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Bear Market Have You Down? Here Are 3 Tips for Managing Anxiety During Tumult.
While investors and retirement savers grapple with a host of stressors from a bear market to surging inflation, financial advisors and psychologists say there are steps to take to ease anxiety. Illust...
Chip Investment Decisions Await Congressional Action on $52 Billion Funding Bill
Political wrangling in Congress over government funding for the semiconductor industry is leaving tens of billions of dollars of potential factory projects hanging in limbo and could dent the ambition...
Fastly Cloud Computing Traffic Bumped Higher. That Should Boost the Stock.
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Stock Investors, After Brutal Stretch, Have Rarely Been This Pessimistic
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Why Retirees Should Worry More About Longevity and Less About the Markets
A research paper by Wenliang Hou finds that retirees have an exaggerated sense of market volatility. Dreamstime Text size Market volatility may keep retirees up at night, but the biggest risk to retir...
JP Morgan, Other Banks Are Strong Financially. Why Earnings Don’t Reflect It.
Text size Wells Fargo added $8.4 billion to reserves in the second quarter of 2020, released $1.6 billion a year later, and added $580 million in the most recent quarter. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Ima...
A Strong U.S. Dollar Raises Risks for Everyone
Text size The strong dollar is especially bad news for tech companies that realize much of their profits abroad. Sean Gallup/Getty Images Nothing can stop the dollar—and until something does, expect m...
EU Shipowners Race to Move Russian Oil Before Sanctions Kick In
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Fed’s Bullard Raises Target for Year-End Funds Rate
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said Friday that unexpectedly high inflation calls for a more aggressive path of short-term interest rate rises this year. Inflation “has come...
Vertical Aerospace Stock Soars. American Airlines Provides Cash for eVTOL Maker.
Text size There are many new players vying for eVTOL market share, including Vertical Aerospace. Courtesy Vertical Aerospace Vertical Aerospace , the eVTOL maker, secured some expected funding from Am...
Chip Stock Earnings Estimates Still Look Way Too High, Goldman Analyst Warns
Text size Goldman Sachs’ cuts to earnings forecasts for chip manufacturers were both broad and deep. Dreamstime Chip stocks are gaining ground on Friday following better-than-expected financial ...
Jeremy Siegel on Why Today’s Inflation Is Different From the 1970s
Illustration by Elias Stein Text size This isn’t a rerun of the 1970s, argues Jeremy Siegel, the author of the seminal Stocks for the Long Run and a professor emeritus of finance at the University of ...
Lumber Prices Tumble After Huge Gains in 2021
Shopping for lumber at a Home Depot in Alhambra, Calif., earlier this year Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images Text size The lumber market has taken some big hits from rising inflation and a slowdown i...
Amazon’s Earnings Outlook Could Be Better Than Feared, Analyst Says
Text size Amazon workers pull a cart of packages for delivery in New York City. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Amazon . com will report second-quarter earnings two weeks from now, and the Street is ...
Fed Finally Is Focusing on the Big Picture in Inflation Fight
Text size A modest decline in gasoline prices has raised some hope that inflation is abating. Gene J. Puskar/AP/Shutterstock “Don’t fight the Fed” has long been the mantra of investors. As the U.S. ce...
Stock Market Had Finished Up on Friday. It’s Still a Bear Market.
Text size The S&P 500 has had many chances to rally, and has missed all of them Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images Hope springs eternal, even during a bear market. Just don’t make the mistake of gettin...
Tesla, Ford, and GM’s Plan to Unlock EV Battery Capacity
Text size Panasonic will put up an EV battery plant in Kansas. It’s the latest of a long list of planned battery plants coming to North America. David Becker/Getty Images Lithium batteries are t...
Gasoline Demand Is the Lowest in a Year. Blame Remote Work, Not Pump Prices.
Text size U.S. crude oil inventory levels still remain 5% below the five-year average for this time of year. Brandon Bell/Getty Images It isn’t just high oil prices, but Americans working from home th...
Toys Are Staples, Making Mattel a Buy in a Recession, Says Analyst
Shares of Mattel rose this past Monday, but fell for the week, after an upgrade from Goldman Sachs analyst Michael Ng, who argued that the toy maker had the ability to navigate economic uncertainties....