As inflation rises, another low-risk investment is getting more attention: the tried-and-true Series I savings bond known as inflation or I bonds. These federally guaranteed instruments currently hav...
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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...
CNN President Jeff Zucker Resigns, Citing Relationship With Colleague
CNN President Jeff Zucker has resigned from the cable news network, citing his failure to disclose a consensual relationship with a close colleague, according to an email he sent to staff on Wednesday...
Major Investors Hold Ground on Russian Debt Amid Ukraine Crisis
Tensions over a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine have put international investors on edge. But some are holding on to Russian debt, betting that a diplomatic solution to the crisis could spark a ...
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...
Where Six Meme Stock Investors Are Now
Some regret their exuberance. Others value the lessons they learned. Still others are convinced big profits lie ahead. Months after interviewing them in 2021, we checked back in with some of the inves...
Older Investors Have a Lot of Money in Stocks. How to Check if It’s Too Much.
A suddenly sliding stock market is sending a wake-up call to older Americans that maybe they shouldn’t invest like they used to. Many are likely to ignore that call. Thanks to a long bull market that ...
Empty Private Jet Flights Hastened Credit Suisse Chairman António Horta-Osório’s Downfall
After relocating to Zurich last spring to run Credit Suisse Group AG CS -1.83% as chairman, António Horta-Osório flew to London and Lisbon for work meetings and business events, then spent time with h...
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...
Rolls-Royce, Bentley, BMW Sales Surge as Cheaper Brands Lag Behind
BERLIN—A surge in luxury-car sales and the shifting of scarce semiconductors to the most profitable vehicles helped many auto makers achieve robust profits last year, even as sales of mainstream vehic...
DirecTV to Drop OAN Conservative News Channel
DirecTV said Friday it plans to drop conservative news channel One America News Network, a move that could sharply reduce the pro-Trump channel’s audience. “We informed Herring Networks that, followin...
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...
One of the World’s Dirtiest Oil Patches Is Pumping More Than Ever
TORONTO—Major oil companies, under pressure from investors and environmentalists, are fleeing Canada’s oil sands, the fourth-largest oil reserve in the world and by some measures one of the most envir...
Student-Loan Processor Navient to Cancel $1.7 Billion of Debts
One of the nation’s largest student-loan processors will cancel the debt of 66,000 borrowers, totaling $1.7 billion, in an agreement with 40 state attorneys general. The agreements resolve all six out...
Why 7% Inflation Today Is Far Different Than in 1982
Consumer price inflation in December, at 7%, was last this high in the summer of 1982. That’s about all the two periods have in common. Today, the inflation rate is on the rise. Back then, it was fall...
Can Energy Stocks Stay Hot in 2022?
By most measures, 2021 was a good year to be an energy investor. According to research firm Morningstar Inc., energy outperformed every other funds sector, and asset flows into these funds grew a net ...
PC Slowdown Sets a New Battleground for Chip Makers
Intel and Advanced Micro Devices have both benefited from the surge in PC sales over the pandemic, but growth is expected to flatline this year. Photo: Andrew Kelly/Reuters After a spectacular run, pe...
Victims in Colorado Fire Face High Building Costs Exceeding Insurance Coverage
Rising construction costs will push the price tag for rebuilding after Colorado’s most destructive wildfire beyond the insurance coverage of some homeowners, according to construction, insurance-indus...
How Many Years Could Elizabeth Holmes Face in Prison? Decades, in Theory
Elizabeth Holmes’s potential prison term for defrauding investors, like her company’s blood-testing technology, will likely fall short of what is advertised, according to an analysis of federal data b...
Tesla, Novavax, Exxon Mobil: What to Watch When the Stock Market Opens Today
Updated Jan. 3, 2022 7:22 am ET Stock futures are rising ahead of the first trading session of the new year. Here’s what we’re watching in Monday’s action: Tesla TSLA -1.27% shares jumped 7.6% ahead o...
The $2 Trillion Cryptocurrency Market Is Drawing Interest From Investors, Scrutiny From U.S. Regulators
WASHINGTON—As cryptocurrencies go mainstream, prices for bitcoin and other digital tokens are often displayed on cable-news tickers and finance apps as though they were just like regular stocks, bonds...
Trump-Appointed Chairman’s Resignation Hands Control of FDIC to Democrats
WASHINGTON— Jelena McWilliams’s decision to resign as chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. paves the way for Democrats to gain control of the agency’s agenda in the coming weeks, potentiall...
Cheaper Stocks Boost S&P 500’s Prospects in New Year
Investors banking on a roaring bull market in U.S. stocks in 2022 are enjoying the company of an unexpected ally: valuations. The S&P 500 rose 27% in 2021, capping a third consecutive year of dou...
The Warren-Biden Bank Heist – WSJ
Elizabeth Warren finally got her woman—that is, the Senator and her many acolytes in the Biden Administration have succeeded in ousting Jelena McWilliams as chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp...
A Big Tech Trade Is Losing Its Luster
The stock market’s popular FAANG trade is starting to show cracks. Investors say they are reconsidering their approach to trading big technology stocks after a week marked by giant swings in share pri...