His argument is essentially that, since my parents provided the money for the Roth, they have a say in how I invest it: "We gave you the money, and this is what we prefer." I understand and appreciate ...

Stocks closed lower Friday as investors digested Warsh's comments, but all three major indexes still managed to end positive for the week. The S&P 500 SPX gained 0.5%, for its fourth weekly gain in ...

Ahead of Friday's data, further clues on the U.S. labor market will be provided, with JOLTS job openings data for July due Tuesday, ADP private payrolls numbers for August on Wednesday, and weekly ...

I chose Contractor B. I was willing to pay an extra $6,000 because I believed I was paying for quality workmanship, excellent customer service and a dramatically faster turnaround. Surprise.

Corporate earnings have been growing at a blistering pace. Here's why that's not likely to last.

Leveraged bets led to the near-collapse of hedge fund Situational Awareness last month, while similar mistakes led to more than 1.2 million South Korean trading accounts facing margin calls as the ...

According to Klein, a lot of hedge funds and long-only growth managers have owned less software in their portfolios relative to the sector's representation in the broader market - partly owing to ...

Dollar Tree said its broader party-supplies business has lost out on sales because of a helium shortage that impacts balloons. You can add party balloons to the list of goods and products that have ...

Software companies Salesforce and Okta were among the week’s best-performing stocks.

My 91-year-old mother is bedridden in an assisted-living memory-care facility in Virginia. She owns about $100,000 of Consolidated Edison stock that is held at a company I'll call Acme Corp., a ...

The S&P 500 may at times seem relatively calm on the surface despite some violent moves in individual stock prices. But stepping back, the U.S. stock market appears relatively healthy based on ...

Cook has embraced these traits as strengths rather than weaknesses. In 1998, he left his vice president role at Compaq Computer - the world's largest PC maker at the time - to join a nearly bankrupt ...