When the stock market has jumped two days in a row, as it has now, it is easy to become complacent. But the Federal Reserve isn’t finished raising interest rates, and recession talk abounds. Stock inv...
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These Are the 7 Worst Housing Markets, According to Lennar
Higher mortgage rates have cut into home sales at a national level—but, as the saying goes, all real estate is local. Lennar , the nation’s second-largest builder by market capitalization, on Thursda...
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...
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...
She called herself the Mother Teresa of Florida small-business lending, but investigators say she was really running a $194 million Ponzi scheme
Johanna Garcia claimed her merchant cash-advance business was so helpful to small businesses in Florida that she was like the Catholic saint Mother Teresa. But to the 15,400 investors who sank $194.1 ...
These dividend stocks can protect you as the Federal Reserve slows the economy
With Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell set to deliver an important speech Friday, investors may finally begin to take him at his word: The central bank is going to maintain a hawkish stance to co...
Here are 5 reasons why energy stocks look like a buy despite rising 74% in a year
Stocks in the S&P 500’s energy sector still have plenty of upside despite their 74% surge in the past 12 months, according to Jeff Buchbinder, chief equity strategist at LPL Financial. The strong ...
Opinion: The stock market in all likelihood has entered a new bull phase — so you’ll want to own these five stocks
That didn’t take long. The slump in the S&P 500 Index SPX, +1.41% and Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, +1.67% after their meteoric rise off mid-June lows has a lot of market commentators asking two ke...
Opinion: The stock market is in no man’s land. Prepare to cash in when the turnaround comes
If you were too scared to buy stocks last week when investors panicked, I’d suggest doing a little selling now to free up your nerves — and capital. I’ll be a buyer on the next leg down, just as I was...