Annaly Capital to Sell Middle- Market Lending Portfolio to Ares for About $2.4 Billion

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...

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...

Kohl’s Stock Is Rising. Another Bidder May Have Emerged.

Text size A Kohl’s store Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Are two department stores better than one? The owners of JCPenney may think so, if reports that they are the latest potential suitors for Ko...

PS Business Parks to Be Bought for $7.6 Billion By Blackstone. The Stock Soars.

Text size Blackstone bought PS Business Parks shortly after acquiring American Campus Communities , a student-housing company. Dreamstime PS Business Parks stock soared on Monday after the commercial ...

Netflix is the S&P 500’s worst performer this week — here are the next 14

Investors remained sour for a second consecutive session on Friday as they continued to digest comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell about the prospect for rapidly rising interest rates...

Dividend Aristocrat stocks can help you keep ahead of inflation. These 15 take top prizes for raising payouts.

Some investors are interested in stocks that pay high dividend yields for a source of income. Others believe it is better to focus on total returns over long periods. The Dividend Aristocrats are a gr...

These 20 highly rated stocks are expected to rise at least 70% over the next year

A sliding stock market means many companies are on sale, which spells opportunity for investors with investment horizons of several years. A list of the most favored names among analysts, along with c...

Musk Says Twitter’s Board Owns Almost No Stock. Here’s How It Compares With Tesla.

Twitter’s directors are granted $225,000 of restricted stock units, plus at least $50,000 in cash, annually. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Text size Elon Musk questioned Twitter directors’ alignment wit...

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 ...

Costco Thrives by Mastering Traditional Retailing. Now It’s Challenging Amazon.

Illustration by Elias Stein Text size Costco Wholesale is challenging Amazon.com by keeping things simple: limited selection, low prices, good execution. With just 7% of its sales online, it’s the ant...

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...

The Case for Building Wealth With Stocks, Not Homes

Illustration by Barron’s staff; Cynthia Farmer/Dreamstime Text size Once upon a time, a young family bought a modest three-bedroom Cape, the worst house in the best location in a prosperous subu...

Home Builders Are the Cheapest Stocks Around. Is It Time to Buy?

Construction workers on a Toll Brothers home in Boca Raton, Fla. Toll and other home builders currently trade near book value. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Text size The housing market is still robust, but...

These 10 stocks have fallen at least 20% this year, but are expected to soar up to 66% from here

It sure has been a wild ride for investors over the past few weeks, with the benchmark S&P 500 rising 10% from March 8 through March 30. But the broader stock market is still down for 2022. Below ...

Get ready for $900 billion of stock purchases this year, says Goldman Sachs. Here’s who’s buying.

Wall Street is looking a little less surefooted as a new week begins, with oil sliding as fresh COVID lockdowns in China adding to a hefty worry pile. Bonds continue to slump as well. But maybe don’t ...

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...

Citi adds M&T Bancorp to focus list as favorite among six regional banks

Citigroup Inc. analyst Keith Horowitz on Thursday singled out M&T Bank Corp. as a new member of his focus list for outshining five other regional banks. M&T Bank MTB, +2.16% drew praise partly...

Here’s what it will take to make stocks a ‘great’ buying opportunity, says this strategist

It was an interesting time for the best weekly gain for Wall Street since late 2020 as the devastating war in Ukraine grinds toward the one-month mark. “Stabilizing stock markets point to less cautiou...

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 ...

Europe’s Real Estate Could Offer a Buying Opportunity. These Two Stocks Have an Edge.

Capital & Counties Properties, a British real estate investment trust, owns prime real estate in central London’s Covent Garden. Anna Regeniter/Dreamstime.com Text size As war rages on in Eastern ...

Amazon, Alphabet and Eight Other Beaten-Up Growth Stocks Set to Soar

Text size Amazon packages Thomas Samson/AFP via Getty Images Picking beaten-up growth stocks might not feel like a good idea these days, amid rising interest rates, inflation, and geopolitical chaos, ...

12 dividend stocks paying at least 3.5% that are well-suited for high inflation

Investors may have turned for a moment from Russia’s aggression in Ukraine to energy and supply shortages in the U.S. that are producing high inflation. With purchasing power crumbling, patient invest...

12 stocks in clean energy, fossil fuels and uranium expected to keep soaring — up to 79% from here

The tragedy in Ukraine is having an economic effect on people all over the world as energy prices rise and other supply sources are disrupted. For investors, the day-to-day action is unpredictable. Bu...

Carvana Is More Like Tesla Than Peloton, Says Analyst

Text size Carvana, an online auto dealer, has seen volatility in its stock. Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images Trading in shares of online-auto-dealer Carvana has been volatile lately as bulls and bear...