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Will earnings season trigger another leg lower for the Dow? Investors hunt for recession clues
Stock-market investors just can’t get off the merry-go-round this summer. A stronger-than-expected U.S. June jobs report on Friday calmed fears that the economy might have already slipped into recessi...
How Corn and Soybeans Affect These 3 Biodiesel Stock Plays
Beans and corn have caught my attention, and this time it’s not just because ShopRite put summer succotash on sale. Prices for America’s two biggest cash crops are well off recent highs. Corn is down ...
How to Bottom-Pick a Stock
Text size Chewy stock has gained 63% since we made it a pick. That’s every trader’s dream, but it requires getting the timing right—and a whole lot of luck. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Buying winning stoc...
American Weed Stocks Are Cheap, and About to Get a Sales Bump
The AdvisorShares Pure US Cannabis ETF is down 25% in the past month, while the S&P 500 dropped 7%. Courtesy of Trulieve Text size However bad the year has been for most stocks, it’s been real har...
JPMorgan, Delta, Morgan Stanley, TSMC, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week
Text size Second-quarter earnings season is here. More than a dozen S&P 500 firms report this week, including several major banks. JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley go first on Thursday, followed ...
Commodity price declines may shape Fed’s rate-hike path, says economist
A significant downturn in commodity prices could give the Federal Reserve cover to change its aggressive pace of planned interest rate hikes, according to a report from Capital Economics. The centra...
How you can avoid bond fund losses when rates rise
Bond funds that don’t lose money when interest rates rise? Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? Such funds do exist, and my guess is that right now you’d jump at the chance to invest in them. That’...
The Stock Market Had a Great Week. Can the Good Times Last?
Text size *** ONE-TIME USE *** People attend the Mega Job Fair held at the FLA Live Arena on June 23, 2022 in Sunrise, Florida. The job fair had 8,000 jobs available from 100 different employers and e...
Your retirement portfolio is fundamentally flawed: GMO
All across America, retirees and near-retirees are reeling. They were assured by simplistic “McMoney” financial advisers that bonds were “safe,” that bond returns were steady and predictable, and that...
‘How much would I end up spending?’ I’ve got $10 million in assets, and am thinking about hiring a financial adviser. How much will this really cost me though?
Are you paying your financial adviser in the right way? Getty Images/iStockphoto Question: What is an appropriate wealth management rate? I’d have assets under management of $10 million, and I’m assum...
Vanguard to Pay Massachusetts Investors Millions Over Target-Date Fund Tax Hit
Vanguard will pay $6.25 million as part of settlement with Massachusetts’ state securities regulator over allegations that changes it made to certain target-date funds stuck investors with unexpectedl...
The DOL has a new IRA rollover rule for advisers to follow
IRA rollovers are common, whether they’re from an old 401(k) or just one account to another, but a newly implemented Department of Labor rule says financial advisers suggesting the move have some expl...
Watch out — this one mistake could cost you thousands when you rollover your 401(k) to an IRA
Here’s a pro tip that can hardly be said often enough. When you change jobs and you think about rolling over your old company’s 401(k) to an IRA…watch out for all the extra fees. “Thousands of dollars...
My financial adviser mostly opts for index funds. Is he worth what I pay him?
Is your financial adviser worth the money you pay them? Getty Images/iStockphoto Question: If a manager is just putting my money into index funds that track the market, are they actually doing anythin...
Borrowers are on edge—will Biden cancel student debt or not? Here’s what’s going on.
The “he” is, of course, President Joe Biden. Some 43 million borrowers are hanging onto hope that Biden will take executive action to relieve at least some of their collective $1.7 trillion debt. Rumo...
Peter Thiel-Backed Crypto Lender Vauld Suspends Withdrawals
A cryptocurrency lender backed by Peter Thiel and Coinbase Global Inc. suspended withdrawals, trading and deposits on its platform, citing volatile market conditions and financial difficulties facing ...
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...
The 60-40 portfolio is supposed to protect investors from volatility: so why is it having such a bad year?
The first half of 2022 has been a historically bad stretch for markets, and the carnage hasn’t been limited to stocks. As stocks and bonds have sold off in tandem, investors who for years have relied ...
Grayscale Bitcoin Trust’s Discount Is Tempting. Why It’s Not a Slam Dunk.
There is a way to buy Bitcoin for nearly a third less than the market price, but investors do so at their peril. That is the broad lesson to draw from the travails of the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (tick...
Crypto hedge fund Three Arrows files for U.S. bankruptcy
Crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital has filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 15 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, according to a court filing in the Southern District of New York on Friday. Three Arrows C...
Should You Roll Over Your 401(k) to an IRA? It Can Cost You Tens of Thousands.
Text size Retirement savers would do well to check the fees on fund holdings in 401(k) accounts held at former employers before rolling over to an IRA. Workplace savings plans tend to have more favora...
Chip Stocks Are in for Trouble, Analyst Says. 4 Stocks Get Downgrades.
Text size The iShares Semiconductor ETF has fallen even more than the overall market this year. Courtesy of Texas Instruments BofA Global Research is getting more downbeat about the chip industry. Eve...
These 10 stocks from a sector that is a bear-market bulwark have upside potential of up to 30%
During times of uncertainty, it can help to look at what happened during other down cycles for stocks. True, we don’t know when the stock market will hit bottom during this cycle, or if it already has...