Updated with Dec. 30 closing prices. This was a year of reckoning for Big Tech stocks — even those of companies that continued to grow sales by double digits. Below is a list of the 20 stocks in the S...
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AMD Stock Should Benefit From Next-Generation Computer Chips
These reports, excerpted and edited by Barron’s, were issued recently by investment and research firms. The reports are a sampling of analysts’ thinking; they should not be considered the views or rec...
Why Pop-Star Robbie Williams Wants To Raise The Fence Between His Mansion And That Of Jimmy Page
LOS ANGELES, CA – NOVEMBER 12: Musician Jimmy Page speaks onstage at “An Evening With Jimmy Page … [+] And Chris Cornell In Conversation” at the Ace Hotel on November 12, 2014 ...
‘I dug myself out of the paycheck-to-paycheck cycle’: Should I use my bonus to pay off my mortgage, put it in a savings account or Vanguard?
Dear Quentin, Over the last couple years I dug myself out of the paycheck-to-paycheck cycle, and I am making good money. I never learned about stocks, investing, etc. I do not have a 401(k) at work. M...
Democrats release six years of Trump’s tax returns, and CPAs have questions: ‘The personal tax return is just the tip of the iceberg.’
The nonpartisan committee’s findings also raised several red flags related to the filings, namely Trump’s carryover losses, loans to his children that may or may not also be considered taxable gifts, ...
Dow up over 350 points, stocks rebound after jobless claims data deemed ‘welcome news for the Fed’
U.S. stocks advanced on Thursday afternoon, erasing losses from earlier in the week during the second-to-last trading session of the year. The main indexes built on premarket gains after U.S. weekly j...
GE Healthcare will join S&P 500 as soon as it begins trading
GE Healthcare Technologies Inc. will be an S&P 500 stock as soon as it officially exists. General Electric Co. GE, -1.05% expects to spin off its healthcare arm into a separately traded company on...
National Storage Sees Big Insider Stock Buys
Shares of self-storage firm National Storage Affiliates Trust have tumbled in 2022, and are now trading near a two-year low. Two insiders, including a company founder, purchased large amounts of stock...
Blackstone Tumbled in 2022; Here’s Outlook for 2023
Most alternative assets seem to simply represent a leveraged play on the stock market. That particularly seems to be the case with Blackstone (BX) – Get Free Report, the world’s largest alterna...
10 ways American finances actually improved in 2022, despite high interest rates and a slump in stocks
Many Americans are ending the year feeling gloomy about their finances, and you don’t need to be a psychiatrist to figure out why. Runaway inflation gnawed through household budgets as prices soared o...
The Homeownership Society Was A Mistake
Investment risk and uncertainty in the real estate housing market getty The Atlantic just published a new article that makes some of the same points about homeownership as my newly released chapter in...
Homebuyers are turning to all-cash offers to get around high mortgage rates
Frustrated by mortgage rates above 6%, a growing share of first-time homebuyers are opting to pay for their homes in cash to avoid high borrowing costs. In October this year, 32% of homes sold in the ...
Home sales tumbled in November
Sales of existing homes fell 7.7% in November compared with October, according to the National Association of Realtors. The seasonally adjusted annualized pace was 4.09 million units. That is weaker t...
Mortgage refinance demand surged 6%, as interest rates dropped
A property for sale in Monterey Park, California Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images Mortgage interest rates dropped again last week, and while that did little to bolster demand from homebuyers, it...
REIT Preferred is Overlooked and Offers 6% to 8% Yields
Higher rates are attracting more individual investors to the preferred stock market because yields have risen nearly two percentage points this year to a range of 6% to 8%. Most investors focus on ban...
Inside a Malibu mansion on sale for $58.8 million
This $58,808,000 mansion overlooking the Pacific Ocean is one of the largest homes for sale in Malibu. At 16,600 square feet, it’s the grandest single-structure residence in town and a whopping...
Homebuilder sentiment falls again, but bottom may be near
A worker walks on the roof of a new home under construction in Carlsbad, California. Mike Blake | Reuters Homebuilders were less confident about their business in December, but they are starting to se...
Housing Recovery Forecast For 2024 As Homebuilder Sentiment Falls Again
(Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Getty Images Key Takeaways Confidence from homebuilders has now fallen every month for a year, hitting levels not seen since 2012, according to the National Ass...
For Landlords, Rising Housing Costs Make It Harder to Earn Passive Income
Listen to article (1 minute) Many Americans dream the path to building wealth is like a trip around the Monopoly board, buying up properties that generate rental income. That can be true, but financia...
Nike, FedEx, Micron, General Mills, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week
A bevy of economic data and several notable companies reporting will keep investors busy this week, before things slow down for the holidays. On Tuesday, Nike FedEx and General Mills release quarterl...
The Valuation Game: SpaceX Soars as Elon Musk Slips to No. 2
Quiet weeks are rare in Elon Musk’s world. This past Monday, Bloomberg reported that Musk was raising funds for his space company, SpaceX. At $77 a share, the offer would lift Space X’s valuation 12%,...
Why Atlanta Tops the Hottest 2023 Real Estate Markets
Atlanta is hot. Georgia’s capital tops the National Association of Realtors’ list of markets to watch in 2023, based on 10 metrics, including housing affordability, employment conditions, and populati...
REITs May Be a Great Investment Next Year (After a Rough 2022)
Soaring interest rates and the weakening economy have crushed real estate investment trusts in 2022, with the FTSE Nareit All Equity REIT index dropping 23% year to date. Rising rates hurt REITs becau...
Will 2023 finally be a good year to buy a home? Read this before making a decision.
The housing market is nothing if not unpredictable. Mortgage rates have skyrocketed, and the market has taken a beating. But don’t expect 2023 to turn into a buyer’s market just yet, housing experts s...