TOKYO — Asian shares declined Monday after U.S. stocks ended last week on a tumble as global markets’ expectations for higher interest rates continued to set the tone. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 NIK...
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U.S. stock futures sink, suggesting more losses Monday
After sharp losses Friday, Wall Street is poised for more declines as stock-index futures slid Sunday night. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures YM00, -0.46% were last off more than 170 points — an i...
James Anderson of Baillie Gifford on Illumina, Moderna, and Other Companies That Matter
James Anderson, a partner at Scottish money manager Baillie Gifford, has personified growth-stock investing during his 39 years with the firm. He was an early backer of Amazon.com, Tesla, and other “e...
Surging Fertilizer Costs Are Pushing Food Prices Higher
Fertilizer costs have roughly doubled from a year ago as the war in Ukraine disrupted the flow of supplies from Russia, the world’s largest exporter of the commodity. That has contributed to higher gl...
For Active Funds, Being Different From the Index Isn’t Enough
The popular active-share metric was designed to find mutual funds that simply mimic an index-fund-like portfolio while charging steeper active-management fees. But it may not be as adept at finding wi...
4 ETF ideas targeting clean water, wind, the smart grid — and a catch-all
For some investment advisers and stock-pickers, so-called green investing is far from just a feel-good move. There are population demographics, a private-public mandate to meet international greenhous...
These money and investing tips can be keys to success when stock and bond markets fail
Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Sign up here to get MarketWatch’s best mutual funds and ETF stories emailed to you weekly! INVESTING NEWS & TRENDS 4 Earth Day ETFs targeting cle...
‘The issues with the IRS are still present and very real’: Millions of Americans are racing to file their tax returns, and filing extensions
Tax Day came and went earlier this week, so if your upcoming weekend plans are just chilling after the last-minute tax time bustle, you might have company. April 18 marked the deadline in most states ...
Cathie Wood’s Flagship Fund Is Down 45% This Year. Money Is Still Flowing In.
Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation exchange-traded fund keeps falling, but investors aren’t jumping ship. Shares of the popular ETF, which is known by its ticker ARKK, have declined 45% so far in 2022—inclu...
Jack Dorsey Follows Elon Musk in Dropping CEO Title (For Something Ridiculous)
Inflation may be burning up the charts. Twitter’s (TWTR) – Get Twitter, Inc. Report fate may be hanging in the balance. The world may be lurching towards a once unthinkable confrontation...
BlackRock Stock Has Slid. Director William E. Ford Scooped Up Shares.
BlackRock stock has tumbled this year, and director William E. Ford, the chairman and CEO of investment firm General Atlantic, scooped up shares of the asset manager on the open market. BlackRock (tic...
What’s next for stock market as Federal Reserve moves toward ‘peak hawkishness’
Investors will watch for another gauge of U.S. inflation in the week ahead after the stock market was rattled by the Federal Reserve ramping up its hawkish tone and suggesting large interest rate hike...
Dow’s biggest drop since 2020 has bulls nervously watching this support level, says chart watcher
The stock market’s Friday plunge will have market bulls looking for the Dow Jones Industrial Average to hold important support tied to the market’s gyrations all the way back to the 2007-09 financial ...
Stocks got clobbered Friday. Here’s why investors should focus on the long game
The stock market ended a volatile week on a gloomy note Friday, with the three major U.S. indexes plunging as investors got tripped up in worries like inflation, the Fed’s fight against it and fears o...
Weekend reads: How to position your investments before the Federal Reserve causes a bear market
Do you remember all the times Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell was quoted as saying inflation in the U.S. was “transitory”? With the Fed now ready to fight inflation, the bond market has quickly...
Investors just pulled a massive $17.5 billion out of global equities. They’re just getting started, says Bank of America.
Are the bears just getting started? That’s a question posed by strategists at Bank of America, who noted Friday that investors pulled $17.5 billion out of global equities over the past week, making fo...
Opinion: This will be a year for stock market traders — here are 12 companies to favor, says 40-year investing veteran Bob Doll
If you’re relatively new to investing, and you think 2022 has been a year from hell, imagine being in the stock market for over 40 years. That would’ve put you through the Great Financial Crisis in 20...
How to prepare your finances for another recession: ‘We think a hard landing will ultimately be unavoidable’
Two years after the short, sharp pandemic-related recession, Wall Street is once again warning of a new recession on the horizon. That’s not a lot to go on, but financial-planning experts say it ought...
Here’s how to craft student-loan forgiveness in a way that cuts out those who don’t need help
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York on Thursday released new analyses on student loans, with one blog post focused on who would benefit from various approaches to canceling such debt — as well as eac...
Blackstone Earnings Fall to $1.22 Billion
Blackstone Inc.’s BX -6.45% first-quarter earnings fell as the value of the private-equity giant’s investments climbed at a slower pace. The New York firm reported net income of $1.22 billion, or $1.6...
Fed chief Powell backs moving more quickly on interest-rate hikes
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Thursday joined the chorus of U.S. central bankers who want to move faster on raising interest rates. “It is appropriate in my view to be moving a little more...
Blackstone’s Earnings Beat Estimates. Assets Under Management Are Rising.
Text size Blackstone Group had net inflows of $50 billion in the quarter. Munshi Ahmed/Bloomberg Blackstone, the private-equity giant, reported higher distributable earnings than expected and came clo...
‘I’m already feeling guilty’: My uncle is leaving me a large inheritance, but excluding my siblings. Should I gift them money every year, or set up a trust?
Dear Quentin, I am soon to inherit a sizable sum of money from an uncle with whom no one in my family still speaks; I’m the only one who has stayed in contact with him. While it seems a bit grotesque ...
Buy JPMorgan Stock. Despite Losing Some of Its Swagger, Shares Are Cheap.
There is a little less swagger than usual at JPMorgan Chase these days, and that’s probably good news for investors. Shares of the bank, the industry leader in market value and profits, are down 17% t...