Major European central banks on Thursday stuck with plans to keep their policy interest rates higher for longer to fight inflation that is proving stickier in some parts of the world than others, dashing any hope that a U.S. Federal Reserve pivot towards interest rate cuts marked a global turning point.
Japan's Toyo Construction has decided to oppose a buyout offer from the family office linked to Nintendo's founder, the marine construction firm said on Thursday, the latest twist in a battle with its largest shareholder.
The stock market has been in fine form in 2023, and the S&P 500 index has gained 28% since hitting its most recent low point on Oct. 12, 2022, which might be why some Wall Street analysts are saying that we are already in a bull market. And the good part is that stocks could
(RTTNews) - Shares of Moderna, Inc. (MRNA) are up more than 15 percent on Thursday morning trade after the company announced a clinically meaningful improvement in recurrence-free survival, reducing the risk of recurrence or death by 49 percent for its mRNA-4157, in combination w
The most important investment decision you'll ever make is to start investing. Time is your best friend in investing, and if you start an account when your loved one (or friend) is young, you'll set them up for the best possible outcome.I recently did the same for my newborn, hop
In this video, I will go over Adobe's (NASDAQ: ADBE) fourth-quarter earnings report. The company comfortably beat Wall Street's expectations, but that wasn't enough to keep the stock from going down.
The good news is that Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) is no longer trading lower this year. The bad news is that shares of the entertainment giant are only 7% higher in 2023 through Wednesday's close, still losing sorely to the bubbly market.
Wall Street's main indexes rose on Thursday, with tech giant Apple notching a record high, a day after the Federal Reserve hinted an end to its aggressive rate hike campaign and signaled that borrowing costs would be lower next year.
The 2024 Social Security cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) hasn't even kicked in yet, and already there is a major pushback against it from seniors who don't think it will be enough to cover essential...
U.S. retail sales unexpectedly rose in November as the holiday shopping season got off to a brisk start amid deep discounting, likely keeping the economy on a moderate growth path this quarter and further alleviating fears of a recession.
The end of the year is always a good time for investors to evaluate their investment holdings to see if any adjustments could strengthen their portfolios for the new year. If you're in need of growth stocks that can hold up relatively well when the rest of the market is shaky, yo
In this video, Motley Fool contributor Jason Hall discusses six of the highest-yielding dividend stocks he owns, and their prospects going forward. Stocks discussed include Cato (NYSE: CATO), EPR Properties (NYSE: EPR), Enterprise Products Partners (NYSE: EPD), NextEra Energy Par
NextEra Energy Partners (NYSE: NEP), the debt-laden subsidiary of NextEra Energy (NYSE: NEE), just refinanced about 11% of its debt, but the cost to pay that debt went up 71%. In this video, Motley Fool contributors Jason Hall and Tyler Crowe break down how this could be just the
While Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) continues to receive the lion's share of the attention in the financial media, in-the-know cryptocurrency fanatics also monitor so-called meme coins like Shiba Inu (CRYPTO: SHIB). The past couple of months have shown how low-priced tokens like Shiba In
In today's video, I discuss recent semiconductor updates impacting ASML (NASDAQ: ASML), Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA), and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (NYSE: TSM). Check out the short video to learn more, consider subscribing, and click the special offer link below.
Cathie Wood is the founder and chief executive officer of Ark Invest, an asset management company focused on disruptive technologies like blockchain and cryptocurrency. Wood and her team are optimistic about the decentralized finance market, in general, but they're especially bul
Last year, billionaire Ken Griffin's Citadel hedge fund returned around $7 billion in profits to its investors. It now looks as if history will repeat itself. An unnamed insider recently revealed to Reuters that Citadel plans to return another $7 billion or so to investors after
Some stock market indexes go hand-in-hand with dividend stocks. Take the Dow Jones Industrial Average, for example. It's chock-full of blue chip dividend stocks. It's a different story for other indexes, though.