Bezos Loses Title of World’s Second Richest Man to Indian Billionaire

It was to be expected.  Jeff Bezos has lost the title of second richest man in the world behind Elon Musk, electric-vehicle leader Tesla’s  (TSLA)  chief executive.  The founder and executive ch...

Toomey tells SEC chief to be ‘on notice’ that Supreme Court may overrule new climate rule

Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee took aim at Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler’s plan to implement a new rule requiring disclosure of climate change risks during a heari...

Markets Are Spooked by Inflation. Cathie Wood and Elon Musk See a Bigger Issue

It’s no secret that investors are worried about runaway prices for goods and services, with the stock market on track to post its worst weekly run since mid-June and also nearing its worst performance...

A further 27% drop in the S&P 500 could be coming if inflation hawks are right, Goldman Sachs team warns

Not exactly TGIF this Friday. What the sellside is slowly realizing is not just that the Fed is going to be aggressive in September after the latest shocking inflation figure, but that the central ban...

Are Physical Stores Making A Comeback? Is It All About The Product?

Are Physical Stores Making a Comeback? Is it all about the Product? getty The short answer is…YES. The ecommerce juggernaut that began more than a decade ago seems, for now at least, to have peaked. A...

How To Use AI To Maximize Your Inflation Relief Payments

Getty Images Key takeaways Over a dozen states have or will send inflation relief payments to citizens to lessen the burden of inflation AI can maximize your returns by analyzing greater volumes of in...

General Electric Stock Slides As CFO Cautions On Supply Chain Woes

General Electric  (GE)  shares slumped lower in pre-market trading after the industrial group cautioned that ongoing supply chain disruptions could trim its closely-tracked cashflow forecasts. GE CFO ...

How working past 65 can affect your Medicare, Social Security, HSA and taxes

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Stock Market Investors, This Is The No. 1 Rule Of Investing: Cut Losses Short

In the battle for investment survival, you can learn a lot from judo. The first and most important lesson in that martial art is the same for the stock market today: damage control. X And it’s e...

Apple is now the market’s most-shorted stock. If Tesla is an example, that’s bullish.

Apple shareholders need not worry that it’s the most-shorted U.S. stock. I’m referring to the report from short-seller analytics firm S3 Partners that, after 864 days in which Tesla TSLA, +0.38% was a...

A punishing selloff in short-term debt is pushing one rate near the ‘magic’ level that ‘frightens’ markets

The yield on the 1-year Treasury note is testing 4%, a level that traders say could spill over into other rates and send shivers through financial markets, as the Federal Reserve presses forward in ea...

Bitcoin’s a market ‘tumor’ thanks to Fed’s easy money, says ‘Black Swan’ author

“‘Bitcoin, I call it a tumor. Real estate is another tumor. People have this notion that markets should behave the way they think they should behave. When you look at markets they swing from overvalue...

Ray Dalio Says Stocks Could Fall 20%. Here’s What the Charts Say.

Bridgewater’s Ray Dalio this morning made some stark comments regarding the state of the stock market. Dalio is the founder and co-chief investment officer of Bridgewater Associates, the world’s bigge...

These 20 stocks have short interest of 19% or more, and AMC and GameStop are not even in the top half

Short selling is a trading technique that gets especially popular during bear markets in stocks. Short selling — or betting on a decline in prices — can come to the fore if investors suspect a company...

Pay Attention to the Bond Market for an ‘All-Sell’ Signal

There is always a collective groan in the classroom when the teacher turns the lesson to a subject that no student likes. In that vein, sorry, but I need to talk about the bond market today. It has be...

Opinion: Surprise! CDs are back in vogue with Treasurys and I-bonds as safe havens for your cash

If there’s a silver lining to the current economic situation that features soaring inflation and falling stocks, it’s that savers can get more for their money. Even after just a few months of rising i...

Musk Apparently Didn’t Bother to Vote Against Twitter Acquisition

Twitter  (TWTR)  shareholders overwhelmingly approved the company’s planned $44 billion sale to Elon Musk on Sept. 13, but there appears to have been a notable absence in the proceedings. According to...

What will people do after getting $10,000 or $20,000 in student debt forgiven? MarketWatch asked readers — here’s the No. 1 answer.

Americans’ student debt loads are poised to lighten up and people are making plans on what’s next for their freed-up cash. Borrowers appear to have two prime targets in mind: getting current on their ...

Cash Is No Longer Trash. T-Bill Yields Near 4%.

Text size After years of yielding near zero, cash is suddenly a better investment. Eva Hambach/AFP via Getty Images Cash is no longer trash. For the first time in 15 years, investors can get nearly 4%...

Opinion: Any one of these 15 money-losing companies could become the stock market’s biggest ‘unicorn’ failure ever

David Rush holds a Guinness world record for cramming 100 candles into his mouth and lighting them. Sandeep Singh Kaila spun a basketball on a toothbrush for a record 1 minute and 8.15 seconds. Nevill...

Cathie Wood Watch: Stock-Buying Spree, Including Roku

Famed investor Cathie Wood, chief executive of Ark Investment Management, has said throughout the year that declines in the prices of her technology stocks simply represent buying opportunities. And s...

Bad News Is Piling Up for Chip Makers

The months follow one another and look alike for the manufacturers of semiconductors. There is an ongoing cycle of bad news for these companies whose chips power almost all the technological hardware ...

‘This is never factored into the equation.’ One big thing people forget to consider when thinking about how much they need to retire

I’m sure you’ve pictured it: on the beach mid-weekday, gently lapping waves falling on white sand, sipping an umbrella drink — and you no longer have to check your email, other than to confirm your di...

Elon Musk Reiterates His Worst Nightmare for The Economy

The markets are slumping as investors worry about the consequences of the Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest-rate hikes, designed to fight an inflation rate that’s the highest in 40 yea...

Opinion: Billionaires typically own concentrated stock positions — this investor posted a 30-fold gain over 10 years on one little-known company

True or false: To build big wealth in the stock market, it pays to be widely diversified. If you guessed “true,” you might want to reconsider. Successful investors from Warren Buffett to Ron Baron tea...

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau says investing in crypto is not an escape from inflation

According to a new Twitter post on Tuesday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made critical remarks regarding newly elected opposition leader Pierre Pollievere’s pro-crypto platform, writin...

Mr. ‘Big Short’ Burry Takes on Goldman Sachs

Financier Michael Burry became a household name after the 2015 film “The Big Short” which depicted his bet on the subprime-mortgage meltdown that sparked the 2008 financial crisis.  What m...

Justin Trudeau Slams Pierre Poilievre for Telling People They Can ‘Opt out’ of Inflation by Investing in Cryptocurrency – Economics Bitcoin News

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has slammed Pierre Poilievre, the new leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, for telling people that they can “opt out of inflation” by investing in cryptoc...

Twitter Shareholders Approve $44 Billion Musk Acquisition

Twitter shareholders gave the go head on Sept. 13 for Tesla CEO Elon Musk to acquire the social media platform and take it private, but the deal could still fall apart in a legal battle this fall. Sha...

These five stocks in the S&P 500 lost almost half a trillion dollars in value in one day amid widespread wipeout

A decline in gasoline prices couldn’t mask the problem that spooked investors on Sept. 13: Core consumer prices resumed their rapid increase during August. Fear of the Federal Reserve’s ongoing tighte...

Apple’s Most-Shorted Status Is a Tell

Last week, I was surprised to hear that Apple (AAPL) is now the most heavily shorted of all stocks in the U.S. markets. Investors have an accumulated $16.3 billion short position in the Cupertino-base...

Elon Musk Predicts the Near Death of These Cars

Elon Musk undoubtedly has helped change the face of the automobile industry. In less than 20 years, Tesla  (TSLA) , which he co-founded, has become the benchmark for what all other carmakers aspire to...