Berkshire Sold $5 Billion of Financial Stocks, Possibly Citigroup and Bank of NY

Berkshire Hathaway likely unloaded nearly $5 billion of financial stocks from its portfolio in the third quarter, and two possible candidates for the trimmed positions are Citigroup and Bank of New Yo...

Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Holdings Looks Invitingly Cheap

Billionaire investor Bill Ackman has a flair for the dramatic and often makes bold moves. This year has been no exception. Ackman made about $1.7 billion from a bet on higher interest rates and incurr...

Higher Rates Hammer Home Buyers—and Make Mortgage REITs Lucrative for Investors

It’s instructive and often amusing to see how the popular media cover economic and financial news. You can get a handle on the public’s sentiment from how they treat those topics, which usually varies...

Do Coinbase’s recent financials mean something for other crypto-exchanges

American crypto-exchange Coinbase has revealed its performance stats from the third quarter of 2022. The numbers shared by the exchange painted a rather grim picture of its financials.  $545 million l...

Big Pension Sells Apple, Block, and Estée Lauder Stock. Here’s What It Bought.

A big Dutch pension recently disclosed material changes in some of its largest U.S.-traded investments. Pensioenfonds PNO Media sold positions in Apple (ticker: AAPL), Block ( SQ ), and Estée Lauder (...

Small-Cap Stocks Have Rarely Been So Depressed. 7 to Buy Now.

Longtime investor Nicholas F. Galluccio has seen his fair share of market turmoil, but one thing has remained constant over nearly four decades: a focus on finding small stocks with big prospects. Gal...

This 28-year-old’s side hustle brings in up to $267K per year

When Domonique Brown was growing up, she was the only Black kid in her class. “It was definitely tough for me to find things that represented me,” she said. She remembers how her father wo...

5 Low P/E Stocks Paying Steady Dividends

A financial data analysis graph. Getty One of the benefits of this year’s stock market sell-off is that investors can identify many value stocks based on the most basic of metrics. This is different t...

Concerns Over Blackstone’s Big Retail Real Estate Fund Weigh on Its Stock

Investor concerns about Blackstone’s big retail real estate fund have weighed on its stock in recent months and comments by management this week didn’t appear to help. Although Blackstone (ticker: BX)...

IRS bumps estate-tax exclusion to $12.92 million for 2023

Bernd Vogel | Getty Images Ultra-wealthy Americans can soon protect more assets from federal estate taxes, the IRS announced this week.  Starting in 2023, individuals can transfer up to $12.92 million...

Goldman CEO Frustrated by Stock Price, Says Most Staff in Office Every Day

Goldman Sachs Group CEO David Solomon expressed some frustration with the valuation of the company’s stock, noting that it generally has traded a premium to book value since its IPO in 1999. “Would I ...

Goldman Sachs Reports Earnings Today. Everyone Is Watching For This.

Goldman Sachs Group is the last of the big banks to post third-quarter earnings but Wall Street is more concerned over the investment bank’s bigger plans. Over the last few weeks reports have noted th...

How Alternative Investments Saved the Day for Big University Endowments

University endowments, battered by stock-market losses, posted their worst fiscal year since the financial crisis. The largest funds, however, were helped by higher allocations to alternative investme...

These NASDAQ Bank Stocks Are Hitting New 52-Week Highs

Bank Building getty Despite higher interest rates and expectations of even higher interest rates, these NASDAQNDAQ -traded bank stocks established new 52-week highs this week. This is remarkable and u...

Citigroup (C) earnings Q3 2022

Jane Fraser speaks during the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., on Monday, April 29, 2019. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg via Getty Images Citigroup reported stronger-th...

Citigroup Reports Earnings Friday. What to Expect.

Wall Street will be looking for more signs of Citigroup turnaround when the bank posts third-quarter results Friday. Like all banks, Citigroup (ticker: C) has faced challenges this year as it has had ...

Five Investment Firms Hitting New 52-Week Lows This Week

Front view of brown bear isolated on black background. Portrait of Kamchatka bear (Ursus arctos … [+] beringianus) getty Interest rate hikes are taking a toll on investment firms as they adjust ...

Here’s how uber-rich pass wealth tax-free to heirs when markets are down

Brand New Images | Stone | Getty Images A lousy stock market is often no reason for investors to cheer. But for the uber-rich, it may offer a route to lower estate taxes down the road. That’s be...

Famed Value Investor Buys Stock in Citigroup, PulteGroup, and Oshkosh

Value investor Edgar Wachenheim III’s Greenhaven Associates recently made major changes in its investments. Greenhaven increased its stakes in Citigroup (ticker: C) and home builder PulteGroup (PHM), ...

How to protect your finances from natural disasters like Hurricane Ian

Tap emergency resources Reach out to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Disaster Assistance Improvement Program and the American Red Cross, as well as state and local governments, for emergency ...

Credit Suisse seeking to assure investors amid financial concerns: FT

A Swiss flag flies over a sign of Credit Suisse in Bern, Switzerland FABRICE COFFRINI | AFP | Getty Images Credit Suisse executives are in talks with its major investors to reassure them amid rising c...

American homebuyers find UK bargains, discounted by a weaker pound

Street in Chelsea district, London Alexander Spatari | Moment | Getty Images American homebuyers are searching for bargains in the U.K., as a weaker pound contributes to double-digit price cuts. The f...

Hurricane Ian May Hurt Florida Properties, and Actually Help Insurers

When Hurricane Andrew hit south Florida on the morning of Aug. 24, 1992, insurance stocks opened down. But by noon they’d recovered and the sector closed up that day, recalls MKM Partners analyst Harr...

The SPAC Bubble Has Burst. 6 Stocks That Still Have Potential.

One year ago, investors couldn’t get enough of special-purpose acquisition companies. Now, they can’t dump SPACs fast enough. In 2021, some 613 SPACs came to market, two-and-a-half times as many as in...

Goldman Sachs Is Preparing Layoffs. Tech Isn’t the Only Industry Cutting Jobs.

Text size Goldman Sachs is putting together a plan to lay off employees, according to reports. Jason Alden/Bloomberg Goldman Sachs is putting together a plan to lay off employees, according to media r...

Why Total Yield Can Be a Savior in Volatile Markets

Text size MetLife is one of the financial firms that has thrived this year. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Income investors are finally having their moment. In a volatile year for markets, which saw major in...

Best Buy reports its financials for the second quarter

Best Buy Co. (NYSE: BBY) announces its second-quarter financials for the 2022 fiscal year. Domestic revenue decreased 13.1% to $9.57 billion. From a merchandising point of view, Best Buy had a sales d...

Express Posts 5th Consecutive Quarter Of Positive Financials; Gains Market Share

Express Edit stores are the future for the retailer. The small-format units post higher sales and … [+] conversions. Courtesy of Express While it was clearly below the company’s expectations, Ex...

Dick’s Sporting Goods announces second-quarter financials 

DICK’S Sporting Goods (NYSE: DKS) is known for creating both excitement and confidence by personally equipping its sportspeople to achieve all their goals and dreams, this top-in-class omnichannel cor...

How this family of four partners manages finances in a nontraditional relationship

Rachel, Kyle, Ashley and Yair are two married couples in a nonmonogamous relationship. They share a house, car, dog, cat, partners and finances. They also have plans to have children together. They ha...

Biden Forgives Up to $20,000 in Student Loan Debt. What It Means for Nelnet and Navient.

Text size President Joe Biden said he met a pledge to “provide student debt relief.” Getty Images The Biden administration announced Wednesday the cancellation of $10,000 in federal studen...

How to save $1 million for retirement on an annual salary of $70,000

Consistently saving a small percentage of your salary is a simple way to ensure you’re prepared for retirement. As a rule of thumb, most financial advisors suggest you save 10% to 15% of your ea...