Inflation Is Surging. Here Are Some Portfolio Changes to Consider.

Market sentiment changes awfully fast these days. Rising concerns about the impact of interest-rate hikes pushed the S&P 500 down more than 5% in January (with the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Inde...

Zillow’s lost more than $230 million in its iBuying fire sale, but the stock is still surging

Three months after a home-flipping initiative imploded in an embarrassing public display, Zillow Group Inc. reported record revenue from selling the underwater homes Thursday and predicted big sales a...

Uber Says Ebitda Could Hit $5 Billion. Stock Drops After Halt Is Lifted.

Text size Uber’s latest forecast was in line with what Wall Street had expected/ Alastair Pike / AFP via Getty Images Uber expects to expand its gross bookings by between 22% and 25% a year thro...

Opinion: How to profit from your losses on those ‘Cathie Wood’ stocks

Americans have lost billions of dollars from their retirement funds in the past year as some of the most popular recent investments have come crashing down to earth. As our chart above shows, many of ...

‘I don’t know if it’s worth dealing with tenants’: Should I convert my home into a rental, or sell it?

I have enough money to put down on a second home — I need a slightly bigger place and another bedroom. I currently live in Portland, Ore., but I am planning to move outside of Portland. However, I’m c...

The Outlook for Housing, Malls, Workspaces, and Other Real Estate

Carly Tripp grew up playing in corn fields in Olney, Md., about 30 miles outside of Washington, D.C. But by the time she graduated high school, five grocery stores had popped up within a one-mile radi...

Pfizer Stock Is Falling. Did Investors Misunderstand the Revenue Guidance?

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla talks. John Thys/Pool/AFP/Getty Images Text size Pfizer shares dropped sharply after the company’s 2022 sales guidance appeared to fall short of expectations. The guidance tha...

CVS Stock Is Tumbling. Lowered Range for Cash-Flow Guidance Unnerved Investors.

Text size CVS stock is falling after earnings. Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for CVS Pharmacy   CVS Health stock was falling after lowered cash-flow guidance overshadowed better-than-expected fourth-quart...

Canopy Growth Stock Jumps After Earnings, Despite Slowing Marijuana Sales

Text size Marijuana plants at a Canopy Growth facility in Ontario. Chris Roussakis/Bloomberg Canopy Growth‘s shares were jumping Wednesday after the Canadian cannabis company reported higher-than-expe...

Tesla Finally Gets a Mention as Biden Talks Up Electric Vehicles

Text size President Joe Biden spoke in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images President Joe Biden just publicly said the T-word— Tesla —seeming to extend an olive branch to ...

How Much Is Trump’s New Social-Media Company Worth? Traders Can’t Decide

Traders are struggling to place a consistent value on Donald Trump’s new social-media venture, a business that hasn’t offered much in the way of details but one that supporters think is destined to ta...

I took out student loans for my now-imprisoned son. I owe $50K. Please help.

From student loan forgiveness to refinancing, some options to consider. Getty Images/iStockphoto Question: I just turned 60 and will probably have to work 20 more years. I currently owe about $50,000 ...

Pfizer Stock Fell 2.8%. Did Investors Misunderstand the Revenue Guidance?

Text size Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla talks. John Thys/Pool/AFP/Getty Images Pfizer shares dropped sharply on Tuesday after the company’s 2022 sales guidance appeared to fall short of expectations. The g...

Novavax Stock Tumbles on Report That Vaccine Deliveries Are Lagging

Text size Novavax labs in Gaithersburg, Md. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Novavax shares were plunging more than 15% Tuesday after the company acknowledged to Reuters that it has comp...

5 popular financial rules you might want to ditch

Traditional financial advice like the kind you got from your parents is often true but even experienced investors might rely on maxims that are outdated and no longer serving your financial well-being...

Opinion: Trump-related SPACs surge, then fall, as retail investors have their own Joe Rogan experience

Joe Rogan’s podcast future is up in the air, and — for a few hours on Monday — so were the stock prices of some MAGA SPACs. Shares in CF Acquisition Corp VI CFVI, +18.17% soared as high as 39.7% in la...

Pfizer Reports Earnings Tuesday. What to Expect.

Text size Pfizer is scheduled to report its earnings before the market opens on Tuesday. Jeenah Moon/Getty Images There’s no mystery about what 2022 will bring for Pfizer : Enormous, record-shattering...

Alphabet, Payal and Other Growth Stocks That Can Thrive in a Labor Shortage

Text size PayPal is among companies keeping employees happy, according to Just Capital. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The inability to hire workers and a labor shortage is an oft-repeated concern from ...

Apple, Not Amazon, Should Buy Peloton. One Analyst Explains Why.

Text size (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images) It’s been reported that Amazon.com and Nike are weighing bids for Peloton Interactive . One analyst said he’s be surprised if Apple also wasn’t in t...

These end-of-life planning forms will save your family a lot of heartache, the trouble with Alaska’s oil fund and more retirement news

From MarketWatch: Opinion: Big money trouble with Alaska’s $80 billion oil fund: A major political row has broken out at Alaska’s Permanent Fund, the state’s giant $82 billion oil fund, where the firi...

Opinion: Should you add residential real estate to your retirement portfolio?

Is there a way to invest in residential real estate as an asset class? It’s a timely question since, as I pointed out last week, residential real estate can play an important role in reducing the prob...

Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities: What Investors Should Know About TIPS

TIPS have suddenly moved to center stage for investors, as the surge in inflation has drawn new interest in Treasury inflation-protected securities. But how much do investors really know about these s...

The next ‘pain trade’ could be on the horizon as investors crowd into bets pegged to Fed monetary policy

Investors may be set up for the next so-called “pain” trade, with market participants increasingly coalescing around expectations that Federal Reserve needs to act aggressively to combat persistent U....

Nearly two years into the pandemic, Uber and Lyft still looking for a consistent lane

Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the ride-hailing industry is still seeking stability. Uber Technologies Inc. UBER, +7.27% and Lyft Inc. LYFT, +3.63% are scheduled to release fourth-quarte...

Tax season: does the IRS know if you trade crypto? Is your NFT sale or mining income taxable?

Hello! Welcome back to Distributed Ledger, our weekly crypto newsletter that reaches your inbox every Thursday. I’m Frances Yue, crypto reporter at MarketWatch. It is tax season in the U.S., and I’ll ...

6 Stocks to Play the New U.S. Economic Reopening

UPS was a Covid beneficiary—until it wasn’t. Now, it again looks like a reopening play. Mario Tama/Getty Images Text size Covid cases are falling and the economy is about to reopen—again. Playing it, ...

Beat inflation with 3 stocks that bet against oil in favor of EVs and the renewable-power grid

The likelihood that lingering inflation and other factors lead to persistently higher oil prices leaves this stock picker focused on alternative energy and electric vehicles. Ivana Delevska, founder a...

Wells Fargo Won an Investor Dispute. Judge Says It Gamed the System.

In 2017, Brian Leggett, a Wells Fargo customer, filed an arbitration claim against the bank and one of its financial advisors, accusing them of negligence and breach of fiduciary duty in how they hand...

Forget About Inflation. Contrarians Expect a Recession and a Drop in Bond Yields.

“Something that everyone knows isn’t worth knowing,” as the famed financier Bernard Baruch once observed. And so I was reminded by a long discourse in the New York Times this past week on why bond yie...

Cathie Wood Is Sticking With ARK’s “Super Growth” Stocks–and Avoiding the FAANGs

Opinions on Cathie Wood run strong. “She knows nothing more than anyone else,” one reader all-capped me in an email this past week. I think value investors have been waiting so long for a momentum-sto...

‘My husband refuses to pay my student loans.’ Is there some loophole to get him to pay?

How can you get out of student loan debt faster? Getty Images/iStockphoto Question: I am married but unemployed, and my husband refuses to pay my student loans, which I had before we were dating. Do I...

Opinion: Amid a global chip shortage, Intel is making less money — how did that happen?

Intel INTC, -2.48% was the world’s largest chipmaker until 2021, when it was dethroned by Samsung. Though Samsung’s main business is memory chips, which is a different segment of the market to Intel’s...