Stock Market Today: Overseas Stocks Fall as Russia-Ukraine Tensions Simmer

Text size Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden have agreed in principle to a summit in Europe. AFP via Getty Images Global stocks fell on Monday as tensions remained high over the Russian military buildup on ...

European Indexes Waver, Russian Stocks Fall Amid Ukraine Tensions

European stock indexes wavered as investors watched for signs of escalation between Moscow and the West, alongside the potential for a diplomatic solution.  U.S. stock markets will be closed Monday fo...

Why Barrick Gold’s CEO Is Looking to Boost Its Copper Business

Text size Barrick aims to boost its gold production to 4.8 million ounces annually by the end of decade from 4.4 million in 2021. David Gray/AFP via Getty Images Mark Bristow, the CEO of one of the bi...

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...

Giant U.S. Pension Bought Up EV Stocks NIO, XPeng, Li Auto, and Rivian

Text size A Nio eP9 car Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images The second-largest U.S. pension by assets bought up shares of four electric-vehicle makers as 2021 was coming to a close. Unfortunately, the...

Surfside Tower Collapse Makes Buying Condos More Complicated

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are asking questions about the safety and soundness of condos and co-op buildings after the Surfside, Fla., tower collapse. There is little agreement on how to answer them. ...

Russia-Ukraine Tensions Power Gold to Eight-Month Highs

Escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine have boosted gold prices to their highest levels since June.  Gold has gained in 12 of the past 15 sessions, including seven straight through Monday, lif...

Moderna, Alibaba, Coinbase, Home Depot, Etsy, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed for Presidents Day on Monday. Fourth-quarter earning season resumes when Wall Street returns, with results from Agilent Technologies, Home Depot, and Medtron...

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...

Energy Vault Stock Is Soaring. The Reason Is Obscure.

Text size An Energy Vault commercial demonstration unit. Business Wire Sometimes the market can be tough to figure out. Shares of energy storage player Energy Vault Holdings (ticker: NRGV) are up 34% ...

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...

DraftKings Posts Higher Revenue but Expects Losses to Widen in 2022

Sports-betting company DraftKings Inc. posted higher revenue for the holiday quarter, but said it expects its adjusted loss to widen this year as it launches in new states like New York and Louisiana....

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...

Ford Stock Is Rising on Reports of an EV Spinoff. Steer Clear of the Rumors.

Text size A Ford Motor plant. Courtesy Ford Ford Motor stock is rising in early Friday trading after Bloomberg reported the company might spin off its electric-vehicle business. This isn’t the first r...

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...

The Gold Rush Is On. It’s Not Too Late to Get In.

Text size Investors can buy a gold exchange-traded fund like SPDR Gold Shares or iShares Gold Trust, which own the precious metal. Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg The chase is on. The chase for gold, that i...

Albemarle Stock Tanks on Earnings. But Lithium Prices Are Going Up.

Text size Albemarle’s results are being hurt by inflation. Cristobal Olivares/Bloomberg Albemarle stock fell, hard, after the lithium miner reported fourth-quarter numbers late Wednesday. Result...

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 “...

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...

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...

Forget Apple and Google. Meta Has Another Existential Threat on the Horizon.

Text size Investors in Meta have been taken on a wild ride this month. There are more threats ahead. Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty Images Meta Platforms ‘ shareholders have had a lot to worry about recen...

Russia-Ukraine Tensions Mount and Fed Tightening Weighs. There’s Only 1 Certainty for Markets.

U.S. stocks are being bumped around from crisis to crisis as if in a pinball machine. The uncertainty around the Federal Reserve’s policy and the future path of interest rates keeps surfacing on a reg...