It’s been a year since the pandemic first blindsided the U.S., turning many jobs, forms of schooling and ways of socializing into stay-at-home events. But it’s only about 11 months since the new bull market for the S&P 500 started. That’s one of two key reasons why analysts atRead More →
Investors have plowed money into a new exchange-traded fund that tracks the sports betting and online gambling industries, even as professional competition remains closed. It’s a sign, industry-watchers say, of confidence in the longer-term outlook for the sector, as well as a reminder that many people are substituting play inRead More →
If you’re an investor who doesn’t want to miss out on the next big trend, you had better pay attention to what’s going on in space. When people think about the space business, they may be excited that on Saturday the U.S. finally regained the ability to send people intoRead More →
Don’t miss these top money and investing features: These money and investing stories, popular with MarketWatch readers this past week, offer ideas about how to manage your financial portfolio and invest strategically at a time when investors have become more optimistic — even as uncertainty about the coronavirus pandemic, corporateRead More →
skynesher/iStock Young couple using digital tablet with their financial advisor in the office. How are financial advisors investing their clients’ money? The most recent edition of the Advisor Insights Guide from BlackRock’s Portfolio Solutions team sheds some light. The guide, which covers the third quarter of 2019, aggregates information fromRead More →
Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Tesla cars are electric, but the stock lately has been all rocket fuel. Read some of the Tesla stories that captured MarketWatch readers’ attention this past week. Plus, check out a warning about excessive stock-market optimism, and read why a buy-the-dip opportunityRead More →
iStockphoto Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Fears about the social and economic impact of the spreading coronavirus, along with general concern that stock markets have run too far, too fast, having shaken many investors’ confidence lately. So it’s not surprising that stories resonating with MarketWatch readers thisRead More →
iStockphoto “Actively-managed non-transparent ETFs” are a mouthful to describe, have taken over a decade to develop and now, thanks to regulatory approvals secured this week, they will soon be widely available to investors. Exchange-traded funds, which have been around for nearly three decades, have a few selling points. They allowRead More →
iStockphoto The Tanger Outlets in Lancaster County. Shares of Tanger Factory Outlet Centers are rocketing higher even as doubts about the future of bricks-and-mortar retailers continue to plague the company, one of the pioneers of outlet-store shopping. But the big share move upward isn’t because investors have had a changeRead More →
Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Money and investing stories hitting home with MarketWatch readers this past week include an insiders’ look at how value stocks are ready for their close-up after years of being out of the public eye, as well as the latest investing moves fromRead More →
The U.S. stock market seems risky now because valuations are rich, as sentiment marches higher. But there’s a fix for that: load up on disliked, cheap value stocks. By many measures, value stocks are lagging growth stocks by almost as much as they ever have in the past several decades. UsuallyRead More →
Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Some of the stories hitting home with MarketWatch readers this past week include a report on a potentially big threat to your investment portfolio’s health: the heavy weighting that American households are giving to stocks nowadays. It’s a well-known market rule thatRead More →
Cloud-computing and cybersecurity stocks outperformed broader indexes Monday as shares of Salesforce.com Inc. closed at an all-time high and on heightened concerns of an Iranian cyberattack against the U.S. Salesforce CRM, +4.38% shares closed 4.4% higher Monday at a record $173.45, after touching an intraday record of $173.67, afterRead More →
Though 2019 was a brutal year for weed stocks in Canada and the U.S., that meant it was a stellar year for short sellers, who harvested nearly $1 billion from shorting the top 20 cannabis companies according to a new analysis. As the sector entered the year with big promisesRead More →
In 2011, pioneering venture capitalist Marc Andreessen wrote an op-ed called “Why software is eating the world,” introducing his thesis that what we now know as Internet 2.0, an industry of platforms like Facebook and Twitter, would replace the old world of desktop computer hardware. Nearly a decade later, ifRead More →
iStockPhoto Financial trading chart at digital display Have we just experienced the decade of the ETF? In 2010, about $1 trillion was invested in exchange-traded funds. As the decade draws to a close, ETFs have more than four times that amount, according to the Investment Company Institute. But what comesRead More →
Don’t miss these top money and investing features: For stock investors, 2020 is already looking like a happy new year. The U.S. stock market has racked up strong gains this year, and typically after a winning year, stock prices continue to climb over the following year. Plus, 2020 is aRead More →
European stock markets are looking at their best year in a decade, but investors should not take this as an early sign that the regional economy is back on track, say strategists. The Stoxx Europe 600 index SXXP, +0.14% , which includes U.K. equities, is poised to gain 23% this year,Read More →
Everett Collection Would Daniel Craig, here as James Bond in 2012, like that ETF shaken or stirred? After a series of industry and regulatory decisions in 2019, there’s been a lot of talk about “actively managed” exchange-traded funds, along with some speculation that investors are about to get lots moreRead More →
Don’t miss these top money and investing features: The eve of a new year is a time to take stock. In the case of your investment portfolio, it’s a time to take away stocks, along with other holdings that no longer work — if they ever did. Assess your assets,Read More →
Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Workers who diligently put away money from their paycheck into a 401(k) retirement plan expect that acting responsibly will provide greater financial security in old age. Unfortunately, that’s not the case for many savers. Just as there’s a cavernous, growing gap betweenRead More →
Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Getty Images For most people, owning a house is the single most-expensive purchase they’ll ever make. But a home is a place to live, not an investment. If you do make money when you sell, great. Typically, though, home ownership is aboutRead More →
MarketWatch photo illustration/iStockphoto Idea thieves in the world of exchange-traded funds… The idea that yanked Bruce Bond and John Southard out of early retirements was just too good to pass up. The two men are old financial hands, and when they sold their first company, in 2006, they walked awayRead More →
In the spring of 2010, when the stock market was picking up the pieces of the Great Recession, one twenty-something with a law degree and a penchant for flipping stocks was busy licking his wounds from one bad trade after another. But “Throwaway,” as he goes by on Reddit, hadRead More →
“Death is very likely the single best invention of life,” said Steve Jobs, who knew a thing or two about innovation. “It’s life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.” It’s a cringeworthy approach to life but standard operating procedure in financial services. InRead More →
