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Energy stocks have been the star investment this year. Now it’s time to sell them and electrify your portfolio before investors once again focus on the industry’s long-term headwinds.  There are a host of headwinds that could threaten the surge: rising recession risk, consumer backlash from the high price of gasoline, and the push to […]

The first half of 2022 marked a big change for investors and consumers, as inflation reared its ugly head. It was the worst start of the year for U.S. stocks since 1970. William Watts looks back at previous first-half bear markets and you might be surprised to see what happened afterward — every time. Meanwhile, […]

The semiconductor sector logged one of its worst weeks in an already lousy year following more evidence that the COVID-19 chip sector boom was drawing to a close. On Friday, the PHLX Semiconductor Index SOX, -3.83% dropped as much as 5%, and finished the session down 3.8%, as chip stocks fell across the board. Shares […]

Wall Street investors specialized in buying risky forms of corporate debt to slice-and-dice into securities have added an estimated $ 2 billion in high-yield, or “junk bonds,” to their funds already this year, according to an analysis by BofA Global. Funds managed by the Carlyle Group Inc. CG, +1.36%, KKR & Co. Inc. KKR, +0.95% […]

Fears of a sharp slowdown are getting the blame for the stock market’s renewed slide while also driving a retreat in Treasury yields. A look at a regional Fed bank’s closely followed economic-growth indicator may justify investor jitters, said a top Wall Street researcher. The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s GDPNow model on Friday forecast […]

Exxon Mobil Corp. said in a filing late Friday it expects a boost of at least $ 2.5 billion to its bottom line in the second quarter from rising prices for oil and gas, with billions more coming from higher margins for gasoline and other energy products. Exxon XOM, +2.23% estimated between $ 1 billion […]

Alphabet Inc.’s Google on Friday said it would delete its members’ location history whenever they visit an abortion clinic, domestic violence shelter, fertility center or other similarly-sensitive place. The change, expected to take effect in coming weeks, was announced in a blog post. “If our systems identify that someone has visited one of these places, […]

Paid medical debt is rolling off consumer credit reports in an overhaul that the credit bureaus say will improve people’s financial wellbeing. In a time of rising interest rates and increased costs with the pandemic’s scariest days hopefully done, for some it can’t come a moment too soon. Equifax, Experian and TransUnion are dropping the […]

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration updated on Thursday its weather outlook for July, forecasting above-average temperatures for most of the U.S. MKM Partners Managing Director Leo Mariani said that while weather forecasts are inherently unreliable, the natural gas markets tend to react to the predictions. “Weather is expected to be warmer in around 80% […]

Since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) in 2018, sports-betting companies have seen huge interest. As of the end of June 2022, 30 states plus Washington, D.C. now offer at least some form of legalized sports wagering, according to the latest tally from the American Gaming Association. In the four […]

U.S. stock futures edged lower on Friday as worries about slowing economic growth continued to suppress investors’ risk appetite, potentially extending a rotten run that saw Wall Street record its worst first half of a year since 1970. Data ahead includes the Institute for Supply Management’s June survey. How are stock-index futures trading? S&P 500 […]

President Vladimir Putin has reportedly signed a decree ordering the Sakhalin Energy Investment Company to a new Russian company, which will decide if foreign stakeholders can remain. Sakhalin Energy is the consortium behind the Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project in Russia’s far east that has several foreign participants. The decree reportedly said other participants must ask […]