Grayscale Bitcoin Fund Soars as Judges Sound Skeptical of SEC’s Arguments on ETF

Grayscale Investments for years has fruitlessly sought to convert its flagship product—the world’s largest Bitcoin fund at $14 billion—into an exchange-traded fund, most recently suing the Securities ...

Will Warren Buffett retire? What to look for in his annual letter.

Warren Buffett is an inspiration to retirees everywhere. In the 27 years since he reached what the Social Security system said was his full retirement age, shares of his Berkshire Hathaway BRK.B, +0.0...

These money and investing tips can build your portfolio’s offense and defense

Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Sign up here to get MarketWatch’s best mutual funds and ETF stories emailed to you weekly! INVESTING NEWS & TRENDS 10 value stocks for today’s ma...

‘Cash is the cool kid on the block’: High-yield savings accounts, Treasury Bills, money market funds, and CDs — here’s where your cash can earn up to 4.5%

Cash isn’t just the dollar bills you put in your pocket — in this market, it might seem to be a patch of steady ground. There are multiple options: People can put their money in high-yield savings acc...

These money and investing tips can warm your portfolio when stocks cool

Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Sign up here to get MarketWatch’s best mutual funds and ETF stories emailed to you weekly! INVESTING NEWS & TRENDS Think you know where interest ...

Gas Prices Are Rising. Refiner Stocks Are Riding the Wave—for Now.

Gasoline prices have risen 41 cents a gallon in the past month to an average national price of $3.51. Summer driving could be pricier than many expect, though it’s unlikely to be as bad as last year, ...

Opinion: 6 cheap stocks that famed value-fund manager Bill Nygren says can help you beat the market

These are tricky times in the stock market, so it pays to look to the best stock-fund managers for guidance on how to behave now. Veteran value investor Bill Nygren belongs in this camp, because the O...

I’m about to get $130,000 from a lump sum pension payout, what do I do with it?

I am about to receive a lump-sum payout from a pension plan I was in. It’s around $130,000. Need some advice on the best way to invest this money. I am turning 60 in April and don’t have a 401(k) or I...

Why overconfidence bias may cost investors

Prasit Photo | Moment | Getty Images Your investment ego may be costing you big bucks. “Overconfidence bias” is the behavioral principle of overestimating one’s financial acumen. And...

10 simple investments that can turn your portfolio into an income dynamo

Many people are good at saving up money for retirement. They manage expenses and build up their nest eggs steadily. But when it comes time to begin drawing income from an investment portfolio, they mi...

These money and investing tips give you tools for the stock market’s ‘January Defect’

Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Sign up here to get MarketWatch’s best mutual funds and ETF stories emailed to you weekly! INVESTING NEWS & TRENDS These top athletes are investi...

Where Are the Stock Market and Economy Headed? Barron’s Roundtable Pros Weigh In.

Bullish or bearish, our 10 panelists help make sense of increasingly complicated market dynamics. Plus: nine stock picks. Jan. 13, 2023 8:40 pm ET The optimist sees bubbles and thinks champagne. The p...

5 Reasons Individual Stocks And Bonds Are Better Than Products

getty Before mutual funds became the de facto standard investment option in 401(k) plans, before 401(k) plans became the de facto standard retirement savings option, most people invested in individual...

These money and investing tips can keep you afloat if stocks circle the drain

Sign up here to get MarketWatch’s best mutual funds and ETF stories emailed to you weekly! INVESTING NEWS & TRENDS How the Dow’s start to the new year affects the stock market’s 2023 return Many r...

Why your investment ‘ego’ might be costing you big bucks

Fuse | Corbis | Getty Images When it comes to investing, you may know less than you think — and that overconfidence may be costly. Almost 2 out of every 3 investors rate their investment knowledge hig...

The 12 Best Income Investments for 2023, According to Barron’s

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...

Here’s a New Year’s resolution: resist the temptation to bet on the top mutual fund of 2022

Beating the stock market is not that big of a deal. What’s really impressive — and what you should be looking for when using performance scoreboards to choose a mutual fund — is one that has beaten th...

These money and investing tips can help you ring in a profitable new year

Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Sign up here to get MarketWatch’s best mutual funds and ETF stories emailed to you weekly! INVESTING NEWS & TRENDS The stock market has been rang...

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...

These money and investing tips can help give your portfolio a holiday makeover

Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Sign up here to get MarketWatch’s best mutual funds and ETF stories emailed to you weekly! INVESTING NEWS & TRENDS A stock-market indicator with ...

Equity funds suffer largest ever weekly outflows: BofA Global

Investors withdrew billions of dollars from equity funds at a record pace in the days after the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and European Central bank raised interest rates in mid-December and...

I Changed My Investment Strategy This Year and Prepared for How It Went

Barron’s Staff Illustration Text size In recent weeks, I’ve gone from passive investor to a sort of living room corporate treasurer, scrounging for ways to boost the yields of my portfolio by a few ba...

Big institutional investors ​are buying ​while retail investors are dumping stock funds and ETFs. That’s bullish for the market.

The stock market’s longer-term prospects are looking up, according to flow data for U.S. equity mutual funds and ETFs. That’s because institutional investors over the past 12 months have poured signif...

21% of investors don’t think they pay fees. Here’s why they’re wrong

Damircudic | E+ | Getty Images More than a fifth of investors don’t think they pay any fees for their investment accounts, an industry survey has found. Most of them, however, are likely wrong —...

These money and investing tips can help you plan for a new year as 2022 comes to an end

Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Sign up here to get MarketWatch’s best mutual funds and ETF stories emailed to you weekly! INVESTING NEWS & TRENDS Why the stock market’s painful...

 Individual Investors Hang On in Wild Year for Stocks While Pros Sell 

During the wildest year for global markets since 2008, individual investors have been doubling down on stocks. Many professionals, on the other hand, appear to have bailed out.   U.S. equity mutual an...

Stocks Could Return About 10% in 2023—But First, They’re Going to Fall

For U.S. investors, 2023 could seem like two years wrapped in one, with the stock market first falling in anticipation of a recession, only to rebound as the outlook improves toward 2024. The one cons...

These money and investing tips can fill your portfolio with holiday cheer

Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Sign up here to get MarketWatch’s best mutual funds and ETF stories emailed to you weekly! INVESTING NEWS & TRENDS Be on guard against Wall Stree...

Tax strategy that may offset losses – but investors need to act now

Investors may get a wake-up call this winter when it comes to taxes, but it doesn’t have to be that way. According to BNY Mellon’s Ben Slavin, it’s a key time to sell losing investme...

Battered SPACs and Closed-End Funds Finally Look Tempting. How Investors Can Play Them.

With apologies to the Bard, SPACs are now in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, along with other excesses, such as meme stocks and nonfungible tokens. But some special purpose acquisition companies...

These money and investing tips can help you know when the bull market has come back to stay

Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Sign up here to get MarketWatch’s best mutual funds and ETF stories emailed to you weekly! INVESTING NEWS & TRENDS There’s a strong possibility t...

Here’s why the smart money is betting on value stocks to outperform growth

You should be skeptical of the growth story that periodically captures stock investors’ attention. That’s because the companies that Wall Street believes will grow the fastest in the future rarely liv...