Text size Ted Weschler, portfolio manager for Berkshire Hathaway. Photograph by Daniel Acker/Bloomberg Ted Weschler, an investment lieutenant for Warren Buffett, sold out of a hugely successful invest...
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These 3 Funds Invest Like ARK But Didn’t Fall as Far
Just one year ago, the innovation-focused exchange-traded funds from Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest were some of the hottest on the market, thanks to their spectacular rise in 2020. Now, they’ve collapsed b...
Inflation Is Red Hot. How to Protect Your Portfolio and Grow Income.
Income investors—especially those who depend on fixed coupons from bonds—face a hit to their purchasing power as inflation stands above 7%. One strategy to hedge against such big price increases, howe...
Oil is the hottest sector, and Wall Street analysts see upside of up to 48% for favored stocks
Energy is the best-performing stock-market sector this year. Given today’s strong economic growth and inflation, many believe oil prices could remain at current levels for years or maybe even move hig...
Why hedge-fund manager Doug Kass says his bearish case is now stronger and dip buyers should bide their time
For equity dip buyers still waiting in the wings, hedge-fund manager Doug Kass suggests holding fire for now as better bargains, and unfortunately worse times, are ahead. “It is my view that the odds ...
Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities: What Investors Should Know About TIPS
TIPS have suddenly moved to center stage for investors, as the surge in inflation has drawn new interest in Treasury inflation-protected securities. But how much do investors really know about these s...
California, Florida, and Inflation Are Sinking Solar
Text size Ethan Miller/Getty Images The solar power industry is destined to grow many times over in the coming decades, and several companies will undoubtedly become behemoths. But the current picture...
Opinion: ARK investors have lost $4 billion — ‘We believe we’re going to see the turn sooner rather than later,’ Cathie Wood says
Four billion dollars would provide for a lot of retirements. It would, for example, pay for about 80,000 of these popular recreational vehicles. Or about 40,000 of these popular boats. Or, more prosai...
Citrix Systems Near $13 Billion Buyout by Elliott, Vista: WSJ
Cloud-computing company Citrix Systems is close to a deal to be taken private, The Wall Street Journal reported. Dreamstime Text size This story originally appeared in The Wall Street Journal. Cloud-c...
Cathie Wood’s ARK Faces Loyalty Test After Tech-Stock Rout
Cathie Wood says the high-risk stocks in the exchange-traded funds sold by ARK Investment Management LLC are so cheap that they will inevitably rise. A surprising number of investors are willing to gi...
Netflix Co-CEO Reed Hastings Bought $20 Million of Stock
Text size Netflix co-founder and co-CEO Reed Hastings just made his first purchase of the company’s shares on the open market. Henrik Jonsson/Dreamstime.com Netflix ‘s stock has slumped in 2022,...
Opinion: Warren Buffett is teaching meme-stock players and crypto traders some hard lessons about why market fundamentals still apply
In early 2021, age-old investing principles of business valuation were declared passe by meme-stock buyers, SPAC enthusiasts, and crypto-traders. A new generation of market players declared that Warre...
Opinion: The 60%-40% portfolio will deliver anemic returns over the next decade — here’s how to adapt
We have entered a new paradigm of anemic return expectations for traditional asset-allocation models. The prospects of a lost decade ahead are uncomfortably high for portfolios that are 60% invested i...
What to expect from markets in the next six weeks, before the Federal Reserve revamps its easy-money stance
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell fired a warning shot across Wall Street last week, telling investors the time has come for financial markets to stand on their own feet, while he works to tame i...
Jim Cramer literally drowns Cathie Wood’s ARK as flagship fund falters
Jim Cramer has never been shy to use buzzers and bells to make the occasionally esoteric world of finance more interesting. But the host of CNBC’s Mad Money got even the Twitterverse to take notice at...
Cash Pours Into Anti-ARK ETF as Cathie Wood Struggles
Text size Catherine Wood’s innovation-focused ETFs have been falling. PATRICK T. FALLON/ AFP / Getty Images As Cathie Wood’s innovation-focused exchange-traded funds have tumbled amid the latest...
Blackstone Profits Nearly Double as Total Assets Set Quarterly Record
Text size Signage outside the Blackstone headquarters in New York. Angus Mordant/Bloomberg Shares of Blackstone rose Thursday after total assets at the world’s biggest alternative asset manager rose t...
Crypto bull says ‘I look at the stock market and it is just starting to correct and that worries me more’: We could see ‘another 20%’ fall ‘for the Nasdaq’
Wealthy investor Mike Novogratz says the days of making easy money on Wall Street are coming to a swift end and he sees more pain in store for stock-market investors in coming months. “I look at the s...
10 tech value stocks that at least 75% of analysts rate as a ‘buy’ right now
So far, 2022 is a year of value stocks. But some tech stocks fit that definition. Below is a high-conviction list of technology stocks among the S&P 500 SPX, +0.05% that have low valuations to ear...