Twitter Inc. TWTR 3.93% is re-examining Elon Musk’s $43 billion takeover offer after the billionaire lined up financing for the bid, in a sign the social-media company could be more receptive to a dea...
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Cathie Wood’s Flagship Fund Is Down 45% This Year. Money Is Still Flowing In.
Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation exchange-traded fund keeps falling, but investors aren’t jumping ship. Shares of the popular ETF, which is known by its ticker ARKK, have declined 45% so far in 2022—inclu...
Blackstone Earnings Fall to $1.22 Billion
Blackstone Inc.’s BX -6.45% first-quarter earnings fell as the value of the private-equity giant’s investments climbed at a slower pace. The New York firm reported net income of $1.22 billion, or $1.6...
Cut Your Retirement Spending Now, Says Creator of the 4% Rule
For decades, retirees have relied on the 4% rule to determine how much was safe to spend in retirement. Now, the rule’s inventor says current market conditions may require an even more conservative ap...
Rivian CEO Warns of Looming Electric-Vehicle Battery Shortage
NORMAL, Ill.—Rivian Automotive Inc. Chief Executive RJ Scaringe is warning that the auto industry could soon face a looming shortage of battery supplies for electric vehicles—a challenge that he says ...
Decade-High Mortgage Rates Pose Threat to Spring Housing Market
U.S. housing sales are heating up again this spring, but the highest mortgage rates in more than a decade threaten to cool the sales pace that has gripped the market for nearly two years. Home sales r...
Bond Rout Promises More Pain for Investors
The worst bond rout in decades shows few signs of abating, threatening further pain for both investors and borrowers. Battered by high inflation readings and sharp messages from Federal Reserve offici...
Quest for Pricing Power Drives Stock Gains
Investors are on the hunt for companies with the magic words during any spell of inflation: pricing power. With consumer prices rising at their fastest pace in 40 years and stocks wobbly over the Fede...
California’s French Four-Day Workweek – WSJ
The popular book “The 4-Hour Workweek” provides tips on how to make more money by working less. Now California Democrats are taking a page from the book by proposing to mandate a four-day week, which ...
Utilities Plan Huge Electric Grid Upgrades, Adding to Power Bills
American utilities are planning their biggest spending increases in decades to upgrade aging grids, prepare for electric vehicles and make the transition to renewable energy—moves poised to further bo...
You Made $700 From an Online Side Hustle. Now the IRS Will Know.
Now that your 2021 taxes are done—or at least under way—it’s time to focus on a key tax change for 2022 affecting millions of Americans making money through platforms like eBay , Etsy , Airbnb , Venmo...
The Safe Investment That Will Soon Yield Almost 10%
There’s no such thing as a free lunch in finance. Except maybe this: The interest rate on inflation-adjusted U.S. savings bonds will approach 10% beginning in May. U.S. Treasury Series I Bonds, or I B...
AT&T Boss Sees Room to Raise Prices, Cut Costs After Media Exit
AT&T Inc. Chief Executive Officer John Stankey says inflation could prompt the wireless and broadband company to raise prices for some core services while it continues to cut costs after getting o...
Why Russia Doesn’t Want to Default—Even in a Time of War
Behind the fight over whether Russia should be allowed to pay off its debts is an age-old issue: Borrowers, even in times of war, want to keep their reputations for making investors whole. The U.S. Tr...
Why GM and Ford Stocks Have Driven Off Course
Are high gas prices and rising interest rates hitting demand for gas-guzzlers? Sales data don’t offer much of an answer these days, leaving investors to fear the worst. On Monday, Ford Motor reported ...
Investment Firm Files Finra Arbitration Demand Against Morgan Stanley
An investor accused Morgan Stanley of leaking information about a large sale of shares of Palantir Technologies Inc., saddling it with millions of dollars in losses. Morgan Stanley is at the center of...
Tesla Deliveries Rose in Quarter Elon Musk Calls Exceptionally Difficult
Tesla Inc. vehicle deliveries rose in the first quarter, but missed Wall Street expectations as the company struggled with global supply-chain disruptions and a brief Covid-19 shutdown at its Shanghai...
Value Investing Is Back. But How Do You Choose the Right ETF?
Value investing is coming back. Over the past decade, growth stocks have outpaced value shares, which usually have lots of tangible assets relative to their market value. In those 10 years, the S&...
As the Fed Raises Interest Rates, and Other Central Banks Don’t, What Will That Mean for U.S. Stocks?
The Federal Reserve’s recent decision to begin raising interest rates stands in contrast to many other central banks around the world, which are keeping their baseline interest rates flat or lowering ...
How to Plan for Part-Time Retirement
Phased retirement arrangements might be a good fit for older employees who want to scale back on work but aren’t yet ready to leave for good. “It requires some planning,” said Elliot Dole, an adviser...
Freed Huawei Finance Chief Meng Wanzhou Returns to Company Spotlight
HONG KONG—Months after returning home to a hero’s welcome in China, Huawei Technologies Co. finance chief Meng Wanzhou was back in the spotlight Monday: This time, she was in more familiar surrounding...
When Quitting Normalizes, Benefit to Low-Wage Workers May Subside
Low-wage workers capitalized on the rare opportunity of a tight labor market with a burst of job-switching. That wave shows signs of easing now and economists say that, apart from a one-off rise in wa...