We’ve detected you are on Internet Explorer. For the best Barrons.com experience, please update to a modern browser. We’ve detected you are on Internet Explorer. For the best Barrons.com e...
Tag: Investing
Ark’s Cathie Wood Continues to Stumble
It’s been a rough 2022 for famed money manager Cathie Wood, chief executive of Ark Investment Management, as her exchange-traded funds sink. Wood’s flagship fund, Ark Innovation ETF (ARKK) , plunged ...
Classic 60/40 investing strategy sees worst return in 100 years. How about 40/60?
Rules of thumb in investing appear to no longer apply in the carnage of 2022 in financial markets. Advocates for the 60/40 portfolio split, designed to capture the upside of stocks, but offer investor...
‘Growing wealth gap and rising inflation … hurt the global economy at almost every turn,’ Jamie Dimon says
What a difference 25 years can make. The world today is a markedly different place from the world that existed at MarketWatch’s inception in October 1997. JPMorgan Chase & Co. JPM, +1.66% CEO Jami...
3 Dividend Champions With Yields Well Above 3%
Companies with long track records of dividend growth are among our favorite to own as these names have proven business models that hold up better in recessionary environments. This is especially true ...
You get some student loan debt erased, but what about the rest of it?
“January is going to be here before you know it,” says Damian Dunn, a certified financial planner and vice president of corporate financial wellness platform Your Money Line. Payments resume in Januar...
Apple or Amazon Could Buy These Two Pandemic Stock Darlings
The pandemic created perfect growth conditions for a variety of companies. Some simply added a lot of customers that would have eventually found their product anyway. That’s what happened with t...
Switch up a classic stock and bond portfolio for an inflation-proof mix: Rieder
By some measures, the 60-40 portfolio is experiencing one of the worst years in recent memory. As bonds and stocks have sold off in unison, some people have even questioned whether one of the core ten...
Berkshire, Nike Among Best Stocks to Own: Morningstar
With the S&P 500 dropping 25% year to date, you may be looking for buying opportunities in the stock market. Morningstar came up with a list of the “best companies to own.” The companies are ones ...
Airline Stocks Have Struggled. Here Are a Few Highfliers.
Some airline stocks trade at five times projected earnings. Why so expensive, you might be wondering. The group’s reputation on capital preservation at the moment ranks somewhere between damaged and U...
3 Top Silver Stocks for Rising Inflation
Inflation has skyrocketed to a 40-year high this year due to the immense fiscal stimulus packages offered by most countries in response to the pandemic and the ongoing war in Ukraine. Even worse, whil...
Stock Market Investing Action Plan: Beware The Bear’s Bottom
A maybe even more wild and wooly week than those we’ve been having ended with the stock market in the early stages of a rally attempt. But that was only after the Dow dipped to its lowest level ...
ARK Innovation ETF Closed Below Its Covid-Era Low. Why It Might Stay There.
Cathie Wood’s flagship exchange-traded fund finally closed below its early pandemic lows on Friday, after slipping below that line in intraday trading twice this week. The $7.1 billion ARK Innovation ...
Clixpesa Is Bringing Traditional Kenyan Investing Techniques to Web3
“When we look at the financial products that are offered now, such as loans, savings, and insurance, these things are complicated since traditional financial institutions are creating them,̶...
Pillow Aims to Make Crypto Saving and Investing Easier for Users
Pillow is a crypto services provider established by three Indian-origin men. Pillow claims to be an all-in-one platform that will help all sorts of users, including beginners or new users, to spend,...
There’s no rush to buy I-bonds
This week’s worse-than-expected inflation report led to turmoil in more than one market, but you only read about one of them. The market that got all the headlines was in stocks, since in the wake of ...
Here’s how ‘rare’ S&P 500’s ‘violent’ reversal was after Thursday’s inflation report — and what history shows may come next, according to Bespoke
The U.S. stock market took an unusual swing after Thursday’s inflation report. “Shortly after the open, the S&P 500 index had dropped nearly 4% from its pre-market highs before staging an epic ral...
2 New Oncology Focused Small-Cap Biotechs to Keep an Eye On
The biotech sector has held up better than one would expect during the carnage and volatility in the markets over the past couple of months. The lows this sector made in mid-June have formed a firm fl...
Investing in the Future of Digitization and Computing
Of course, any discussion about digitization enabled by crypto will be incomplete without what feels like the oldest use case of them all: Allowing patients to digitize their medical records to enable...
Citigroup Reports Earnings Friday. What to Expect.
Wall Street will be looking for more signs of Citigroup turnaround when the bank posts third-quarter results Friday. Like all banks, Citigroup (ticker: C) has faced challenges this year as it has had ...
Fed’s benchmark interest rate may peak above 5% after Sept inflation data, some economists think
When the Federal Reserve started to raise its benchmark policy interest rate by super-sized 0.75 percentage points in June this year, a few Fed officials and private sector economists talked about how...
This is how high interest rates might rise, and what could scare the Federal Reserve into a policy pivot
The stock market’s reaction to the latest inflation report Thursday underlined just how confused and fearful investors are. The S&P 500 SPX, +2.60% plunged as much as 3% shortly after the open as ...
Thursday was ‘one of the craziest days of my career’ in markets, says Rick Rieder
Investors have witnessed some “pretty crazy” times in financial markets these past few weeks, with Thursday’s wild fluctuations ranking among the “craziest days of my career,” said Rick Rieder, the ch...
Amazon Sends New Warnings About the Economy
Amazon (AMZN) is determined to be well prepared to weather the sharp economic downturn on the horizon without a big scratch. The e-commerce giant, which is one of the barometers of the health of th...
Opinion: $22 billion in I-bond sales can’t be wrong. Why you may want to buy them even when their rate resets soon
I-bonds’ sky-high interest rate is poised to fall to 6.48% when they reset next month, according to industry experts. Still, that would be the third-highest level since they were sold in 1998. Though ...
The Celo Foundation Aims to Bring $20B in Impact Investing Funds to Web3 by 2025
Announced at GIIN, this “2% for Web3 Impact” pledge will rally industry-wide support, with plans to onboard 100+ impact investors into Web3 SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Earlier today, the U.S.-based ...
It turns out that bonds may be a riskier investment now than stocks
Stocks are riskier than bonds — everyone knows that. At least until this year. So far in 2022, long-term U.S. Treasurys have significantly underperformed U.S. stocks. The Vanguard Long-Term Treasury E...