Buy the dip, wrote J.P. Morgan’s strategists early this past week. As calls to courage go, it wasn’t exactly Churchill during the Blitz. The dip in this case was a 2% decline, year to date, in the S&a...
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Navient to cancel $1.7 billion in private student loans as part of settlement with 39 attorneys general
Roughly 66,000 borrowers will see their private student loans canceled — totaling more than $1.7 billion in relief — thanks to a deal between 39 state attorneys general and student-loan giant Navient ...
How to buy a car from the factory and save money
With vehicles in short supply at the dealership, more shoppers are ordering cars from the factory. In return for a wait of a few weeks — or months — you get exactly what you want. In the current marke...
The No. 1 thing that can improve the retirement security of older workers
Ready for today’s retirement investing pop quiz? What’s the single most consequential thing you can do to improve your chances of not running out of money in retirement? I’ll try answering this questi...
How a Flood of Money Swamped Cathie Wood’s ARK
Fund manager Cathie Wood became a superstar in 2020, after her ARK exchange-traded funds earned some of the highest returns in history. So far this year, ARK Innovation, the largest of Ms. Wood’s ETFs...
Moderna and Novavax Stocks Get Whacked by Supreme Court’s Vaccine Decision
Text size A nurse takes a Moderna Covid-19 vaccines ready to be administered at a vaccination site Apu Gomes/AFP via Getty Images Novavax stock and shares of other vaccine makers fell Friday after the...
I retired at 50, went back to work at 53, then had a major medical issue that left me unemployed – ‘There’s no such thing as a safe amount of money’ for retirement
I had always said I was going to retire when I was 50. I had worked and saved since I was 16. Retiring without Medicare and Social Security is a scary thing. I wound up retiring then going back to wor...
The IRS will ask every taxpayer about crypto transactions this tax season — here’s how to report them
Cryptocurrencies, also known as virtual currencies, have gone mainstream. That’s for sure. For example, you can use bitcoin BTCUSD, -0.21% to buy a Tesla TSLA, -6.75% and to buy or pay for lots of oth...
CEO admits stealing $15 million from her company to finance clothing boutique, Plaza Hotel visits, and $200K on relative’s wedding
That’s some high-end embezzlement. The U.S. chief executive of a German saw-blade manufacturer has pleaded guilty to stealing $15 million from the company to bankroll a luxury clothing and furniture b...
Opinion: Nasdaq near a 10% correction isn’t the sell signal you probably think it is
There’s nothing magical about a stock index hitting the 10% decline that constitutes what Wall Street considers to be a correction. So we need to stop treating this 10% mark as meaningful. It isn’t. T...
Student-Loan Processor Navient to Cancel $1.7 Billion of Debts
One of the nation’s largest student-loan processors will cancel the debt of 66,000 borrowers, totaling $1.7 billion, in an agreement with 40 state attorneys general. The agreements resolve all six out...
Wall Street’s Favorite Oil Stocks for 2022—Including an Obscure One
Text size Bing Guan/Bloomberg Several analysts and strategists expect energy stocks to outperform the broader market in 2022, as they did in 2021. Energy tends to do well in inflationary environments,...
Political Parties in Thailand Voice Opposition to Government Plan to Tax Crypto Gains – Taxes Bitcoin News
As Thailand prepares to impose a levy on crypto profits, parties on both sides of the aisle have expressed concerns over the government’s current proposal. A number of political figures have insisted ...
Inflation hit a 31-year high. 7 pros on how they invest during high inflation
Getty Images If you feel like you’ve been paying more for everything from food to tech products, you’re onto something: In December, consumer prices rose 7% from a year prior, which is the highest U.S...
The yield curve is no longer sending a don’t-worry-be-happy signal, warns bond king Jeffrey Gundlach
The S&P 500 SPX, +0.28% snapped a five-session losing streak on Tuesday, after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell vowed the central bank would use its “tools” to get inflation under control wi...
Founder of nationwide tax-prep firm sentenced to prison for skimming $70 million in exorbitant fees over a 5-year period
Talk about a tax burden. The founder of a nationwide tax preparation chain has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison for running a tax refund advance scheme that fleeced customers with $70 mill...
Fed has to be ‘far more aggressive…than the Street thinks,’ says academic who called Dow 20,000: ‘This is too much money chasing too few goods’
Jeremy Siegel, professor of finance at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, on Wednesday sounded sanguine about the equity market, even as he conceded that inflation is likely ...
These 14 bank stocks are in the best position to benefit from rising interest rates
What would you say if you were told about a company whose stock was trading much lower to expected earnings per share than the S&P 500 Index? At the same time, it’s also expected to increase EPS n...
Worried About Inflation? Check Out This 7% Treasury Savings Bond.
Text size The Treasury Building Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images One of the best deals for savers now are Treasury Series I savings bonds now paying a 7.12% interest rate. The savings bonds, available el...
‘She has no life insurance, savings or money’: My brother died, leaving his wife with $20,000 in debt. How can I help her?
Dear Quentin, My sister’s husband died last week. They had both lived with us for the previous nine years before moving into an independent living facility. They were there for two and a half months b...
Opinion: A 27-year-old truck driver just became Robinhood’s first big headache of 2022
Less than a week into the new year, a 27-year-old truck driver from Connecticut might have given Robinhood HOOD, -1.76% a whole new thing to be worried about in 2022. On January 6, an arbitrator for t...
Biogen’s Alzheimer’s Drug Aduhelm Has Another Shot at Success
Illustration by Elias Stein Text size Biogen ’s Alzheimer’s disease therapy, Aduhelm, has been a disappointment for the company since its Food and Drug Administration approval last spring, with early ...
These 3 ETFs let you play the hot semiconductor sector, where Nvidia, Micron, AMD and others are growing sales rapidly
Semiconductor stocks may continue to be an excellent area of the market for investors, even though the prospect of a long period of rising interest rates has put pressure on some high-flying technolog...