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This year’s stock price declines make for an increasing number of stocks with high dividend yields of at least 5%. Below is a screen that highlights 29 that appear to be able to raise their payouts considerably. There are different approaches to selecting dividend stocks. For example, John Kornitzer, who co-manages the Buffalo Flexible Income…
Experienced investors have lived through bear markets and learned they present opportunities to buy stocks at low prices. But waiting through the cycle of decline is no fun, and there can be several rallies before the bear market finally ends. Mark Hulbert explains how you can tell when the bear market is near its end….
As the first half of 2022 draws to a close, Wall Street investment banks and their legions of strategists have been busy telling clients what they should expect in the second half of what has been an extraordinary year for markets as U.S. stocks head for their worst start in decades. Investment banks like JP…
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Frontier Group Holdings Inc. has upped the deal to snap up Spirit Airlines Inc. as the two ultra-low-cost airlines try to elbow JetBlue Airways Corp. out of their merger amid a surge in air travel this summer and rising ticket prices. Spirit SAVE, +2.90% late Friday said Frontier ULCC, +6.57% raised its per-share offer and…
Hi, MarketWatchers. Don’t miss these top stories. As Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, insurance coverage of abortion is about to get even more complicated A patchwork of state and federal rules governs abortion coverage in employer plans, Medicaid and other types of insurance. Read More ‘Women lacking financial resources will suffer’: Dissenting Supreme Court…
President Joe Biden on Friday denounced the Supreme Court’s ruling that overturns Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that established a right to an abortion in all 50 U.S. states. “Today, the Supreme Court of the United States expressly took away a constitutional right from the American people.” Biden said, as he delivered a speech…
The end of the bear market is not close. That’s according to a contrarian analysis of stock market sentiment: the U.S. stock market hasn’t yet experienced the extreme pessimism seen at major bottoms. It may certainly feel like there’s plenty of pessimism and despair on Wall Street. But that bearishness seems a mile wide and…
Zendesk Inc. ZEN, +1.29% shares soared 35% to $78.36 in after-hours trading Thursday following a report from The Wall Street Journal that the company is close to a deal with a group of buyout firms. A deal with a group that includes Hellman & Friedman LLC and Permira could be struck in the coming days…
Zendesk Inc. is close to a deal with a group of buyout firms, according to people familiar with the matter, resurrecting a failed attempt to sell itself in what would be one of the biggest private-equity takeovers of the year. A deal with a group that includes Hellman & Friedman LLC and Permira could be struck…
As the country enters hurricane season from June 1 to the end of November, homes in New York and Miami are at the highest risk for property damage, according to a report released Wednesday from housing-research firm CoreLogic. Overall, more than 33 million homes in America are at risk of suffering damage from hurricanes, according…
Retirement savers might find themselves with more incentives and benefits to bolster their nest egg soon, as the Senate continues to work on legislation to enhance retirement security. The Senate Finance Committee unanimously approved the Enhancing American Retirement Now Act, or EARN Act, during a hearing on Wednesday. The meeting came weeks after the Senate…
Stocks are on the rebound again, at least that’s the vibe from futures. That’s a day after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell confirmed to lawmakers, what markets already knew — that a soft economic landing might be tricky while taming the inflation beast. Along with average investors, hedge funds have had a rough start to…
This article is reprinted by permission from NerdWallet. In this series, NerdWallet highlights people’s debt payoff journeys. This month, Kenley Young recounts how he combined lots of tools for cutting debt, with knowledge he gained working at NerdWallet, to wipe out credit card debt. In the first week of 2022, I checked off a long-running…
I am very fortunate to have a steady career and a 401(k), and I have been able to put money aside for my children’s education. This was not always the case as I had several years of education and a six-figure debt that I accrued, and I have learned to be very cautious with money….
When former Purdue University student Matt Wilmsen decided to try a new loan-financing program that would help him avoid traditional student debt, he didn’t expect himself to be constantly grappling with the servicing of his loan for his $29,000 in student debt. From dealing with miscommunication between his college and the loan servicer, who ended…
Small business owners say they have one more item to add to their list of worries: recession. More than four in five small business leaders say they worry that a recession will hit the economy soon and it will impact their businesses, according to a new survey by online business-banking platform Kabbage, a checking-account service…
Despite a flurry of macroeconomic pressures, Wall Street analysts still feel very bullish about the stocks they cover. That’s according to FactSet’s senior earnings analyst, John Butters, who noted that the number of buy ratings on stocks remains “unusually high,” despite broader-market concerns about inflation, interest rate hikes, the war in Ukraine, falling stock prices…
U.S. stocks rose sharply on Tuesday after a three-day holiday weekend, following the worst weekly performance for equities in more than two years. What’s happening The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +1.95% was up 545 points, or 1.8%, at 30,433. The S&P 500 SPX, +2.63% gained 95 points, or 2.6%, to trade at 3,769. The…
In a matter of months, it’s become more expensive to carry a credit card balance, a car loan or a mortgage as the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes have seeped into borrowing costs. It’s tough medicine that central bankers hope will break the fever of hot inflation — and no one expects the doses to…