Jeremy Siegel, professor of finance at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, on Wednesday sounded sanguine about the equity market, even as he conceded that inflation is likely ...

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...