How Gautam Adani Made (and Could Lose) a $147 Billion Fortune

Listen to article (2 minutes) AHMEDABAD, India—Gautam Adani is ubiquitous in this country. His name is plastered on roadside billboards and on the airports and shipping docks he operates. His power pl...

Where Are Stocks, Bonds and Crypto Headed Next? Five Investors Look Into Crystal Ball

A new trading year kicked off just weeks ago. Already it bears little resemblance to the carnage of 2022. After languishing throughout last year, growth stocks have zoomed higher. Tesla Inc. and Nvidi...

Tesla Is Last Stronghold for Investors Buying the Dip in Tech Stocks

Listen to article (2 minutes) After a brutal year for technology stocks, individual investors have lost their appetite for buying the dip, with one notable exception. They are still scooping up shares...

Big Banks Predict Recession, Fed Pivot in 2023

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For Battered Bonds, Threats of Further Losses Linger

The year 2022 marked a truly historic bust for the U.S. bond market. The question now is whether 2023 will produce any kind of meaningful rebound. Normally a safe investment, U.S. bonds delivered loss...

The Year Big Tech Stocks Fell From Glory

Listen to article (1 minute) The year 2022 turned many of the stock market’s former darlings into duds. For the better part of the previous decade, investors crowded into shares of fast-growing techno...

Stock, Bond and Crypto Investors Remain on Edge After Brutal Year for Markets

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Crypto’s Onetime Fans Are Calling It Quits After FTX Collapse

Buying crypto was so much fun when it was going up. Now, many onetime fans are getting out. This year has brought crisis after crisis, raising questions about the industry’s long-term prospects. Two m...

 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...

How FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried Went From Crypto Golden Boy to Villain

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Higher Heating Bills Poised to Hit U.S. Households This Winter

High fuel prices have been a big driver of inflation, pumping up the cost of summer travel and air conditioning, and federal energy forecasters say that staying warm this winter will be more expensive...

That Sky-High I Bond Interest Rate Will Be Coming Down to Earth

Inflation-adjusted Series I savings bonds have been the most enticing place to park your cash this year—nearly 10% interest, backed by the U.S. government, the safest investment around. In a few weeks...

Why Are My Inflation-Protected Bonds Falling When Inflation Is So High?

Listen to article (1 minute) You would think this would be TIPS’ time to shine. Instead, the prices of Treasury inflation-protected securities—government bonds that are adjusted to keep up with inflat...

Crypto Investors Got Burned by Celsius. Then They Battled Back.

Cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network LLC attracted scores of people over the last five years who wanted to make money betting on bitcoin. After a crypto crash pushed the company into bankruptcy this ...

Buying the Stock-Market Dip Is Backfiring This Year

Sept. 25, 2022 5:30 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) It is the worst year for buying the stock-market dip since the 1930s.   Instead of rebounding after a tumble, stocks have continued to fall, bur...

Oil Falls Below $80 a Barrel

Listen to article (2 minutes) U.S. oil prices fell below $80 a barrel for the first time since January, dragged down by mounting fears of a global recession and a rapidly strengthening U.S. dollar.  W...

Rising Bond Yields Change the Calculus for Stocks

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This Should Have Been a Great Year for Gold. Here’s Why It Isn’t.

Investors expected sticky inflation to lift gold prices this year. Instead, the opposite happened. The most actively traded gold contract is on pace to decline for six consecutive months, with a loss ...

Outlook for Tech Stocks Darkens After Rocky Stretch

Sept. 10, 2022 5:30 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) A rally in technology shares helped the stock market snap a three-week losing streak. There are already signs that reprieve may be short lived. ...

Oil Prices Slump as Recession Fears Grow

Another turbulent week in oil markets carried crude prices to their lowest point since January, with thin trading and a blurry outlook for supply and demand driving a fitful 30% decline from this year...

Trump Media SPAC Extends Merger Deadline, Paying Nearly $3 Million for Three Months

Updated Sept. 9, 2022 4:26 pm ET Listen to article (2 minutes) The special-purpose acquisition company trying to take Trump Media & Technology Group public will pay nearly $3 million to get three ...

Ernst & Young Leaders Expected to Approve Plan to Split Accounting Company

Ernst & Young’s leaders are expected this week to give the green light to splitting its auditing and consulting businesses, paving the way for the biggest shake-up in the accounting profession in ...

MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor Sued for Alleged Tax Fraud in Washington, D.C.

By Vicky Ge Huang and Richard Rubin Aug. 31, 2022 6:17 pm ET Listen to article (2 minutes) The District of Columbia attorney general sued Michael Saylor, the founder and chairman of software intellige...

Investors Ramp Up Bets Against Stock Market as Summer Rally Fizzles

Investors are stepping up bets on a market downturn, a sign of waning sentiment that analysts say could presage a return to the volatile trading of the first half of 2022. Net short positions against ...

When Is Tesla’s Stock Split, and What Does It Mean for Investors?

Tesla will split its stock this week, the latest megacap company to divide its highly priced shares this year in a bid to make them more accessible to investors. Stock splits have declined in populari...

U.S. Companies on Pace to Bring Home Record Number of Overseas Jobs

U.S. companies are bringing workforces and supply chains home at a historic pace. American companies are on pace to reshore, or return to the U.S., nearly 350,000 jobs this year, according to a report...

Warren Buffett Not Expected to Bid for Control of Occidental Following Stake Boost

Warren Buffett’s bid to boost his big stake in Occidental Petroleum even further isn’t expected to serve as a prelude to a full takeover of the resurgent energy company by the widely watched billionai...

Ryan Cohen’s RC Ventures Sells Entire Stake in Bed Bath & Beyond

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What Investors Need to Know About AMC’s APE Units: A Stock ‘Split on Steroids’

Updated Aug. 17, 2022 4:35 pm ET Listen to article (1 minute) AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. outlined plans this month to issue a special dividend, sending its shares soaring and stoking enthusiasm a...

Public Pension Systems Join Those Stung by Crypto Crash

Listen to article (2 minutes) Among the investors who bet on cryptocurrency over the past year are pension funds that manage public workers’ retirement savings. Now those funds are navigating the cras...

Meme-Stock Investors Are Back! Sort of, Anyway

Individual investors have waded back into the stock market after laying low through the worst of this year’s selloff. But don’t call it a comeback yet.  So-called retail investors in the last two week...