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U.S. stock futures were slightly softer early Wednesday as the latest rally stalled with bond yields nudging higher. How are stock-index futures trading S&P 500 futures ES00, -0.21% dipped 3 points, or 0.1%, to 4503 Dow Jones Industrial Average futures YM00, -0.08% fell 8 points, or 0%, to 34880 Nasdaq 100 futures NQ00, -0.32% eased

Warren Buffett likes to say that you only need to be right about one or two stocks to succeed as an investor. This helps to explain why the Oracle of Omaha’s portfolio is concentrated in only a handful of stocks. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Buffett’s biggest position, accounts for nearly half (46%) of his $354 billion investment

Sysco SYY, +0.28% has named Greg Bertrand as executive vice president, global chief operating officer, effective Sept. 1. The Houston-based company, which sells and distributes food products to restaurants, healthcare facilities and others, said Bertrand had served as executive vice president for U.S. food service operations since July 2018.

During the 2010s, Block (NASDAQ:SQ) stock benefitted as the company innovated itself to the top among America’s transaction processors. Instead of looking for customers through banks or re-sellers, and building a complex system of special deals, Block went directly to merchants. It offered simple pricing, and a dongle that worked on a mobile phone. It

Gold prices traded marginally higher on Tuesday as traders set their sights on U.S. inflation and labor-market data due later this week. Price action Gold futures for December delivery GC00, -0.16% GCZ23, -0.16% gained 40 cents, or less than 0.1%, to $1,947 per ounce on Comex. Silver futures for September delivery SI00, +0.03% SIU23, +0.03%

Azher Abbasi, the head of bank supervision at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco — which included oversight of the failed Silicon Valley Bank — will retire Oct. 31. Abbasi, the executive vice president of the Supervision + Credit group, joined the San Francisco Fed in 2015. Bloomberg News first reported the news Monday,

August has been a volatile month for the stock market. Corporate earnings, a rise in bond yields, and a deepening economic correction in China have conspired to send all three major U.S. indices down about 3% over the past month. Amid the downturn, there are still some clear winners among the top growth stocks to

C3.ai (NYSE:AI) stock could have a banner year in front of it. Companies providing easy-to-implement AI solutions could gain as businesses seek productivity improvement. In this age of rising inflation and increasing wages, productivity gains simply haven’t kept up with companies’ rising costs. Thus, companies implementing AI-based productivity improvement measures may gain the upper hand

Certainly, there are pros and cons to holding Mastercard (NYSE:MA) stock. The company’s dividend payments are minuscule. On the other hand, Mastercard is a recognized giant in the payments-processing space. There’s nothing wrong with investing in Mastercard as long as your expectations are realistic. As we’ll discuss in a moment, Mastercard appears to be rejecting

Yiren Digital (NYSE:YRD) is up by nearly 75% year-to-date. Over the past twelve months, YRD stock has gained by more than 134%. With such a strong performance, many questions emerge. For starters, what’s the story with this China-based fintech firm? While not an obscure stock per se, admittedly it is not one of the most

Let’s be perfectly honest. Many traders had never even heard of American Superconductor (NASDAQ:AMSC) stock until Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk brought up the topic of electricity shortages. Suddenly, AMSC stock was headed for the moon – but don’t buy any shares until you’ve conducted your due diligence on American Superconductor. Headquartered in Massachusetts, American Superconductor

Buying dividend stocks can be tricky. Oftentimes, stocks that pay exorbitantly high dividends have underlying financial problems, and their share price is languishing. The dividend is used as a carrot to keep shareholders hanging on in what is known as a “dividend trap.” This is a situation best avoided. That said, there are a number

From early to mid-August, shares in Facebook and Instagram parent Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) experienced a slight pullback in price. However, in more recent trading days, META stock has started to bounce back. As of this writing, the tech giant’s shares are back to the $300 price level. With this, if you so far haven’t added

Li Auto (NASDAQ:LI) stock hit a peak early this month after announcing earnings, at over $46 per share. Since then, shares of Li are down 14%. Li stock bulls may be asking why. I offered some glib answers last week. China’s recovery is unstable. Many American investors fear its government. But there’s more going on under

Investors are aware that the same pressures facing the automotive industry also affect the aviation industry. The environmental impact of burning fossil fuels to power transport has come under scrutiny for both. Therefore, electric aviation startups are beginning to garner the attention that electric vehicle (EV) firms have, and investors have grown acutely interested in

Warren Buffett is undoubtedly one of the greatest investors of all time. The Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK-B) CEO has one of the best long-term investing track records and seen as a guru among many in the investing community.  This stellar track record means many investors follow Buffett’s buying activity closely. As a steadfast buy-and-hold advocate, his recent moves raise

Here are some of Monday’s biggest movers: Stock gainers Shares of 3M Co. MMM, +0.46% rose 4.6% in premarket trading after The Wall Street Journal reported that the multinational conglomerate was nearing agreement on a $5.5 billion plan to settle more than 300,000 lawsuits over defective military earplugs.

Bond yields were down a touch on Monday, after a week in which short-term yields moved higher, while longer-term securities took a breather. What’s happening The yield on the 2-year Treasury BX:TMUBMUSD02Y was 5.07%, down 1.3 basis points. Yields move in the opposite direction to prices. The yield on the 10-year Treasury BX:TMUBMUSD10Y was 4.22%,

When working with a financial adviser, your best defense is a good offense. Before you even hire someone to advise you, you should protect yourself by doing some basic research, said Jason Steeno, president of CoreCap Investments and CoreCap Advisors. “Do your homework upfront. Vet an adviser before you hire them,” he said. “Talk to

Don’t be surprised if bonds far outpace stocks over the next several years. That’s because the period since March 2020 has experienced just the opposite, and history teaches us that the equity premium (the amount by which stocks beat bonds) regularly swings from one extreme to the other. And over the 41 months since March