Are SPACs That Bad? Study Find Similar Returns for Blank Checks and IPOs

Text size A wheel loader moves ore at MP Materials’ mine in Mountain Pass, Calif. Joe Buglewicz/Bloomberg Special-purpose acquisition companies have lost their luster this year. But recent data ...

Boeing Might Sell Stock. It Could Be Too Late.

Text size Boeing’s Chicago headquarters. Scott Olson/Getty Images Boeing ’s chief financial officer indicated his company might sell stock when shares are higher. It’s a good idea. Boeing could ...

Goldman Sachs Group Named ‘Top Dividend Stock Of The Dow’ At Dividend Channel With 2.4% Yield

Goldman Sachs Group has been named as the ”Top Dividend Stock of the Dow”, according to Dividend Channel, which published its most recent ”DividendRank” report. The report note...

Berkshire Hathaway Is Likely to Buy Alleghany. No Rival Bids Emerged.

Text size Alleghany’s noninsurance operations include a toy business and a steel fabricator. Dreamstime It looks like Berkshire Hathaway will succeed in buying the insurer Alleghany for $11.6 bi...

Is the Stock Market Open Today? Here Are Hours for Easter Monday 2022.

Text size Dreamstime U.S. investors eager to trade after the holiday weekend will have plenty of news to digest, thanks to corporate earnings. More than 100 companies are slated to report this week—an...

Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Delta, TSMC, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited First-quarter earnings season begins this week, kicked off as always by results from several big banks. JPMorgan Chase reports on Wednesday, followed by Wells Fargo , Goldman Sach...

U.S. government bonds just suffered their worst quarter of the past half century: Here’s why some investors may not be fazed

U.S. government bonds just finished their worst quarter since at least 1973, yet some investors aren’t likely to be put off from buying Treasurys again given rising risks of a U.S. recession within th...

As Oil Briefly Dips Below $100, Russia and Europe Play a Game of Chicken

U.S. oil prices briefly dipped below $100 barrel Friday, as President Joe Biden’s plan to release one million barrels a day of reserves began to have the desired effect. But it’s premature to start th...

Apple reportedly wants to handle its own financial services, and partners’ stocks paid the price

Apple Inc. has increasing ambitions in financial technology as it explores ways to participate in the financial-services industry more directly, according to a Wednesday report. The company is develop...

Bitcoin rallies after Russia hints at using crypto with $50,000 seen possible on short covering

Bitcoin on Friday briefly traded above $45,000, a psychological level, as financial institutions pushed further into the digital asset space, while Russia hinted at the possibility of accepting bitcoi...

Constellation Energy Is a Buy at Goldman Sachs. Here’s Why.

Text size Constellation is one of the largest carbon-free energy generators in the country, relying on a mix of hydro, wind, solar, and nuclear energy. Sean Gallup/Getty Images Shares of Constellation...

Inflation, Interest-Rate Jitters, and Putin Are Brewing a Fierce Storm for the Stock Market

Text size A Ukrainian soldier in the Kharkiv region near the Russian border. Will Putin pull the trigger on an invasion? Sergey Bobok/AFP/Getty Images We were waist deep in the Big Muddy, and the big ...

Alibaba Earnings Are Coming. What to Expect.

A selloff in the technology sector and macroeconomic headwinds in China make Alibaba’s looming earnings report sure to be an interesting one. The Chinese e-commerce giant announced Friday that its fin...

Amazon May Have Saved the Stock Market. But It’s Looking Even Worse for Meta.

After Meta Platforms’ disastrous earnings outlook, the mood was pretty sour. And with investors weighing up the Federal Reserve’s future path for interest rates and the potential impact on valuations,...

Why the Floor for Bitcoin’s Price Is Zero

Text size What matters for Bitcoin is price momentum. Dreamstime A few thoughts early in the trading week: Recent crypto buyers who are sitting on deep losses surely don’t need me reminding them that ...

Goldman Sachs Stock Is a Buy—Even After a Disappointing Quarter

The lobby of the Goldman Sachs headquarters building in lower Manhattan. Goldman had a strong 2021, although trading slowed in the fourth quarter. Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg Text size Goldman Sachs Grou...

These 3 Bank Stocks Won Earnings Season. They’re All Worth Buying.

Text size Wells Fargo is a good play for investors who can stomach a little uncertainty. Dreamstime This bank earnings season has had its winners and losers, but the winners couldn’t be more different...

Is the Stock Market Open Today? These Are the Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2022 Hours.

Text size Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Investors looking for a brief respite from two weeks of volatile trading on Wall Street may get one on Mo...

Wells Fargo Rally Shows Warren Buffett’s Mistake in Selling Big Stake in Bank

Text size Warren Buffett Drew Angerer/Getty Images One of Warren Buffett’s worst investment moves in an otherwise fabulous career was Berkshire Hathaway ‘s sale in 2020 of a big stake in Wells Fargo a...

Get ready for the climb. Here’s what history says about stock-market returns during Fed rate-hike cycles.

Bond yields are rising again so far in 2022. The U.S. stock market seems vulnerable to a bona fide correction. But what can you really tell from a mere two weeks into a new year? Not much and quite a ...

Citigroup’s Adjusted Earnings Top Expectations. But the Stock Is Falling.

Text size A ‘Citi’ sign is displayed outside Citigroup Center near Citibank headquarters in Manhattan Mario Tama/Getty Images Citigroup stock was falling Friday even after the bank’s fourt...

Wells Fargo Stock Rises as Earnings Easily Top Estimates

Text size Wells Fargo bank David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Wells Fargo shares got a boost early Friday after the bank’s fourth-quarter earnings easily topped Wall Street’s expectations. Profits at the San...

Opinion: Citadel’s $1.15 billion cash infusion isn’t a bailout but the final test of Ken Griffin’s ‘Death Star’

When you add more than a billion dollars’ worth of liquidity to a market maker that already executed more than one of every four trades in the U.S. markets on a daily basis, while simultaneously givin...

Stock Futures Rise and Tesla Surges as a New Trading Year Begins

Text size A Wall Street sign outside the New York Stock exchange (NYSE) at Wall Street on November 30, 2020 in New York City. ANGELA WEISS/AFP/Getty Images Stock futures were rising Monday, suggesting...