May 13, 2024
Funds

SEC set to force hedge funds, high-frequency traders to register

The Securities and Exchange Commission is set to impose new rules that would require many private funds to register with the agency as so-called dealers, a move that regulators say will help them better monitor a sometimes wobbly market for U.S. government debt. When firms that deal Treasury bonds register with the SEC “they become

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Investment

Wall Street’s biggest bear is leaving Morgan Stanley’s investment committee. What he got right – and wrong about the stock market.

Published: Feb. 2, 2024 at 6:47 p.m. ET One of Wall Street’s biggest bears will be giving up some of his duties, stirring memories for some investors and market mavens of a previous shakeup that proved ill-timed for the market. Mike Wilson will leave his post as chair of Morgan Stanley’s Global Investment Committee but

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Funds

These mutual-fund and ETF investing tips can keep your portfolio out of a deep freeze

Published: Feb. 2, 2024 at 4:25 p.m. ET Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Investing news and trends Tesla’s stock had its worst month in a year, but Cathie Wood’s ETFs kept buying The ARK Innovation and ARK Net Generation exchange-traded funds bought more than $150 million in Tesla shares in January. Read

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Investors

Apple Stock Is Resilient Despite Weak Guidance as Investors Refocus on AI

The biggest bombshell in Apple ’s December quarter earnings report came on the company’s conference call, when CFO Luca Maestri provided a hugely disappointing forecast for the March quarter. Management’s guidance, implying overall quarterly revenue will fall 5% from a year earlier to about $90 billion, with a drop of nearly 10% in iPhone sales,

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Loans

Aozora Bank Shares Tumble on U.S. Office-Loan Provisions, Foreign-Bond Losses

Published: Jan. 31, 2024 at 9:39 p.m. ET By Kosaku Narioka Aozora Bank shares fell sharply after it projected a fiscal-year net loss due to higher provisions for U.S. office loans as well as losses from foreign bonds. Shares were recently 21% lower at 2,557.0 yen, falling to the day’s trading limit on Thursday morning.

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Loans

New York Community Bancorp Stock Tanks as It Posts Sharp Loss, Slashes Dividend

New York Community Bancorp reported a surprise loss as it wrote down bad real estate loans, sending its stock tumbling Wednesday and dragging down the share prices of regional banks across the country. “This was a major negative surprise,” Jon G. Arfstrom, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets, said in a Wednesday note. New York

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Loans

Banks’ office-loan exposure remains a ‘mixed bag’ as lenders manage through downturn

Banks continue to navigate a bumpy landscape in loans tied to a drop in office-space value and rent prices in many markets as workers stay at home. In one high-profile example on Tuesday, New York Community Bancorp NYCB cited a need to increase its allowance for credit losses (ACL) on the heels of an office

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Funds

Some of the Best Funds Charge Sales Fees. Here’s How to Skirt Them.

Commission-based “load” mutual funds and the financial advisors who still sell them seem passé, like riding a horse and buggy to reach your investment goal instead of a zippy new exchange-traded fund. Yet there are excellent load funds run by top fund managers at big shops. Of the 10 largest mutual fund families, six have

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Investors

Opinion: Is Nvidia today’s Cisco? Here’s what Ed Yardeni thinks.

“Is Nvidia today’s Cisco? It’s possible. If so, then it has a lot more upside before it crashes — if it crashes.” Is it possible that the meltup phase of the bull market (which started on Oct. 12, 2022) has begun already — having started following the correction low on Oct. 27, 2023? Yes, it

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