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Is the Stock Market Open Today? Here Are the Hours for Presidents Day 2022.
Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, S.D. features the sculpted heads of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images Text s...
Companies Are Starting to Worry About the Russia Issue
Text size The Alcoa headquarters in Pittsburgh. CEO Roy Harvey said a Russia-Ukraine conflict could affect demand. Justin Merriman/Bloomberg The standoff between Russia and Ukraine has been causing pa...
Many Americans Will Be Getting Smaller Tax Refunds This Year. Here’s Why.
The flood of federal pandemic-relief money was welcome last year, but it is causing disappointment and confusion as taxpayers prepare their 2021 returns. Many will be getting smaller-than-expected ref...
JPMorgan Now Expects Nine Straight Fed Rate Increases Until March 2023
Text size Wall Street banks are predicting more aggressive rate increases by the Federal Reserve. Stefani Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images Economists at JPMorgan Chase said the Federal Reserve would likely r...
Cheap, Boring Advice for Retirement Savers: Minimize Taxes, Rebalance Regularly
Wealth advisor Susan Elser of Indianapolis says investing should be cheap and unexciting. Her firm has six advisors and manages $635 million in assets. She has no research staff to keep costs down, an...
How Stocks Perform Just Before and After a Drastic Fed Interest-Rate Increase
Text size Jerome Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve. Graeme Jennings / POOL/AFP via Getty Images The Federal Reserve could implement two interest-rate increases in one fell swoop next month. The sto...
Bitcoin Falls to Below $40,000 as Wall Street in ‘Full De-Risking Mode’
Text size Dreamstime.com Bitcoin fell below $40,000 Friday on renewed worries of an imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine and the prospect of higher U.S. interest rates this year. Bitcoin, the world’s...
Scorned Treasury Bonds Could Be Good Bet After Fed Boosts Rates
Rarely has there been such unanimity of opinion among both Federal Reserve officials and the cadre of analysts who track and try to predict their future moves. Monetary policy will be tightened with a...
The WSJ Tax Guide 2022: What to Know Now About Tax Filing and Refunds
Feb. 18, 2022 5:30 am ET Get ready for a wild tax season. Every year more than 200 million Americans sign and send income-tax returns to the Internal Revenue Service. But the 2022 filing season will b...
Week’s Best: Wealthy Investors Are Hanging On to Their Cash
Advisors take note: despite a January increase in consumer prices not seen in four decades, investors are stubbornly clinging to cash positions or cash equivalents like CDs, according to a new survey ...
GM Stock Has Tumbled. Director Patricia Russo Bought Up Shares.
Text size GM director Patricia F. Russo (Photo by Monica Schipper/Getty Images for Women’s Forum of New York) Monica Schipper / Getty Images General Motors stock has tumbled in 2022, and directo...
Coke, Walmart, and 8 More Companies That Boosted Their Stock Dividends
Text size Things go better with Coke, as the company’s long-ago jingle proclaimed. Things are also going better for the beverage company’s stockholders, thanks to the news that its dividend will be in...
CNN Parent Found Allison Gollust’s Remarks on Jeff Zucker Relationship Were Misleading
Allison Gollust resigned as CNN’s communications and marketing chief after the network’s parent determined she misled investigators about her relationship with former President Jeff Zucker and violate...
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Sees Company as the ‘Next Great Growth Story’
Text size Intel now expects to increase its annual revenue to grow 10% to 12% by 2025. Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said Thursday that the chip maker can be the stock market’s “...
What Will Stocks Do if War—or Peace—Erupts in Ukraine?
Text size A Ukrainian guard at a checkpoint on the border with Russia. There could be a financial toll, as well as a heavy human one, if the Kremlin launches an invasion. Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy/Ukrinf...
Calling Out ‘Emperor’ Larry Fink
When you’re 98 years old you can say things others can’t, so bravo to Charlie Munger for daring to speak an important but too muffled truth about today’s financial markets. “We have a new bunch of emp...