Opinion: Hardship withdrawals from a 401(k) will get easier soon, but not quite yet

If you’re getting crushed by inflation and you have any money sitting in your 401(k), you may be wondering how you can get at it. In that kind of situation, something called a “hardship withdrawal” so...

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...

Investors slam Gemini in unregistered securities class-action suit

Gemini, a cryptocurrency exchange founded by the Winklevoss twins, is being sued by investors who claim that the company misled them about the potential returns of a high-yield product. Investors alle...

Gemini Sued For Offering Unregistered Securities

Several investors have sued crypto exchange Gemini and its founders for offering Gemini’s Earn product without registering it as a security. Disgruntled investors claimed that Gemini’s failure to regi...

BitNile Holdings Announces Postponement of the Distribution of Securities of Imperalis Holding

BitNile still intends to distribute to its stockholders 140 million shares and warrants to purchase an additional 140 million shares of Imperalis LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–$AP #Agora_Digital—BitNile H...

Lucid Stock Fell to New Low Despite $1 Billion Saudi Investment

Lucid Group stock continued to slide this week, despite a recent additional investment in the embattled electric-vehicle maker by Public Investment Fund, Saudi Arabia’s sovereign-wealth fund, of nearl...

This asset will crush all others in 2023, says hedge-fund manager who nailed one big call of 2022

As 2022 winds down and investors reflect on a horrendous year, they can take some comfort in the fact that the big guys also had their share of misses. Among them is Harris Kupperman, the president of...

Workers and retirees are getting some year-end goodies from Washington

America’s workers and retirees are getting some nice year-end gifts from Washington. As part of a bigger bill to keep the government running, Congress has passed, and President Biden has signed, somet...

Buy shares of only the strongest companies to make money in 2023, including ‘the kings of cash flow,’ says this five-star fund manager

Depending on your perspective as an investor, 2022 has either been a perfect storm or a perfect opportunity. The Federal Reserve’s rapid increase in interest rates and other tightening moves to fight ...

Here’s What a $1 Million Retirement Looks Like in America

Once a symbol of extravagant wealth, $1 million is now the retirement-savings goal for millions of Americans. For retirees able to accumulate $1 million in savings, the funds translate into inflation-...

AMC Entertainment Stock Fell Again. 2022 Has Been Rough for Meme Stocks.

AMC Entertainment Holdings stock tumbled this week after the theater chain announced plans to sell stock to a private investment firm. The move extended pain amid what has been a brutal year for meme ...

This Giant Oil ETF Is Seeing Phenomenal Returns. Why It’s Far Outpacing the Price of Oil.

Shares of the United States Oil Fund surged last week, capping a phenomenal run in recent weeks that far outpaced meager gains in the price of oil. USO (ticker: USO), which holds over $2 billion in as...

U.S. stock futures rise ahead of last trading week of 2022

U.S. stock futures rose Monday night, ahead of the final trading week of 2022. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures YM00, +0.49% gained nearly 200 points, or 0.6%, as of 9:45 p.m. Eastern. S&P 500...

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...

AllianceBernstein Executive Helps Chart Firm’s Course Overseeing Finances and Operations

AllianceBernstein Holding LP’s Kate Burke is part of a growing group of executives who lead not only their companies’ finances, but also operations, a trend that comes as firms look to retain top tale...

If You Own Bonds, Consider Tax-Loss Harvesting This Year

In a year where nothing seemed to work on Wall Street, investors still have a rare opportunity to make the best of a bad situation by tax-loss harvesting their bond portfolio.  Bond holders don’t do m...

Brazilian Securities Commission CVM Opens a Path for Funds to Invest in Crypto – Regulation Bitcoin News

The Brazilian Securities Commission CVM has cleared the path for funds to dive into cryptocurrency-based investments. The institution issued a new set of rules that allows financial investment funds t...

Opinion: Opinion: FTX was a warning. We must plug the other holes in the Swiss cheese.

FTX’s unraveling should not have come as any great surprise. When an unregulated market like crypto is opened to financial novices, mistakes are bound to be made and fraudsters are sure to take advant...

Look Overseas for Stock Market Investments in 2023, Strategists Say

With the brutal returns of 2022 almost behind investors, those looking to make up lost ground might do better to look abroad next year. Some strategists see a better set-up for foreign stocks than the...

These money and investing tips can help give your portfolio a holiday makeover

Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Sign up here to get MarketWatch’s best mutual funds and ETF stories emailed to you weekly! INVESTING NEWS & TRENDS A stock-market indicator with ...

The 2022 IPO Market: A Dearth of Volumes and Names

Investment bankers had a brutal year. One big reason: a dearth of initial public offerings. Thirty-seven companies went public in 2022 and raised a mere $7 billion, the lowest amount of IPO proceeds s...

A Reckoning for Crypto and FTX

To the Editor:I’ve been hoping for some sort of catalyst that would implode the crypto market, and it has finally happened (“The Crypto Ice Age Is Here. What’s Ahead for Bitcoin and the Stocks,” Dec. ...

Meme Token Dogecoin Edges Past Coinbase. It’s Been That Kind of Year in Crypto.

Coinbase Global went public in 2021, with a debut valuation of a snappy $85 billion. This year hasn’t been exactly bountiful for the U.S.-based online crypto broker, with rising interest rates hitting...

U.S. stocks end higher, but S&P 500 logs 3rd straight weekly decline ahead of Christmas

U.S. stocks ended higher in a choppy, preholiday session Friday as an inflation report and a raft of other data did little to change expectations that the Federal Reserve would likely continue hiking ...

Equity funds suffer largest ever weekly outflows: BofA Global

Investors withdrew billions of dollars from equity funds at a record pace in the days after the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and European Central bank raised interest rates in mid-December and...

A stock market gauge with one of the best track records is cheering investors

It’s bullish for the stock market that the average household’s equity allocation has declined as much as it has. I’m referring to an indicator that its creator, the anonymous author of the Philosophic...

Opinion: Couples with strong relationships have these money issues in common

Start the New Year with a stronger and more stable relationship with improved money habits with your partner. Many couples feel stress around their differences. When money gets involved, many prefer n...

Big institutional investors ​are buying ​while retail investors are dumping stock funds and ETFs. That’s bullish for the market.

The stock market’s longer-term prospects are looking up, according to flow data for U.S. equity mutual funds and ETFs. That’s because institutional investors over the past 12 months have poured signif...

Tesla, AMC, Energy Stocks, and More Stock Market Movers Friday

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How a Santa Claus rally, or lack thereof, sets the stage for the stock market in first quarter

It’s the time of the year when the traditional seasonal lift for U.S. stocks known as the “Santa Claus rally” usually takes place. But unlike past holiday seasons, this one may get bogged down by the ...

Carnival stock is suffering its worst year on record, but looks ‘overly compelling’ to this analyst

Shares of Carnival Corp. have had a really bad year, even worse than the pandemic year of 2020. And that’s what makes Stifel Nicolaus analyst Steven Wieczynski believe the stock is now “overly compell...