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JP Morgan, Other Banks Are Strong Financially. Why Earnings Don’t Reflect It.
Text size Wells Fargo added $8.4 billion to reserves in the second quarter of 2020, released $1.6 billion a year later, and added $580 million in the most recent quarter. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Ima...
A Strong U.S. Dollar Raises Risks for Everyone
Text size The strong dollar is especially bad news for tech companies that realize much of their profits abroad. Sean Gallup/Getty Images Nothing can stop the dollar—and until something does, expect m...
EU Shipowners Race to Move Russian Oil Before Sanctions Kick In
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7 financial planning steps to take in the decade before retirement
The decade leading up to your retirement is one of the most critical periods for retirement planning. There are a number of financial planning issues to consider during this time period to help ensure...
Vertical Aerospace Stock Soars. American Airlines Provides Cash for eVTOL Maker.
Text size There are many new players vying for eVTOL market share, including Vertical Aerospace. Courtesy Vertical Aerospace Vertical Aerospace , the eVTOL maker, secured some expected funding from Am...
I’ll be 65 soon, have $320,000 in retirement savings and a paid-off home but I’m $46,000 in debt – should I take more money out of my investments?
I’ll be 65 in a couple months. I retired at 63 and am currently receiving survivor Social Security payments (from my late husband). I plan on switching over to my Social Security at 70. I receive abou...
Chip Stock Earnings Estimates Still Look Way Too High, Goldman Analyst Warns
Text size Goldman Sachs’ cuts to earnings forecasts for chip manufacturers were both broad and deep. Dreamstime Chip stocks are gaining ground on Friday following better-than-expected financial ...
75 or 100 basis points? Lost in market debate over Fed’s next rate hike is ‘how long inflation stays at these levels’
Debate has been simmering over whether Federal Reserve policy makers will raise the fed-funds rate by three-quarters of a percentage point later this month, as they did in June, or step up their infla...
Dow jumps 650 points as stocks close sharply higher after stronger-than expected retail sales report, surge in Wall Street bank shares
U.S. stock indexes closed sharply higher Friday, with the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average each snapping a five-day losing streak, after stronger-than-expected retail sales data and a mode...
Amazon’s Earnings Outlook Could Be Better Than Feared, Analyst Says
Text size Amazon workers pull a cart of packages for delivery in New York City. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Amazon . com will report second-quarter earnings two weeks from now, and the Street is ...
Tesla, Ford, and GM’s Plan to Unlock EV Battery Capacity
Text size Panasonic will put up an EV battery plant in Kansas. It’s the latest of a long list of planned battery plants coming to North America. David Becker/Getty Images Lithium batteries are t...
The U.S. dollar hasn’t been this strong against the euro in 20 years. Here’s what happened next.
A gutsy contrarian bet right now is that the strong U.S. dollar will weaken, particularly versus the euro. A secondary bold bet is that U.S. stocks will lag international equities. Dollar weakness wou...
Gasoline Demand Is the Lowest in a Year. Blame Remote Work, Not Pump Prices.
Text size U.S. crude oil inventory levels still remain 5% below the five-year average for this time of year. Brandon Bell/Getty Images It isn’t just high oil prices, but Americans working from home th...
Opinion: The SPACsplosion is about to become a liquidation frenzy — and that may be for the best
As the SPAC boom was beginning to rage two years ago, this column asked why in the world any company would want to be acquired by a former chief executive best known for executing one of the worst acq...
Here’s the sector most at risk from Russia permanently shutting off gas to Germany — and it’s taking a tumble
There are few companies with more at stake from Russian natural-gas flows into Germany than the chemicals sector. Shares of chemicals companies including BASF BAS, +2.61%, Lanxess LXS, +3.77% and Cove...
Celsius Owes Users More Than $4.7 Billion
Celsius Network LLC has a roughly $1.2 billion hole in its balance sheet, with the majority of its liabilities owed to the cryptocurrency lender’s users, according to a Thursday filing by Chief Execut...
The Wing CEO Exits After Five Months in Top Job
The chief executive of women-focused co-working company the Wing, Jen Cho, has left the company after fewer than six months in the role. Ms. Cho declined to comment on her reasons for leaving the comp...
Qualcomm Is a Top Stock Pick on Valuation, Says J.P. Morgan
Text size Qualcomm headquarters in San Diego. Bing Guan/Bloomberg J.P. Morgan believes semiconductor company Qualcomm is getting too cheap to ignore. On Thursday, analyst Samik Chatterjee reiterated h...
A ‘who’s who of American business’ — big Wall Street names are marking the end phase of the bear market, says adviser
The good news about this bear market in stocks is that we’re more than halfway through it. The bad news is that we’re getting close to the final stage, when “everything must fall.” That’s according to...