Until now, the U.S. clean-energy revolution has been imported. Other countries make almost all of the batteries, solar panels, and critical chemicals used in America. But the revolution is starting to...
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Top Advisors Share the Best Financial Moves to Make Now
It’s easy to get swept up in how stocks, bonds, or your portfolio performed today, this month, or this year, and that’s especially true during market upheavals. But a longer-term view is required to a...
How to Put Together an All-Cash Home Purchase
As home-financing costs have skyrocketed, cash is king once again. Nearly one in 10 new homes in the third quarter were purchased with cash, according to Census Bureau data—the largest share since 201...
How to Maximize Your Wealth Over the Next Decade
Investors accustomed to blockbuster returns faced a reckoning this year, as the great bull market ended with high inflation, soaring interest rates, and fears of a recession. The uncertainty persists,...
How to Keep Your Retirement on Track in an Unpredictable Market
Retirees and investors on the cusp of retirement are under stress this year. Inflation has spiked to multidecade highs, stocks have tumbled, and bonds—a haven in normal times—have slumped. The traditi...
New-Home Sales Surge. It’s Still a Mixed Picture for Housing.
Text size Sales of new homes rose in October. Here: completed and under construction new homes in Trappe, Maryland. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Sales of new homes unexpectedly rose in October, pai...
Build a Bond ETF Ladder to Capture Yields of 4% to 5%
Bond ladders can be rickety at times. But they may provide protection against volatile interest rates and offer ways to capture higher yields as they hit the market. The concept is straightforward: As...
New CIO Wants Cisco to Be a Model for Hybrid Work
Fletcher Previn, Cisco Systems Inc.’s new chief information officer, said he is working to help position the networking-equipment maker as a leader in hybrid work. “Everybody being remote in the pande...
Is the Stock Market Open Today? Here Are the Thanksgiving and Black Friday Hours.
Instead of gearing up to trade Thursday, investors may be defrosting their Thanksgiving turkeys—and clipping coupons ahead of Black Friday. This year, Thanksgiving and Black Friday come after two days...
Wall Street Is Saying ‘No’ to a Bitcoin Rebound. Bearish Bets Are Piling Up.
Bitcoin has been licking its wounds from two-year lows in the wake of crypto exchange FTX’s bankruptcy this month. Sentiment may be cautiously improving in the digital-asset world, but investors on Wa...
The Fed Minutes Are Today. Here’s What to Watch.
Federal Reserve officials have been laying the groundwork in recent weeks for the possibility that the central bank will ease off its aggressive monetary-policy tightening path and raise interest rate...
Blackstone’s Breit Retail Real Estate Fund Suffers First Significant Outflows
Blackstone ‘s big retail real estate fund experienced sizable net redemptions for the first time, in a potentially worrisome development for what has become one of the firm’s most important products a...
Berkshire Scores Big With Japanese Investments. Currency Hedge Is Key.
One of Berkshire Hathaway ‘s bigger investment scores in recent years was the purchase of a group of five Japanese trading companies that now are showing an estimated profit of about $4 billion on an ...
Baidu Beats Revenue Expectations Despite Continued Covid Worries
Baidu on Tuesday became the latest Chinese technology company to report a return to annual growth, as it beat expectations for its third-quarter revenue. Baidu (ticker: BIDU)—often referred to as Chi...
It’s Time for the Stock Market to Worry About Recession
The stock market is so over the Federal Reserve—but that doesn’t mean it’s out of the woods just yet. Attention is now turning to the U.S. economy—and whether it sinks into recession will determine if...
Why Your Money May Not Go to the Heirs in Your Will
Text size If you have given power of attorney to someone, you may have to sign a separate agreement at your bank to ensure access to funds. Dreamstime When it comes to distributing assets to loved one...
Match Group Stock Has Been Knocked Down. It’s Time to Pick It Up.
Online dating has been a heartbreaker for investors in Match Group this year. The stock, however, now looks like a keeper. It hasn’t been an easy year for Match (ticker: MTCH). Its stock has fallen 65...
Retail Discounter TJX Is Thriving as Inflation Pressures Consumers
Text size These reports, excerpted and edited by Barron’s, were issued recently by investment and research firms. The reports are a sampling of analysts’ thinking; they should not be considered the vi...
This British Clean-Energy Developer Is Making Big Bets
Europe’s urgent rush for new energy sources since Russia invaded Ukraine is creating a wide range of investment opportunities, including some intriguing speculative plays. Clean-energy developer Ceres...
FTX Sends Crypto Reeling. The Whales Move in to Profit.
Cryptocurrency markets have been slammed by the sudden bankruptcy of FTX. But amid the carnage, some big traders—whales—were buying. Bitcoin the largest crypto, was plumbing two-year lows at $16,600 o...