Text size Ares currently has $314 billion assets under management, up from $25 billion in 2008. Dreamstime Ares Management Corp said Monday that it agreed to buy the middle-market lending portfolio of...
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JCPenney owners offer $8.6 billion to acquire rival Kohl’s
The owners of JCPenney have made an offer to acquire archrival Kohl’s in a deal that could value the department-store chain at upwards of $8.6 billion, The Post has learned. Under the proposal, shoppi...
Decade-High Mortgage Rates Pose Threat to Spring Housing Market
U.S. housing sales are heating up again this spring, but the highest mortgage rates in more than a decade threaten to cool the sales pace that has gripped the market for nearly two years. Home sales r...
Tesla, AT&T, Netflix, Bank of America, IBM, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week
Text size First-quarter earnings season picks up next week, with 67 S&P 500 companies scheduled to report. Bank of America will be Monday’s highlight, followed by Netflix , Johnson & Johnson ...
Citi upgrades Wells Fargo, cuts view on five other banks as inflation woes mount
Citigroup analyst Keith Horowitz upgraded Wells Fargo to a buy, reiterated a bullish view on M&T Bancorp and cut ratings on five other banks on Monday. While banks looked poised for outperformance...
Opinion: The best retirement investment strategy Generation Z can learn from boomers
Generation Z will soon surpass millennials as the most populous generation on earth, with more than a third of the world’s population counting themselves as Gen Z. And this group is motivated to retir...
Tech stocks haven’t been this oversold since 2015, leading analyst says
Technology stocks are the most oversold they have been since 2015, according to Dan Ives, an analyst at Wedbush Securities. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite COMP has dropped 11% this year — about twice...
Want to Unload That Investment Property? What Advisors Recommend.
With valuations high and many boomers gearing up for or entering retirement, many investment property holders could be rethinking their strategy around real estate ownership. It’s a big issue for many...
Discovery, Merck, Carnival, Broadcom, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week
Text size Uncredited It’s a full week of annual shareholder meetings, investor days, and earnings reports. Broadcom hosts its annual meeting on Monday, followed by investor events from Merck, Analog D...
Discovery, Merck, Carnival, Broadcom, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week
Text size Uncredited It’s a full week of annual shareholder meetings, investor days, and earnings reports. Broadcom hosts its annual meeting on Monday, followed by investor events from Merck, Analog D...
Bitcoin Mining Stocks Look Cheap. Why Investors Are Still Skeptical.
Text size Costs per Bitcoin mined range from $4,500 to $16,000 across the industry. Dreamstime A recovery in the price of Bitcoin should fuel gains for mining companies that process transactions on th...
Worried About Getting Audited? Here Are Red Flags for the IRS.
Even though the Internal Revenue Service is auditing fewer taxpayers these days, you still don’t want to put a target on your back. Among those more likely to get audited: Small-business owners with l...
Dollar General, Williams-Sonoma, and 3 More Stocks Whose Dividends Are Going Up
Text size Dollar General raised its quarterly dividend by 31%. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Dollar General , Williams-Sonoma , and Equity Residential were among the U.S. companies that said this week ...
Opinion: Dump Buffett as Berkshire’s chairman? That’s exactly what’s wrong with so many shareholder proposals this year
This coming weekend, Warren Buffett hosts his famed annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway BRK.A, -1.66% BRK.B, -1.87% shareholders in Omaha, Neb. The event is expected to draw tens of thousands live an...