ConocoPhillips, CME Group and Others Boosted Dividends

Energy exploration and production giant ConocoPhillips (ticker: COP) said it will pay an ordinary dividend of 46 cents a share and a second-quarter variable return of cash of 30 cents a share. That’s ...

Beat inflation with 3 stocks that bet against oil in favor of EVs and the renewable-power grid

The likelihood that lingering inflation and other factors lead to persistently higher oil prices leaves this stock picker focused on alternative energy and electric vehicles. Ivana Delevska, founder a...

Why is bitcoin rallying 10% Friday? Crypto clambers to perch above $40,000 following jobs report.

Bitcoin was in rally mode on Friday, ascending to a two-week high above $40,000. More specifically, the cryptocurrency BTCUSD, +2.41% was trading at around $40,245 on Friday with a nearly 10% gain ove...

This way of picking value stocks has actually worked — and Berkshire Hathaway screens the best

Amazon.com’s earnings surprise is the story of the day, pushing even the jobs report into second billing. More on that in a second. But the broader story of the markets is unchanged. Interest rates ar...

‘No, no, no, no, no!’ My wife and I are close to retirement, but we want to buy a house. Should I empty my 401(k) for the down payment?

Dear MarketWatch, My wife and I have been renting for many years, and we think it’s time to buy our first house. We live in Westchester County, N.Y., and we are looking for a home in the $450,000 to $...

California, Florida, and Inflation Are Sinking Solar

Text size Ethan Miller/Getty Images The solar power industry is destined to grow many times over in the coming decades, and several companies will undoubtedly become behemoths. But the current picture...

Facebook wasn’t Thursday’s only big loser — these 16 other Nasdaq-100 stocks dropped at least 5%

Thursday was brutal for technology stock investors, as the carnage spread far beyond the parent company of Facebook. Below is a list of the worst 20 performers among the Nasdaq-100 on Feb. 3., led by ...

Opinion: ARK investors have lost $4 billion — ‘We believe we’re going to see the turn sooner rather than later,’ Cathie Wood says

Four billion dollars would provide for a lot of retirements. It would, for example, pay for about 80,000 of these popular recreational vehicles. Or about 40,000 of these popular boats. Or, more prosai...

These 7 semiconductor stocks may be close to a bottom. This chart pattern shows when and how much they might rebound.

Semiconductor stocks have been hit hard since the industry group rose to a record in early January. Analysts at Jefferies see a “peaking” pattern similar to those of 2014-2015 and 2017-2018, and expec...

Major Investors Hold Ground on Russian Debt Amid Ukraine Crisis

Tensions over a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine have put international investors on edge. But some are holding on to Russian debt, betting that a diplomatic solution to the crisis could spark a ...

Citrix Systems Near $13 Billion Buyout by Elliott, Vista: WSJ

Cloud-computing company Citrix Systems is close to a deal to be taken private, The Wall Street Journal reported. Dreamstime Text size This story originally appeared in The Wall Street Journal. Cloud-c...

Fidelity Wants a Piece of the Crowded Field of Metaverse ETFs

Text size Dreamstime Fidelity is trying to make a push into the metaverse. The fund giant filed an application with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday for an exchange-traded fund called ...

Cathie Wood’s ARK Faces Loyalty Test After Tech-Stock Rout

Cathie Wood says the high-risk stocks in the exchange-traded funds sold by ARK Investment Management LLC are so cheap that they will inevitably rise. A surprising number of investors are willing to gi...

Who Really Got Rich From the GameStop Revolution?

When Reddit became the rowdy center of the investing universe last January, its co-founder Alexis Ohanian called the frenzy a “revolution” and a “chance for Joe and Jane America, the retail buyers of ...

Netflix Co-CEO Reed Hastings Bought $20 Million of Stock

Text size Netflix co-founder and co-CEO Reed Hastings just made his first purchase of the company’s shares on the open market. Henrik Jonsson/Dreamstime.com Netflix ‘s stock has slumped in 2022,...

When to stop investing in the stock market? Wild price swings are shaking the resolve of some: Is it time to bail out of equities and bonds?

Is it time to bail out of stocks and bonds? This isn’t the market that investors likely signed up for back in 2021 when shares in GameStop Corp. GME, +4.69% and movie chain AMC Entertainment Holdings ...

Opinion: Warren Buffett is teaching meme-stock players and crypto traders some hard lessons about why market fundamentals still apply

In early 2021, age-old investing principles of business valuation were declared passe by meme-stock buyers, SPAC enthusiasts, and crypto-traders. A new generation of market players declared that Warre...

Weekend reads: Robinhood’s bad news — and a bit of good news

It’s been a year since Robinhood Markets Inc. HOOD, +9.65% briefly suspended “buy” orders for GameStop Corp. GME, +4.69%, AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. AMC, +3.72% and other meme stocks. The brokera...

Robinhood Has Lost its One True Advantage

Text size Robinhood’s stock was trading higher on Friday even after disappointing fourth-quarter results. Dreamstime Robinhood Markets posted a wider-than-expected loss in the fourth quarter and...

Investor Bought Up Moderna and Nvidia Stock. It Sold Salesforce and Sirius XM.

Text size A large U.K.-based asset manager bought up Moderna and Nvidia stock in the fourth quarter. Clement Mahoudeau/AFP via Getty Images A large U.K.-based asset manager made big changes in its U.S...

Hedge Fund Melvin Lost $6.8 Billion in a Month. Winning It Back Is Taking a Lot Longer.

Gabe Plotkin wasn’t sleeping. His bets against meme stocks such as GameStop Corp. GME 4.69% were backfiring, and losses at his $12.5 billion hedge fund were mounting. Strangers angry about his wagers ...

Opinion: The 60%-40% portfolio will deliver anemic returns over the next decade — here’s how to adapt

We have entered a new paradigm of anemic return expectations for traditional asset-allocation models. The prospects of a lost decade ahead are uncomfortably high for portfolios that are 60% invested i...

What to expect from markets in the next six weeks, before the Federal Reserve revamps its easy-money stance

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell fired a warning shot across Wall Street last week, telling investors the time has come for financial markets to stand on their own feet, while he works to tame i...

Stocks Are on a Wild Ride. 20 Bargains to Buy Now, According to Barron’s Roundtable Experts.

Fed be nimble, Fed be quick. The quicker, the better, in fact. Hike interest rates, shrink your balance sheet, and let’s be done with it all before the stock market sinks even further. The market’s re...

Why Bill Ackman Sees More Play in Netflix Stock

Text size Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square took a large stake in Netflix with an eye to a recovery in the streaming giant’s shares. Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg One pandemic play that has been laid low co...

What ETFs are retail investors loading up amid stock market volatility? Here’s what some are doing (and aren’t).

Hello there! Got volatility? We bet you do as the Federal Reserve signaled on Wednesday that interest rate increases in 2022 are its main priority. There is nothing new there, as investors had expecte...

Here are the odds you’ll outlive your money

What year was the worst possible time in U.S. history to retire, from an investment point of view? To put this question another way: What year’s U.S. retirees had the greatest difficulty sustaining th...

Tesla Stock Sinks and Cathie Wood’s ARK Gets Back to Buying the Stock

Text size The inside of a Tesla Model 3. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images Exchange-traded funds under the umbrella of Cathie Wood’s ARK Investment purchased 33,482 shares of electric-vehicle compa...

Jim Cramer literally drowns Cathie Wood’s ARK as flagship fund falters

Jim Cramer has never been shy to use buzzers and bells to make the occasionally esoteric world of finance more interesting. But the host of CNBC’s Mad Money got even the Twitterverse to take notice at...

Opinion: ‘Easter Bunny cartoon cash’ — how Bill Maher called the Bitcoin crash

Young people were already feeling depressed about their future retirement prospects, according to polls. Still more following the collapse of all their cryptocurrency bets, one suspects. More than $1 ...