Many technology stocks have gotten crushed in the high-inflation, rising-interest-rate environment of 2022. Some may have further to fall. Investors with shorter-term horizons may wish to steer clear of more volatile, innovative companies, despite outperformance during the pandemic. Those include …
Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck the globe, the personal computer had become a staid, boring product with dwindling sales, as consumers spent their money on new smartphones every couple of years while letting their home laptops and old towers collect …
Investors are juggling a host of risks, including inflation, higher interest rates and commodity market disruptions. Another challenge is the threat of widespread cyber disruption. Just this week, Russian hackers launched a major cyberattack on Ukraine that crashed the nation’s …
New research has found evidence of plastic in the bloodstream of humans for the first time. But how it might regularly get there and what long-lasting impacts can be expected, including if it can clear the blood-brain barrier, are open …
A Yale professor and his research team are keeping tabs on companies that are still operating in Russia in the wake of its invasion of neighboring Ukraine — and the list includes many household names. But the situation is fluid. …
Investors typically get skittish first about the highest-risk or most debt-laden companies going bust when recession concerns flare up. That isn’t happening yet in the U.S high-yield, or “junk-bond” market, despite billions of dollars fleeing the sector to start 2022, …
It’s been months since LaJoy Johnson-Law stayed within her grocery budget — but that’s not for a lack of trying in a time of high inflation. When Johnson-Law shops for herself and her daughter, her goal is to spend a …
The numbers: The New York Fed’s Empire State business conditions index inched higher to 3.1 in February, after a surprise negative 0.7 reading in the prior month, the regional Fed bank said Tuesday. Economists had expected a stronger rebound to …
The younger the child, the more reluctant the parents. Just three in 10 parents of children under 5 say they’ll get their child vaccinated right away once a COVID-19 vaccine is approved for their age group, according to new survey …
The Dogs of the Dow strategy has been around awhile. It’s where investors pick the 10 stocks with the highest dividend yield in the Dow Jones Industrial Average at the end of the year, and invest equally in each one …
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