Have retirement savers been fooled by the bull market?

Today in Weird Retirement News: 75% of those currently saving through a workplace plan, such as a 401(k), are apparently expecting to make it through their entire golden years without even having to t...

Intel Reports Earnings Thursday. Here’s What Wall Street Expects.

Text size Slowing demand for PCs could affect Intel’s guidance. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Semiconductor analysts are expecting a weak forecast from Intel when the chip maker reports earnings a...

Opinion: Google and Microsoft earnings show the bar has been lowered for Big Tech

Alphabet Inc. and Microsoft Corp. both reported results that missed Wall Street’s expectations Tuesday, but not only did investors not melt down, both actually saw their stocks rise in after-hours tra...

Fed can’t stop hiking interest rates even if there is a recession, former top central banker says

The Federal Reserve has to emulate Mario Draghi and do “whatever it takes” to bring inflation down and that means continuing to raise interest rates even if there is a recession, said former Richmond ...

It’s the end of ‘fantasyland’ for Big Tech and its workers

After Big Tech grew in unprecedented and unchecked fashion for a decade, building ostentatious palaces to house growing workforces while plying them luxuriant freebies to keep them from defecting to r...

Intuitive Surgical Stock Is Tanking. But Analysts Like the Long-Term Story.

Text size J.P. Morgan calls Intuitive’s da Vinci Xi robotic surgical system first and best in class. Courtesy of Intuitive Surgical Surgical systems manufacturer Intuitive Surgical had a disappo...

Some older workers are being welcomed back to the workforce

Tad Greener’s career and expertise was mostly related to electric and natural gas utilities. Toward the end of 2019 he unexpectedly found himself subject to a “reduction in workplace” at the universit...

AT&T Stock Is a Buy Ahead of Earnings, Analyst Says

Text size ATT said in June it expected higher margins in the second half of the year. Dreamstime AT&T stock remains a Buy at Citi ahead of the company’s first earnings report since separating from...

The Oil Crisis Isn’t Over, IEA Says. Why Prices Are Falling.

Text size Oil prices have remained high since Russia invaded Ukraine in March. Mario Tama/Getty Images Oil prices were slipping on Tuesday, even as the head of the International Energy Agency warned t...

Money Is Pouring Into Bonds Again. What It Means.

Text size The renewed interest in government bonds comes as the 10-year Treasury yield has surged to around 3%. Dreamstime Investors are pouring money into bond funds—a reversal from a trend seen for ...

Coal Is on Its Way Out, Despite Supreme Court EPA Ruling

Text size A NextEra Energy wind farm in Whitewater, Calif. Bing Guan/Bloomberg The U.S. utility industry’s shift from coal and toward renewables likely will be unaffected by a recent Supreme Court rul...

Big Banks Report Earnings This Week. Here’s What Wall Street is Watching.

Text size CEO Brian Moynihan says Bank of America is always prepared for a recession because it has no choice but to be ready, Davis Turner/Getty Images The big banks start to report their earnings th...

Car quality is slipping: These are the brands with the most and least complaints, study finds

New car owners are experiencing more problems in the first 90 days of ownership than ever before. Buick took the top spot in the 2022 J.D. Power Initial Quality Study, but the headline isn’t the winne...

General Mills and Micron Raised Their Dividends. Banks Will Soon, Too.

Text size Justin Sullivan/Getty Images General Mills and Micron Technology declared dividend increases this week, and various large banks announced plans for their disbursements. General Mills (ticker...

Here’s how much your Social Security check is likely to go up next year

Good news — sort of. If you’re retired or just about to retire, next year’s Social Security checks are likely to see one of the biggest bumps on record as a result of surging consumer prices. The aver...

Vanguard Sues UHNW Advisor Over Alleged Client Solicitation

The Vanguard Group is suing one of its former ultrahigh-net-worth financial advisors for allegedly violating a one-year nonsolicitation agreement he signed while an employee. The financial services gi...

How retirees should navigate this bear market

Here’s how best to play the market for the rest of 2022: Don’t look. I offer this advice not because I believe the bear market will continue—though of course it could. I would offer the same advice if...

Here’s how you can compound dividend stocks to double the S&P 500’s return

Companies announce dividend increases all the time, but here’s one that points to a simple investing strategy that can lower your risk and make you a lot of money over the years. Maybe it isn’t so exc...

The U.S. housing market is teetering on recession. Will the economy soon follow?

The last time the housing market suffered a major meltdown in 2006, it took the entire U.S. economy with it. But history never follows the exact same script twice. The weakening housing market is undo...

The 7 Worst Housing Markets in America, According to Lennar

Text size Rising mortgage rates are dragging on the housing market. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Jersey and Florida are hot. Housing in Austin and Seattle is not, according to the co-CEO of the U.S.’s...

Energy and these 2 other sectors led the S&P 500. Now they’ve tanked. Here’s why that could be good for the stock market.

An unwind of the stock market’s best performing sectors had to happen eventually. And that may be just what this bear market ordered, according to Jonathan Krinsky, chief market technician at BTIG. Si...

Stock Market Bargain Hunters May Want to Hold Off

A 20%-plus decline in the stock market often is a signal to bargain hunters to step in. But strategists caution that U.S. stocks could be in for further losses, and investors may want to remain patien...

Bitcoin’s nosedive through the $20,000 mark is a Minsky Moment for crypto: ‘Psychologically for a lot of people, this is galling’

Is bitcoin BTCUSD, +4.03% facing a breaking point? That’s what some investors, acolytes and otherwise, might be contemplating, as the cryptocurrency’s descent accelerates over the weekend. The world’s...

Wall Street is officially in a bear market: What strategists say investors should do

The U.S. stock market met popular criteria for a bear market this week as the latest declines by the S&P 500 took the U.S. large-cap benchmark down by more than 20% from its record close in Januar...

Crypto crash: What contagious risks could Celsius, Three Arrows pose? Here’s what to watch

The latest crisis started Sunday with Celsius, one of the biggest crypto lending platforms, pausing all withdrawals, swaps and transfers between accounts. The company reportedly has hired restructurin...

‘The economy is going to collapse,’ says Wall Street veteran Novogratz. ‘We are going to go into a really fast recession.’

Veteran investor and bitcoin bull Michael Novogratz doesn’t have a rosy outlook on the economy, which he described as headed for a substantial downturn, with the likelihood of a “fast recession” on th...

Why stocks and bonds went into relief-rally mode after Fed’s jumbo rate hike

Financial markets suffered an absolute bloodbath in the days leading up to Wednesday’s Federal Reserve decision, with stocks plunging and bond yields soaring in the wake of surprisingly hot inflation ...

Warren Buffett gives away $4 billion in Berkshire Hathaway stock as bidding for his last ever luncheon hits $3 million

As bidding for the last-ever chance to lunch with Berkshire Hathaway’s chairman and CEO Warren Buffett reached the $3 million mark, the investing legend himself announced a $4 billion giveaway in stoc...

Opinion: ‘The stock market is not going to zero’: How this individual investor with 70 years of experience is trading the bear market

Not many investors can claim a lifetime of stock-market success. Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway BRK.A, -1.94% BRK.B, -1.39% comes to mind, of course, but what about Warren Kaplan? Who? Kaplan is...

Harvard expert warns of potential ‘harm’ to index investing, as Republican bill takes on ‘woke fund managers’

Senators and legal experts tussled Tuesday over the merits of a Republican bill that aims to reduce the voting power of the three index-investing giants — BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street. Republi...

New car prices rose again, everyone’s paying over sticker; when will the squeeze start to ease?

The average new car sold for $47,148 in May. That’s not quite the record high prices hit last December. But it’s close — May saw the second-highest prices on record. The average sale price increased b...