Meritor shares headed toward 24-year high after Cummins buys axle, braking and powertrain maker for $3.7 billion

Shares of Meritor Inc., a maker of axle, braking and electric powertrain components, were headed toward a 24-year high Tuesday, after the company announced a deal to be acquired by diesel truck engine...

S&P 500 logs first correction in 2 years as Russia-Ukraine conflict escalates. Here’s what history says happens next to U.S. stock-market benchmark

The S&P 500 on Tuesday fell into a correction for the first time in two years, joining the Nasdaq Composite, as Russia sent troops into pro-Russian regions in Ukraine. The S&P 500 index SPX, -...

SoFi Stock Drops After News of Deal for Technisys

Text size The SoFi website is shown on a smartphone. Gabby Jones/Bloomberg Shares of SoFi Technologies plunged more than 8% Tuesday after the fintech said it is buying the banking software provider Te...

Cummins Is Buying Parts Maker Meritor. It’s a Deal About EV Trucks.

Text size Cummins is best known for its diesel engines, but it is also investing in electric powertrains and hydrogen technology. Dreamstime The diesel-engine manufacturer Cummins disclosed plans to b...

Moderna, Alibaba, Coinbase, Home Depot, Etsy, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed for Presidents Day on Monday. Fourth-quarter earning season resumes when Wall Street returns, with results from Agilent Technologies , H...

Dow futures sink about 500 points as Putin orders deployment of troops to eastern Ukraine

U.S. stock-index futures were headed sharply lower Monday evening as Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the deployment of troops to separatist areas within Ukraine, after recognizing their indep...

Online Real Estate Isn’t Worth the Chance

You can make a lot of money on physical real estate right now, but recent results from major online real-estate players show 2022 isn’t the year to play Monopoly in the stock market. The carnage isn’t...

Stock Market Today: Overseas Stocks Fall as Russia-Ukraine Tensions Simmer

Text size Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden have agreed in principle to a summit in Europe. AFP via Getty Images Global stocks fell on Monday as tensions remained high over the Russian military buildup on ...

Companies Are Starting to Worry About the Russia Issue

Text size The Alcoa headquarters in Pittsburgh. CEO Roy Harvey said a Russia-Ukraine conflict could affect demand. Justin Merriman/Bloomberg The standoff between Russia and Ukraine has been causing pa...

Surfside Tower Collapse Makes Buying Condos More Complicated

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are asking questions about the safety and soundness of condos and co-op buildings after the Surfside, Fla., tower collapse. There is little agreement on how to answer them. ...

U.S. stock futures fall, oil prices jump as U.S. says Russia has decided to invade Ukraine

U.S stock-index futures fell Sunday, amid even more urgent warnings from U.S. officials that a Russian invasion of Ukraine could come soon. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures YM00, -0.35%, S&P 5...

Moderna, Alibaba, Coinbase, Home Depot, Etsy, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed for Presidents Day on Monday. Fourth-quarter earning season resumes when Wall Street returns, with results from Agilent Technologies, Home Depot, and Medtron...

JPMorgan Now Expects Nine Straight Fed Rate Increases Until March 2023

Text size Wall Street banks are predicting more aggressive rate increases by the Federal Reserve. Stefani Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images Economists at JPMorgan Chase said the Federal Reserve would likely r...

Bitcoin Falls to Below $40,000 as Wall Street in ‘Full De-Risking Mode’

Text size Dreamstime.com Bitcoin fell below $40,000 Friday on renewed worries of an imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine and the prospect of higher U.S. interest rates this year.  Bitcoin, the world’s...

Scorned Treasury Bonds Could Be Good Bet After Fed Boosts Rates

Rarely has there been such unanimity of opinion among both Federal Reserve officials and the cadre of analysts who track and try to predict their future moves. Monetary policy will be tightened with a...

IRS to activate second ‘surge’ team to handle millions of backlogged tax returns

Two weeks ago, the Internal Revenue Service said it was reassigning 1,200 staffers as a “surge team” of reinforcements tasked with cutting into a backlog that included millions of unprocessed returns ...

What the threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine means for markets

Fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine are keeping investors on edge. President Joe Biden on Friday said he believed Russian leader Vladimir Putin had made up his mind to invade in coming days but tha...

Week’s Best: Wealthy Investors Are Hanging On to Their Cash

Advisors take note: despite a January increase in consumer prices not seen in four decades, investors are stubbornly clinging to cash positions or cash equivalents like CDs, according to a new survey ...

Calling Out ‘Emperor’ Larry Fink

When you’re 98 years old you can say things others can’t, so bravo to Charlie Munger for daring to speak an important but too muffled truth about today’s financial markets. “We have a new bunch of emp...

Opinion: How to invest like a millionaire and build wealth for retirement

Over the course of my career, I’ve had the opportunity to work with multiple self-made millionaires. Though they come from varied backgrounds, these investors have a few key habits in common—ones that...

Death cross crystallizes in Nasdaq Composite on Friday for first time in 2 years, in a bearish sign for the stock market

The Nasdaq Composite index has produced a “death cross” chart pattern on Friday, a bearish chart pattern for an asset. History suggests this occurrence could weigh on the broader stock market over the...

Presidents Day or Washington’s Birthday? Is the stock market open? Here are trading hours.

U.S. financial markets will be closed on Monday in observance of Presidents Day, or Washington’s Birthday, if you prefer. The Intercontinental Exchange Inc. ICE, -1.96% -owned New York Stock Exchange ...

‘He promised to pay them off’: My daughter lived with a man for 9 years. He took out credit cards in her name. Will she be held liable?

Dear Quentin, I have a problem. My daughter lived with a guy for nine years. During that time, I found out that he took out two credit cards in her name without her permission. Identity theft, right? ...

Stock market faces the most ‘massive misallocation’ of ‘capital in the history of mankind,’ says ARK’s Cathie Wood

Cathie Wood, the star fund manager and chief executive of ARK Invest, took to CNBC to defend the woeful performance of the manager’s suite of disruptive innovation funds. Wood told the business networ...

8 Biotech Stocks So Cheap That Their Technology Is Effectively Free

Text size A number of biotechs have market values that are less than the cash on their balance sheets. Dreamstime It’s mid-February, and the beleaguered biotech sector is showing no real signs of reco...

Charlie Munger Expects Index Funds to Change the World—and Not in a Good Way

Charlie Munger doesn’t think Larry Fink should be running the world. Mr. Munger, the billionaire vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and Warren Buffett’s business partner, said the rise of index ...

I’m 35 and have $380K in student loans. How to get out of student loan debt fast

Getty Images/iStockphoto Question: “I’m 35 years old, I have one kid and another on the way. My partner is afraid to marry me because of my debt, and I don’t have a steady income. I have two masters d...

Nvidia’s Earnings Are Today. What to Expect.

Text size The graphic chip giant has become the top semiconductor maker in the U.S., eclipsing Intel. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Graphics chip giant Nvidia is expected to post strong financial resul...

‘Take advantage of this pullback,’ says Morgan Stanley executive who sees buying opportunities amid Russia-Ukraine tension

Tension centered on Russia and Ukraine has opened up an opportunity for investors to put cash to work in the stock market, according to Andrew Slimmon, senior portfolio manager for equities at Morgan ...