REIT Preferred is Overlooked and Offers 6% to 8% Yields

Higher rates are attracting more individual investors to the preferred stock market because yields have risen nearly two percentage points this year to a range of 6% to 8%. Most investors focus on ban...

Tesla’s Elon Musk Has a Finance Lesson For Investors. They Disagree.

There is little time off for investors following Tesla these days. The weekend before Christmas is no exception. In the past couple of days, there have been more tweets about the electric-vehicle make...

These money and investing tips can help you plan for a new year as 2022 comes to an end

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 Why the stock market’s painful...

 Individual Investors Hang On in Wild Year for Stocks While Pros Sell 

During the wildest year for global markets since 2008, individual investors have been doubling down on stocks. Many professionals, on the other hand, appear to have bailed out.   U.S. equity mutual an...

Senator Lummis Still Trusts Bitcoin For Retirement

The pro-cryptocurrency senator is unmoved by the continuing “crypto winter” or by the proposals from his colleagues to limit the use of bitcoin in retirement plans. He believes that crypto...

Opinion: What’s the best way to take RMDs from retirement funds? Experts rate 3 options.

I’m a retired educator, and I’m just turning 72. I’m about to start taking my required minimum distributions. I don’t need the full amount, but I guess I have to take it anyway. I don’t know when the ...

These money and investing tips can fill your portfolio with holiday cheer

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Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Buys Up More Howard Hughes Stock

These disclosures are from 13Ds filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. 13Ds are filed within 10 days of an entity’s attaining more than 5% in any class of a company’s securities. Subsequen...

The Lesson of Blackstone’s Retail Real Estate Fund: Liquidity Matters.

The recent move by Blackstone giant retail real estate fund to limit redemptions after outsize withdrawal requests is a wake-up call for investors in a once-hot sector that may now face more regulator...

Can you still retire on $1 million? That’s what today’s millionaires want to know.

OK, so a million dollars isn’t what it used to be. That’s the worry among a surprising number of America’s millionaires. So, at least, reports money-management giant Natixis, which owns bond shop Loom...

Bank of America stock plunges, leading selloff in shares of largest U.S. banks

Shares of many of America’s largest banks are falling sharply this week after a period of outperformance that saw Goldman Sachs Group GS, -2.32% claw back practically all of its losses from earlier in...

This one great idea can make everyone better with money, older Americans say

Surveys regularly show that older Americans have regrets about lots of things — working too much, choosing the wrong partner, not taking care of their health, etc. There are often financial regrets to...

AMD, Nvidia, and 3 More Chip Stocks to Buy That Have ‘Priced In’ the Downturn

Five chip stocks are considered buying opportunities by KeyBanc Capital Markets after the semiconductor sector’s big drop in share prices this year. The iShares Semiconductor (SOXX) exchange-traded fu...

10 Dividend Aristocrat stocks expected by analysts to rise up to 54% in 2023

Stocks of companies that raise dividends consistently have outperformed during this year’s bear market. Below is a screen showing which stocks are analysts’ favorites for next year among an expanded l...

Starwood REIT, Like BREIT, Limits Investor Redemptions From Real Estate Fund

Another big nontraded real estate fund is limiting investor redemptions.        Starwood Real Estate Income Trust, a nontraded real estate investment trust, is curbing redemptions after investor withd...

Battered SPACs and Closed-End Funds Finally Look Tempting. How Investors Can Play Them.

With apologies to the Bard, SPACs are now in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, along with other excesses, such as meme stocks and nonfungible tokens. But some special purpose acquisition companies...

These money and investing tips can help you know when the bull market has come back to stay

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 There’s a strong possibility t...

FTX fiasco one of the most egregious cases of ‘gross negligence,’ says Ackman

Hedge-fund titan Bill Ackman appears to be walking back comments he made via Twitter last week about Sam Bankman-Fried that some interpreted as implicit support for the 30-something who presided over ...

Caterpillar, Deere, and More Industrial Stocks Ready to Break Out

Stocks in the industrial sector have been on a tear. In aggregate, they are knocking on the door of reaching new heights. The Industrial Select Sector SPDR ETF (ticker: XLI ), home to Caterpillar (CAT...

Here’s why the smart money is betting on value stocks to outperform growth

You should be skeptical of the growth story that periodically captures stock investors’ attention. That’s because the companies that Wall Street believes will grow the fastest in the future rarely liv...

U.S.-traded Chinese stocks clinch best week since at least March as reopening hopes help spark rebound

Shares of U.S.-traded Chinese stocks on Friday posted their best week since at least March, with one popular exchange-traded fund clinching its biggest weekly advance since 2011, as shared recovered f...

Where BlackRock sees ‘tremendous’ market opportunities for ETF investors in 2023 after damage to stocks, bonds

Hello! In this week’s ETF Wrap, BlackRock’s Gargi Chaudhuri, head of iShares investment strategy for the Americas, discusses ways for investors to play a world of higher rates and elevated inflation i...

Okta stock surges more than 25% as analysts approve of company’s profit heading

Okta Inc. shares surged by more than a quarter of its value Thursday after analysts praised the identity software company for heading in the right direction after it promised a profitable fiscal 2024 ...

Blackstone Limited Withdrawals From Its Huge Retail REIT, Stock Slumps

Blackstone is limiting withdrawals from its huge retail real estate investment trust after a sharp rise in redemption requests from investors. In a letter posted on the Blackstone Real Estate Income T...

This trader sees a 43% drop for the S&P 500 and says to take shelter in these ETFs instead.

A day after the Dow DJIA, -0.11% climbed out of bear territory on hopeful comments by Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, stocks look ready to rethink on that optimsim, even after fresh inflation data showed ...

Alibaba stock flies toward best month in 7 years

The U.S.-listed shares of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. were ending a historically strong month on a high note Wednesday, as the China-based e-commerce giant was swept up in the hope that the country wil...

Private-prison stock hits two-year high as analysts cite potential for more detention beds, detention alternatives

Shares of private-prison operator GEO Group Inc. jumped to their highest level in roughly two years on Tuesday after Wedbush analysts upgraded the stock, citing a GOP-controlled House, possible change...

CrowdStrike stock drops nearly 20% as elongating sales cycle slows new subscriptions

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. shares dropped in the extended session Tuesday after the cybersecurity company said new subscriptions came in below expectations amid macro headwinds and longer customer buyi...

Apple Stock Keeps Falling—and I Feel Fine

If Apple stock falls and it doesn’t make a sound, will anyone notice? Not if the market stock market keeps going up. The past month has been good for the stock market and bad for Apple stock (ticker: ...

Cloud software is suffering a cold November rain. Can Snowflake and Salesforce turn it around?

The week after Thanksgiving could determine if cloud software is still too fat or if there are some tasty leftovers for Wall Street. Autodesk Inc. ADSK, +1.82% signaled a slowdown in business spending...

BDCs Sport Lofty Yields, But the Risks Are Growing

Business development companies lend to midsize private companies at high interest rates. They have proven popular with retail investors in recent years by offering dividend yields of around 10%. Total...