Fund a Roth 401(k) if You’re in a Low Tax Bracket. Here’s Why.

If you’re not earning big bucks this year, consider saving money in a Roth 401(k) instead of a traditional 401(k). Roth contributions make sense when your current tax rate is less than your rate in re...

European Bond Markets Were Roiled This Year In Ways Few Imagined

(Bloomberg) — For European bond traders, 2022 was the year the playbook that served them so well during the past decade was ripped to pieces. Most Read from Bloomberg German and UK 10-year yield...

Buy Comcast Stock. The Telecom Company Is One of Our Picks for 2023.

This article is an excerpt from “Here Are Barron’s 10 Top Stocks for the New Year,” published on Dec. 16, 2022. To see the full list, click here. Shares of the telecommunications giant Comcast have be...

Stock, Bond and Crypto Investors Remain on Edge After Brutal Year for Markets

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The Bulls’ Worst Recession Fear: There Won’t Be One

“There ain’t gonna be no recession,” Pierre Rinfret, an economist who once advised the Nixon administration, confidently declared in December 1969. Better at attracting publicity than forecasting, he ...

These 3 Sectors Have Had a Good Run. They Still Look Strong for 2023.

Yes, the stock market can always get worse—and that means three of this year’s best-performing sectors could continue to outperform in 2023. After a punishing 2022, Wall Street isn’t expecting the sit...

An Oil ETF Outpaced Crude by 5 Times Last Year. The Downside: Volatility.

Shares of the U.S. Oil exchange-traded fund surged 5.2% in the week before Christmas, and ended up 27% for the year. Oil prices did rise last year by nearly 5%, but how did an ETF that tracks them out...

The EV Market Is Growing Rapidly. How to Invest in Beneficiaries.

Brian Demain has a healthy respect for efficient markets and downside risk. In college, Demain wrote his senior thesis with guidance from Princeton University economics professor Burton G. Malkiel, go...

Energy Companies Increase Spending in 2023 as Oil Prices Rebound

Oil and gas companies plan to increase their capital expenditure budgets in 2023 due to gains in crude oil prices, executives said in a recent Dallas Federal Reserve‘s energy survey. The majorit...

NFT Sales Continue to Decline, With ETH-Based NFTs Seeing a 20% Drop in the Past Week – Markets and Prices Bitcoin News

Non-fungible token (NFT) sales over the last seven days are ending the year 13.97% lower than the week prior. During the last week, statistics show that $147,054,554 in NFT sales were recorded across ...

Stocks got wrecked by rate shock in 2022. Here’s what will drive markets in 2023

2022 is over. Take a breath. Investors were understandably eager to ring the bell on the stock market’s worst year since 2008, with the S&P 500 SPX, -0.25% falling 19.4%, the Dow Jones Industrial ...

These Stocks Had a Terrible 2022. The New Year Should Be Better.

Videogame maker Take-Two Interactive Software is known for two things: Grand Theft Auto, and did I already say Grand Theft Auto? The stock was down 43% in 2022, making it the group’s worst performer. ...

The Dow Handily Beat the Nasdaq in 2022. Here’s What History Says Happens Next.

Y2K is back in a big way in the fashion world, but history isn’t just repeating itself on the runway. The stock market appears to be nostalgic for the early 2000s, as it is once again turning its back...

Buy Berkshire Hathaway Stock. Warren Buffett’s Company Remains the Ultimate Defensive Megacap.

This article is an excerpt from “Here Are Barron’s 10 Top Stocks for the New Year,” published on Dec. 16, 2022. To see the full list, click here. Warren Buffett’s company Berkshire Hathaway remains th...

The Best Income Investing Ideas for 2023

While it might not be a feast now for income-oriented investors, it’s a lot better than the famine that prevailed for much of the past decade. Yields on a range of bond and bond-related investments ro...

Investors Prefer ADA to ‘Fallen VC Coins’ in Current and Recent Bear Markets: Source

Yuri Molchan Cardano influncer has spotted that majority of people go for ADA rather than VC coins during bear markets Contents Buying ADA instead of VC coins Here’s what struck Solana hardest: ...

Here’s the 2023 Chart Setup for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq

The bear market roared throughout 2022. In a somewhat cruel twist, the S&P 500 hit an all-time high on Jan. 4, the second trading day of the new year. From that point on, it’s been a feast f...

What’s in the historic Inflation Reduction Act

U.S. President Joe Biden holds out his pen to U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and U.S. House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) look on after Biden signe...

EPA issues clean water rule that repeals Trump administration changes

Saltwater wetland, Waquoit Bay Estuarine Research Reserve, Mass.  Photo: Ariana Sutton-Grier, CC BY-ND The Biden administration on Friday issued a rule that defines which types of waterways in the U.S...

Cramer’s final thoughts for the year: Making sense of multiples

The price-to-earnings multiples say recession. But the multiples said similar things in 2022. So how long can the multiples stay this low? We have all read dozens of articles about what 2023 will brin...

Southwest Airlines says holiday meltdown will hit Q4 results

Southwest Airlines’ holiday meltdown will “certainly” hit its fourth-quarter results, executives said Thursday, adding it will take several weeks to work through affected travelers&#...

Here’s where Covid rules for visitors from China are changing

Travelers check in with Cathay Pacific at the Hong Kong International Airport on December 20, 2022. Vernon Yuen | Nurphoto | Getty Images BEIJING — Some countries announced new Covid testing requireme...

Most Chinese shoppers are very cautious about going out, survey finds

Shoppers enter a newly opened Sam’s Club in Beijing on Dec. 23, 2022, the chain’s fourth store in China’s capital city. Zhao Jun | China News Service | Getty Images BEIJING — Most Ch...

Ferrari outshines EV makers like Tesla

The Ferrari SP38 seen at Goodwood Festival of Speed 2022 on June 23rd in Chichester, England. Martyn Lucy | Getty Images This year wasn’t about which auto manufacturer stock performed the best. ...

Dow Falls Slightly As Markets Close Out Worst Year Since 2008

Topline The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 74 points on Friday, the final day of trading to end the worst year since 2008 for the three major stock indexes that were mired by interest rate hikes fr...

Southwest cancels more flights as rival carriers cap fares for stranded flyers

Southwest Airlines slashed another 2,500 flights on Wednesday, sending more frustrated customers scrambling to find seats on other airlines. The Dallas-based carrier’s cuts amounted to 60% of it...

Did Amazon Stock Bottom in 2022 or Are More Losses on the Way?

Amazon  (AMZN) – Get Free Report stock was not the worst-performing FAANG stock in 2022, but it was far from the best. Amazon’s seemingly strong and resilient business in the cloud with Am...

Bitcoin, ether slip with S&P 500, Nasdaq as year winds to a close; Ark buys Coinbase dip

Most cryptocurrencies slid alongside traditional markets, with Bitcoin and Ethereum both down by about 1%. The cryptocurrencies were trading at around $16,500 and $1,200 at market open. Th...

Southwest, Tesla, Coinbase, Apple, and More Stock Market Movers Friday

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FTX Japan users will be able to start withdrawing funds from February

The FTX logo on a laptop screen. Andrey Rudakov | Bloomberg via Getty Images Japanese FTX users will be able to start moving their funds out of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange starting in Februa...

Buy Bank of America Stock. Shares Look Cheap, Too.

This article is an excerpt from “Here Are Barron’s 10 Top Stocks for the New Year,” published on Dec. 16, 2022. To see the full list, click here. Bank of America ‘s slogan in recent years has been “re...

Bahamas regulator seized $3.5 billion of FTX crypto assets

The FTX logo on a laptop screen. Andrey Rudakov | Bloomberg via Getty Images The Securities Commission of The Bahamas says it seized $3.5 billion worth of cryptocurrency from collapsed crypto exchange...