Customers at the Apple Store in Grand Central Terminal in New York City earlier this year. Getty Images Text size As Apple prepares to upgrade its products, there are two distinct trends hitting the e...
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U.S. stocks end lower Tuesday as Biden, Powell meet on inflation; Dow, S&P eke out gains in May
U.S. stocks closed lower Tuesday, the final session of May, as Treasury yields pushed higher following last week’s equity market bounce after a historic string of weekly losses. The Dow Jones Industri...
Salesforce earnings expected to serve as business-spending bellwether amid economic uncertainty
Salesforce Inc. is expected to have a much more subdued earnings report in the coming week as fear of a recession and inflation, as well as COVID shutdowns in China and the war in Ukraine, are prompti...
A $100 Billion Comedown: Soaring Defaults Shrink Asia’s Junk-Bond Market
Once the place to be for yield-seeking global investors, Asia’s junk-bond market has shrunk drastically and new debt issuance has slowed to a trickle. Less than 18 months ago, the dollar-bond market f...
Disney, Occidental, Rivian, Palantir, BioNTech, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week
Text size We’re past the peak of first-quarter earnings season, but with several notable companies still left to report next week. The economic-data highlights of the week will be a pair of inflation ...
Disney, Occidental, Rivian, Palantir, BioNTech, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week
Text size We’re past the peak of first-quarter earnings season, but with several notable companies still left to report next week. The economic-data highlights of the week will be a pair of inflation ...
Zillow Stock Tumbles After Selling More Homes Than Expected. Here’s Why.
Text size Zillow says it has 1,300 homes left in its inventory, most of which have sold or are in agreement to be sold or disposed. Courtesy of Zillow Faster-than-expected home sales in Zillow’s iBuyi...
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...
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...
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...
Online Real Estate Isn’t Worth the Chance
You can make a lot of money on physical real estate right now, but recent results from major online real-estate players show 2022 isn’t the year to play Monopoly in the stock market. The carnage isn’t...
Redfin Stock Sinks. This Analyst Is ‘Throwing in the Towel.’
Text size Stephen Brashear/Getty Images for Redfin Shares of Redfin were falling sharply Friday after the online real estate brokerage said it expected a first-quarter loss wider than analysts’ estima...
Zillow Is Betting on a Housing Super App. What Wall Street Thinks.
Text size Zillow Group announced plans to shut down its home-flipping business in November. Chris Goodney/Bloomberg Zillow ‘s spectacular decision to shut down its home-flipping business last year has...
‘I don’t know if it’s worth dealing with tenants’: Should I convert my home into a rental, or sell it?
I have enough money to put down on a second home — I need a slightly bigger place and another bedroom. I currently live in Portland, Ore., but I am planning to move outside of Portland. However, I’m c...
Opinion: Should you add residential real estate to your retirement portfolio?
Is there a way to invest in residential real estate as an asset class? It’s a timely question since, as I pointed out last week, residential real estate can play an important role in reducing the prob...
Salesforce stock rallies following raised outlook, with stronger dollar seen as only major headwind
Salesforce Inc. shares rallied in the extended session Tuesday after the cloud-based customer-relationship-management company said business remained strong amid the current rocky economic landscape an...