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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...
Opinion: Whenever the Dow and the S&P 500 fall below this key support level, stocks typically come roaring back
Breaking the 200-day moving average is not the kiss of death for U.S. stocks, which might explain why the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.76% on Jan. 24 recovered from a 1,000-point plunge and f...
IBM Earnings Are Strong as Turnaround Takes Hold
Text size IBM sales were up 6.5% in the fourth quarter, to $16.7 billion. Ethan Miller/Getty Images IBM posted strong results Monday for its fourth quarter, with its best sales growth in more than a d...
Kohl’s Stock Surges as Retailer Feels Pressure From 2 Possible Suitors
Text size Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Kohl’s shares surged more than 28% in premarket trading Monday following reports the retailer could be fielding takeover offers from two suitors. The Wall Street...
These money and investing tips can shelter your portfolio from the stock market’s worst storms
Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Sign up here to get MarketWatch’s best mutual funds and ETF stories emailed to you weekly! INVESTING NEWS & TRENDS Can you name today’s biggest r...
As stock-market turbulence revs up, this ETF theme has drawn 32% of flows in 2022 so far: ‘This isn’t a flash in the pan’
Thank god its Thursday! The Nasdaq Composite posted its first correction since March and equity benchmarks were trying to stage a mini rally, at last check on Thursday. Is this the beginning of the en...
The Huge Tax Bills That Came Out of Nowhere at Vanguard
It’s easy for a small investor to make big mistakes. It would be even easier for giant investment firms to help prevent them—but, sadly, the asset-management industry seems to have other priorities. J...
Credit Suisse Chairman Quits After Breaching Covid-19 Rules
Text size António Horta-Osório, former chairman of Credit Suisse AFP via Getty Images Credit Suisse Chairman António Horta-Osório has resigned only 8 monthsafter being appointed, following a board inv...
Fed needs to ‘shock and awe’ the market with one big rate hike, Bill Ackman says
Billionaire hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman said the Federal Reserve needs to deliver old-fashioned “shock and awe” to financial markets by delivering a much larger onetime increase to benchmark intere...
Banks’ Earnings Show Lenders Aren’t All the Same. It’s Time to Pick and Choose.
Text size JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup both reported declines in trading revenue. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The time has come to take a stock-picking approach to investing in banks. That was the le...
‘We absolutely believe Ether’ surpassing bitcoin’s total market value ‘can happen this year,’ says ETF expert: ‘The bull case is an Etherum ETF in 2022’
Hello there! The Invesco QQQ Trust QQQ is up over 2% so far this week. That is not where many investors would have bet that the popular exchange-traded fund would be trading now based on the wild acti...
Value Gets Its Moment. Consider These Stocks and ETFs.
Buy the dip, wrote J.P. Morgan’s strategists early this past week. As calls to courage go, it wasn’t exactly Churchill during the Blitz. The dip in this case was a 2% decline, year to date, in the S&a...
How a Flood of Money Swamped Cathie Wood’s ARK
Fund manager Cathie Wood became a superstar in 2020, after her ARK exchange-traded funds earned some of the highest returns in history. So far this year, ARK Innovation, the largest of Ms. Wood’s ETFs...
Five overlooked tech stocks poised to be the ‘household names of the future,’ according to this money manager
A much-needed market distraction from the churn of inflation worries is getting under way, but it’s not looking like what investors were hoping for as some big bank names are sliding on disappointing ...
‘There’s no way the stock market goes up this year — it probably goes down pretty aggressively,’ says hedge-fund honcho Kyle Bass
Don’t expect stock-market gains in 2022 if the Federal Reserve sticks to its guns on rate hikes and tightening overall financial conditions, says Kyle Bass, founder and chief investment officer of Hay...
Wall Street’s Favorite Oil Stocks for 2022—Including an Obscure One
Text size Bing Guan/Bloomberg Several analysts and strategists expect energy stocks to outperform the broader market in 2022, as they did in 2021. Energy tends to do well in inflationary environments,...
Here are the ETFs to buy on persistently higher inflation in 2022 and beyond, says BlackRock’s head of iShares strategy
Given an outlook for high U.S. inflation that’s likely to persist beyond 2022, Gargi Chaudhuri of BlackRock Inc., the world’s biggest asset manager, says investors should continue to hedge their portf...
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...