The stock and fortunes of antibiotic-developer Spero Therapeutics (SPRO) looked like they were about to get flushed down the toilet … until last week. The company’s primary and only signi...
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The one question to ask yourself about your 401(k) when stock indexes are dropping
With the Dow DJIA, -1.62%, S&P 500 SPX, -1.72% and Nasdaq COMP, -1.80% indexes dipping into the red right now, looking at your retirement portfolio may have your heart racing. Retirement Tip of t...
Your Car Will Likely Be More Expensive
For more than two years now, buying a new car has cost a small fortune. And receiving it has become almost a luxury because it is difficult to know when it will arrive. The delivery times given by ca...
I’m a trustee for my brother: How should I handle his assets in a bear market?
Dear Harry, As a trustee for my brother, I am concerned with the current bear market and wondering if I should get out of the market altogether and place the funds in a money-market account until thin...
Bearish Bets: 3 Big Name Stocks You Should Consider Shorting This Week
Each week we identify names that look bearish and may present interesting investing opportunities on the short side. Using technical analysis of the charts of those stocks, and, when appropriate, rece...
How to Manage Risk While Building Long-Term Positions in a Bear Market
When the market is ugly, there is always one phenomenon that occurs – investors rushing to buy long-term investments because they believe that they are now great values. It doesn’t much ma...
Why the ‘sell Rosh Hashanah, buy Yom Kippur’ trade is a tough call as stock-market selloff deepens
It might seem arbitrary to take investing advice from old market adages, but there is one market strategy commonly mentioned ahead of the Jewish holidays – “Sell Rosh Hashanah, Buy Yom Kippur.” This ...
Stock Market Investing Action Plan: Nike Earnings, Tesla AI Day
Four days of steady selling on the stock market sent the Dow industrials below 30,000, and to their lowest level since Q3 2020. The Nasdaq and S&P 500 stopped short of key levels, setting up a cru...
How to get a guaranteed return of 1.3% per year above inflation
TIPS in recent months have become an increasingly attractive option for the fixed-income portion of your retirement portfolio. I’m referring, of course, to the Treasury’s Inflation-Protected Securitie...
Ford Starts Its Biggest Bet Against Tesla, GM
Ford’s road (F) to future popular and stock market success rests on a big gamble in the form of a gigantic factory near Memphis Tennessee. The blue oval brand has set itself the ambition of p...
Alphabet CEO Pichai Continues to Sound Alarm About the Economy
Alphabet (GOOGL) , the parent company of Google, wants to avoid unpleasant surprises. The firm is convinced that a sharp slowdown in growth will have an impact on advertising revenues, its main sour...
6 Types of Tech Stocks That I Like Right Now…and 4 That I’m Wary Of
Most tech stocks now trade way below their 2021 highs, but I think only certain kinds of tech companies are truly bargains. Here’s a bird’s-eye view of the kinds of tech companies I think ...
Don’t look for a stock market bottom until a soaring dollar cools down. Here’s why.
It will be difficult for the stock market to stop its slide and find a bottom as long as the U.S. dollar keeps soaring versus its rivals, according to market analysts. Global stocks suffered a bruisin...
Banks Could Get Whopped by a Recession. But Bank of America Is a Fighter
As Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell seems almost intent on causing economic pain with a series of aggressive rate hikes to quell inflation, investors are wary that a recession would cause troubl...
5 Dividend Stocks to Beat Inflation and Rising Interest Rates
Dividend stocks are facing stiffer competition, thanks to a big spike in bond yields. A risk-free 10-Year Treasury note was recently yielding 3.7%, up from 1.63% at the start of 2021. That’s well abov...
Why I’m Not Worried About the Stock Market
A lot of scary words have been floating around with “recession” and “inflation” at the top of the list. People are worried about the economy and the Federal Reserve has not bee...
Plant the Seeds of Dividend Income With These 3 Agriculture Stocks
Certain sectors of the market lend themselves to creating great dividend stocks. That could be because demand is steady, margins are high, or the sector is experiencing a lot of growth. Examples inclu...
AT&T Stock Approaches Key Support as Dividend Yields 7%
AT&T (T) stock’s underperformance had been well documented even before the 2022 bear market. The stock is down 45% over the past five years, 44% over the past 10 and 57% this century. So w...
A historic global bond-market crash threatens the liquidation of world’s most crowded trades, says BofA
Global government-bond markets are stuck in what BofA Securities strategists are calling one of their greatest bear markets ever — which, in turn, is threatening the ease with which investors will be ...
Investing In The Clean Energy Credit Revolution
AFP via Getty Images Key takeaways The Inflation Reduction Act funds billions in clean energy credits to promote the development and advancement of green tech The goal is to reduce inflation and carbo...
If you’re selling stocks because the Fed is hiking interest rates, you may be suffering from ‘inflation illusion’
Forget everything you think you know about the relationship between interest rates and the stock market. Take the notion that higher interest rates are bad for the stock market, which is almost univer...
Josh Brown: ‘If people don’t get fired, then it’s not a recession’
““You can’t have a recession if people still have their jobs and have no problem getting their next job. So I don’t care what the NBER says. … If people don’t get fired, then it’s not a recession.”” T...
Don’t panic about your 401(k)
I’ve been doing this—writing about the stock market and investments—for a quarter of a century. It’s been a heckuva turbulent ride, including Russian defaults, emerging market crises, dot-com disaster...