As interest rates have risen, many banks have become more profitable because the spreads between what they earn on loans and investments and what they pay for funding has widened. But there are always...
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Ignore Wall Street’s gloom. Stocks do better when earnings fall: strategist
Adios to February, which disappointed many stock investors who enjoyed a bullish start to the year. But fears of a bigger meltdown by those swept up in Wall Street gloom may be in vain, says our call ...
Thomas H. Lee, Leveraged-Buyout Pioneer, Dies of Apparent Suicide
Private-equity pioneer Thomas H. Lee died unexpectedly at 78, his colleagues and family said late Thursday. New York Police Department officials said first responders to an emergency call Thursday mor...
Bonds are right and stocks are wrong. Here’s what you should do about it, says BlackRock
The final session of Wall Street’s holiday-shortened trading week will see the S&P 500 open pretty much smack in the middle of the 3,800 to 4,200 range it’s inhabited for more than three months. D...
Walmart, Alibaba, Moderna, and More Stocks to Watch This Week
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Walmart, Alibaba, Moderna, and More Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week
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Generous Bond Yields Prove There Is an Alternative to Stocks
Return with us to ancient times, when dinosaurs ruled, at least in technology terms. It was early 2007, when Blackberries were in everybody’s mitts and the first iPhone hadn’t yet gone on sale, let al...
George Soros Snapped Up Tesla, Peloton, Crypto Stocks. What He Dumped.
Tesla and Peloton were on George Soros’s shopping list in the fourth quarter of last year, as he also took new positions in Carvana General Motors and crypto names, while dumping Zoom and Twitter Sor...
PepsiCo Beats Earnings Estimates and Hikes Dividend. The Stock Is Rising.
PepsiCo beat earnings and revenue estimates in the fourth quarter, driven by higher prices. It increased its annual dividend, sending the stock higher in premarket trading Thursday. The beverages and ...
No wonder Powell didn’t commit to extra hikes. Here are five reasons the January jobs report may be too good to be true.
Traders took heart that Fed Chair Jerome Powell, when he wasn’t being questioned by David Rubinstein on how he gets by on $190,000 per year, didn’t commit on Tuesday to having to be even more aggressi...
Diageo sees 9.4% jump in organic net sales for first half as prices rise
Diageo PLC UK:DGE said Thursday that pretax profit rose in the first half of fiscal 2023, supported by better-than-expected sales volumes due to higher prices, and raised its dividend payout. The Lond...
Opinion: 6 cheap stocks that famed value-fund manager Bill Nygren says can help you beat the market
These are tricky times in the stock market, so it pays to look to the best stock-fund managers for guidance on how to behave now. Veteran value investor Bill Nygren belongs in this camp, because the O...
Keurig K-Cup settlement: Today’s the final day to join the $10 million lawsuit
If you have been making your morning cup of coffee using the popular Keurig KDP, -0.63% pods, aka K-Cups, then you may be entitled to some money. The beverage giant recently agreed to settle a class-a...
20 banks that are sitting on huge potential securities losses—as was SVB
Silicon Valley Bank has failed following a run on deposits, after its parent company’s share price crashed a record 60% on Thursday. Trading of SVB Financial Group’s SIVB, -60.41% stock was halted ear...