Tesla and Nvidia Picked for Big Gains by Robot Trader. It’s Been Right Before.

Text size Photograph by Spencer Platt/Getty Images An exchange-traded fund with holdings picked by artificial intelligence is betting on big gains from Tesla and Nvidia in January. It has been right a...

Can Energy Stocks Stay Hot in 2022?

By most measures, 2021 was a good year to be an energy investor. According to research firm Morningstar Inc., energy outperformed every other funds sector, and asset flows into these funds grew a net ...

Robinhood Is Making Changes. Keep an Eye on Its Stock.

Text size Tiffany Hagler-Geard/Bloomberg Robinhood Markets stock is in the doldrums, down more than 50% from its initial public offering price in July. The company is making moves to reverse that decl...

Markets Are About to Face Off With the Fed. How to Play It.

Text size The Federal Reserve building in Washington. Samuel Corum/Bloomberg There is always a bull market. The trick is trying to find it. Let the pundits wrestle with Wednesday’s sharp decline in th...

Opinion: Value has beaten growth by a huge margin — these are now top investment newsletters’ best value-stock picks

(Note: The dividend-yield column at the bottom of this story has been corrected. The correct yields are now shown.) Value will be especially valuable in 2022. I’m referring to the latest round in valu...

These Two Fund Pros Think Dividend Stocks Are Primed to Prosper

For dividend investors who’ve been jarred by the pandemic, the new year brings a clean slate and hope for a brighter future. While many companies that cut their payouts early in the global health cris...

The Hottest ETF Sectors for Investors to Bet On in 2022

Many investors are bracing for a more-volatile stock market this year as interest rates, inflation, the pandemic, geopolitical tensions, oil and supply-chain bottlenecks continue to cause uncertainty....

Biotech Stocks Are Due to Bounce Back. This One Stands Out.

Text size Large-cap biotech will offer a smoother ride than small, and Vertex, in particular, looks attractive. Igor Akimov/Dreamstime.com Biotech stocks began the year in much the same way they ended...

Unprofitable tech trades are off to an ugly 2022. Here are the ETFs to consider as Cathie Wood’s Ark sinks.

Happy Thursday! In mythology, Janus is a god of transitions who is often depicted as a two-faced deity. A mere three sessions into the month of January, and some investors already may be feeling whipl...

Opinion: You don’t have to choose between growth and value with these six technology stocks — they’re a blend of both

Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020, the Big Tech trade has really delivered for investors, as lower interest rates, massive liquidity and digital-transformation investments have...

Opinion: Social Security blows it again

Social Security had another disastrous financial year in 2022 even as it hurtles toward insolvency. America’s main pension plan saw its investments badly trail the booming markets, competitors, and ev...

I’m 68, my husband is terminally ill, and his $3 million estate will go to his son. I want to spend the rest of my days traveling – will I have enough money?

Please help me. I am a 68-year-old woman married 17 years to the love of my life. Our finances have always been separate, and I signed a prenuptial acknowledging that his son will inherit his estate h...

ACY Securities Enhances Offering, Increases Share CFDs for MT5 Traders

Sydney-based award-winning financial broker, ACY Securities today announced the expansion of its offering with the addition of over 200 new share CFDs for MT5 traders. In total, 202 new shares and ETF...

BofA Securities sees upside to $340

Shares of Coinbase Global Inc (NASDAQ: COIN) have come down nearly 35% in two months, but BofA Securities says the days of downside are over for the cryptocurrency company. Coinbase upgraded to ‘buy’ ...

Three signs you’re ready to retire

Many people don’t have much choice about when they retire. Illness, job loss or caretaking responsibilities push them out of the labor force, ready or not. But some people have the opposite problem: T...

Europe’s Securities Watchdog Seeks Feedback on Regulations Ahead of DLT Pilot – Regulation Bitcoin News

ESMA, the European Securities and Markets Authority, has set out to establish if EU authorities need to amend existing regulations in order to facilitate the trading and settlement of tokenized securi...

20 cheap value stocks that Wall Street expects to rise up to 58%

There are plenty of arguments for why the bull market for U.S. stocks will continue in 2022. But investors’ focus appears to have shifted recently in favor of value stocks, rather than the growth stoc...

Cathie Wood’s ARK ETFs Are in a Deep Hole—Already

Text size Cathie Wood of ARK Invest Reed Young The new year did not bring a fresh start for Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest, a fund company known for its focus on innovation stocks and high price targets. Th...

This biotech stock is a buy despite bearish view from BofA Securities

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ: REGN) was a notable beneficiary of the global pandemic that resulted in a 30% increase in its stock price last year. But BofA Securities warns 2022 will be a ver...

IBM Seeks Buyer for Watson Health Unit: Report

Text size IBM has hired BofA Securities to solicit bids for artificial-intelligence unit Watson Health, according to Axios. IBM’s looking for a price of more than $1 billion. Dreamstime In the l...

Where is the market headed in 2022? What two professional mind readers say

Some say you need to be a mind reader to accurately predict which way the stock market is headed. So MarketWatch decided to ask actual mind readers — or mentalists, as they sometimes prefer to be call...

23 dividend stocks that can pass this strict quality screen

Stocks are expensive. You’ve probably been hearing that for years, and based on traditional price-to-earnings ratios it’s true. If you invest now in a broad index, such as the benchmark S&P 500 SP...

This investing legend has been predicting surprises for the last 37 years. Here’s how he did last year — and what he’s predicting now

Byron Wien, the vice chairman of private-equity giant Blackstone, has been making his list of ten surprises for 37 years. Previously the chief U.S. investment strategist at Morgan Stanley, Wien has be...

These are the stocks Wall Street analysts heavily favor for 2022 and also expect to rise the most

As the coronavirus pandemic has stretched out, investors have continued to pour money into stocks, in part because the alternatives have been dismal. Why bother with 10-year U.S. Treasury bonds that y...

Stitch Fix Stock Has Cratered. One Investor’s $100 Million Bet on a Comeback.

Text size Courtesy of Stitch Fix Stitch Fix stock has tumbled in 2021, but one of the largest investors in the online apparel retailer has been racking up big stock buys. Stitch Fix (ticker: SFIX) sto...

Dow futures gain more than 100 points ahead of first trading day of 2022

U.S. stock futures rose Sunday, indicating a positive start for Wall Street on the first trading day of 2022. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures YM00, +0.38% were up more than 100 points, or 0.3%, S...

How to help your parents organize their finances

Like many baby boomers, my wife and I have watched our parents go from total independence to assisted living to death. We’ve been thankful that, at key moments, they made the difficult decisions thems...

Weekend reads: Your money and how to invest in 2022

Happy New Year! As 2021 ends, we once again hope for the new year will bring a pandemic recovery. Here are some looks ahead at what may affect financial markets, companies and even you in 2022. Turn a...

The S&P 500 beat both Dow, and Nasdaq in 2021 by the widest margin in 24 years. Here’s what history says happens in 2022.

While the music played, investors kept dancing, paraphrasing a line from former Citigroup C, -0.07% CEO Chuck Prince. Purchasers of U.S. stocks have danced to the tune of a record rise for the broad-m...

Peloton Stock Fell 76% in 2021

Text size A Peloton stationary bike at one of the company’s showrooms. Adam Glanzman/Bloomberg Peloton Interactive shares had already lost roughly 75% of their value this year, when analysts at ...

These are the best-performing S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 stocks of 2021

The performance of the stock market in 2021 has been nothing short of remarkable, surprising many investors after the dramatic crash-and-recovery cycle of 2020. A continuing recovery for the world eco...