After Alphabet’s Stock Split, Amazon and Others Look Ripe to Split Shares

Text size Amazon, Chipotle, and others could be candidates for splitting their stocks. Noah Seelam/AFP via Getty Images Alphabet recently announced it is splitting its stock. It probably won’t be the ...

Morgan Stanley Wants to Educate Investors on Ethereum

It’s not often that one of the major wirehouses tells clients to pay attention to cryptocurrencies, so when Morgan Stanley Wealth Management introduces a 20-page primer on the cryptocurrency Ether, it...

Buy the dip? Why the stock market’s bounce off January lows may prove premature

A big stock-market bounce after an ugly January might reflect misplaced confidence in a previously tried-and-true trading strategy, a Wall Street analyst warned on Monday. “After a tough markdown of s...

Major Investors Hold Ground on Russian Debt Amid Ukraine Crisis

Tensions over a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine have put international investors on edge. But some are holding on to Russian debt, betting that a diplomatic solution to the crisis could spark a ...

Weekend reads: Robinhood’s bad news — and a bit of good news

It’s been a year since Robinhood Markets Inc. HOOD, +9.65% briefly suspended “buy” orders for GameStop Corp. GME, +4.69%, AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. AMC, +3.72% and other meme stocks. The brokera...

Robinhood Has Lost its One True Advantage

Text size Robinhood’s stock was trading higher on Friday even after disappointing fourth-quarter results. Dreamstime Robinhood Markets posted a wider-than-expected loss in the fourth quarter and...

Goldman Sachs Stock Is a Buy—Even After a Disappointing Quarter

The lobby of the Goldman Sachs headquarters building in lower Manhattan. Goldman had a strong 2021, although trading slowed in the fourth quarter. Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg Text size Goldman Sachs Grou...

These 3 Bank Stocks Won Earnings Season. They’re All Worth Buying.

Text size Wells Fargo is a good play for investors who can stomach a little uncertainty. Dreamstime This bank earnings season has had its winners and losers, but the winners couldn’t be more different...

Opinion: On the 1-year anniversary of the big short squeeze, GameStop bulls tried to relive their first attack, and that’s the problem

It has been one year since retail traders began their unprecedented move on GameStop stock GME, +3.59%, sending the price soaring and short sellers scattering, creating both a Wall Street panic and th...

Wells Fargo Rally Shows Warren Buffett’s Mistake in Selling Big Stake in Bank

Text size Warren Buffett Drew Angerer/Getty Images One of Warren Buffett’s worst investment moves in an otherwise fabulous career was Berkshire Hathaway ‘s sale in 2020 of a big stake in Wells Fargo a...

Opinion: Citadel’s $1.15 billion cash infusion isn’t a bailout but the final test of Ken Griffin’s ‘Death Star’

When you add more than a billion dollars’ worth of liquidity to a market maker that already executed more than one of every four trades in the U.S. markets on a daily basis, while simultaneously givin...

Opinion: A 27-year-old truck driver just became Robinhood’s first big headache of 2022

Less than a week into the new year, a 27-year-old truck driver from Connecticut might have given Robinhood HOOD, -1.76% a whole new thing to be worried about in 2022. On January 6, an arbitrator for t...

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...