Within equities as an asset class, there can be a broad classification of growth and income investors. Growth investors seek to find opportunities in high growth business ideas. In general, a portfolio of growth stocks would have a high-beta. Further, there are dividend investors who look for stable businesses with robust cash flows. Income investors
AMC Entertainment (NYSE:AMC) stock may have begun its final descent. Source: viewimage / Shutterstock.com If the market gods are real, they certainly have a twisted sense of humor. At the beginning of this year, Wall Street was forced to recognize a new phenomenon: meme trading. In this case, AMC, which appeared on the verge of
How Are Savings Bonds Taxed? According to Treasury Direct, interest from EE U.S. savings bonds is taxed at the federal level but not at the state or local levels for income. Bonds typically earn interest, which is the amount that a bond can be redeemed for above its face value. The face value is the bond’s original purchase
Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) stock is dropping after results for its mRNA flu vaccine is underwhelming investors. However, in my opinion, the real problem is that the flu underwhelms investors. Source: Ascannio / Shutterstock.com Since the Moderna vaccine was given an emergency use authorization in November 2020, there have been numerous critics. I’ve heard arguments that the mRNA
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers was right that inflation would prove longer lasting than Federal Reserve and White House officials believed at the beginning of the year. Now Summers says the Fed, which is likely on Wednesday to forecast multiple interest rate hikes next year, will have a hard time putting the inflation genie back
A Falcon 9 rocket is displayed outside the Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) headquarters on January 28, 2021 in Hawthorne, California. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images A female former employee of Elon Musk’s SpaceX alleged in an essay published Tuesday that the space company’s workplace is “rife with sexism” and that its
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell attends the House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 30, 2021. Al Drago | Reuters The Federal Reserve is expected to announce a dramatic policy shift Wednesday that will clear the way for a first interest rate hike next year. Markets are anticipating the Fed
The merger between Polestar and Gores Guggenheim (NASDAQ:GGPI) is expected to happen in the first half of 2022. Since the Swedish electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer announced its merger with the special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) on Sept. 27, GGPI stock has gained about 14% or so. Source: Jeppe Gustafsson / Shutterstock.com However, at one point
Cloudflare (NYSE:NET), the cloud-based security technology company, produced excellent top-line numbers for Q3. However, NET stock has been falling lately, just as I predicted, mainly due to its overvaluation. Analysts are now starting to accept this and offering downgrades. Source: Sundry Photography / Shutterstock.com I recently wrote about this in my article last week. I
State Income Tax vs. Federal Income Tax: An Overview The United States has a multitiered income tax system under which taxes are imposed by federal, state, and sometimes local governments. Federal and state income taxes are similar in that they apply a percentage rate to taxable incomes, but they differ considerably with respect to those
Upstart (NASDAQ:UPST) has been one of this year’s top performers. Shares of UPST stock are up over 260% year-to-date (YTD), from around $40 at the start of 2021 to $151 as of the close of Dec. 13. Source: Postmodern Studio / Shutterstock.com You probably wouldn’t realize that if you’ve just tuned into the Upstart story, however.
Hello and welcome back to MarketWatch’s Extra Credit column, a weekly look at the news through the lens of debt. For nearly two years, borrowers with federal student loans have had a reprieve from monthly bills thanks to a pandemic-related pause on student loan payments, interest and collections that’s been in place since March 2020.
Take a look at some of the biggest movers in the premarket: Harley-Davidson (HOG) – The motorcycle maker’s stock surged 11.7% in the premarket after it announced that it is merging its “Livewire” electric motorcycle unit with a special purpose acquisition company. Livewire will have an enterprise value of about $1.8 billion and will trade
IonQ (NYSE:IONQ) seeks to lead the way in a very specific market: quantum computing. Fortunately, you don’t have to be a mathematician or computer scientist to invest in IONQ stock. Source: Amin Van / Shutterstock.com It is important to understand what the company does, though. To put it simply, IonQ develops quantum computers designed to solve
ContextLogic (NASDAQ:WISH) management characterized weak third-quarter results released on Nov. 10 as ‘progress on its turnaround strategy.’ Source: sdx15 / Shutterstock.com That was wishful thinking to be sure. There doesn’t appear to be anything remotely close to a turnaround occurring. It’s much more a slow slide into irrelevance as value slowly drains out. That’s really
When investors contact brokers, they are often surprised by the number of requests for personal information. The broker is just complying with the law and rules set forth by the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC). Indeed, certain required information must be obtained before a broker can make any trades on behalf of a client. These include
Biofrontera (NASDAQ:BFRI) is working to clear up skin lesions that can appear after a lifetime of Sun and fun. Since BFRI stock went public in late October at $5 a piece, shares are up more than 36%. Source: Pavel Kapysh / Shutterstock With revenue up 45%, anticipation surrounding third-quarter earnings helped fuel the rise. So
It was quite the Manic Monday, with not just the S&P 500 suffering its worst single-day performance in nearly two weeks, but retail favorites such as meme stocks GameStop and AMC Entertainment getting battered. Thomas Lee of Fundstrat made three points. No investor wants to go risk-on into the Federal Open Market Committee meeting, equities
In this article MS Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman walked back an edict that employees should be back at the office by now and issued a new forecast for how long companies would delay the return. “I was wrong on this,” he told CNBC’s Wilfred Frost Monday on “Closing Bell.” “I thought we would have
In this article HOG PFE SIVB XOM KO CCL GME Customers view Harley-Davidson Inc. motorcycles at the company’s dealership in South San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, June 26, 2018. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. Harley-Davidson — Shares of the motorcycle maker jumped