Bank of America Has Biggest Losses in Bond Portfolio Among Peers

Bank of America is sitting on the largest losses among the country’s biggest banks in a key portion of its bond portfolio. Bank of America (ticker: BAC), like other banks, invests in Treasury securiti...

Companies Lay Off Workers to Save Money. What 27 Said on Earnings Calls.

What do PayPal,  AT&T and Tinder owner Match Group all have in common? They are among the several S&P500 companies saying that trimming their workforces should provide a boost to their financi...

Berkshire Hathaway’s Buy in Truck-Stop Operator Pays Off

Berkshire Hathaway investors may soon get a read on one of the company’s better deals in the past decade—a 2017 purchase for nearly $3 billion of a 38.6% interest in Pilot Flying J, the country’s lead...

Goldman Sachs Stock Looks Cheap After a Rough Week

Goldman Sachs Group stock looks appealing after a selloff this week triggered by disappointing fourth-quarter earnings and a report of a federal regulatory probe of the bank’s money-losing consumer bu...

Alibaba, XPeng, Goldman Sachs, and More Stock Market Movers Tuesday

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Netflix, Goldman Sachs, United Airlines, Morgan Stanley, and More Stocks to Watch This Week

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Netflix, Goldman Sachs, United Airlines, Morgan Stanley, and More Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

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JPMorgan Reports Earnings Friday. Here’s What to Expect.

JPMorgan Chase will be one of the first big banks to report fourth-quarter 2022 financial results on Friday, and Wall Street expects a mixed bag. Revenue at the bank is forecast to swell to $34.5 bill...

Citigroup Reports Earnings Friday. Here’s What Wall Street Expects.

Citigroup is in the midst of a yearslong turnaround. On Friday, Wall Street will see how successful the bank’s efforts have been. Like most of its peers, Citigroup (ticker: C) is expected to post a dr...

Bank of America Posts Earnings Friday. What Wall Street Expects.

Higher interest rates are expected to drive up Bank of America ‘s fourth-quarter revenue, even as the bank is projected to see a drop in profits. Bank of America (ticker: BAC) is forecast to post reve...

Big Banks Predict Recession, Fed Pivot in 2023

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Why Companies Do Layoffs Around Christmas

As job cuts ripple through industries such as tech and media, it is hard not to notice how the holiday season is a really unfortunate time for workers to be getting pink slips.  There is arguably no g...

This Isn’t the Bottom and Recession Isn’t Priced In, Goldman Says

Markets haven’t priced in a recession, according to analysts at Goldman Sachs Equities and credit markets are pricing in a lower risk of recession than rates and currency traders, though no asset clas...

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...

Tesla, Netflix Set to Report Earnings as Recession Talk Mounts

Procter & Gamble Netflix and Tesla highlight a busy coming week of earnings as persistent inflation and climbing interest rates stoke talk of a recession. Consumer healthcare giant Johnson & J...

Tesla, Goldman Sachs, Netflix, AT&T, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

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Peloton Co-Founder John Foley Faced Repeated Margin Calls From Goldman Sachs as Stock Slumped

John Foley, the co-founder and former chief executive of Peloton Interactive faced repeated margin calls on money he borrowed against his Peloton holdings before he left the fitness company’s board la...

Bond Yields Are Finally Looking Attractive. What to Buy Now.

It has taken a historic selloff, but the bond rout may finally be winding down. Yields are also looking plump enough to be attractive again. A two-year Treasury now gets you 4.1%, a yield not seen sin...

Why Alibaba, Other China Tech Stocks Are an Exception to Goldman Sachs’ Outlook

Text size Alibaba and other Chinese tech stocks have been battered since the beginning of last year. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg Chinese tech stocks have taken a beating since many hit all-time highs in earl...

This Is a Good Time to Buy Short-Term Bonds

Until recently, short-term bonds were a yield wasteland: A two-year Treasury note yielded 0.21% a year ago and just 1% in January. Today, the yield is over 3.8% and could soon touch 4%, thanks in good...

‘Social Bonds’ Help People. Investors in Them Get Paid.

When Rook Soto lost his law enforcement job in 2010 for health reasons, he had big medical bills and had to take temporary jobs to survive. For a month, he was homeless and lived out of a van. Soto ha...

Banks Nearing $1 Billion Settlement Over Traders’ Use of Banned Messaging Apps

WASHINGTON—Many of Wall Street’s biggest banks are nearing agreements to pay as much as $200 million each and admit that their employees’ use of personal messaging apps such as WhatsApp violated regul...

PNC Financial Services Has Big Ambitions—and a 3.4% Dividend Yield

With the acquisition of the U.S. banking operations of Spain’s BBVA, PNC now has a presence in all of the top 30 markets in the U.S., including St. Louis. Peter Newcomb/Great Forest Park Balloon Race ...

New Buyback Tax Will Force Companies to Think Twice on How to Use Cash

In the scrap over how to fund President Joe Biden’s spending plans, the Democrats’ focus has shifted from taxing private funds to public at the last minute. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D., Ariz.) backs dropp...

Apple, Amazon, Meta Highlight Tech-Heavy Earnings Week

Tech giants Apple Amazon.com and Microsoft headline a busy earnings week amid growing investor fears of recession, rising interest rates and surging inflation. A little more than one-third of S&P ...

Carnival Stock Falls as Share Sale Causes ‘Panic.’ What’s Worrying the Market.

Text size Cruise liners were given a boost earlier this week after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lifted more Covid rules for ships. Daniel Slim/AFP via Getty Images Carnival stock was...

Why Goldman Sachs Group Is A Top 25 Dividend Giant

Goldman Sachs Group has been named as a Top 25 ”Dividend Giant” by ETF Channel, with a staggering $14.58B worth of stock held by ETFs, and above-average ”DividendRank” statisti...

Earnings Season Won’t Make or Break the Stock Market

Text size Investors will get the first earnings news from the big banks, which start reporting on July 14. Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg Earnings season is about to begin, and that means the stock market ...

Stock Outlook Brightens as Jobs Stay Strong, Commodities Prices Decline

Text size The jobless rate held steady at 3.6% in June. Above, looking for work at a job fair in Florida. Joe Raedle/Getty Images The economy looks resilient, and inflation is coming down. That combin...

Banks Get Burned by Risky Debt, Imperiling Buyout Activity

By Laura Cooper July 3, 2022 9:03 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) Investment banks are facing big losses on leveraged buyouts they agreed to finance before markets soured, further chilling the out...

Crypto’s Domino Effect Is Widening, Threatening More Pain

Turmoil in the digital-assets ecosystem has grown in recent weeks, with losses in cryptocurrencies blowing holes in balance sheets and pushing firms near bankruptcy. After a pair of cryptocurrencies c...