U.S. stocks gave up early gains to turn lower Tuesday after a consumer-confidence reading came in weaker than expected. What’s happening The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.65% was down 185 points, or 0.6%, at […]
Give the benefit of the doubt to the classic 60% stock/40% bond portfolio. That’s not easy, given its awful performance so far this year. On Jun. 13, the day the S&P 500 SPX, +3.06% officially […]
Robinhood Markets struggled to handle huge volumes of stock trading and sparred with its principal customer, market maker Citadel Securities, during the week in January 2021 when meme stocks exploded, according to a report from […]
The outlook for the semiconductor sector is moving from bad to worse, and investors appear to be moving their money into the software sector as a result. Pessimism about the future of the chip sector […]
U.S. investors now have a new way to bet against bitcoin in the wake of this year’s crypto market volatility. ProShares on Tuesday launched its Short Bitcoin Strategy ETF, or BITI, the first inverse exchange-traded […]
Financial firm ProShares is ready to roll out the first U.S.-listed short bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund this week, allowing investors to effectively bet against the largest cryptocurrency after its price tumbled below $20,000 over the […]
Not many investors can claim a lifetime of stock-market success. Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway BRK.A, +0.02% BRK.B, -0.31% comes to mind, of course, but what about Warren Kaplan? Who? Kaplan is an 85-year-old individual […]
The Federal Reserve’s interest-rate hike campaign has been a downer to most in financial markets, but not all. Bill Ackman, the chief executive of hedge fund Pershing Square, put on a timely derivatives bet shorting […]
Oil and gas stocks may be running out of steam. That means a big shift in market leadership could be imminent. Over the past year, the Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF XLE has beaten all […]
Wall Street professionals have been known to exhibit a haughty attitude toward retail traders. But as it happens, the “dumb money” — a phrase occasionally applied to mom-and-pop investors with more than a dollop of […]
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