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 ...
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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...
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...
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...
More than one-third of Americans say they’ve never had a retirement account
Never had a retirement account? You’re not alone – 36% of American workers said they’ve never had a retirement account, such as a 401(k) plan or an IRA, a new Bankrate survey found. Generation Z and ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...