Nvidia, (NVDA) the game-changing graphics-chip specialist, has struggled this year. The stock made new 52-week lows Friday, down 64% from the 52-week high it reached in November. To put it mildly, ...
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This Silicon Valley Tycoon Has Lost Half His Net Worth This Year
Silicon Valley founders and CEOs have had a rough year so far, losing billions of dollars in net worth. Technology company billionaires make up 6 of the top 10 biggest losers so far this year, with lo...
Fearing a hawkish Fed? Here’s what’s likely limiting more downside in the stock market, according to JPMorgan’s Marko Kolanovic.
The stock market has been under pressure since the inflation report for August came in surprisingly strong last week, but JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s chief market strategist, Marko Kolanovic, doesn’t s...
Elon Musk Warns Again About Troubles Ahead
Elon Musk is worried about the future of the economy. The CEO of electric vehicle maker Tesla (TSLA) has been repeating for the past few days his fears about what awaits the economy as the Federal ...
Zillow sees peak rent growth as over, but that isn’t what the Fed’s tracking
A look at Zillow Group’s closely followed rent index shows that last year’s roughly 17% yearly surge in rental prices was probably the peak, with the rate of increases dramatically receding in the pas...
‘More pain to come’ for stocks as S&P 500 likely to bottom around 3,300, Interactive Brokers’ founder says
““I think there is more pain to come. I expect the market to bottom out around 3,300. As interest rates indicate today, the Fed still has quite a bit of work to do,”” — Thomas Peterffy, chairman and f...
Billionaire Lukas Walton’s family office fans impact investing push
Builders Vision, the investing and philanthropy platform of billionaire Lukas Walton, has shifted its $1 billion endowment into what it calls “impact investments,” leading a broader shift ...
How To Seize The Day With Investing
Financial advisor shaking hands with customer getty It pays to look back at your mistakes to determine if something has consistently taken you off the better path. While I have made several mistakes i...
How to Survive the Next Market Crash
Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve might be in the process of driving the stock market over a cliff by tightening into a recession. That is one potential scenario envisioned by fund manager Mark Sp...
Why Alibaba, Other China Tech Stocks Are an Exception to Goldman Sachs’ Outlook
Text size Alibaba and other Chinese tech stocks have been battered since the beginning of last year. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg Chinese tech stocks have taken a beating since many hit all-time highs in earl...
Mark Cuban Shares the Best Parts of Being Rich
Billionaire Mark Cuban is known for a few things: his “Shark Tank” investments, his ownership of the Dallas Mavericks, and his ongoing thoughts on cryptocurrency. However, his ever-so-humb...
Goldman Sachs: Why European Natural Gas Could Fall by 50%
Illustration by Elias Stein Text size Here’s a challenge to the conventional wisdom, courtesy of Goldman Sachs : Europe has “solved” its winter natural-gas crisis, and prices could drop by half in the...
A $2,000 Bonus for Opening a New Bank Account? Here’s the Deal With It.
High-yield savings accounts are paying far more than they did last year. Alexey Poprugin/Dreamstime Text size High-yield savings accounts are now paying far more than they did last year — see the best...
Stock market’s June lows are back in sight after S&P 500 loses grip on 3,900
Stock-market bears maintained the upper hand last week, with the S&P 500 finishing Friday below a crucial chart support level that has technical analysts warning of a potential test of its June lo...
GE Doesn’t Just Have Supply Chain Issues
The CFO of General Electric (GE) told shareholders and analysts Thursday evening that the supply chain was putting pressure on margins and free cash flow. Let’s check and see how that is playing...
Meet the ‘Masters’ of High Yields: MLPs
Master Limited Partnerships, or MLPs, have traditionally been a good source of high-yielding securities. Many Master Limited Partnerships yield 5% or more, even double-digit yields in some cases. Of c...
There’s No Way I’d Buy FedEx Here: I’d Rather Trade UPS
Global recession! That’s the implication. The situation is this. FedEx (FDX) released on Thursday evening preliminary results for the firm’s fiscal quarter, which ended August 31st. The fi...
This Value Investor Has Found a ‘Dead Cow’ to Feast On
Two years ago, we did not get photographic proof of the white bear our daughter and I encountered on a trail in the Elkhorn Mountains in Western Montana. That encounter had a built-in investment lesso...
This Bear Market Advice Can Be Very Effective If You Do It In the Right Way
Folks that watch the market very closely have a bias toward action. They become bored and restless and want to do something even when conditions are not favorable. This inclination leads to the most c...
3 Ways Retirees Can Inflation-Proof Their Portfolios
Rather than vanishing with the final days of summer, inflation has proven stickier than anticipated. For retirees, that means not just higher daily prices, but also the chance that their savings won’t...
The worst year in U.S. history for the 60:40 portfolio
This year is not shaping up to be the worst in U.S. history for a balanced 60% stock/40% bond portfolio. It’s important to point this out not just to correct the misleading historical narrative that h...
Biden Delivers Big Money to EV Industry (There May Be a Problem)
The U.S. government and automakers seem to be on the same page about transforming the country’s car culture from one based on an internal combustion engine to one based on battery-powered electr...
Here Are 2 Stocks That You’d Have to ‘Pry From My Cold, Dead Hands’
I was heartened by the response to the publication of the links to the free-to-all version of my PREFS spreadsheet in yesterday’s Real Money column. If you requested access, and haven’t ye...
Can the Fed tame inflation without crushing the stock market? What investors need to know.
The Federal Reserve isn’t trying to slam the stock market as it rapidly raises interest rates in its bid to slow inflation still running red hot — but investors need to be prepared for more pain and v...
The S&P 500 sank 5% in a very bad week for stocks. These 20 lost as much as 24%.
U.S. stocks sputtered Friday to close out the week in the red. The day’s declines of less than 1% for the broad indexes paled against Tuesday’s, when they sank 4% to 5%. For the week, the Dow Jones In...
During Recessions, These Dividend Stocks Can Be Your Bread and Butter
After the consumer inflation number spooked investors and sent markets lower earlier in the week, we now have fears the Fed will be hiking interest rates too far too fast, pushing us into a recession....
13 Investment Moves to Pump Out Income as Interest Rates Rise
Text size The Federal Reserve building in Washington. Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg Interest rates have further to rise amid persistent inflation, while the labor market remains too strong for its own good. ...