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